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Female wrestlers may save the sport.(Newswatch)
Just when wrestling is down for the count on many campuses as schools cut teams to save money, high school girls are flocking to the sport and may save it.
The U.S. Girls Wrestling Association reports that nearly 5,000 girls are wrestling this season nationwide, up from 3,700 last year and a more than three-fold increase in the last five years. Most high school girls compete on boys' teams.
Seven colleges and universities in the United States offer the sport, and 20 in Canada. The summer Olympics will have girls wrestling as a medal sport, which is expected to bring a surge in participation.
"I could guarantee that NBC is going to put it on in prime time," said Doug Reese, coach of the women's team at the University of Minnesota at Morris, the first U.S. college ...
- GROWTH IN GIRLS WRESTLING BRINGS OFFICIAL STATUS.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Mclaughlin, Michael February 17, 2007 700+ words
...Association put on a girls wrestling invitational at the...Meyerhoff pushed to have the sport sanctioned last summer...the exposure of the sport on the girls side...Plus we wanted to get girls wrestling against girls as quick...always been a co-ed sport, but now it'll be...
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- Newspaper article from: Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) February 17, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Dave Trimmer Feb. 17--TACOMA -- Although she is the lone Greater Spokane League wrestler in the first girls Mat Classic XIX wrestling championships, Emily Juhre isn't competing to make any particular statement. "I don't care if I'm the best wrestler or the worst wrestler, I just want to get
- Gender blender.(Sports)(Until they get a league of their own, the girls have to...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) February 3, 2004 700+ words
...the state. `Girls wrestling is growing fast...are close to 250 girls wrestling in Oregon at all...and promote the sport.' The problem...Grove - and the sport will be officially...in high school girls wrestling. Most local coaches...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) January 9, 2000 700+ words
...a contact sport. As the advent...combative sports which had...schools have a girls' wrestling team in the...founded the girls' wrestling team at Thousand...into a coed sport; it's not...Williams Cup girls' wrestling tournament...
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- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) March 6, 2006 700+ words
...inauguaral Girls Wrestling Challenge at the Arnold Sports Festival...interested in the sport watching her...Top-flight girls wrestling is less than...wrestling and the sport of life...the largest girls wrestling tournament...
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- Newspaper article from: Monitor (McAllen, TX) January 20, 2006 700+ words
...first sanctioned the sport in 1998, it's...get it started," girls wrestling coach Mario Montelongo...male-dominated sport. "We have a different...community about girls wrestling, because they think it's a boys sports, that the girls...
- WHO SAYS WRESTLING'S NOT FOR GIRLS? OSCAR SMITH HIGH'S BRANDY GOLT, ONE OF FOUR...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Brinkley, Robin February 12, 1999 700+ words
...United States with a scholarship girls wrestling team. But opportunities are...to grow. There were 1,907 girls wrestling at 619 high schools across...for USA Wrestling. All the girls wrestling for U.S. high schools train...
- CLASS NOTES; Coleman leads ice honorees.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald March 9, 2003 700+ words
...02180. The inaugural New England Girls Wrestling State Championships, sponsored by the United States Girls Wrestling Association, will be held Saturday...Bailo, Director, United States Girls Wrestling Association, 3105 Hickory Ridge...
