JaJa Kentwell (L) playing with the girl’s field hockey team.

 

This ‘equality’ thing has simply gone too far.

Let’s face reality: men and women, boys and girls, are different than one another. Sure, we are all human beings. But one is male, and one is female. We were created differently by God, and sexual organs were not the only difference.

Men are generally bigger, faster, stronger than women. Not always, of course, but in general and in the vast majority of instances.

In school athletics there have always been boys sports and girls sports, and athletes should remain eligible to play only within their sexes.

Could you imagine allowing, for instance, Koby Bryant to play on Lower Merion’s girls basketball team when he was a student at the school? Simply stated, Lower Merion would be unbeatable. Also, Bryant would be taking a roster spot from some girl who would have made the team were it not for his becoming a ridiculous interloper.

A similar bastardization of ‘Title IX’ played out this past Saturday in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. Wyoming Seminary defeated Merion Mercy in the PIAA Class AA field hockey championship by a 3-2 score. In the game, a junior at Wyoming Seminary named JaJa Kentwell scored two goals to provide the margin of victory.

Kentwell had missed Wyoming Seminary’s semi-final victory while away in Germany, playing for the United States indoor team, but had made sure to come back for this state title match.

Oh, and perhaps I failed to mention that Kentwell was playing for the U.S. Men’s indoor team. Kentwell, you see, is a boy playing with the Wyoming Seminary girls team.

After Wyoming Seminary won the game, Kentwell, the only boy on the field, was asked how he felt. “It’s hard to describe“, he said. Let me describe it for you then, JaJa. You just beat a girls team. Congratulations, pal. Hope that you’re proud, big guy.

This is not meant to be a knock against women athletes in any way, especially Merion Mercy’s team in particular. The fact is, Merion Mercy was the best girl’s field hockey team on the field.

Unfortunately, the other team was co-ed and used not only a boy, but a world-class boy who plays for his country.

Wyoming Seminary should be ashamed, but they probably aren’t. There is, of course, a rule that allows for such things. That rule is a joke.

Merion Mercy should be congratulated for putting up such a good fight and making the final result close. Their girls outscored the Wyoming girls by 2-1.

But Wyoming Seminary ultimately won the championship thanks to their world-class male player. Congratulations, Wyoming Seminary. Don’t forget to thank the boy who just won you your ‘girls’ (sic) championship.

12 thoughts on “JaJa beats the Merion girls”

  1. Who says that 'Jaja should have the equal opportunity to play the sport he wishes'? He is going to SCHOOL, correct? He has a 'right' to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic.As far as his choice of high schools, did someone put a gun to his or his parents heads? Are there schools in America that provide men's field hockey teams? He could have attended those. He also could attend SCHOOL, and left the game-playing for outside teams, clubs, organizations, etc.Sexist? Far from it. I'm the happy father of three daughters, grandfather to a wonderful granddaughter. Love them all. Don't want them denied their opportunity at a sports championship because some man/boy wanted to dominate them to prove his manhood. Bitter? To what end? I have zero rooting interest in any of these schools, or in field hockey in particular for that matter. I'm sorry, but everyone here who makes an argument on behalf of Jaja is either a friend, classmate, schoolmate, teammate, etc.But hey, go for it, Jaja. Beat up on the girls again. It should really prove something. Shame to for the rest of their lives, your teammates will KNOW for a FACT that without a boy on their team, they NEVER would have been victorious in the games that crowned them as 'champions' (sic)…

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  2. The fact is that Jaja should have the equal opportunity to play the sport he wishes, and in the absence of a men's team at Seminary, it would be denying him a right to play high school sports. I'm sorry, but everyone who makes an argument here comes off overtly sexist or bitter.

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  3. 'Anonymous' calls the article biased, yet fails to explain such a comment? Where is the bias, against boys/men playing in games where all the other participants are girls/women? Yup, then call me biased.Better than everyone else on the field? Puh-lease! Again, if Kobe Bryant played in the WNBA, he would be 'better than everyone on the field'. In fact, so would ANY NBA player. Does that mean it would be something they should take pride in? Leave the girls to play with the girls.Ms. Overman's friendship is admirable, we all need and deserve good friends who support us. However, that should not include BLIND friendship. Real friends aren't afraid to let us know when we are wrong, sensitive or not. Tell your friend that he is wrong to be an elite-level athlete in a sport and to be participating in that sport against the girls. That would be honest, and that would be helpful to him, rather than saying \”Yay, Ja-Ja, you're so wonderful. You beat the girls. Yay!\”

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  4. i play on a girls field hockey team. and i am also friends with jaja. he is the nicest smartest most sensitive guy i have ever met. he is my best friend. i do not go to sem, and i have gotten beaten by sem. he truely feels for the people who write bad about him. i said i feel so bad for you jaj, and he said don't feel bad for me feel bad for the people who write about me.he is my hero. and these horrid things you write don't hurt him, they hurt the people who love him. the people who care about him. his mother,father,brother and friends is who it reall hurts. please, talk about something else. pick on someone your own size.

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  5. ok first off this article is very biased and if a guy wants to play field hockey let the kid play.. even if he is better than everyone else on the field. if the school had a guys field hockey program then it would be a different story, but they dont so give the kid some slack. if the kid didnt have talent then this wouldnt even be looked as a big deal and everyone would just live their lives as they normally did. congratulations Wyoming Semenary

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