Refs: get off your knees and stop blowing the game!!

I played boys hockey for about nine years. In boys hockey you could pretty much say anything you want to the ref. You could swear and not get a penalty. If what you were saying was really bad the most you would get is a four minute penalty. In girls hockey it is way different. If you say one bad word you will get a ten minute minor penalty. If you are in ear shot of the ref and you swear they still will give you a penalty. Refs think that girls should be proper and act like ladies.

Then you get some refs that even if you touch another player you will get a penalty. In girls hockey you cannot check but you can ride the body. For example you could ride her body on the boards. When i say ride the body it means to skate up next to her and pretty much just cut her off and nudge her a little. Where as in guys hockey, you can fulll out hit. You're also allowed to mid-ice hit. You pretty much lay people out in boys hockey. Some refs don't understand that girls can ride the body and so they end up calling everything. One time, when an opposing player was skating down the boards into my defensive zone, I was riding her body, gave her a slight nudge, and low and behold, the ref called me for roughing! Unfortunately, I questioned his call, and recieved a ten minute minor as a consequence.

Because girls hockey is not as highly esteemed as mens', we receive the amature referees, while the boys have the expeirenced officiating. The worst is when we have referees that are our own age, trying to call our games. It is a known fact that younger referees are much less experienced and therefore have a tendency to make inconsistant calls.

There needs to be a higher standard for officiating in women's hockey! Title IX in the Constitution demands equal standards in men and women's high school sports, so why should womens travel sports be shafted?