Girls’ addition latest news in history of high school wrestling

The biggest news in Montana wrestling this year was the Montana High School Association’s decision in January to add girl’s wrestling as a sanctioned sport.

In other states girls wrestling is the fastest growing sport and with Montana’s history of girls wrestling against the boys for several years I think it will start with a bang and grow fast. Several colleges have added female wrestling and more will follow as the sport gets more popular.

Starting with the next school year, girls will continue to travel and wrestle with both boys and girls in their weight class, as they’ve been doing. But at the State tournament girls will wrestle only girls in an all-division event for seven weight classes.