A coach Monday defended allowing five boys to don skirts and play on the girls’ field hockey team despite criticism from rival coaches and a threat by at least one other team to boycott their games.

The United States is one of the rare places in the world where boys do not regularly play field hockey. Chris Clements, the national men's coach for USA Field Hockey, said in an interview last ...

HERALD POLL: Should boys play girls sports? Dighton-Rehoboth Superintendent Bill Runey is making the push after a male member on the Swampscott High girls’ field hockey team took a shot that hit ...

(Andrew Pilaro/AP) Score one big goal for 13-year-old field hockey player Keeling Pilaro. A New York athletics committee this week said the boy can keep playing on the girls varsity team at ...

Boys have been allowed to play on girls’ teams at Mass. high schools since the 1970s. That’s not fair. When there is no equivalent boys’ team, girls’ athletic teams in Massachusetts are ...