Wearing pink uniforms is OK after City Section eliminates uniform rule
Members of the Buffalo Bills wear pink during a game against the Arizona Cardinals for Breast Cancer Awareness Month back in 2012.
It’s now up to each school’s principal whether to allow teams to wear uniforms not including their school colors after the City Section’s Board of Managers eliminated a rule from its bylaws on Monday that resulted in national ridicule last season when Narbonne’s girls’ basketball team was removed from the playoffs for wearing pink on their uniforms in honor of breast cancer awareness month.
The rule had required schools to wear uniforms only with their school colors unless receiving a waiver from the City Section. Narbonne appealed its banishment and was reinstated but its coach was suspended for the rest of the playoffs.
Now the decision is up to each school’s principal as long as the uniforms fulfill requirements set by the National Federation of State High School Assns.
“Now that rule won’t haunt us,” said Ari Bennett, who was running the Board of Managers meeting.
“It’s a common-sense rule,” City Section Commissioner John Aguirre said.
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