competitiveness.
If your suggestion is some random church team of men could complete with the WNBA you’d be very wrong. They’d get destroyed. A group of excellent high school players would. That same principle applies across every sport. I don’t have the numbers but I assume the top 10% of high school boys in swimming would beat the top women college
Swimmers.
I don’t know that definitively but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t true.