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High School Girls Wrestling continues growing rapidly nationwide

Editor’s Notes; The outlook looks bright for the growth of girls and women’s wrestling as it is still with a small but continually growing participation numbers. As they say, “You go girl!”
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There is something that perhaps the general public does not yet know. Wrestling has been the one of the fastest growing sports for girls in high school for a number of years. With today being National Girls and Women in Sports Day, USA Wrestling is celebrating girls high school wrestling. Perhaps, the wrestling community can help us get out the word about why so many high school girls are now wrestling. First things first. USA Wrestling is asking high school girl wrestlers and high school girls wrestling teams to post photos and videos on social media today and throughout the week. Go ahead and use Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. and show the world what girls wrestling is all about, using these two hashtags:
#NGWSD
#GirlsWrestle
So here are the facts. In 1990, there were 112 girls who participated in high school wrestling. For 27 straight years, girls high school wrestling has grown. In many of those years, the percentage of growth was 10% or more. In the 2016-17 high school year, there were 14,587 girls wrestling in high school. And it is well known that that number is too small, because some high school state associations still do not report how many girls they have. In the early years, girls only had the opportunity to participate on the boys wrestling team at their high school. This was not an easy task. It took a great deal of courage to wrestle, not only because of the physical disadvantage, but also because it was not yet accepted by society for girls to train and compete against boys in a combat sport like wrestling. In spite of this, the number of girls competing in high school wrestling increased, year after year after year. They were the true trailblazers for girls high school wrestling. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2018/February/07/NGWSD-feature-on-girls-high-school-wrestling?mc_cid=2f11ee0549&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

February 13, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized