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Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.

Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.

Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.Tampa Bays #1 youth wrestling club for boys and girls.
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Wrestle Like a Girl Videos

The Warrior Rising

If this video doesnt motivate you, Im not sure you have a pulse

Cultivating The Whole Athlete In The Developmental Process

Many life lessons are learned on the wrestling mats.

Florida Girls State Championship 2020 100lb match

In 2020-2021 Girls wrestling was sanction in the State of Florida.

Wrestling is the fastest growing sport for females in the US

Times have changed.  The days of saying "you fight like a girl" are OVER! Now, fighting like a girl has been redefined by women that have become CEO's of major corporations, top business executives, Generals in our military, Champions in the UFC, and leaders of Nations.  Those women did not just "happen" upon those skills that made them successful.  They developed them over years of hardwork, practice and discipline.  Wrestling is the one sports that teaches and develops those characteristics.

You Wrestle Like a Girl

Girls are now empowered to achieve the same goals and the boys.  Wrestling is the only sport that allows this opportunity to challenge girls and compete on the same level as their male counterparts.  In the State of Florida, the girls will wrestle boys until the end of season State Tournament when the females enter into their own tournament.  However, you notice, no other sport allows female participation (football, basketball, soccer, baseball) like wrestling.  

High School Wrestling was Fading, then came the girls

Girls wrestling is the fastest growing sport in the USA

A rise in girls state tournaments has driven participation in girls wrestling, which is now more popular than high school gymnastics

By Rachel Bachman

Dec. 31, 2019 8:07 am ET

Like many high schools across the U.S., Lebanon High School in central Missouri used to have three or four girls among the dozens of boys who came out for the wrestling team each year. But most girls declined to sign up for the awkwardness and difficulty of grappling against boys.

When Lebanon High started a separate wrestling team for girls last year, however, “our numbers, they jumped big-time,” said Randy Roark, the school’s longtime coach. The Yellowjackets saw 30 girls turn out for the sport, and capped the season by winning Missouri’s first girls state high school wrestling tournament


Statewide, girls wrestling turnout jumped to nearly 1,000, an eightfold increase from the year before. The surge startled organizers but continued a nationwide trend: As more states launch wrestling championships for girls, participation soars. It increased by more than 4,500 girls, or 28%, last season alone, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.


This winter, more than half of U.S. states will have a high school wrestling tournament for girls—either an official one, a pilot test or one run by a coaches’ association.

Girls are bolstering wrestling at a time when it and other high school sports are stagnating. They’re also reinvigorating a sport nearly bounced from the Olympics six years ago.


“It’s not a stretch to say the implementation of women’s wrestling, the non-restricted, full implementation of women’s wrestling in our sport, is the best thing that’s ever happened to us,” said Rich Bender, executive director of USA Wrestling, the sport’s governing body.

Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 banned gender discrimination in schools and universities, spurring the creation of thousands of girls and women’s teams nationwide. That created a huge pool of athletes, the best of whom move up to college sports and beyond, giving the U.S. an advantage in many women’s Olympic sports.

But instead of growing from the grass-roots, wrestling has grown from the top down. Only two U.S. states—Hawaii and Texas—had high school wrestling tournaments for girls when wrestling became a women’s Olympic sport in 2004.

“Other countries look at us and say, ‘What are you doing?’” said Joan Fulp of USA Wrestling. “Why have we for 20 years made our young adolescent females wrestle against adolescent males?”


Fulp and Andrea Yamamoto, volunteer co-chairs of USA Wrestling’s girls high school development committee, have spent nearly four years talking to state high school associations and coaches about how to integrate or expand girls wrestling. Their goal: for every state to have a girls high school wrestling championship.

Many coaches still balk at the notion of girls wrestling in high school, especially in states where they have little choice but to compete against boys, Fulp said. But that is changing.

“We’ve had so many male coaches say to us: ‘I was that guy. And then I had that one courageous girl come into my room and she changed my mind,’” Yamamoto said. (In fact, “One Courageous Girl” is the title of a digital slideshow Yamamoto and Fulp share with coaches to prepare them for that girl’s arrival.)

Though the share of female wrestlers at high schools is still small—about 8% of the 269,000 total last year—it’s nearly quadrupled in a decade. Meanwhile boys participation has declined 7.5%, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.


Darby Neely started wrestling in second grade, and said that in elementary and middle school boys sometimes would forfeit rather than wrestle her.

“Usually if they lost they would cry,” Neely said. When she got to middle school, the boys grew stronger and wrestling them got much more difficult.

Her freshman year at Lebanon High, an elegant solution arrived: a girls team. She and her squad mates won the school’s first team state title in any sport, and were celebrated at an assembly that included a visit from Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.

One of Neely’s teammates, Ashlynn Leochner, joined the team last year when the girls squad formed. Leochner sometimes wrestles boys in practice, including her boyfriend Cole Roark, the coach’s son, but says competitions against girls feel more evenly matched and less fraught.

