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NCAA postseason tournament officially announced, vote for emerging sport status approaches
The Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Coalition shared a press release on December 16th with details about the first National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships—a postseason tournament exclusively for NCAA member institutions.
The First Annual Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships will be hosted by Adrian College, and is scheduled for March 6-7, 2020. The announcement nearly brings the story we’ve been following since September full circle, when several NCAA programs quietly added a new postseason tournament to their schedules: NCAA women’s wrestling programs to compete at exclusive championship event. After confirming specifics with WLAG, we were able to share an in-depth look at NCAA milestones—including the development of the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Coalition—in mid-October: NCAA women’s wrestling: Understanding recent milestones.
Formally establishing the NCWWC signals continued momentum in the efforts to bring women’s wrestling into the NCAA as a championship sport. But, while the headline singles out an exclusive championship open to all NCAA programs, it should also call to mind the approaching January vote that will determine whether or not women’s wrestling will be assigned emerging sport status for August 1, 2020. That vote is scheduled for the third week in January (logistics tbd). All three divisions will vote on the recommendation made in June, 2019, by the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics. Restof the story at https://www.transitionwrestling.com/ncaa-postseason-tournament-officially-announced-vote-for-emerging-sport-status-approaches/?mc_cid=e04be080dc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

In New York ;
At Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, Isabella Garcia is not only competing, but she’s winning.
She’s one of many female wrestlers these days who are joining boys’ teams. Standing about 5 feet tall in the 106-pound division, Isabella Garcia says she always ready to rumble. “I’ve been doing karate for I think 10 years now and my karate instructor, he suggested that I try wrestling because I liked the ground fighting and the grappling that we did. So I tried it freshman year,” Garcia says. But while Garcia had some experience, it still wasn’t an easy start. “Maybe in the beginning, beginning, like early her freshman year, I was like ‘Oh, this girl might not last.’ Not that she did anything that would tell me that,” says coach Anthony Tortora. “But once we were about a month into her freshman year, I could sense that she liked the sport a lot and she was going to work her hardest to be as good as she could be at it.” Garcia never gave up and her determination eventually paid off. Recently, Garcia reached the pinnacle of her young wrestling career by becoming the first girl ever to win the Pawlings Round Robin Tournament, which also happened to be her first ever boys’ tournament victory. It was an achievement that not even she believed was possible when she started wrestling. Rest of the story at http://westchester.news12.com/story/41518621/horace-greeley-high-school-wrestler-becomes-first-girl-to-win-in-boys-tournament?mc_cid=e04be080dc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

January 8, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized