[fireflash38]

Amusingly, in my experience, it was the girls in coed soccer that were doing the knocking down. For a few seasons, they were bigger than the boys, and they could more easily use their hips to check people off the ball without drawing fouls.

[lupusreal]

True, girls hit puberty first and for a few years outperformed boys in athletics. That was my personal experience in a coed sport.