Little Does Not Mean Less Than

I recently heard a very inspiring story of an athlete.  This is a girl who never thought she would ever be able to play basketball.  Her own sister was cut from many teams because she was too short, even though she was about 5'9" tall.  This girl, whose name I am choosing not to mention, was about 5'4" tall, half blind, partially deaf, and with one leg shorter than another, never believed that she would be able to play basketball competitively.  So, when a New York college called her and offered her a full-scholarship to play basketball, she was shocked and believed it was too good to be true.  She was wrong.  And now, almost a year later she is one of the best players that the team has and is loving every minute of it.  This story was meant to inspire everyone, and it did that to me.  I have to think that if I was put in this position, I would have quit or given up all hope.  But this girl, did not do that, she pushed through it all and is enjoying playing basketball with those girls who are almost a foot taller than she is.  I can not help to think that we are teaching kids to give up in a way.  If every sport, at some point is cut by height, no matter what the skill level of the players is, it is showing kids that height matters.  And in the world today, size does matter.  If you are too skinny, or too fat, too tall or too short people are always judging you and sometimes decide things based off the fact that you are built differently than the AVERAGE person who does that sport is.  I was just so inspired by this story that I thought of the way that our athletics are fielded and can not help but think that maybe, we need to give some of the irregularly sized for their sport athletes, a chance.  What do you think?