When a 70% female college adds a football team

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<p>A College of St. Scholastica story, a little about “what happens when a 70% female college adds a football team”
Article by Rachel Blount in the Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune
October 2, 2008</p>

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<p>The end of the story notes that this weekend, the school will have its first homecoming.<a href=“link%20to”>url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/30226724.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUo8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU&lt;/a&gt; Star Tribune Article</p>

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<p>St. Scholastica is nice. The college has a beautiful campus on a hill overlooking Duluth. Nursing is one of its strongest programs, and they have been working on building the strength of the School of Business and Technology. There are good merit scholarships available, and I have heard that the need-based financial aid is generous. I think the football team will help this small college quite a bit.
<a href=“link%20to”>url=http://www.css.edu/Academics/School&lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;Business&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;Technology/Programs&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;Majors.html&lt;/a&gt; School of Business and Technology Programs and Majors</p>

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<p>I love stories like this :)</p>

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<p>Duluth is a great town! The walks around the lake boardwalk are wonderful and the little shops, lighthouse, and harbor are so much fun! Was in Duluth just a few weeks ago and hope to go back for a fall trip as we head up to the North Shore.</p>

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<p>Maybe having a football team will help them attract more male students.</p>

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<p>I would think if word got out that they were 70% female THAT would be enough to attract more males!</p>

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<p>Sounds like a Title IX problem.</p>

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<p>Choose a bunch of tomboyish students and make them play.</p>

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<p>From yesterday’s Duluth News Tribune</p>

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<p>The St. Scholastica kids have facebook pages of themselves and their friends dressed in the school colors and cheering on the Saints football team. A little extra part of the “college experience” that they are enjoying without having to go cheer for the UMD Bulldogs, the “other” Duluth, MN, college team. I don’t know the team name for Trinity Bible. Something really tough-sounding, I am sure.</p>

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<p>I Googled the other team’s name. It is the Lions. </p>

<p>Perfect! The Lions vs. the Saints, and the Saints won. :)</p>

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<p>I wish there were widespread girls’/women’s football teams. :confused: I wanted to play football as a kid (when I was 10 or 11), because I enjoyed playing two-hand-touch football at recess and was finally becoming good enough to be widely respected by the (other than me, all-male) other players, but my mom wouldn’t let me - she was afraid that the size disparity between me and the boys on the team would lead to my getting seriously hurt.</p>

<p>I would suggest that this school add a women’s football team as well, but there would be the problem of their having nobody to play. Maybe an intramural or club team…</p>

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<p>Hawkette should be all over this story :)</p>

<p>I think it’s terrific, too.</p>

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<p>Just the other weekend I watched a women’s Rugby team. It’s football without pads and the women seemed to have fun.</p>

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<p>This is not the first school to up admissions, publicity, interest, male enrollment by simply adding a football team. THose who object so strongly to sports programs should read these stories. There are few additions a college can make to change the admissions numbers so drastically as adding a football team. It brings males sniffing to the campus and they are in high demand among the small LAC type schools. Where the boys are, the girls end up coming as well.</p>

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<p>Where the Boys are, someone waits for me…ahhh, I really liked Connie Francis! Classic spring break movie…made me smile cptofthehouse!!! :)</p>