A Hamilton County football player is reportedly being benched for nothing more than her gender. It had been a good football season for Cece Lucia. Home video shows her kicking a game-winning field ...

After Caroline Pla played two football seasons in their league, Philadelphia's Catholic Youth Organization banned the 11-year-old girl from playing the sport as a sixth-grader, according to a FOX 29 ...

Cece Lucia has moved on, for the most part. She's ready to start her freshman year at Cathedral High School -- and ready to start summer practice with the football team next week. She's ready to play ...

If things had gone differently, Caroline Pla would be remembered as a trailblazer who cleared a permanent path for local girls who wanted to play football. After a heated, high-profile battle with the ...

The Visitation Gladiators varsity football team won the Archdiocese of Philadelphia CYO Division 1 Football championship Nov. 12 at Cardinal O’Hara High School. The Gladiators completed a second ...

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It's been nearly two years since Doylestown, Bucks County teen Caroline Pla fought the Philadelphia Archdiocese to play CYO football with the boys and won. Number 20 noticed the guys got bigger. "I ...

A Catholic Youth Organization football league will go without an official postseason champion this year after a group of coaches defied an archdiocesan order to include a top-ranked rival in its ...

INDIANAPOLIS — There was this kid I had to see. A seventh-grader, a running back in the Bishop Chatard pipeline. The kid was playing CYO football, but believe it: He was the Trojans’ tailback of the ...

Caroline Pla,11-year-old offensive guard, fights to overturn archdiocese ban. Jan. 7, 2013— -- Caroline Pla has played football for six years – more than half her life. The 11-year-old offensive ...