A Middle Finger Cost Me My Livelihood as a Woman Athlete

[Snake Plissken]

27. "A Middle Finger Cost Me My Livelihood as a Woman Athlete" is a bit over dramatic

This did not end her livelihood as a woman athlete, it didn't even end her collegiate career as a women athlete or as an athletic on scholarship.

She played in nine games for UConn and scored no goals before being kicked off the team

The cold hard truth is ... if she was a player that UConn needed on their roster to win games they would have found an infinite number of excuses to keep her on the team. This happens all the time in male athletics, players are not essential to winning are expendable, and players who are essential to winner are protected.

Legal filings in the case show that the UConn athletic department helped Radwan transfer to another school and that she had been admitted to Hofstra University with a soccer scholarship at the start of the spring semester in 2015.

Which is far more than they had to do.

She then sued UConn for monetary damages and of course the suit was thrown out.

She was given a full athletic scholarship and failed to represent the university in the manner she agreed to when she accepted the scholarship.

Do they make exceptions and look the other way for other athletes, of course they do, it's a business where winning is everything.

Athletic scholarships are granted on a year to year basis and are often not renewed for various reasons, and rarely do universities go out of their way to help them land scholarships at other universities, she is just looking to cash in on this situation.

I don't see anyone here crying for all of the students who actually have to pay out of their own pocket to get an education, or for students who do not even get accepted to a university to make room for athletes who are less academically qualified, or for the student athletes who don't get a scholarship but walkon and pay their own way.

I'm not buying this "If she was a male, she wouldn't have to be accountable for her actions" argument.

If she was good enough to make a professional team, she would have been able to make it her livelihood, but she didn't, it's that simple.

There are more than 460,000 NCAA student-athletes, and almost all of them will go pro in something other than sports.