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at least until college, unless your parents or community live vicariously through your athletic performance. Up to that point I never really understood the "need" for gender segregation. I knew girls in high school who could throw a baseball faster and further than the boys that made the team, but couldn't play baseball, just for example.

Of course, once in higher education, you tend to become the justification for some lofty salary and perks of a coach and staff (depending on your gender and the sport), and for a select few schools, profit accruing to their endowment. Sports are a money-loser for most colleges and universities. And before you get into the opportunities scholarships provide, those moneys could be provided the same students without the sports infrastructure for less than it costs with. They do function as free minor leagues for several professional leagues (NBA & NFL in particular), where teams are owned by starving billionaires, however.

Or it about "proving" someone is "better" than someone else? If that's the case, then perhaps Seth Moulton is correct.