We had 2 girls on our 1979/80 HS wrestling team. They were very tough girls. Those girls won several matches on JV and never made the varsity team. It was my senior year of high school for this first encounter of girls wrestling on a boys team (29 to 30 years ago). If you are of the male gender and do not or did not feel uncomfortable practicing moves on these girls I have other questions for you. I have 2 sisters and 3 brothers and the only girls I ever felt "normal" practicing wrestling moves (in the living room )on were my sisters. One was older and could kick my butt until about my sophmore year. And my younger sister well she was the practice dummy - she could have started on the varisty HS wrestling team in her freshman and sophmore years - but chose distance running. She went on to set a KU Relay record in a distance race back in the mid 1980's - while running for the Arkansas Razorback (Lady Hogs) track and cross country team. My little sister never did wrestle in a competition. My older brothers - well let's just say I was the practice dummy most of the time. The point - I never had to wrestle a female in competition but practice was uncomfortable enough. It is not a "strange" situation for the girls to wrestle boys because that is who they mostly wrestle with in practice and competition. It is a "stranger" situation for the boys when they mostly practice with boys and then all of a sudden or in one tournament they are face to face with a tough girl. What if a bunch of girls on a volleyball team were the best team in there state. The next year the second best state team in girls volleyball had a transfer from California (great player) who was a boy and they got beat in the state finals. What would the reaction be: by the parents, coaches, and/or both these teams?
Fair or Not Fair? Strange feeling or normal feeling?