Why Girls And Boys Should Compete With Each Other In Sports | John Brenkus | TEDxUniversityofNevada

In this persuasive and humorous talk, John Brenkus, asserts that the only way to know the real limits of female athletic performance is to let girls and boys compete together on the same team from day one. Brenkus discusses the statistics of sports performance for men and women and concludes "boys and girls should be playing the same sports, with the same rules, on the same field, at the same time, from the word go." John Brenkus has been a pioneer in the fields of television, sport and science for over 20 years. As Creator/Executive Producer and Host of Sport Science, he has appeared in and produced over 1500 segments that have been featured on ESPN’s entire sports platform including: SportsCenter, Monday Night Football, the NBA Finals, Sunday Night Baseball, and The Masters just to name a few. John has won 6 Emmys and has written a NYT/USA Today Best Seller called “The Perfection Point” that explores the absolute limit of human performance.

He now hosts the popular podcast “The Brink of Midnight Podcast” that explores the moments that guests credit with changing their lives forever… those that pushed them in an unexpected direction, shaping the experiences that followed and molding them into the people who they are today. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx