The 3
rd annual Girls State Wrestling Tournament was held last weekend in Coralville. The sport has grown in leaps and bounds over the last three years but still isn’t a sanctioned sport by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Waverly-Shell Rock has won all three team titles in the sport’s history and W-SR athletic director Dave Litterer explains what it would take to get the sport sanctioned.
Litterer added that he doesn’t believe it will be that long before the sport is sanctioned. But he also added that once the sport is sanctioned schools that don’t have a girls team would be disallowed from having girls wrestle on the boys team by rule.
The Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association (IWOCA) Girls State Wrestling Tournament kicks off today at the XStream Arena in Coralville with two area schools represented. The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks will send 10 participants to compete on the sports biggest stage for female athletes. Competing for the Hawks will be freshman Abigail Grout at 106lbs, junior Emil Harmston at 113lbs, at 126 freshman Ellie Brenneman and junior Bronwyn Brenneman, senior Caitlyn Busch and sophomore Marissa Cline at 138, at 145 junior Madison Kelly and sophomores Mia Garvey and Brittney Pfeiffer, and at 152 senior Sarah Meader. Meader and Garvey have been featured this year in the girl’s state individual rankings produced by iawrestle.com at their respective weight classes. Meader comes into the tournament with a 19-3 overall record, Garvey is 10-6. Bronwyn Brenneman is also over the 10 win mark this season at 12-5.
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Listen to the Girls State Wrestling Tournament live from Coralville. We’ll have live coverage of the Waverly-Shell Rock and other area girls. Friday coverage begins at 1:30 and then wrestling resumes on Saturday morning.
Thursday night on KWAY Country the Waverly-Shell Rock boys wrestling team skunked Oelwein 80-0.