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NAIA Grants Invitational Status to Women’s Wrestling

TDR Editor’s Notes; Great to see the expanding wrestling opportunities on the college level. The NAIA has more than double the number of men’s teams in the last ten years and had greatly expanded the number of women’s teams in recent years.
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By Jennifer Saab, Director of Communications
KANSAS CITY, MO, April 14, 2018 – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) will add women’s wrestling as an invitational sport beginning the 2018-19 academic year. The decision was unanimously approved today by the NAIA’s National Administrative Council at the NAIA National Convention in Kansas City, Mo. “The NAIA is proud to be the first intercollegiate athletics association to officially recognize women’s wrestling,” said NAIA President & CEO Jim Carr. “This is a great opportunity to empower female student-athletes both athletically and academically. The recent growth of the sport indicates it will have a strong future with our association.” The NAIA has more member institutions sponsoring women’s wrestling than any other intercollegiate athletics association. This year, 19 schools offered women’s wrestling and it’s anticipated that the 2018-19 academic year will have 25 teams. Rest of the story at http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=211711076

April 14, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized