Name: Will Taschler

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 24, 2023

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Type of Fieldwork: Interview

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On Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, my group and I interviewed Luis Hernandez. Luis works at LREI and coaches for a girls volleyball team in the middle school and high school. He is also the 7th and 8th grade P.E teacher. He grew up in the city playing different kinds of sports like volleyball, basketball, and more. He is also a coach outside of school for a girls basketball team called the city.

We interviewed him because played sports as a kid in the city. Luis had a strong opinion on the idea that the girls will stay on a team until they are 18, but the boys will try to leave and join a better team when they are 11-14. He is passionate about this opinion because this exact situation happened to him when he coached the city. That is why there is only one boys team left and the rest in girls. This is really disappointing because the boys team would have a lot of potential considering they won nationals two years in a row in the early 2010’s and produced a few NBA players.