Five Golden Bear Programs Garner Newmark Award For Academic Success - University of California Golden Bears Athletics (calbears.com)

The team earned $7500 toward the basketball team's budget for their "most improved academics" award. Con-gratulations, girls! Your achievement of a collective gpa of 3.546 for a predominantly frosh-soph team under duress (only winning one game) is AMAZING! GO BEARS!

Schroeder71 said:

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Five Golden Bear Programs Garner Newmark Award For Academic Success - University of California Golden Bears Athletics (calbears.com)

The team earned $7500 toward the basketball team's budget for their "most improved academics" award. Con-gratulations, girls! Your achievement of a collective gpa of 3.546 for a predominantly frosh-soph team under duress (only winning one game) is AMAZING! GO BEARS!

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Just a word of advice to you. They call it Cal Women's Basketball for a reason. Our players are young women not girls.

Kudos to the coaching staff for keeping the players engaged when dealing with virtual learning and Zoom classes.

You can read CAL Athleric News, May 15, 2021....Honoring the Best of 2020-21.....

WBB received Top Honors for having the highest Grade Point Average among Cal's 30 intercollegiate programs with a 3.61 GPA..

Charmin talked about this on a podcast I watched 2 months ago. She also said Kai was instrumental in this achievement...........GO BEARS.......

You can certainly call them team, players, students, student-athletes, etc. Since the program is officially called Women's Basketball I'm fine with calling them women. BTW I know plenty of women who are neither stuffy nor formal.

I prefer women to ladies. If anything, the term "lady" has stuffy connotations per its definition.Feudal titles aside " a : a woman of superior social position
b : a woman of refinement and gentle manners
c : WOMAN, FEMALE often used in a courteous reference
show the lady to a seat
or usually in the plural in address
ladies and gentlemen"

It's much ado about nothing unless you're in a position where you can upset people who work for you and with you by calling a young woman a girl when she finds it offensive. As mentioned, calling a young Black male in his 20s a boy is a problem as well.

Words do matter. Calling a 22-year-old female a girl tends to define her as less than adult, especially since few 22-year-old males are routinely referred to as boys.

It's not about how old guys like me feel -- it's about how the people who are being identified feel. And I know a lot of young women who do not want an old man like me calling them girls.