Girls wrestling championship held in Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s been a half-century since Title IX altered the scenery of girls’ sports successful the amateur ranks but immoderate changes person been dilatory coming.

This month, that alteration yet made its mode to the wrestling mats, with the opening of the archetypal NSAA title run for girls wrestling.

“I’ve had each boys teams, I’ve had mixed teams, present I’ve got my archetypal all-girls team,” said Jay Parker, Head Coach for Burke High School’s girls’ team. “To person this accidental to travel retired and acceptable standards for the girls is amazing.”

Girls person wrestled successful the authorities earlier but they had to bash it connected boys teams. Britney Taylor was the archetypal miss to assertion a medal successful the authorities tourney against boys backmost successful 2009, wrestling for Omaha North’s boys. Now she’s a manager for Burke and was trying to hole her young wrestlers to look her aged school.

“The bully happening astir it is they’re having amusive and they privation to travel back,” Taylor said aft her squad mislaid their conscionable to North. “Right present I’m trying to instill a squad vibe, wherever each the girls are consenting to propulsion each different and enactment unneurotic successful bid to get better.”

This past weekend, schools astir the authorities hosted the archetypal NSAA all-girls tournaments. At 1 of the biggest successful Nebraska City, the Friday Night Fracas, the Pioneers welcomed 25 girls teams with 166 wrestlers.

“With the maturation of what we’ve seen successful the past mates of years arsenic a nine athletics for precocious schoolhouse girls, they decided to person it implemented this year,” Nebraska City High School Wrestling Coach Tyler Hodges said, explaining the NSAA’s determination to accelerate girls wrestling from “emerging sport” presumption to a title athletics successful May. “I cognize successful the past 3 years astatine the precocious schoolhouse level, girls person doubled each twelvemonth with information numbers.”

More than 100 colleges crossed the state person girls wrestling programs, including Midland University, Hastings College and York College successful Nebraska. Girls who wanted to wrestle person ever had to combat the boys for abstraction connected the mats, present successful Nebraska, they person the accidental to marque it their own.

“Aggressive is my main happening erstwhile I bash sports,” said Burke HS freshman Sophia Scott, who contempt having lone been wrestling for a period is already 4-2 connected the young season. “I wanted to bash it since I was little, but determination wasn’t truly a girls part and proceeding that determination was gonna beryllium one, drove maine to effort the athletics out. I thought it’d beryllium truly cool.”

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