“If a guy is going to lose to a girl, it’s going to be a big deal,” she said. “So he’s not going to go easy. With a girl, it feels a little safer, almost.”

Tamyra Mensah-Stock shows the power of girls wrestling teams. The 27-year-old from Katy, Texas, won a gold medal in the 68 kilogram class at wrestling’s world championships in September. If she qualifies for next summer’s Tokyo Olympics, she’ll be a favorite to win a medal there, too.

Mensah-Stock’s home state of Texas launched a girls state wrestling tournament in 1999, a year after Hawaii. She says she’s not sure she would have taken up wrestling had her high school not had a girls team.


“I like a challenge, but I don’t know,” she said. “I really don’t know.”

In 2013, the International Olympic Committee shocked the wrestling world by booting the sport from the Games—cutting, in an effort to pare down the number of events, a sport that traced back to the ancient Olympics in Greece. The first Olympics without wrestling would have been 2020.

But after a world-wide outcry and reorganization effort, which included adding two Olympic weight classes for women, wrestling was reinstated. The sport got another boost last summer, when an NCAA committee recommended adding women’s wrestling to its list of emerging sports, the last step before a sport becomes official.

There are 55 college women’s wrestling teams nationwide from community college to Division I, with 16 more planning to launch next season, according to Mike Moyer, executive director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

The U.S. ranks fifth all-time in Olympic women’s wrestling medals. In Tokyo 2020 it will face the No. 1 nation, competing at home.

“We’re not afraid to say it: Our goal is to beat Japan,” said Bender, the USA Wrestling executive director. “Right now Japan is the clear leader in the sport competitively. But we think our secret weapon is the school/college community here. And I think the time is coming when that will be the reason that U.S. women’s wrestling is a dominant force in the world.”

Write to Rachel Bachman at rachel.bachman@wsj.com


Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-school-wrestling-was-fading-then-came-the-girls-11577797653

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For more information about girls wrestling in Pasco County, FL or at American Warrior Wrestling and at Wiregrass High School contact Coach Ketler at AmericanWarriorWrestling@gmail.com

10yr Girl vs 10yr old boy

Wrestling doesn't care if youre a boy or girl.  Who ever is the best prepared for the match usually wins.  As you can see, this little girl was well prepared.

A BROTHERS LOVE

This is an adorable video, but when a girl knows how to wrestle, she is very capable of handling herself.  She will have the knowledge, skill and confidence to not only defend herself against someone else, but she will have the physical endurance and ability to do it as well.  

An interview with a champion

"Wrestling is an art form..its like a chess game but with my muscles.." USA Olympic Champion - Helen Maroulis

Nike commercial-What girls are made of

Girls can be what ever they want to be.

Girls winning gold at the Olympics

Wrestling has always been one of the most popular  amateur sports in the U.S., however, it has recently become one of the fastest growing female sports.  In previous years, countries like Russia and China have dominated the female wrestling category at the Olympic level.  In recent years, times have changed.   As the sport has been quickly growing in the U.S. the United States female champions like Helen Maroulis and Adeline Gray have established themselves as the new U.S. and world leaders.

Girl Warriors

Adaline Gray, US Olympic Wrestling Champion 

    Girls and Wrestling

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    Since 1994 wrestling has been the fastest growing sport at the high school and college level for females and women.  It has grown from 800 females to nearly 12,000 today. And continues to grow everyday.

    Women Wrestling in College

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    Over 30 colleges now offer a female varsity wrestling programs.

    Females and the Olympics

    The Fastest Growing Sport for Females

    More Women Wrestle in College

    Since 2004 the U.S. Olympic committee has officially made female wrestling a class of Olympic competition.  Other countries such as Russia and China already offered women's wrestling as an Olympic sport.  It hasn't been until recently the U.S. has started producing female Olympic Gold Medal women's wrestling Champion's in wrestling in Helen Maroulis and Adeline Gray.

    More Women Wrestle in College

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    More Women Wrestle in College

    Are you surprised that that more women prefer to wrestle in college than participate in crew, fencing, skiing, the rifle team, Rugby, sand volleyball, and the equestrian team. Even as those sports have been in place for years, wrestling is still growing and will start to surpass many of the larger traditionally female dominated sports.

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    During the regular wrestling season, females will wrestle their male counterparts throughout the season.  However, at the end of the season, the females have their own State Tournament.  During the female state tournament, they wrestle other females.  But don't let that fool you, these girls are about as tough as nails!  


    Like any sport, female wrestling in Wesley Chapel and girls wrestling in Wesley Chapel and the surrounding area will continue to grow as the sport continues to grow and expand.  AWW will be the tip of the spear of that supporting that female movement.  


    Establishing an ALL GIRLS TEAM

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    Florida Girls State Tournament

    As the popularity of wrestling continues to grow, especially with girls, we would like to be the first wrestling club in the Tampa Bay area to offer an all girl team.  We will have to wait to see if we have enough of an interest with our girls to have an ALL-GIRL team, but we would be very proud to put forth the first ALL-GIRL team in Tampa.

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