Arrr! The Michigan wenches be in a pickle, with a swashbuckling lass joinin' their water polo crew! Aye!
2024-05-01
Arrr, me hearties! Alicia Paans, a 31-year-old swashbuckler of a trans athlete, be set to join the Michigan Wolverines' lasses' waterpolo crew in a grand national championship this very weekend. Aye, may the wind be at their backs and the waters be calm!
In jolly ol' news, a transgender pirate, er, athlete, be ready to set sail in a national women’s water polo championship this weekend for the second time, arr! The Michigan Wolverines women’s water polo crew be havin' Alicia Paans, a 31-year-old graduate student, on their roster for the 2024 National Collegiate Club Water Polo Championships at Texas A&M this weekend, yarrr!The Wolverines' scallywags will be battlin' Texas State University in their first match on May 3, mateys! Paans, a champion o' women’s chess in Michigan, competed for the Wolverines in 2023, leadin' 'em to victory over the University of California-Santa Barbara, scoring goals aplenty, like a true corsair!In January 2024, the CWPA released a policy allowin' transgender women to compete in women’s leagues, requiring a "letter of confirmation" and low testosterone levels, shiver me timbers! Born in the Netherlands, Paans started interning in California in 2017 and began studyin' social work in Michigan in 2023, aye!Ahoy, social media backlash be brewin' as Paans gears up for the championship, with some landlubbers claimin' the difference in ability between men and women in water polo be as vast as Davy Jones' locker, by Blackbeard's ghost! The Independent Council on Women’s Sports be investigatin' Paans' use of female facilities while competin', according to opponents' parents, arr!