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From: "Ed Brooke" <ed_brooke@hotmail.com>
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Subject: More women please!
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Dear Anna and all

You are very right about student male attitudes.  I run the club here in 
Oxford, and this debate keeps on coming around.  Last year half the team 
essentially didn't want women playing on the first team just because.  I 
convinced them to allow the women to play but then we ended up with the 
situation of our coaches not letting the women play in the most important 
games/points.  What I'm trying to do this year is to be as inclusive as I 
possibly can, helped by a couple of very talented female players, and we've 
got a good number of female beginners.  Now we have enough players for a 
small indoors womens team, I'm pushing to organise women's matches against 
local opposition eg Mythago.  This should help the confidence of the new 
players, create a bit of team spirit and be a big bonus when it comes to 
playing with the boys in the tournaments.  Fingers crossed!

Ed
OW!

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