Former Montana soccer standout Alexa Coyle, now in her first month as a member of the Hibernian Womenâs Football Club of the Scottish Womenâs Premier League, was named one of 22 Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athletes for the 2020-21 school year, the league office announced on Thursday.
Coyle helped Montana advance to two NCAA tournaments and claim four Big Sky regular-season and tournament titles while leading the Grizzlies in points all four years of her playing career.
Her 19 career goals are tied for ninth in program history. She is tied for fourth in game-winning goals (nine).
Coyle, four times named Academic All-Big Sky, graduated in May with a 3.96 GPA as a management information systems major. As a senior she was voted first-team Academic All-District 6 by CoSIDA and second-team Scholar All-West Region by the United Soccer Coaches.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) â The Big Sky Conference has rescinded a policy that required student-athletes to sit out a year before being eligible to compete after transferring to another school within the conference.
The presidents of the conference schools voted unanimously Monday to allow transfer students to compete right away, the league announced Tuesday.
âAs our membership reviewed our policy as well as the national landscape regarding the issue of student-athletes being able to transfer to another school within the same league and compete immediately, we recognized that this would be the right step for our conference to take,â Commissioner Tom Wistrcill said in a statement.
Students protest Montana bill to ban transgender athletes
IRIS SAMUELS
HELENA Students, transgender people and allies from across Montana gathered Monday in front of the state Capitol to protest a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in school and college sports under the gender with which they identify.
Proponents of such measures – which were signed into law earlier this year by Republican governors in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee – say they ensure the playing field remains fair for biological females.
Opponents including over 30 protesters who gathered Monday say the measure unnecessarily harms transgender youth without “saving women’s sports,” as the bill purports to do.
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