Sydney Phillips can play basketball with the boys.
Superior Court Judge Donald A. Kessler ruled in favor of Phillips and ordered her to be placed immediately on the seventh grade boys basketball team at St. Theresa’s School in Kenilworth, NJ, her father, Scott Phillips, told the Post on Friday.
The Post first wrote about Sydney’s fight to get on the court back in December. The school had dropped the girls’ team, and Sydney wanted to join the boys’ team. In January, the family sued the school, asking for Sydney to be placed on the boys team. Judge Kessler ruled against her at that time.
Sydney also was expelled from St. Theresa’s briefly before being reinstated. After an appeal, the ruling was sent back to Judge Kessler. At a new hearing Friday, he decided she should be placed on the boys’ team, Scott Phillips said.
Sydney will play the team’s final regular-season game of the season on Sunday and at least one playoff game. Sydney got the word in a telephone call Friday afternoon from her mother, Theresa Mullen, after Scott picked Sydney up from school.
“Sydney is thrilled,’’ Scott Phillips told The Post. “When she got the news she started screaming, ‘Yeah! Yeah!’
“I’m so happy for Sydney, this is all we wanted. Too bad there is only one game left because she could have really helped the team.’’
Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
