KY – FORT THOMAS In Kentucky, girl’s wrestling has become an approved high school sport for the first time. Many others believe it is far overdue.
That does not imply that there aren’t any girls who have been wrestling for a long time, occasionally even against boys. A Northern Kentucky team’s members believe it’s about time they get formal sanction and hope it would encourage other girls to take up the sport.
Emma Hood never thought she would be the one taking a beating. When my mother brought it up to me, I was like, “Absolutely not.” That’s obviously not what I want to do.
I’d prefer not to dress in a singlet. That sounds awful,” Hood remarked. However, the more I about it, the more I realized that might be cool. And I took part. I adore it. I knew right away on the first practice that this would become my passion.
Hood, a freshman at Highlands High School, is just in her second year of wrestling, but she has already made a lot of progress. In her eighth-grade year, she placed eighth in a state competition, and since then, she has won a lot of games. Her victories, meanwhile, would not have been recorded in the official record books until last year.
It matters now, for real. It’s actually regarded as a sport now, according to Hood. And it’s expanding rapidly. Thus, this is really the ideal moment for me to have begun.
The Kentucky High School Athletic Association decided to sanction girls wrestling in February, with the 2023–2024 season serving as the start date. Early in 2024, the first official state tournament will be held.
Girls used to have to compete in unofficial wrestling matches and