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Post by sbcchamp1 on Jan 13, 2022 16:36:31 GMT -5
what's everyone thoughts!!!!
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Post by redskinfan04 on Jan 13, 2022 16:45:57 GMT -5
what's everyone thoughts!!!! Port Clinton has a girls team. I’m glad to hear they’ll have there own state tournament next year. |
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Post by clb6110 on Jan 14, 2022 8:38:04 GMT -5
I'm more interested in seeing which area schools start a men's volleyball program which was also added by the OHSAA.
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Post by sbclives on Jan 14, 2022 14:05:25 GMT -5
Would boys volleyball be a fall sport as girls volleyball is?
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Post by areafan1 on Jan 14, 2022 14:23:34 GMT -5
No Boys Volleyball would be in the spring.
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Jan 14, 2022 17:09:04 GMT -5
Why no bad mitten and table tennis? I KNOW more girls play those than wrestle.
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Post by sbclives on Jan 14, 2022 19:25:49 GMT -5
Why no bad mitten and table tennis? I KNOW more girls play those than wrestle. You know that more high school girls would play those sports? Creepy |
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Jan 15, 2022 12:21:38 GMT -5
What IS "creepy" is the lack of research done, thus the lack of intellect on a subject before postulating.
There are 1.3 million people in the world that play bad mitten. 19.8 million who play table tennis
There are 300,000 men and women that wrestle, of that number 11,000 are women.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Jan 28, 2022 17:22:09 GMT -5
And of those 11,000 I have had the opportunity to coach a few. I for one am thrilled that they are making the move to have women wrestle women for the same spoils that men wrestling men can have... the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The girls I have seen over the years typically had to wrestle a much stronger opponent as well as be chastised for choosing to wrestle. One of the best matches I have ever SEEN was at a national girls tournament that I took a female wrestler to compete in. My wrestler got killed in this tournament, but I watched a smaller girl at heavyweight tear up a larger girl that year with a Japanese whizzer after being almost pinned early in the match, and ultimately with only a few seconds left, the larger girl hit a headlock and needed the pin fall to win, however she just couldn't pull it off. These two were so vicious to each other that as each of the other mats finished their matches, they stopped wrestling to watch these two girls go at it.
I had a young man at our high school (state runner-up) who got an athletic scholly to go wrestle at Missouri Valley and he ended up being an NAIA All-American. His little sister, who also wrestled here, has followed older brothers footsteps and also received a scholly to wrestle at Missouri Valley, not to mention she is a damn nice kid.
Bring the females on and don't short those who want to wrestle guys.... There are some out there who are truly badasses... |
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Post by dolittle on Feb 22, 2022 10:23:15 GMT -5
who in the area has a team?
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Feb 22, 2022 13:21:51 GMT -5
"team" in wrestling indicates fills majority of weight classes. In this area, I've not heard of a "team" just a few schools with a couple of wrestlers. IMO it will take a couple of decades before an actual "team" is seen around here. In the near future boys volleyball will make a bigger splash than girls wrestling.
The question is, where will they get a lot more qualified officials over night? The good ones will go to the long standing tournaments and where the money is.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Mar 3, 2022 7:36:34 GMT -5
Oddly enough, at the next level, there are teams popping up across the country. At Adrian College in Michigan, they started a team back in 2015, and they are still wrestling today and at various tournaments across the country so they do some pretty extensive travel. (I have a graduate from the high school I work at that got a scholly at Missouri Valley to wrestle, too.) It's a pretty cool set up too, in that they are wrestling freestyle, rather than folkstyle,and they wrestle any level at some of the tournaments... Meaning there isn't such a big gap between the D1 and D3 teams. I also think I saw that Ohio State has also started a girls program, so I have to believe it's growing like crazy, or they wouldn't invest into it.
I for one think it's a great thing.
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Post by areafan1 on Mar 3, 2022 15:52:30 GMT -5
Tiffin U has a very good team.
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Post by Buckeye2b on Apr 8, 2022 10:53:37 GMT -5
I want to throw this out there as well. Back in 2002, I was coaching one of my HS girls at the USGWA nationals event at Lake Orion HS in Michigan. She was a heavyweight (155+) and got trampled that day, however I saw one of the best HS matches ever between two girls that day. They were running their tournament on four mats in a bowl like gym, and the two best heavyweights were wrestling. As the other three mats matches ended, they didn't start their next match but instead suspended to watch these two girls go at it. I need to go further: a smaller white girl who was pretty quick (by smaller I am saying close to 200 lbs...) and a bigger black girl (around 245 lbs or so) but both were in blocked weights and considered to be HVY's. They knew each other and had wrestled multiple times, as it was explained to me. I watched the match and they were going back and forth until the little white girl started hitting Japanese whizzers and had a substantial point lead on the black girl. As time was working its way down, the black girl got an escape and needed to pin the white girl in order to win. With about 15 second left, the bigger black girl hit a head and arm and dropped the smaller white girl like a bad habit. The gym reverberated from the move and I thought for sure the smaller girl was going to be stuck. She fought like a tiger to keep her back off the mat and the pin was so close as time ran out on the bigger black girl. I could just see the sliver a light between her shoulder and the mat itself and even with the distance I was from the mat, she was clearly not pinned. The smaller girl was giving up so much size, that it was just natural to root for her as the underdog. I also got a chance to meet the founder of the USGWA, Kent Bailo, who was instrumental in getting women's wrestling up and running at a national level. More info on that here: Womens Wrestling History . It was every bit as exciting and well fought as any match I had ever seen between two guys and any reservation I had about girls wrestling were gone after this tournament. I love that women's wrestling has become an Olympic event and that they are getting their due as the years go on. There are certainly some 'badass" females out there that make me a fan and I expect it will simply continue to grow especially in those corners of the world where being attractive AND tough is an admirable quality. |
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