Florida sanctions girls high school wrestling for 2021-22 season
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by Brant Parsons, Orlando Sentinel
Girls wrestling will be an official FHSAA-sanctioned sport beginning in the 2021-22 season, making Florida the 24th state in the nation to sanction it.
The Florida High School Athletic Association board of directors heard the final proposal to sanction girls wrestling as a state championship sport on Tuesday and made the decision by a unanimous 13-0 vote.
Proponents of the sport hoped it could become sanctioned this upcoming school year. But a number of board members on Tuesday expressed concerns that school districts have already set budgets for 2020-21 and many of those plans would not include funding for girls wrestling coaching supplements and other costs.
The decision to start in 2021-2022 was endorsed in the operations committee meeting on Monday, where it passed with a 5-0 vote.
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