First female teen to win Ohio masonry competition bumped from national contest

[Benton]

(06-20-2016, 12:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: It could have been a legit mistake.

Seems that if they were going to rig the competition they would never have let her win in the first place.

Quote:Judges in the masonry program, a field usually dominated by men, originally awarded Clifford first place by a whopping 72 points.

Larry Moore, her instructor, said the scores of the top performers usually vary by only a couple of points, but Clifford’s column for the state competition was exceptional.

If you take out all the implied sexism, it sounds like it was a mistake. I was in SkillsUSA competitions in high school. That was nearly 20 years ago, and girls were not uncommon then (at least not in Kentucky).