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South Bay Softball Players Win Title IX Lawsuit
April 2, 2009SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge has ruled that a South Bay high school has allowed "significant gender-based disparity" in sports at the expense of female athletes, it was reported Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge M. James Lorenz said in a summary judgment issued in San Diego this week that Castle Park High School is not in compliance with Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in schools, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
In April 2007, girls softball players sued the Sweetwater Union High School District, which oversees Castle Park, claiming that girls at Castle Park had worse sports facilities than boys and fewer chances to participate in athletics.
The plaintiffs showed that while female enrollment at Castle Park was 45-50 percent since 1998, female participation in athletics was 33-41 percent during those years, the Union-Tribune reported.
Measures to remedy the disparity will be determined later, according to the newspaper.
Castle Park is not the first school to be sued by its own softball players.
Over the past 11 years, the Ramona school district, Mesa College and the Grossmont Union High School District have faced similar legal complaints involving Title IX and subpar softball facilities.
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