Michigan House Bill 4293: Not Beneficial to Girl's Athletics
House Bill No. 4293 was brought to the House of Representatives on February 20, 2001 by Representatives Kolb, Hansen, Woodward, Dennis, Gieleghem, Zelenko, Murphy, Lipsey, Waters, Bogardus, Jacobs and Anderson. What House Bill No. 4293 basically says is that if a high school has both a boys’ and a girls’ athletic team in the same sport the seasons should be held at the same time. Part of the argument for this bill was on the basis that the female student-athletes from the state of Michigan who did go on to play at the collegiate level were at a disadvantage because of the different seasons they would play in. (House Bill No. 4293)A widely known change that would incur because of this bill would be moving girl’s basketball to the winter where it would coincide with boy’s basketball, which would force girls volleyball to be moved to the fall. This change may not affect some schools too greatly but would put schools such as Newberry High School behind the eight ball so to speak. It would put the people of Newberry and its school district in a rather tough position where they would be forced to make some changes if they wanted their athletic programs to be competitive with other schools. These changes would be a necessity beca
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