Charlottesville Cavaliers
Last Saturday afternoon, a youth basketball team from Virginia was disqualified from a national travel tournament for having a girl on their roster.
After winning in the Elite Eight to advance to the Final Four of the National Travel Basketball Association Boy’s National Championship, the Charlottesville Cavaliers were disqualified because 10-year-old Kymora Johnson had played a few minutes in earlier rounds. The team the Cavaliers had eliminated in the Elite Eight advanced after the disqualification and went on to win the tournament.
It was a tournament for boys teams — with a separate event for girls at the end of June — but the optics were bad, and the incident quickly made local, then national news.