WASHINGTON, D.C. — Our Bodies, Our Sports, the nation’s first and only coalition of women’s advocacy organizations fighting for fairness in women’s sports, issued a statement following the news that the University of Wyoming Cowgirls volleyball team will not play its scheduled Mountain State Conference match this Saturday, October 5 against San Jose State University. Under conference rules, the Cowgirls forfeit the game and take the loss. San Jose State University, which rosters a male athlete on the women’s volleyball team, continues its undefeated streak sweeping the conference. 

Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition has been widely recognized for its work standing up for female athletes and fair play, and for creating the largest, most ideologically diverse women’s movement fighting to protect women’s sports. 

“The University of Wyoming has made the right choice to join Boise State and forfeit its match against San Jose State University, and we applaud them for it. But we’ve had enough! NCAA women athletes come to campus to compete in their sport, not sit out as a statement against the NCAA’s crusade to destroy the integrity of women’s sports. The NAIA changed its policy to protect women athletes and it’s long overdue for the NCAA to do the same. We call on President Charlie Baker and the NCAA Board of Governors to immediately revoke its destructive policy discriminating against women athletes and remove male players from women’s teams now. Stop discriminating.”

OBOS women’s rights organizations, feminist organizations, sports organizations, female Olympians, and lawyers include the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, Women’s Declaration International USA, Concerned Women for America, Independent Women’s Forum, Women’s Liberation Front, Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, Champion Women, Independent Women’s Law Center, Young Women for America, Independent Women’s Network, International Consortium on Female Sport, and Independent Women’s Voice, and coaches including 15-year DI baseball coach and current Idaho State Representative Barbara Ehardt and renowned athletes Riley Gaines and Olympians Martina Navratilova, Donna de Varona, and Nancy Hogshead. 

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The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition formed in 2022 to defend women’s sports and the integrity of the female sporting category. Despite political and ideological differences, members of the coalition stand together with gratitude for the generations of female athletes who came before us and in defense of all the women and girls who will come next.