{"id":639,"date":"2014-10-02T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usustatesman.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-10-02T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:03:17","slug":"womens-rugby-forced-to-change-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/womens-rugby-forced-to-change-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s rugby forced to change schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The women&#8217;s rugby club at Utah State University is  faced with a decision for the 2014-2015 season. It must either change  its schedule to play on Sunday or use replacement referees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  biggest issue is there&#8217;s a limited number of referees,&#8221; said Alys  Staten, the university&#8217;s club sport coordinator and athletic trainer. &#8220;A  women&#8217;s collegiate game is probably pretty close to being the bottom of  the totem pole. We&#8217;ve had to switch some games to Sundays to try and  get certified qualified referees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Utah State men&#8217;s rugby club has  been able to keep its same schedule this season. The team plays its  games on Saturday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always feel like the men&#8217;s teams  always get the first choice,&#8221; said Madeline Jensen, a sophomore playing  in her second season at Utah State. &#8220;They have a lot more boys than we  have girls, so they probably just get the first pick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Utah State  played its first rescheduled game versus Idaho State on Sept. 21. In the  game 16 of USU&#8217;s 24 members of the roster played. With 15 people on  the field, that meant only one substitute for the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some  girls aren&#8217;t comfortable playing on Sundays,&#8221; said Hannah Wagner, the  2014 team president. &#8220;We do lose a few players when we have to play  Sunday games. It does kind of suck being lowest priority and having to  change our game schedule.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In other games not on Sundays the women&#8217;s club rugby faces a different issue of second-team refs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing  with refs that aren&#8217;t up to par is always a struggle,&#8221; said Brooke  Lambert, three-year women&#8217;s rugby coach at Utah State. &#8220;Teams will go as  far as the ref allows them to go. If they aren&#8217;t calling certain  things, first of all it increases our risk of injury when you&#8217;re not  playing the game to the rules and second, it&#8217;s hard because it&#8217;s  cheating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>United States Congress enacted Title IX with the  Educational Amendments in1972, which prohibits gender discrimination in  federally funded educational settings.<\/p>\n<p>Title IX states: &#8220;No person  in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from  participation in, denied the benefits of or be subjected to  discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal  financial assistance.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is no specific mention of sports in  the law itself. Letters of clarification after it went into effect  explain that Title IX does apply equally to all levels of sports in  federally funded schools. This includes club sports and intramural  sports in colleges and high schools.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy Louck Sturgeon, the  Utah State University Title IX coordinator and affirmative action equal  opportunity director declined to comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Title  IX does cover club sports here at the university, but the university  isn&#8217;t the one who divvies out the refs,&#8221; Lambert said. &#8220;The refs are  done through the Utah Rugby Union, which covers not only college teams  but high school teams and club teams that aren&#8217;t affiliated with any  school. We don&#8217;t have enough refs and we aren&#8217;t at the top of the list  to get refs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jensen and her teammates are tiring of the unequal treatment to their team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It  kind of sucks always being second choice,&#8221; Jensen said. &#8220;I think we  could just trade off. I don&#8217;t know how to make it fair, I just don&#8217;t  think they should always get the better refs on Saturdays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Both Lambert and Staten  agree that location and program size play a role in the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We  get the shaft for a couple of reasons,&#8221; Lambert said. &#8220;One being that  we are in Logan and the other that women&#8217;s teams aren&#8217;t at the top of  their list of who they send refs to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s just a higher  demand and not as many referees is what it comes down to,&#8221; Staten said.  &#8220;Money gets the most preference. The money goes with the men&#8217;s programs  and the Division I programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at Title IX and USU women&#8217;s rugby club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-club-sports","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women&#039;s rugby forced to change schedule - The Utah Statesman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Women&#039;s rugby forced to change schedule\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usustatesman.com\/womens-rugby-forced-to-change-schedule\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women&#039;s rugby forced to change schedule - 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