Woman Suing Duke After Getting Cut by the Football Team
The Associated Press has a story about testimony in a lawsuit brought by Heather Sue Mercer against Duke University. It seems Ms. Mercer tried out for the football team as a walk-on kicker. She was given a 20-minute tryout by coach Fred Goldsmith who testified he cut her because she wasn’t good enough.
One of the kickers who made that team testified that in her tryout, Mercer’s field goal range was limited to about 35 yards. Such a limited range would prevent any kicker, male or female, from making a college football team at a decent university (Duke’s then-starting kicker hit several from 45+ yards, including one from 50 yards).
Goldsmith testified,
She was evaluated like a man would have been. I decided to judge her like a man who was not making a contribution to the team.
He also added that he admired her for trying out and offered her a manager position which she turned down.
The Woman Suing Duke After Getting Cut by the Football Team by Brian Carnell, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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