Mass. law allowed male field hockey player to get MVP award for girls’ league

By John Ransom

A boy using a Massachusetts legal loophole to play on the girls’ field hockey team has been awarded the 2024 Most Valuable Player honor for the girls’ conference.

But unlike many other gender controversies rocking high school and collegiate athletics, this latest shocker doesn’t involve a transgender player who thinks he’s a girl.

This high school player is biologically male and does not identify as female.

Under a Massachusetts law known as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a player may play for the team designated for members of the opposite sex if their school doesn’t offer that option for their sex. In other words, since there’s no male field hockey team offered, a boy can play on the girls’ team.

Ryan Crook, a sophomore at Somerset Berkley High School outside Boston, received the MVP award this year after coaches from the conference voted him the award.

Last month Somerset Berkley defeated rival Norwood 2-1 to claim the division II title, with Crook scoring both goals for his team, the Blue Raiders, in the match.

Last year, Norwood defeated Somerset Berkley 2-1, with Crook, then a freshman, scoring the only goal for the Blue Raiders.

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