Boston Oct 21, 2019
Players from a girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont received with yellow cards after taking their jerseys off mid-game to display shirts stating,”#Equal Pay”. League rules bar the girls from wearing uniforms with slogans on them in official games, but they’re fine for practices and off-field activities, the team’s coach noted before the Friday game. Boston Oct 20, 2019
A girls’ high school varsity soccer team in Vermont is taking a page out of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team’s playbook, by mixing sports and social activism. “We want to show that we’re all going to stand behind this issue and we’re all going to fight for it together,” Burlington High School freshman Lydia Sheeser said of her team’s.
The Vermont number is 84 cents, according to the advocacy group Change the Story. It s appalling, and it s ridiculous that that s still a thing, said Maggie Barlow, a Burlington senior who is a member of the girls varsity soccer team.
Originally, the Burlington Seahorses thought they d make some simple tie-dyed shirts for a spirit day, but the idea took off. Change the Story helped the student athletes print more formal tees, with bold text reading “#EqualPay” across the chest. Even if you re wearing it to the grocery store or something, it s just bringing awareness and it s going to get people talking, Chloe De Bedout, a senior on the Burlington High School girls varsity soccer team, said of the shirts.