Ga. football league gives female kicker the boot
by FOXSports.com
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Stuart, 14, learned Thursday while team pictures were being taken that that she was off the team despite having practiced with the New Creation Center Crusaders in McDonough, Ga., for two months before what would have been her freshman season. She even participated in a scrimmage last Saturday.
"We'll file for an injunction if we have to," Angie Stuart, the girl's mother, told the Atlanta Constitution-Journal. "We'll do whatever it takes to keep her on the team."
According to Angie Stuart, Hank St. Denis, executive board chairman of the Georgia Football League, overruled New Creation administrators once he realized a girl had been accepted onto the team.
"He said she can't play simply because she's a girl," Stuart said.
"There doesn't seem to be anything in the (league) bylaws to prevent a girl from playing," she said. "No one else has a problem with it. The coaches, players and other teams have accepted her. If she can play for a public school, why not a private school?"
Kacy contributed to the success for a Union Grove Middle School team that went to the state finals last year.
"I've topped out at 50 yards," the girl told WXIA-TV. "That is pretty far."
"She has college potential," her mother told the paper. "And she's willing to give up her life here to move to her dad's (home) in south Georgia, enroll in public school there and play football. That's how much she loves this game."
The family moved to Spalding County for the upcoming school year, and the youngster was enrolled in Skipstone Academy, a small private school that does not sponsor sports teams. She was allowed to join New Creation's football team.
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