{"id":1427962,"date":"2022-04-10T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427962"},"modified":"2022-04-10T20:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:44:52","slug":"do-we-have-a-voice-olympic-ncaa-champions-demand-ncaa-do-more-to-protect-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/do-we-have-a-voice-olympic-ncaa-champions-demand-ncaa-do-more-to-protect-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Do We Have a Voice?&#039;: Olympic, NCAA Champions Demand NCAA Do More to Protect Women&#039;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdo-we-have-a-voice-olympic-ncaa-champions-demand-ncaa-do-more-to-protect-womens-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1427962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A group of Olympic and NCAA champions joined together to release a letter demanding action to protect women\u2019s sports in the wake of the major victories of transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 retired swimmers, including several Olympians, former NCAA champions, and even a USA Swimming team director, and others all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/more-sports\/olympic-and-ncaa-champions-demand-action-to-protect-women-s-swimming-says-ncaa-s-response-is-not-good-enough\/ar-AAW3oRn?ocid=msedgntp&#038;cvid=1fa452b5c7864e2cbbdd4c928a6a3e39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising<\/a> serious questions about the NCAA\u2019s rules governing transgender athletes, according to MSN.com.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to express the anguish the women\u2019s swim community has experienced this past week watching the 2022 NCAA Swim &#038; Dive Championships,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas just took first place at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women&#8217;s Swimming &#038; Diving Championships in the 500 freestyle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveWomensSports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveWomensSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWvDQMYHRJ\">pic.twitter.com\/UWvDQMYHRJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwipeWright\/status\/1504586948400369671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former NCAA champion Marshi Smith told Fox News that the group decided to speak out now because \u201cindividually we felt like we didn\u2019t have a voice. We weren\u2019t being asked our opinions or possible solutions to what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking the NCAA: Do we have a voice?\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the adoption of Title nine, young mothers like myself\u2026and most of the women from the University of Arizona on our list have small children, for the first time ever we feel like our daughters may not have the same opportunities for success that we did,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that has motivated us to speak out publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith won the NCAA 100-meter backstroke championship in 2005 while going to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA has not replied to the recent open letter, but Smith did receive a response from NCAA President Mark Emmert to a letter she wrote on her own.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, Emmert insisted that the organization is following the science.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Emmert insisted that \u201cthe Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/university-of-pennsylvania-swimmer-lia-thomas-walks-after-receiving-picture-id1238602666?k=20&#038;m=1238602666&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=nKbZZtoPtQcTDziEb3CtjVSDOrRdGgLizRJUFDU9t18=\" alt=\"University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas walks after receiving her medal for winning the 200 yard freestyle during the 2022 Ivy League Women&#039;s...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas (Kathryn Riley\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president went on, to say, \u201cthe NCAA\u2019s current policy is anchored in the evolving science on this issue and in the sport-specific policies of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee\u2019s national governing bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith, though, discounted the NCAA\u2019s claims of following the science, and said that she does not believe that \u201ca biological man competing in female sports is fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former NCAA champ added that the women that signed on to her letter represent excellence and experience that the NCAA must heed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience and wisdom of these women is really unmatched,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have determined that the best course of action right now would be to err on the side of fairness across the board and that means that women are not asked to forfeit our titles, records, scholarships at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Olympic and NCAA champions joined together to release a letter demanding action to protect women\u2019s sports in the wake of the major victories of transgender University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}