Who's creepier? People on the internet or high school coaches & admins?

I have conflicting opinions on the story of Allison Stokke:

In her high school track and field career, Stokke had won a 2004 California state pole vaulting title, broken five national records and earned a scholarship to the University of California, yet only track devotees had noticed. Then, in early May, she received e-mails from friends who warned that a year-old picture of Stokke idly adjusting her hair at a track meet in New York had been plastered across the Internet. She had more than 1,000 new messages on her MySpace page. A three-minute video of Stokke standing against a wall and analyzing her performance at another meet had been posted on YouTube and viewed 150,000 times.

"I just want to find some way to get this all under control," Stokke told her coach.

Three weeks later, Stokke has decided that control is essentially beyond her grasp. Instead, she said, she has learned a distressing lesson in the unruly momentum of the Internet. A fan on a Cal football message board posted a picture of the attractive, athletic pole vaulter. A popular sports blogger in New York found the picture and posted it on his site. Dozens of other bloggers picked up the same image and spread it. Within days, hundreds of thousands of Internet users had searched for Stokke's picture and leered.

First off, if this were my daughter, I'd be pissed about a chunk of the internet ogling my teenage daughter, no doubt about it. I'd also be very, very concerned for her safety. On top of that, I believe people are entitled to a certain level of privacy. On the flip side, when you're an elite performer in your level of athletics, you become a public figure whether you like it or not. Images of you become part of the public domain. With that comes hassle, but also income opportunities that most people can never realize. Stokke now has to deal with being a celebrity and a sex symbol, which is creepy when you consider that she was probably 17 in the picture getting all of the attention. But were people as creeped out by the pictures of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera when they were 17? Some, perhaps, but not a ton of people.

Oddly, my biggest gripe is with the uniforms some schools are putting their underage female athletes in. Girls' volleyball teams and track teams are trotting out onto their fields of play in skin tight, curve hugging uniforms that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination. Not too long ago, say, when I graduated in the mid-1990's, girls' teams did not wear skin tight uniforms like these. There is no one that can convince me that these outfits improve the performance of high school level girls. Personally, I think the high schools are irresponsible for putting their female student athletes in these uniforms. Had Stokke been wearing a track uniform circa 1990 or so, I guarentee her picture would not have garnered anywhere near the level of attention it has gotten.