A federal judge closed the door to the possibility of a statewide girls’ scholastic wrestling league when he denied the Pennsylvania Wrestling Club’s bid to intervene in a civil rights action filed by a junior high student who is barred from joining her school’s all-boys wrestling team.
The 12-year-old sued the Line Mountain School District last month after the school board denied her request to amend its policy prohibiting girls from joining boys’ contact-sports teams. She and her parents are now challenging that policy under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the federal Civil Rights Act as well as the Equal Rights Amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution.
