This topic seems to come up every so often. I am Catholic, and wrestled girls different times throughout my wrestling career. I know many other Catholics, and catholic schools that allow their wrestlers to compete if a girl is in their bracket. Myself personally feel this is telling your wrestler that even though you worked your butt off to get to this point, we are going to take it all away because we don’t trust you to just wrestle out there. I also feel it is telling the girl I don’t respect you enough to go toe to toe with you. I know I may get some negative responses to this, but I feel if a girl wants to participate in a predominately male sport, let her, and let the boy go out against her and lets see who is the best wrestler.

I have 2 nieces that wrestle in kids wrestling here in Kansas, and both of them are very competitive in the boys division. I hope if they wrestle later on into middle school and high school, they don’t have to deal with this situation, as they are catholic and if this becomes a big deal it will end most of their wrestling career, as girls wrestling is not an every weekend thing yet in Kansas.