Riley Gaines praises HS field hockey team's decision to forfeit, takes swipe at NCAA president

Riley Gaines talks about a Massachusetts field hockey team's decision to forfeit and takes a swipe at NCAA President Charlie Baker on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich."

Riley Gaines praised a Massachusetts high school for deciding its girls field hockey team should forgo playing a team that had boys on it, and she also took a swipe at NCAA President Charlie Baker.

Gaines, the host of OutKick’s "Gaines for Girls" podcast and the director at the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute, appeared on "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" to talk about Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School’s decision to forfeit against Somerset Berkley.

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"This is what leadership looks like. There was a team, it was last year, actually, it’s the high school – it’s called Dighton-Rehoboth field hockey," Gaines said, mentioning last year’s incident. "They are playing another team, Swampscott. A boy is on that team. He slaps a shot, it hits one of the female players in the face. I mean, Dan, she lost all of her teeth. She had to go undergo facial reconstruction surgery to reconstruct her face, her smile."

"The superintendent released a statement, and he said safety matters more than victory. And I thought that was just incredibly well put. He even went on to say, you know, we might not even get a playoff spot. We might not be able to compete in our league’s championship, and that’s OK because I’m doing my job of prioritizing and protecting my students, my athletes."

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Tuesday’s decision to forfeit, which came after