At a time when participation in high school sports is down across the U.S., girls wrestling is booming: Last year alone, it grew by close to 30%. (OnlyAGameNPR)
That's right. At a time when participation in high school boys wrestling is flat, going down, girls' wrestling is booming. It grew by close to 30% last year alone. Half the states in the country are gonna have a girls' wrestling tournament this year. So, I asked Rachel, to come on with us atJG: First of all, how did you learn about this? Who's your deep wrestling contact here?Well, I've always loved to track trends in sports.
RB: Yeah. I mean, in fact, you know, just last winter in Colorado at the state tournament, a boy refused to wrestle two girls he was on track to wrestle against. And he cited sort of personal and religious reasons for doing that. And those girls end up finishing fourth and fifth in the state in the boys' state tournament. So that shows, one, the lingering stigma of wrestling against girls for some boys, and also that there are girls who still stick in there and wrestle against boys.
RB: Yeah, I mean, everyone wants to be in the place to be, right? And so the more athletes on a team, the more exciting it is for everybody. RB: Yeah, absolutely. This is a very old, relatively conservative sport. For instance, there was a long-time volunteer and wrestling dad in Indiana who said his daughter wanted to wrestle, and he really balked at that. He saw wrestlers as hard-nosed and gritty and not the things he saw in his daughter. But after she started, he acquiesced, and he saw her confidence go up and her will to succeed. And she became more decisive, and she got good at it. And he just did a 180.RB: Absolutely.
RB: I mean, it's very similar. You know, a lot of the times the meets coexist — like state tournaments. Things like that are held in the same place. So, there's a lot of the same kinds of energy. And remember, you know, moms and dads, they have girls and boys, of course. And so a lot of them have one kid on one team and one kid on another. And so, because it is such a tight knit sport, there really is less and less this sort of harsh division between the girls and boys.
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