From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Apr 30 14:19:21 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id OAA27967 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:04:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from titan-bh.gartner.com (titan.gartner.com [206.98.32.100]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA27908 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:03:47 +0100 (BST) From: Emma-Jayne.Slater@gartner.com Received: from titan-bh by titan-bh.gartner.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA25117; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:06:21 -0400 Received: from localhost by pluto.gartner.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA275071536; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:05:36 -0400 X-Openmail-Hops: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 98 14:03:39 +0100 Message-Id: <H000026900ae0834@MHS> Subject: RE: Women's Ultimate Mime-Version: 1.0 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Text" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Text" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk All those that are arguing for playing mixed Ultimate please just look at the top 'open' teams in this country and count the number of women players. This is enough to tell me that women playing in 'open' teams does not work. Any outsider, or for that matter potential sponsor, looking for an introduction to the game will look to the best teams in the country and by just doing this it would appear that the women's game hardly exists. For me the incentive to play sport is to aim to play at the highest level possible, and even though this is of course not always possible it has to at least be attainable. As for the benefits of playing on a women's team - Diana said it all!