Well if it's on a basketball court that is.

Perhaps you have heard of this young woman...

Jaime Nared is nearly 6-foot-1 and blessed with Michael Jordan-style skills. In games, the Beaverton 12-year-old can more than hold her own against the boys -- dropping three-pointers and sometimes scoring 30 points or more.

She's so good, Michael Abraham said, she makes the boys look like scrubs. So she's being punished, told she can no longer play on boys' teams at The Hoop, a private Beaverton basketball facility that runs a league in which Abraham's teams compete.

She is scheduled to be on ESPN's E:60 on Tuesday, October 7th (check local listings!).

The story made headlines nationwide, sparked social commentary and resulted in surprising consequences when last week she was allowed to rejoin the team. Lisa Salters reports on the teenager who has already been asked to star in a commercial with LeBron James. E:60's cameras were also there for her first game back against the boys.

Her story does spark many a conversation and questions:

• Are women's sports inherently second class to men's sports? If Jaime Nerad needs to play boys to find competition, what does that say about the state of girls' basketball?


• What does it say about the parents of the boys who played against Nerad and were opposed to their boys being beaten by a girl? And how quickly does that bleed into homophobia via hyper-masculinity?


• What if we jump ahead 10 years and find that once the rest of the girls caught up to Nerad that she's really not that phenomenal? How terrible is it to peak at this young age?


• Will her parents be able to shield her from all the sharks that are certainly circling her?

Nerad's story is one of awe, beauty and strength and I certainly hope that she grows up to kick some butt in whichever league she wants to play in.

[Photo credit: Bruce Ely/The Oregonian]