Takedown Report

Women’s Wrestling # 35

Julianne Metzgar, Karla Mejia-Garcia, Perla Muro named MatBoss Manager Scholarship recipients
MINNEAPOLIS — Each year, MatBoss, wrestling’s premier videostats app, awards $500 scholarships to high school or college wrestling managers. This year’s MatBoss Manager Scholarship recipients are Julianne Metzgar (North Warren Regional High School, N.J.), Karla Mejia-Garcia (Basalt High School, Colo.), and Perla Muro (Sioux Center High School, Iowa). MatBoss Manager Scholarship recipients are chosen based on their service to the sport of wrestling, academic achievement, honors and awards, as well as their involvement in outside activities and the community. To be eligible for a scholarship, the student’s wrestling team must be a MatBoss customer during the 2019-20 season, served an active role as a manager on her/his team and be a high school senior or currently enrolled in an accredited post-secondary institution. Below are profiles on each of the three 2020 MatBoss Manager Scholarship recipients. …. rest of profiles and story at https://blog.matboss.com/julianne-metzger-karla-mejia-garcia-perla-muro-named-matboss-manager-scholarship-recipients?mc_cid=52d81661de&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Women Wrestle 2 – Alli Ragan’s Quarantine Advice + Hawkeye Girls to ASU RTC?
On this episode of Women Wrestle 2, Alexis Porter and Arian Carpio are joined by two-time World Silver medalist Alli Ragan. Alli talks about her routine during the current quarantine, the recent developments at the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and a prospective move out west.
About The Open Mat’s “Women Wrestle 2”:
This is a weekly podcast that will be hosted by recent McKendree University graduate Alexis Porter. Alexis was a four-time All-American at the WCWA level, a three-time Junior National Champion in Fargo, a Junior World bronze medalist and an active competitor on the Senior level. Alexis will be joined by …. rest of the story at https://news.theopenmat.com/podcasts/women-wrestle-2/women-wrestle-2-alli-ragans-quarantine-advice-hawkeye-girls-to-asu-rtc/77667?mc_cid=9b182d31f3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

AIA Executive Board votes to make Girls Wrestling a team sport in Arizona
BY ANDY MORALES, STAFF WRITER, AZPREPS365.COM | APRIL 27,
The Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) Executive Board voted to make Girls’ Wrestling a team sport on Monday. No longer an “emerging sport,” the growing numbers were cited as the main reason for taking the next logical step. There will be on division and the Executive Board meeting is scheduled for Aug. 17.
In 2019, 224 wrestlers competed at the various sectionals to decide which wrestlers would compete for an individual title in the ten weight classes. That number jumped to 435 last year and the move to Veterans Memorial Stadium in Phoenix for state competition will surely cause another increase in participation.
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Editor’s Note: Including Arizona, there are now 22 state associations which have created an official girls wrestling state championships, or have started the path leading to official sanction. USA Wrestling, Wrestle Like A Girl and many other organizations are working to continue the explosive growth of girls wrestling at the high school level. USA Wrestling Girls High School Development Committee is chaired by Joan Fulp and Andrea Yamamoto. …. rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2020/April/27/Arizona-girls-wrestling-becomes-official-team-sport?mc_cid=9b182d31f3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

AIA agrees to make high school girls wrestling a team sport
High school girls wrestling will have team champions, not just individual ones, in tournaments throughout the 2020-21 winter season. The Arizona Interscholastic Association unanimously voted to make girls wrestling a team sport during its Executive Board meeting on April 20. “The AIA is excited to continue promoting the sport of girls wrestling and we look  forward to seeing our young female athletes participate in the great sport of wresting,” AIA Sports Administrator Dean Visser said in an email Monday.  Girls wrestling teams will continue to compete in one division and ten weight classes.
The AIA will award state tournament-qualifying section championship plaques for each of its eight sections as well as state championship winners and second-place trophies. Visser also claimed that the AIA’s intent for this change is to continue combining its four boys wrestling divisions and the girls division to occur during the same weekend and at the same location. The boys and girls wrestling state tournaments are headed to Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix next season, moving from its usual venue at the Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott. …. rest of the story at https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/04/27/aia-votes-favor-high-school-girls-wrestling-team-sport/3037390001/?mc_cid=b693ccac6a&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Barry Hart Tabbed Assistant Women’s Wrestling Coach at NJCU
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Barry Hart, a successful coach with the Beat The Streets wrestling organization in New York City, has been named as an assistant women’s wrestling coach at New Jersey City University, head coach Elena Pirozhkova has announced. Hart is the second member of the first-ever women’s wrestling staff in NJCU history, which launches as a varsity program in Fall, 2020.  
Hart, 25, has been a wrestling coach at Beat The Streets Wrestling—a grassroots organization that has transformed the landscape and culture of wrestling in New York City, developing the athletic potential of urban youth and strengthening the wrestling culture within the city and beyond. Hart has coached with BTS since 2013 and has served as a program associate with the organization since 2016. He was honored as the 2019 Beat the Streets Assistant Coach of the Year.  
“Barry is the perfect addition to the program because he really knows wrestling in this area,” Pirozhkova said. “His perspective of working with inner city kids is so valuable. Additionally, his ability to connect with the kids and recruit is going to be key moving our program forward.”. …. rest of story at https://njcugothicknights.com/news/2020/4/27/202004-27_WWRESTLING_barry-hart-tabbed-assistant-womens-wrestling-coach-at-njcu.aspx

