I've been watching this story since last week. Not least of which because it's from my hometown.
Honestly, I don't think it would have been necessary for the school to make a public apology. This is between 2 teams. Sometimes people get caught up in a game, forget why they're playing and do something jerky. But all it takes is one coach and his girls going to the other coach and his girls and saying "Sorry. We should have been better sports. Can we take you out for pizza?" And that would have done it. No fuss. No muss. Lesson learned. Frankly, I'm kind of shocked that anyone who'd make the choice to work with highschool kids would need to be told this.
Plus the fact the Covenant name is not misleading. It is indeed a Christian academy. Obviously everybody forgot to put on their WWJD bracelets that morning. Which of course makes it a jucier story. I actually feel kind of bad for the Covenant girls. The coach (and apparently other adults) who should have been making sure they're getting the really valuable lesson from school sports (and for the record, that's not how to make a 3-pointer), was asleep at the wheel. The Dallas Academy girls have a coach who made sure that even when they were getting their butts handed to them, they kept on playing their hardest, and would walk away rembering what it feels like to be on the receiving end of bad sportsmanship.
But seriously, it's time to turn the media spotlight off these young women and let them work it out themselves. And seriously, ladies, going out together for pizza would be a great idea. There are very few things that a crowd of females can't work out over and a few slices with extra cheese.
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