NCAA transgender female runner laments issue with spikes despite clobbering competition at meet

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) transgender runner Sadie Schreiner boasted astir a triumph astatine a women’s way and tract conscionable implicit the weekend.

Schreiner won the 200-meter lawsuit with a clip of 25.17 seconds. SUNY Brockport’s Lexi Rodriguez finished successful 2nd spot with a clip of 26.92 seconds. Fisher College’s Abigail Dorunda (27.00), Makenna Manson (27.63) and Allison Nickson (27.82) rounded retired the apical 5.

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"Not the contention I was looking for astatine each this week, my spikes astir fell disconnected connected the crook and with a mediocre commencement my clip wasn’t astir what I wanted," the RIT runner wrote successful an Instagram post.

"The bully quality is that the play conscionable started, and I’m going to permission everything connected the way astatine nationals," Schreiner added with a transgender pridefulness emblem emoji.

Schreiner is 1 of a fewer NCAA transgender pistillate athletes who vie against biologic women contempt the organization’s effort to clamp down connected the issue. 

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Schreiner is an advocator for trans-inclusion successful women’s sports and complained past month astir the deficiency of enactment from schools successful the NCAA transportation portal.

"Trying to transportation into D1 has made it abundantly wide that radical are excessively acrophobic to enactment me," Schreiner wrote connected Instagram. "I aimed to transportation successful bid to not lone amended my diversion quality successful a much competitory environment, but to assistance with the funds I needed to implicit my degree. 

"It volition present apt beryllium intolerable to bash so, but whether (it’s) successful D3 oregon determination other I volition beryllium competing this year."

Schreiner is inactive astatine RIT and inactive seemingly winning.

Last season, Schreiner earned All-American honors successful outdoor track. The New Jersey autochthonal finished successful 3rd spot successful the 200-meter and eighth successful the 400-meter races astatine the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Schreiner won the 200-meter contention astatine the Atlantic Region Indoor Championships and finished successful ninth successful the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships. 

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