Standard-Examiner: UHSAA Board of Trustees sanctions girls wrestling in Utah
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by Patrick Carr, Standard-Examiner
High school girls wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States.
There’s a high school girls wrestling state championship in Utah County every February, plenty of girls wrestling clubs in the state, tournaments, clinics and lots of support for a sport that doubled in participation nationally from the 2010-11 school year to the 2016-17 year.
And now in Utah, it’s officially sanctioned.
The Utah High School Activities Association Board of Trustees voted at its Nov. 21 meeting to officially sanction girls wrestling starting in the 2020-21 school year.
That would ostensibly target the first official girls wrestling state tournament sometime in February or March 2021, about a year-and-a-quarter from when the vote happened.
Editor's Note: Utah becomes the 20th state association to launch official girls high school wrestling.
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There’s a high school girls wrestling state championship in Utah County every February, plenty of girls wrestling clubs in the state, tournaments, clinics and lots of support for a sport that doubled in participation nationally from the 2010-11 school year to the 2016-17 year.
And now in Utah, it’s officially sanctioned.
The Utah High School Activities Association Board of Trustees voted at its Nov. 21 meeting to officially sanction girls wrestling starting in the 2020-21 school year.
That would ostensibly target the first official girls wrestling state tournament sometime in February or March 2021, about a year-and-a-quarter from when the vote happened.
Editor's Note: Utah becomes the 20th state association to launch official girls high school wrestling.
Click for full Standard-Examiner story
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