Girls are falling in love with wrestling, the nation's fastest-growing high school sport
SOURCE: apnews.com
March 12, 2024

 


MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania's Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls' wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport.

"I fell in love with it the first time," she said.

Unlike previous generations, she's hardly alone.

Girls' wrestling has become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country, sanctioned by a surging number of states and bolstered by a movement of medal-winning female wrestlers, parents and the male-dominated ranks of coaches and administrators who saw it as a necessity and a matter of equality.


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