Idaho HS Girl Golfer May Be Prevented From Playing With The Boys After Other Coaches Complain!

I know, it's Idaho, but you do have to wonder what's in that clean-living air after reading John Miller's AP story about 16-year-old Sierra Harr petitioning to play on the boys team that she helped win the 2012 state championship (she finished 7th). And that's when competing coaches complained that she should have stuck to the girls competitions.

Activities association officials say they're trying to craft athletic rules nimble enough to accommodate a rare talent like Harr with the misfortune of attending a school where few females golf, while still preserving fairness for others.

Nothing's been decided, either, adds association president Greg Bailey.

Discussion might go beyond a Sept. 25 meeting, the next time the group gets together.

"There aren't any villains here," Bailey said. "We try to look at things from a fairness perspective, fairness for that individual athlete as well as fairness for the other athletes involved. The question is, is she bumping out a boy? And if she wins in the competition, did she bump out a boy in the other school district?"

Yes, the boy who finished 8th. That's what happens in this wacky world of competition!