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PiscesKicked Off Team for Being Knocked Up
She says the school retaliated against her because of her pregnancy.
Momlogic's Julie: Mackenzie McCollum was barred from playing on her school's volleyball team in Ft. Worth, Texas, because she was pregnant. She fought back -- and was finally allowed to play after she obtained a doctor's note.
In the meantime, Coach Jack Warren had allegedly told all of McCollum's teammates she was pregnant without her consent. Once she was back on the team, Coach Warren also allegedly cut her playing time. The U.S. Department of Education is now investigating the matter.
Stories like this one make us so mad.
What if the guy who knocked her up was on the football team? Would he have been cut from the team, too? Of course not!
And all this happened in Texas, a very pro-life state. Mackenzie herself is pro-life. Yet she is being punished and discriminated against because she DID NOT terminate her pregnancy. Unbelievable!
I'm so sick of women being discriminated against just because they're pregnant. It's almost 2010, people. Get with the program!
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Banning her is NOT discrimination, it’s common sense……she’s pregnant! Oh and the analogy about the baby’s father and the football team doesn’t hold up purely for the fact that the father doesn’t CARRY the baby…….sorry but there is a distinct difference and you have to change the way you do things when you are the one carrying the child.
I agree with the health issues, she shouldn’t be allowed to play because she’s pregnant.
As for the coach telling her teammates about the pregnancy, that was NOT her call and he/she needs to be reprimanded for that breach of trust.
I agree with the coach, she shouldn’t be allowed to play, I don’t care what she or her doctor say, someone has to think about the child. The coach telling her teammates that she was pregnant was not cool though.
I agree, she should not play. My daughter (14) plays volleyball and if she were to get pregnant there would be no way that I would allow her to play. She made the choice to have sex and this would be one of the consequences for it along with getting pregnant. She was adult enough, so she thought, to have sex, now she needs to be adult enough to put her child first.
What doctor would allow her to play. That’s complete BS. When I got pregnant the first thing the doctor said was to stop any physical sports I played. Seriously she shouldn’t be playing. Plain and simple. And the coach saying she was pregnant, I would hazard to guess that was an accident and the coach had no idea that no one was supposed to know.
Most doctors encourage exercise while pregnant. If her doctor says it’s OK - especially for the first two trimesters - who are we to say it’s not? I believe the gist of this story is correct - she IS being “punished” for “getting pregnant,” as if no one else had anything to do with it. My god, this is like the show “Glee” playing out in real life (where a cheerleader gets kicked off the squad for being pregnant, even without any health reasons - the coach just says “I can’t have a pregnant girl on my squad.” Meanwhile, the boy who got her pregnant - and the one who THINKS he got her pregnant - continue to play for the football team.)
Exercise is encouraged. Contact sports are not. I lost a child just ice skating and I didn’t fall or get bumped. Coach was right. However, it wasn’t his business to gossip.
She is stupid for getting pregnant.
“Yet she is being punished and discriminated against because she DID NOT terminate her pregnancy.” I don’t think she was put off the team because she wouldn’t have an abortion. She was put off the team because she was a pregnant teen. Some people still stigmatize girls as “trash” if they get knocked up (which was a common practice in my Texas HS) and another very practical reason was her health. How is she supposed to slide, to dig for balls on the gym floor pregnant? A girl on the VB team in my school hid her preganancy until she couldn’t and played while pregnant. Her daughter was born premature. The coach had no right to out her condition but every right to question her physical ability to play. Because she wanted to does not mean she should. Phillips shouldn’t be kicked off because “she’s pregnant” but having her sit out a season if perfectly reasonable until she’s able to play safely.
1. The coach was not right in outing her pregnancy. Needs to be addressed.
2. I do not question the doctor. I played ice hockey til I was 5 months pregnant with my doctor’s complete permission. It was “non-contact” but with ice hockey, that is still just a theory.
3. She is a representative of the school as an athlete. Therefore, as far as I’m concerned, the school had every right to determine she couldn’t play.
4. I have a bigger issue with the fact that her baby-daddy is in his twenties.
She was kicked off the team because she is pregnant. When your in high school and join any kind of team, there are rules that you have to follow. Being knocked up, is just one of these things that will get you kicked off the team. Not only for safety reasons but also because it sets a bad example. If she were to stay on the team, it would show other students that you have unprotected sex and gets pregnant, you can still be apart of a group of students who are trying hard to lead by good example. It’s not the schools responsibility to punish the boyfriend.
Volleyball is definitely a no-no for a pregnant woman, at least past her first trimester. This isn’t about punishment, this is about the baby’s well being. If a boy was pregnant he would get kicked off a football team just as much as any girl because his baby would be in danger, but boys can’t get pregnant. The father should face legal and financial reprucussions, but by your logic he should also have to wear a pregnant belly for 9 months and be forced to endure all the hardships of pregnancy. This isn’t about dsicrimination, this is about BIOLOGY. Being able to have children is what makes me a woman, and I think trying to deny that difference only degrades women. Come on, this is 2010, when are people going to learn some basic science?
many Texas HS now have “contracts” that students sign. Talks about representing the school in the correct manner, not posting nude photos on facebook, getting drunk in public underage. If she signed one and broke a rule oops.
Where is common sense in all of this? The girl decided to get pregnant. Her coach was worried about her and her child’s health. She either wants the child or doesn’t. Claiming it’s “2010” has nothing to do with the reproductive system.
The bigger problem here is that people with zero common sense continue to breed.
Why are people bringing abortion into this? This has nothing to do with abortion. It’s about a person’s physical condition and their ability to play sports. (for the record, I would think a “pro-life” person who really cares about the fetus would not allow the girl to play sports that could potentially harm her pregnancy)
I agree that it was REALLY messed up of the coach to kick her off the team. However… First off, the school may just be trying to avoid lawsuits. If they let a pregnant girl play competitive, intense contact sports, and the girl falls over or gets elbowed in the stomach, causing damage to the fetus or worse causing a miscarriage, they might try to sue the school. (people have been sued for much stupider things) Second, her pregnancy would probably affect her ability to play at some point. When you join a team, you often have to meet certain physical standards. You have to be good enough to play. Her ability to play will probably diminish at some point, and it would not be fair to the rest of the team. Like other commenters have said, when you join a high school team there are often rules to follow, such as “no drugs”.
If this girl wants to keep her baby, and really cares about the welfare of the baby, she would stop playing contact sports. She’s going to be a mother soon, there are other things for her to worry about. Volleyball is the least of her problems.
Sorry she’s pregnant & she shouldn’t be playing! The only sports she should be playing are preggo safe ones… Like swimming or prenatal yoga or walking. If you get pregnant on accident or on purpose it is up to you to protect your growing baby. This means giving up anything & everything that could harm your baby to be. DUH!!! I love playing soccer, but I would not continue to play knowing I was pregnant. I would however still cheer on my team at every game & even paint a soccer ball on my belly : )
i have none mackenzie for a good while. everyone thought better of her. so once she got pregnant her mother tried everything to try and defend the issue. you cant hide it now. shes pregnant deal with it.
Ok, she got pregnant. She’s a well rounded student and has other interests besides Volleyball. Why not take the time that she’s pregnant and use this time with her more reflective interests and protect her unborn baby, instead of making herslef a martyr because the school is being unfair and picking on her unfairly. Her physical safety is the most important thing during this time.
prolife or prochoice isnt the point.when she dives to get the ball and the baby gets injured or she miscarries she will suethe scholl district.smart to ban her from sports that she can get hurt in,stupid for going about it the way the coach did.