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Missouri votes to add official girls high school wrestling, becoming the ninth state in the USA

TDR Editor’s Notes; Not only will three states be adding girls wrestling as a sanctioned high school sport for next season but also at least 11 colleges will be adding women’s programs. This is in addition to the 7 new college programs this past season and two more have been announced for the 2019-2020 season. There have been two programs dropped for last season and two more for next year but half of those have been due to the closure of the school and the other two are in Canada.
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The Missouri State High School Activities Association, which oversees high school athletics in Missouri, has voted to make girls wrestling an official high school sport. The proposal is effective on July 1, which means the girls program will go into effect for the next Missouri high school wrestling season. Missouri becomes the ninth state to officially add girls wrestling as a sport at the high school level. The change was approved in Proposal 18 (Girls Wrestling), which passed with 202 voting in favor and 41 against.
PROPOSAL 18 – (Girls Wrestling) – (PASSED) – 202 FOR, 41 AGAINST
Amends By-Laws 5.1, 3.29.6, and 3.30.3.l to separate the currently co-educational sport of wrestling into sex-separated wrestling for both boys and girls. The details of the implementation of girls wrestling in Missouri have not yet been announced. Missouri becomes the third state this season to add high school girls wrestling, along with Georgia and Oregon. A number of other state associations are currently actively addressing girls high school for their state, with the possibility of more official announcements soon. Hawaii, Texas, California, Washington, Tennessee and Alaska host the other state-sanctioned girls wrestling championships. Colorado has approved pilot seasons for the next two years for girls wrestling, the initial step towards state sanctioning for girls wrestling, to begin in winter 2020-21. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2018/May/08/Missouri-becomes-ninth-state-with-official-girls-high-school-wrestling?mc_cid=3f78aac25e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

June 1, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized