--- Juli Lang <wrestleinoregon@...> wrote:
> Where are you located? That way I can help put you
> in
> touch with the right people.
>
> Juli
>


I live near Portland, Oregon. Any help would be great.
Erin
> --- liquid_paper_project
> <liquid_paper_project@...> wrote:
> > At my High School, for the next wrestling season
> > we're looking at
> > only 2 girls on the team. I know of nearly a
> dozen
> > girls who would
> > love to wrestle, but are too intimadated by the
> guys
> > to go out for
> > the team. No matter how much my cohort and I try
> > to explain you CAN
> > only wrestle girls if you really, really want to,
> > the very fact that
> > wrestling is listed under boys sports and the way
> > they see the boys
> > horsing around scares them to death.
> > I also happen to know of a good dozen 8th graders
> > coming into the
> > school next year who would make great wrestlers,
> and
> > would probably
> > go out for it if they weren't too scared.
> > The point of this is, any ideas on how to start a
> > women's only team?
> > Would I have to make an appeal to the school
> board?
> > Any suggestions
> > on what to say, and how to recruit would be
> helpful
> > too. I know it
> > took me, lowly freshie a lot of guts just to walk
> > into the gym the
> > first day, let alone survive suicide training (our
> > nickname for the
> > first few weeks of just conditioning before we can
> > even hit the
> > mats.) and, I understand that not all kids can get
> > up the courage to
> > do that, but I don't think that doesn't mean they
> > should have a
> > chance. As much as I don't want to pussify
> woman's
> > wrestling, and I
> > have every belief they can wrestle guys, I think
> > just the
> > name 'Women's Wrestling' would encourage more
> girls
> > to come out, even
> > if we did just practice with the guys.
> > So, any suggestions? Do I make an iota of sense,
> or
> > should I give it
> > up now? :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -~*Anne*~-
> > "True, Wrestlers don't NEED balls, but I've got
> some
> > anyway."
> > - Zach Shiner, Proud Supporter of Women's
> Wrestling
> > -
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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