Girls wrestling continues to be one of the fastest growing high school sports.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It’s no longer uncommon to see high school girls dual on the wrestling mat. In fact, girls wrestling is one of the fasting growing sports out there.
At the Virginia Beach Sports Center over the weekend over 5,000 high school wrestlers gathered for the National showcase seeking the title of All- American. 500 of those athletes were high school females.
“I believe its the highest growing sport in the country,” said CEO of NHSCA Bobby Ferraro. “Our female number is at 500 that was our capacity number for that division and if we didn’t have to cap it we would have had more. The female sport of wrestling is just at its infant stages and they’re going to progress and be really amazing overtime.”
Athletes traveled from all 50 mats to compete in …
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