United States Girls Wrestling Association was started by Mr. Kent Bailo to promote girls wrestling when no one was even thinking about girls wrestling. He was the first girls wrestling tournament. We are associated with USA Wrestling in Kansas and thus most boys and girls tourneys(note, I said most) are USAW sanctioned. My husband, Coach Ed is the director for Women's/Girl's wrestling in Kansas and we felt we, as USAW, should host a girl's championship tourney, as well. This is an edict from Terry Steiner, the National Women's director for USAW in Colorado. There have been lots of discussion about the costs involved with a USGWA tourney, I will not argue those here, just say that the profit margin is quite low in a stand alone girls tourney, thus the reason Mr. Bailo charges so much, I am sure. We hope to get our tourney to the level that we exceed what Mr. Bailo has done, so that USAW KS can shine above the rest. We are receiving tremendous support from USAW KS and actually when we compete at the national level, the other states think Kansas is really doing something. I hope this answers your questions and we hope to see you out to some of the tourneys.

Ms. Jenni
Coach Ed's Wife
Kansas Krusaders