Everywhere in Iowa? I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday and he told me my old HS (which is 1A) has 19 girls out for wrestling. That seems crazy. They only had 33 kids out for football.
Is girls HS wrestling getting big
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It seems to be really catching on. https://www.thegazette.com/sports/w...ling-gets-a-platform-in-coralville-this-week/
Yep. My son is in 8th grade and went out for wrestling for the first time this year. They have about 40 kids on the middle school team (7th and 8th grade). There are probably 16 girls and 24 boys. Other schools that we faced had about the same ratio.
seen a couple really bad injuries so far. Lot's of girls getting into positions and falling with straight arms.
I know at least one school in our area does not have a varsity girls basketball team this year as most girls are wrestling instead. Another middle school only has 11 girls out for basketball and normally they have a, B, and C teams at least.
I think football is declining everywhere... Brain injury threat
This is the first year that the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has sanctioned it:
Good to see. Also happy the IAwrestling social media accounts are giving equal coverage to boys and girls. Representation matters.
I suppose girl's wrestling is a good way to offer a sport to the ones not good enough to play basketball.
I think it’s getting big everywhere. I’ve heard from the local sports radio show that a couple private colleges have started programs in the last 3 years or so and they talk with highschool age girls about joining the highschool program. Grappling is good exercise and good self defense.
I suppose I should have just assumed you’d have a stupid ass take on this. Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich northern.
Back in my day, trolling meant something.
I expect it will continue to happen. Varying degrees of moving away, and it will vary based on demographics and region, but slowly, over decades this will be the trend. There will be a portion that always plays, but folks will slowly opt out unless something changes on the risk. It will be a slow change and some people will continue to say it isn't happening until its beyond the tipping point.
I realize you are being a shitty troll, however...
God forbid we provide opportunities for kids to participate in something and learn the life lessons available from those activities.
Oh not trolling.
Iowa winters are cold.
Previously the girls who weren't talented enough to play basketball only had cheerleading as an alternative. Well that and bowling at select schools.
Hmm…let’s look at the username to see who is intimidated by strong women…
Ah, yep… checks out. Would be scary if your wife turned around and double legged you the next time you verbally abused her, huh?
Quit falling for it boys...his HORT game is as weak as he is.
It is and Northern needs the attention. Nobody takes him seriously here.
There are enough girls now that they don't compete in meets intersexed, but they do in practice.
My guess is that a lot of kids are going to see what's happening at the University of Iowa in the coming years with their program, see what's happening with the buzz in their school (and there's definitely a buzz) about being the first to break the barrier, some kids that are just going to have grown up around it with their brothers and parents, and dad's that didn't get the boys they hoped for - add all that together and it will continue to become popular. A lot of states are definitely wrestling states and Iowa is one of them. I honestly can't believe it took this long to see it become more mainstream.
I won't argue against that, but I know in the school district I grew up in its apathy. They have won maybe 20 games in the last 8 years and kids aren't excited to go out and get their asses kicked every Friday night. They focus on basketball and baseball. The middle school has 15 8th graders and 13 7th graders out, but they have been good since flag football and have a great coach who excites the kids. The HS does not have that.
I can only imagine being in middle school and wrestling the opposite sex while wearing spandex...
Pretty good story about the "Monster" from Union from last year.
www.kcrg.com
Meet Union Community’s Monster also known as Jillian Worthen
Although Jillian Worthen's stature isn’t exactly ‘monster-esque,’ she’s grown up with the nickname. Even her coaches refer to her as Monster.
Yeah, it appears so. I was just blown away that a school with 220 kids in the HS has 19 girls out for wrestling.
It’s not just football… Interest in sports in general falls off a cliff among the people under about 25-30 years old.
I know at least one dad who has a daughter who would be awesome at wrestling… And he’s glad that she would be able to wrestle other girls… But he was still a little bit nervous about all male coaches.
I think once this new wave of female wrestlers are old enough to also start coaching. You’ll see an even bigger surge in numbers.
I wrestled through 8th grade. 1 girl on a all boys team. She practiced with the boys and wrestled other boys from school. This was in the mid 90s. I don't think she ever one a match.
Just shocking, it wasn't that way at all when I was growing up. My freshman year we had 48 kids out for football. That's with classes of 35-40, so 150ish kids. In 20010 we joined with a school that had a slightly higher enrollment and always had 40-50 kidd out for football as well. Those two schools have 33 this year. That's nuts.
West Liberty had 7 players in the entire program last year. Wrestling was a huge reason.
Both in fandom and participation:
The Sports Industry’s Gen Z Problem
An analysis of recent Morning Consult poll results found that Gen Zers currently between ages 13 and 23 are less likely than the general population to identify as sports fans.
morningconsult.com
Generation Alpha kids carry on trend of declining interest in sports
Engaging younger generations has become the sports industry's key challenge.
www.axios.com
Kids are losing interest in organized sports. Why that matters
The number of kids involved in team sports has been falling and the pandemic may have accelerated the trend.
www.latimes.com
I graduated in 1998. My high school had a little over 60 kids in each grade… So obviously around half of those (30ish) were boys. We were able to field an entire team from every single grade with backups.
Haha... this reminds me of when I had my 7 year old try wrestling. Goes to his first tournament and his first match was against a girl. Both him and I were confident he would win that first match. Proceeded to get his ass kicked by her. She then continued to kick the crap out of the rest of the boys in the bracket to win first place. She was a little bad ass.
I think this true. My daughter(no pic) is a freshman in HS in pretty decent sized school. They only have 4 girls out for basketball this year. The year round volleyball really killed the BB numbers. The specialization of an individual sports has really hurt the numbers in the whole.
Not to mention its seems like kids who aren't starters just don't want to go to practice to sit on the bench anymore. When I was in HS we had 100 plus boys out for football. The same school has probably has 40 boys now.
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