Katherine Clark: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am from Boston. If you want to talk about sports, I am all in. If you want to talk…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am from Boston. If you want to talk about sports, I am all in. If you want to talk about equality for women and girls, if you want to talk about Title IX and ensuring fairness in sports, sign me up. As far as kids in sports go, as a mom of three, I can't tell you how many hours I have spent cheering on my kids. It is lacrosse, basketball, and baseball. It has been soccer, rugby, cross-country, and track. We have seen in my family championship teams through T-ball teams where our entire goal was to just get the outfield to stop digging for worms. All of this is about kids and their experience, about learning, growing, forming friendships, knowing what it means to work hard, to practice, to see results, and to be a team. I was very interested when this bill was filed to see what it was, what the problem was that the NCAA in Massachusetts and across this country, the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association and its counterparts around the country, the Olympics, the International Track and Field Association, what they were missing. I read this bill, and what they are missing is nothing. This is not a problem in our communities, on our sports fields, for our children.…”