From an anonymous high school student:

Freshman year, you’re introduced to many fun Blaine High School activities. To performances at pep rallies, football games, dances, & new experiences. Powder Puff is one of them. Freshman & Sophomore year, you get more and more excited for these certain activities that you will be able to be more a part of your Junior & Senior year here at BHS.

Blaine High School is a very diverse school. There are many different ethnicities, different learning styles, & many different social groups. If we work on “being one school”, “one student body” & “coming together as one” then why isn’t our powder puff team representing that?

If we truly are trying to work on “being one” then is it necessarily fair to cut girls off of a fun team? This isn’t any Olympic game. This is a fun event where the Juniors & Seniors here at Blaine should come together and bring energy to play a great game of football. There are 160 jerseys. Only about 80 girls are chosen to play the game from each grade. What we are trying to say is, don’t you think there could be more girls for each team & rotate them out so everyone can get a piece of this great experience. Not a ton of girls will want to get in a jersey and play ball, if you accept a little of everyone we can make this school a better and more diverse fun place to be.

We are disappointed in the fact that those who looked forward to this experience cannot be a part of this fun opportunity. We are disappointed that the Powder Puff team is not better-rounded & we feel the teams were not fairly chosen or handpicked in the way they announced it would be.

For next year, we feel it would be best to have all the girls wanting to participate in the game, meet in the auditorium and have their names written on a slip of paper get drawn in front of everyone lottery style.

We hope to see change in the future & that this is taken in for consideration. Thank you for your time & I hope you have a good day.

– Anonymous Girls