The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Virginia High School League (VSHL), alleging that the way the VHSL schedules girl’s sports violates Title IX. The VHSL, Virginia’s governing body of high school athletics, currently schedules all three divisions of boys’ sports in the same season.
For girls, three sports–tennis, basketball, and volleyball–are scheduled at different times of the year, depending on the number of students enrolled in the school. As a result, girls from smaller high schools, who are forced to play their sport in the off season, have fewer opportunities for earning athletic scholarships. No court date has been set for the case.
