Want some more opinion - I doubt it!!
Just a thought, but can't student regionals/nationals etc be a 2-5 split. You don't need to organise a whole new student competition, just change the gender criteria (it's not strictly co-ed so you don't even have to call it that).
It's bloody tough being a woman in student frisbee. When I left uni no one wanted us to play in their teams, so a group of chicks organised their own team - Funky Nuns/Women in Black - and spent a year and a half losing every game we played!!
Attitudes towards women players has to change at the roots - women will practise, practise, practise if they think it's worth their while.
>From: Nicole Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: re: women
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:34:01 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Personally, if that's the way that leeds play then I
>feel very sorry for Anna.
>
>If you look at the top four teams in student nationals
>last year, 3 of them had a woman playing for them. I
>appreciate that one out of fifteen isn't much, but
>it's a start.
>
>A student co-ed tournament is, in my opinion, an
>excellent idea, however it's ran (a 5-2 ratio may be
>necessary).
>
>By effectively forcing women on the pitch by playing
>co-ed can only improve the playing standard of student
>women's ultimate, as if any team actually wants to do
>reasonably well then they'll have to use all seven
>players, not just players without breasts...
>
>Anyroad, this is probably a bit of a pointless mail
>unless we have some university that's willing to host
>co-ed nationals, and a weekend that doesn't clash with
>either easter holidays, paganello, open nationals or
>those horrid things we call finals...
>
>Okay, had my tuppence, back to work
>
>nicole
>mohawks
>
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