is volleyball really a "mean girl" sport??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is great at it. I feel silly even typing this out, but my older daughter was saying that "everyone knows" that the girls who play volleyball are "mean girls." I mostly rolled my eyes but a friend in another area said it's the same in their area. Is that really true?

No, there is nothing inherent in volleyball that attracts "mean girls". Both my DDs played high school volleyball (at two different high schools) and generally had a great experience. Were there sometimes conflicts between team members that might be considered "mean girl" behavior? Sure, but no worse than other non-athletic organization they participated in at school. Is it possible that at certain high schools or middle schools the coach tolerates "mean girl" behavior? Of course, but I don't believe that volleyball as a rule attracts more mean girls than other sports or even non-athletic extracurriculars.

Since your post is about volleyball, I would say that depending on the school, if your daughter who is great at volleyball isn't playing club volleyball, their chances of making the varsity team might be slim. Volleyball is a sport where the training and experience players get outside of a school team is far more important than the HS season. Most of the girls on competitive HS volleyball teams are playing all year long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had no idea how many people associate girls sports with mean girl behaviors. I didn't play sports in high school (I was a drama nerd). My DD is an athlete though. Is this common?

Look at all the media attention around the WNBA and the hazing of Caitlin Clark. Things that would get a pass in men’s sports is seen as “mean” when females do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had no idea how many people associate girls sports with mean girl behaviors. I didn't play sports in high school (I was a drama nerd). My DD is an athlete though. Is this common?

Look at all the media attention around the WNBA and the hazing of Caitlin Clark. Things that would get a pass in men’s sports is seen as “mean” when females do it.

That… was not “mean girl” behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had no idea how many people associate girls sports with mean girl behaviors. I didn't play sports in high school (I was a drama nerd). My DD is an athlete though. Is this common?

Look at all the media attention around the WNBA and the hazing of Caitlin Clark. Things that would get a pass in men’s sports is seen as “mean” when females do it.

Wrong. Flagrant fouls are ejection level offenses. As Chennedy Carter, who's been disciplined and kicked off mid-season of THREE TEAM programs by now (2 NBA, 1 EU), keeps doing. Don't cite them and say anything but that.

Even NBA stopped that thugball behavior 20+ years ago. No one wants to watch that, only thugs want to play that, no team will pay up for a top athlete because serious injury risk goes up, and no sponsors will take a chance on someone with potential temper who assaults other players. So no, males in the NBA did not get a pass for deliberate "mean" assaults. That's not basketball. Anywhere.

I mean seriously, if anyone should have been fired long ago for unsportsmanlike behavior it's Chennedy Carter. She's got a rap sheet a mile long of playing nasty.

[Anonymous]

Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Well then. That settles it.
Professional Mean Girl on Steroids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Nobody said that she wasn’t a jerk, but mean girl behavior(relational aggression) is something else.

[Anonymous]

I was flipping through TV when I saw women’s college sports. I was surprised that the players were all heights from 5’2” to 6’2”. Someone had said here that the players were all tall but talent wins out.

It’s pretty basic, they have three moves back and forth. Looks like a fun game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Nobody said that she wasn’t a jerk, but mean girl behavior(relational aggression) is something else.

Like tweeting all about a peer professional and putting her down every day this week? A la Reese and Chennedy tweets?
High fiving and hugging the fouler immediately?

Their mommas must be proud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was flipping through TV when I saw women’s college sports. I was surprised that the players were all heights from 5’2” to 6’2”. Someone had said here that the players were all tall but talent wins out.

It’s pretty basic, they have three moves back and forth. Looks like a fun game.

Must not have noticed USC’s strategy then, of mainly recruiting those 6’-6’8” globally.

Can’t wait to see the heights soar and GPAs plummet with the new rev sharing with collegiate athletes. As if the portal wasn’t bad enough for their afterthought academics and distractions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Nobody said that she wasn’t a jerk, but mean girl behavior(relational aggression) is something else.

Bullying is bullying, and it’s contagious amongst some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Classy WBNA indeed. Def not a mean girl.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/chicago-sky-s-chennedy-carter-s-history-of-misbehavior-under-spotlight-amid-foul-against-caitlin-clark/ar-BB1nAY8h?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Nobody said that she wasn’t a jerk, but mean girl behavior(relational aggression) is something else.

Bullying is bullying, and it’s contagious amongst some.

True, but this thread is specifically about relational aggression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was flipping through TV when I saw women’s college sports. I was surprised that the players were all heights from 5’2” to 6’2”. Someone had said here that the players were all tall but talent wins out.

It’s pretty basic, they have three moves back and forth. Looks like a fun game.

Must not have noticed USC’s strategy then, of mainly recruiting those 6’-6’8” globally.

Can’t wait to see the heights soar and GPAs plummet with the new rev sharing with collegiate athletes. As if the portal wasn’t bad enough for their afterthought academics and distractions.

I forget who was playing, it looks like volleyball is popular everywhere except the northeast. It must kill the basketball coaches to see females who are 6’4” not playing basketball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had no idea how many people associate girls sports with mean girl behaviors. I didn't play sports in high school (I was a drama nerd). My DD is an athlete though. Is this common?

Look at all the media attention around the WNBA and the hazing of Caitlin Clark. Things that would get a pass in men’s sports is seen as “mean” when females do it.

The WNBA.

- there are only 144 players. The WNBA is tiny!

Yet those 144 manage to haze, bully, break laws, and even grab international news headlines for really stupid drug violations.

Not to mention: there is a mean-spirited core of lesbian athletes who get away with hating on league players who are not LGTBQIA+. The WNBA is seriously way out of control.

[Anonymous]

Mean girls can be anywhere that girls are. They used to stick to cheerleading, because most team sports were considered tomboy-ish. That's not true anymore, so now you can definitely get a crew of them taking over one of the sports teams. I think the only place free of them is the really rough sports, that tend to still attract a certain kind of non-girly girl, like rugby, or the excruciatingly difficult sports, like track and cross country, because no one has enough energy left to be mean.