An Illinois-based high school's girls' basketball team has come under fire after a photo of players pointing at a Barbie doll stuck to a cross inside their Catholic hosts' school gym appeared online. In the image, members of Woodstock High School team are pictured beaming and pointing at the doll - their symbol for 'girl power' - after attaching it to the cross at Marian Central Catholic High School. The teenagers, dressed in white kits, were in good spirits having just trumped their rivals, Woodstock North, 57-48 inside the Landers Pavilion at Marian Central, which is the Class 3A regionals host.
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Woodstock High School's girls' basketball team widely criticized for photo
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In image, smiling teens are pictured pointing at Barbie doll stuck on cross
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Scene captured at Marian Central Catholic High School in Illinois last week
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Within minutes of the picture being posted online, it had sparked backlash
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Woodstock High has now issued apology for girls' 'inappropriate' actions
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First-year team coach was reportedly present when the image was taken
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