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Wrestling no longer just for the boys; program established with 22 girls

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Girls wrestling in another state looking at sanctioning it as a new sports opportunity.
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WEST POINT, Neb. (KMTV) — In most Nebraska high schools, when you find girls in the wrestling room, they’re either student managers, cheerleaders or scorekeepers, but at West Point-Beemer, they hit the mat. “I don’t think a lot of girls see it as a girls sports, just because it’s really physical and you’re getting rough with other people. I think they just mainly see it as guys because that’s how it’s been for so long,” says senior Myla Illian. That’s changing fast. More than 100 girls across the state, including 22 at West Point-Beemer alone, came out for wrestling this year. The momentum is strong enough in Nebraska, that girls wrestling could be its own sanctioned sport, as soon as next year. “It would be cool to make my own records, not under the guys so it would be awesome to have our own state and do our own thing and not have to be part of the guys,” says junior, Estefania Barragan. A girls only team was created two years ago at West Point-Beemer, as coaches wanted to avoid girl vs. boy matchups. So now the Lady Cadets travel to tournaments with the boys team but they only wrestle a handful of girls from other schools. Rest of the story at https://www.foxcarolina.com/wrestling-no-longer-just-for-the-boys-program-established-with/article_37ae7700-b16c-5f16-bbba-7ddd151372c6.html?mc_cid=6bd91e5019&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

January 1, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized