OMG! Someone please pick me up off the floor. We have been debating female wrestling all week on the kids forum and we now get these questions like this?
FYI--THERE IS A WOMEN'S DIVISION IN KANSAS!
We have been having a women's team for 8 years. We are called the Kansas Krusaders. We are funded by USAW-KS to further girls wrestling. We have a HS girls team and they wrestle freestyle and we took 3rd in Fargo this year in the individuals and 4th in the duals.
We have practices throughout the state. We are working up a dual something like the East/West Classic for girls. We want to find all the HS girl wrestlers in the state and get them to compete. We will do folkstyle at the dual. We will showcase freestyle so the girls can learn what they need to do to advance in women's wrestling.
Ed and Jenni Edison are the leaders of this organization. Ed is the women's director for the state. Brooke Bogren is a coach, she is a girl that came up through the ranks of KS wrestling. Jason Ogden, Lance Engel and many others have given countless hours to further this endeasvor.
If you haven't heard, I am sorry and surprised. Our website is kansaskrusaders.com and our email is kansaskrusaders@yahoo.com
Our phone is 316-721-5122. Ed's cell is 316-259-5399. Jenni's cell is 316-990-8914. We are quite acessible and we want to help any and all girls that want to wrestle. We are not trying to "steal" anyones girls. They can continue to wrestle with their current teams/clubs but use the Krusaders as a way to enhance their exerience with wrestling. We have girls from 4-20. WE have girls from all areas of the state. We welcome any coach to help with the team. We host the USAW-KS girls state tourney and we take the girls as a state team to the National Tourneys. If you need more, go to our website or call the numbers above.
WOMEN'S WRESTLING IS ALIVE AND GROWING IN KANSAS.
We have even made attempts at getting it into the HS's in KS. This is still a ways off but we have gotten actual dialogue in the Wichita School System for Middle School in the near future.
Maybe our time has come.
Ms. Jenni
