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Girls wrestling is gaining popularity: ‘Ten years ago, you’d never dream of doing this’

Editor’s Notes; More good news about the growing popularity of girl’s trying wrestling as a sport. Due to recent travels we have been behind in catching up on our postings but hope to pick up the pace now.
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Sarah Freishtat, The Beacon-News
Emmoni Lopez took dance lessons while her older brothers wrestled. And she liked her dance lessons. But she liked wrestling better. Her mom wasn’t surprised when Emmoni told her she liked wrestling better than dance, and, three years after Emmoni took up the sport, she enjoys watching her 10-year-old daughter wrestle. Still, when a coach first asked Emmoni to join an Aurora program, her mom hesitated. She never thought her daughter would be wrestling. Emmoni is among a growing number of girls taking up wrestling. Officials with youth organizations in Aurora, Chicago and the Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation said they have seen the number of girls participating take off in recent years. North Central College in Naperville is planning to join the handful of other Illinois colleges that offer women’s wrestling programs. At Emmoni’s program, the Tomcat Wrestling Club, about half of the kids participating in the organization’s free youth wrestling camp this summer are girls, coach Frankie Zepeda estimated. In addition to its co-ed session, the camp also offers an all-girls camp. The Tomcat club, a feeder program for East Aurora High School, is also anticipating hosting a girls state championship in East Aurora in the coming year, Zepeda said. Rest of the story at http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-girls-in-wrestling-st-0711-story,amp.html?__twitter_impression=true&mc_cid=b58514da01&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

August 2, 2018 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment