Let’s also not forget that they are student athletes and, as an educator, I wonder how they could possibly balance two teams and academics,” said Belleville East softball coach Natalie Peters.

Trump issued an executive order that calls allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports “demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls ..."

A transgender female student athlete competing at California’s high school track and field championship finals took home first place in the high jump and triple jump, and second place in the long jump . Why it matters: There has not been a known transgender student reach the state finals in the competitions until this year.

A Minnesota teen competing in a high school softball tournament next week was singled out Friday in a post on X by U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer because she’s a transgender athlete. Emmer, who represents Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District and is the No.

Enquirer readers selected the Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine's Athletes of the Week from high school sports action through May 25, 2025.

Scottsdale Chaparral junior track and field athlete Gabbie Banning and Tempe Corona del Sol senior baseball player David Moss have been chosen as The Arizona Republic's High School Athletes of the Week. They were selected by readers in the 36th and final weekly poll of the 2024-25 school year, sponsored by Diamond Kitchen & Bath.

Former Florida State track and field standout, Alice Sims, hosted her fourth annual invitational at Chiles high school on Saturday.

Menasha's Coopman, Neenah's Gentile, Kimberly's Hermus, Wrightstown's Humphreys and Appleton East's Lutes nominated for athlete of the week.

Tommy Murr, an All-America senior basketball player for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, becomes the second UAH player to win the award in three years, following Chaney Johnson (2023), who transferred from UAH to Auburn.