Pilaro benched for being too good After two years playing alongside girls, male field hockey player ruled ineligible

Keeling Pilaro doesn't understand why he's not being allowed to play the sport he loves.

The eighth-grader from Southampton, N.Y., has played in the Southampton High School field hockey program for the past two seasons, the only boy on what are typically all-girls squads. But on March 30, the local high school athletics governing body, Section XI, ruled that Pilaro would no longer be allowed to compete, effective next season.

Citing a state education law that ...



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