The "Make It/Take It" Rule was put into place to encourage teams to
utilize their women. Amber, I realize that you may be confident in
your own abilities to play ultimate as a female; however, ultimate is
a team sport. Unless there is an incentive to throw to a female, the
majority of new players just do not do it, regardless of how good
that female may be. I've played in leagues in both Columbia and
Atlanta, and it doesn't take a genius to understand this. Seeing as
this is a new players league, I would really like to push the
involvement of women so that they'll keep coming out.

Additionally, one of the side goals of this league is to promote the
growth of ultimate within the female community at USC. As of right
now, the Men's Club Team has enough to field 2-3 teams. The Women's
Club Team has yet to reach that point. I do not see the harm in
instituting a rule that will promote the utilization of female
players in a fall league--particularly new female players--so long as
it helps develop the ultimate community at USC.

Finally, if you look at other co-recreational sports that are
intramural at Carolina, you will find that the rules cater to women
(4-pointers in basketball for one example) not because they are in
some way inferior but because female participation in athletics is
not nearly as booming as male participation and it helps promote
female involvement.

To put it another way, why would a female want to come back out for
ultimate if her team fails to get her involved? It would be great if
rosters had a 1-to-1 male-to-female ratio, but they don't. We will
be playing with more men on the field than women, and the "Make
It/Take It" rule helps get that minority of women involved.

If you have any other problems with the rules, you can e-mail me
personally.

Devin Waldrop


--- In carolinaultimate@yahoogroups.com, "Amber" <amber.nalley@...>
wrote:
>
> Hey all. I'll be coming out tonight; I hope it's still alright to
sign
> up for fall league this evening as I haven't been able to make it
out
> so far.
>
> On a side note; I was reading the rules for fall league and noticed
a
> special rule for women? I just wanted to put it out there that
> personally I hate to be treated specially for being a woman
player. I
> realize a lot of men can out jump me, but I know I can d, score on,
> and probably out run a lot of men. Ultimate should be equal. I
don't
> want special treatment for being a woman and I think the kind of
> 'make-it-take it' rule that is allowed three times a game for women
is
> silly. Perhaps I am misunderstanding this, but I feel it kind of
> takes away from the game. I work super hard for points and
appreciate
> a pat on the back just as much as the next person, but I don't need
to
> be babied.
>
> Sorry for the vent, especially since I don't know anyone here, I
just
> love Ultimate and felt really frustrated about that. I'm actually a
> real nice person though....well you might not like me on the
field ;)
>
> See you tonight,
>
> Amber
>