HS wrestling: Proposal to add girls division passes first reading
Next year will likely see the start of SDHSAA-sanctioned girls’ wrestling in South Dakota schools. The first reading approving the new sport was taken Tuesday by the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s board of directors…. Meeting via teleconference, the board acted on the first reading of a variety of recommendations for changes to the SDHSAA Athletics Handbook that came out of the annual meeting of the state’s athletic directors. The proposal, following a pattern established in Missouri, calls for four weight classes for girls at the state wrestling championships in 2020-21. Each weight class would include the top eight seeded participants from across the state, regardless of classification or region. …. rest of the story at https://www.argusleader.com/story/sports/high-school-sports/2020/04/28/south-dakota-high-school-wrestling-proposal-to-add-girls-division-passes-first-reading/3039773001/?mc_cid=09298b3e7a&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Florida moves a step closer to sanctioning girls’ high wrestling
The notion that wrestling would take root as a popular sport for young women was a pipe dream just a few years ago. But Wednesday, the Florida High School Athletic Association took a historic step and voted unanimously to endorse the sanctioning of the sport for girls. If approved by the FHSAA Board of Directors in June, Florida will join 23 other states in sanctioning girls’ wrestling — one of the fastest growing sports in the country. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the public meeting took place over a Zoom call on Wednesday. Orlando Freedom High School girls’ wrestling coach Lynzie Doll was among the presenters who made their case to the Athletic Directors Advisory Committee. “As soon as a state association legitimizes a sport, more girls flock to the sport,” Doll said, citing states that recently sanctioned the sport, which saw participation grow the following year between 26 and 438 percent. There were 708 girls on Florida high school wrestling rosters during the 2019-2020 season. “That’s 708 girls that are brave enough to wrestle on a boys wrestling team,” said Mike Crowder, Tallahassee Lincoln coach. “When you change this to an all-girls sport, the numbers are gonna be outrageous.”…. rest of story at https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/high-school/article242273021.html?mc_cid=09298b3e7a&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Alabama HSAA announces wrestling changes for the 2020-21 season
By Alec Etheredge Email the author April 28, 2020
By DAWN HARRISON | Special to the Reporter
After the AHSAA met last Thursday the verdict wasn’t quite what the advocates for girls’ wrestling in Alabama were hoping for, but it’s a promising start, as three events for girls have been added to the 2020-21 calendar. “The Alabama High School Girls Wrestling Task Force is very pleased that the AHSAA has added three tournaments for girl wrestlers to the 2020-2021 AHSAA wrestling schedule,” said Julie Lassere of the Task Force. “We encourage schools to add girls divisions to their existing tournament schedule to further increase competition opportunities for girls teams.” It doesn’t mean the sport is sanctioned in the state, but would give them an opportunity during the regular season against the same sex, while also allowing them to still continue wrestling through the regular season with boys. “The tournament participation would not affect girl wrestlers from qualifying for the current AHSAA section or state meets” read the AHSAA press release. “Girls can still have the option to wrestle boys as well as qualify for the AHSAA State Wrestling Tournament.,” Lassere said. “As the numbers of girl wrestlers continue to grow in Alabama, we will soon be able to sanction girls wrestling in Alabama.” The opportunities have some Shelby County wrestlers like Thompson High School’s Brynleigh Glover eagerly anticipating the next year. “I’m beyond excited,” she said. “I think girls will feel more comfortable knowing they won’t have to wrestle the boys. It’s cool being the only girl on the team, but I’m ready for a girls team to start at Thompson and for the sport to grow in general.” …. rest of the story at https://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/2020/04/28/ahsaa-announces-wrestling-changes-for-the-2020-21-season/?mc_cid=09298b3e7a&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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