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.
This year, hundreds of girls competed in Pennsylvania’s first sanctioned state tournament as the state rocketed to more than 180 high school teams from none in 2020. Easton’s Aubre Krazer, right, takes down Hazleton Area’s Miah Molinaro, left, during the first found of the PIAA High School Wrestling Championships in Hershey, Pa., Thursday, March 7, 2024. Girls’ wrestling has become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country.
Even for girls who compete nationally or hope to wrestle in college, wrestling in state-sanctioned tournaments brings status. Over the past decade, the number of high school girls’ teams quadrupled nationally and the number of girls wrestling in high school quintupled to over 50,000 through last year, according to figures from the National Federation of State High School Associations.
In 2016, national champion wrestler Sally Roberts founded the advocacy organization Wrestle Like a Girl and began talking to USA Wrestling, the National Wrestling Coaches Association and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame — male-dominated organizations that nevertheless got on board for girls’ wrestling.at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics to win a gold medal — the first ever for an American in women’s wrestling.
“That has definitely shifted, where fathers who wrestled are introducing their daughters to this sport and having this connection through the sport,” Wright said.
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