shirt requirement at practice

ridiculous

Hey, I went to the University of Chicago. I honestly don't remember too many days that were warm enough that I would have wanted to take off my shirt. I do remember a guy finishing the steeplechase with ice on his singlet, though. Good times.

yeah, there's a few other schools that do taht too.

That is too bad, I like it when the girl runners go topless.

Chicago, this is an outrage! The female athletes at my university can go toppless whenever they want.

Yes, i went to a school up around Boston and after years of no policy the shirt policy was instituted so that all us runners didnt make other heavy athletes feel bad. so no matter the temp in late august we had to leave our athletic center with shirts and take them off outside.

bob saget wrote:

ridiculous

Agree. Shirtless and sweating hard in the hot weather is part of it. Nice to get a full tan with it too.

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This really isn't an issue for us Canucks right now. Mother nature does a pretty good job of telling us when we can take our shirts off and when they should stay on.

I'm going to tell chuck norris about this

I am calling BS

i wish it was BS

The head of my athletics department in high school, and girls coach, said, "She didn't differentiate between mens' and womens' breasts." We had a good time making fun of her for...

I was actually told at a roadrace that I had to wear a shirt. I thought they were joking at first but they weren't. I ran without a shirt anyway (as did many others) and no one said anything to me.

Sounds like it is time to by a few mesh racing singlets for the warmer days.

Is this new policy going to be enforced year-round?

At Tennessee, Coach Watts would occasionally try to enforce a shirt rule from October to Spring Break. But outside of that, we could go shirtless.

This time of year, even if we got a warm front hitting the 70's, we would still have to wear a shirt.

Will coach make you wear a shirt in May and June? What about next August when you come back to U. of Chicago for Cross-country next year? That's dumb.

I'd actually threaten to transfer since the rule was not in effect during my recruitment, I would demand to be "grandfathered" in, and allow me to only go shirtless at my discretion.

Frankly, I'm disturbed by the prevelance of shirtless running among high school and college teams. Anyone ever heard of a little thing called SKIN CANCER?!

rip van racer wrote:

Sounds like it is time to by a few mesh racing singlets for the warmer days.

it's a silly rule that is quite widespread. most fitness clubs have similar rules, for example. every school i attended (beginning in high school) had it - enforcement was variable, though. rip is right.

We have a similar rule- we have to wear shirts inside. If we try to run on our indoor track without a shirt, we can get thrown out. Which sucks. The track is reserved for the track team during practice, nobody else is allowed in there, why do we have to keep our shirts on? Outside, however, is a different matter.

hmmm. athletes requesting special exemptions from rules. can't think of why that could be a problem.