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Wake & Duke misrepresenting the female athlete numbers?

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/29/1234040/men-counted-as-women-in-study.html

In the 2009-10 season, 15 Duke practice players, who helped the women's basketball team prepare for games, were listed in a federal study as members of the women's sports program. Eleven were counted at Wake Forest, and seven at Appalachian State.

Though none of the three schools appeared to need to count men in their women's sports rosters in order to satisfy Title IX requirements, the inclusion of men potentially skews the appearance of how successful schools that receive Title IX funding are at building and maintaining women's sports programs.

Wake has 18 mens basketball players and 26 'womens' players. Duke has 14 and 28.

The 11 male players at Wake Forest pushed its percentage from 33.5 to 35.3; 51.2 percent of its overall population was female

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/29/1234040/men-counted-as-women-in-study.html#ixzz1Nxla71nj
 
That's dumb. The point of the research is to see who is getting funding. Those guys get shoes and practice gear so the woman's sport is receiving funds for that.
 
The Department of Education began collecting data for its EADA reports in 2001, spokesperson Sara Gast said in an email, and when it did so, it defined a "participant" on a team in similar fashion to the NCAA: A student who, as of the first day of a varsity team's first scheduled contest, is listed on the varsity team's roster; received athletically related student aid; or practiced with the varsity team and received coaching from one or more varsity coaches.

Under that third requirement, male practice players on a women's team should always have been counted as female participants, she wrote. But there was no specific mention of gender in the EADA's requirements, Gast wrote, until it released a reporting user's guide three or four years ago, which stated that men should be included as participants on women's teams under certain guidelines.
 
They make the rules. We go by them.
 
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