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USA Wrestling is excited to announce the 2022 Girls Folkstyle National Championships are moving to Colorado Springs. This event will take place along side the Women Folkstyle Duals at the Broadmoor World Arena on March 18-20, 2022. This event showcases the quickly growing sport of girls folkstyle on a national stage. Last year wrestlers from 46 states participated in the Girls Folkstyle Nationals, and we expect the tournament to continue to expand. New this year we have added Girls (12U/14U) duals to compete along side the Junior/16U Duals on Sunday. Dual teams must be state approved teams and are limited to 8 Girl teams and 16 Junior/16U teams.
Perhaps the most notable change this year to the grappling scene is the change in weight classes. The new layout will feature the following 14 divisions: 106 pounds, 113, 120, 126, 132, 138, 145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195, 220 and 285 pounds.
That also includes in Chippewa County, where teams are seeing more girls come out for the sport, and those grapplers are excited to be getting in on the ground floor of the explosion of popularity statewide.
Kaz was a multi-year varsity wrestler at Chi-Hi before graduating in 2015. But during her time as a Cardinal, seeing girls on other teams was a rarity. Girls have always been able to compete but would have to compete against the boys. She went on to wrestle in college at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota, and once she was finished there, Kaz assumed her journey with the sport was over.
But she landed as the head girls coach this year at Cadott as the Hornets are establishing a girls team to go with its always-strong boys program, and Kaz is excited to see how far the sport has come in such a short amount of time.
The Cadott invite hosted separate girls brackets for the first time and crowned four tournament champions, including Hornet freshman Iszy Sonnentag at 107 pounds. The Sonnentag family is synonymous with success within the program, and Iszy is the latest to make her mark.
Trinity High School junior Mack Beggs waits for a signal from the referee in the final round of the 6A Girls 110 Weight Class match during the Texas Wrestling State Tournament on Saturday in Cypress, Texas. Beggs, a transgender boy, is required by state policy to compete against girls. Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images hide caption
But media attention found him anyway. In part, that's because some parents of female wrestlers have vocally objected to the fact that Beggs, who has been taking testosterone as part of his gender transition, is wrestling girls. One parent even filed a lawsuit against the league that organizes public school sports.
"He wants to compete against boys," Merritt says. But under Texas rules, boys can't compete against girls, and students must compete as the gender marked on their birth certificate. That meant if Beggs wanted to wrestle, he had to do it in the girls' league.
b. A state association shall select one weight class. Competition shall be in one of the following sets of weight classes when boys wrestle boys (or when boys wrestle girls): 106 lbs., 113 lbs, 120 lbs., 126 lbs., 132lbs., 138 lbs., 145 lbs., 152 lbs., 160 lbs., 170 lbs., 182., 195 lbs., 220 lbs., 285 lbs.
Effective July 1, 2023: We have more member state associations (30) sponsoring girls wrestling and providing an equal number of uniform weight classifications is now necessary. Due to fluctuating demographics of our student enrollment, each state association shall select one of the three sets (12, 13, 14) of listed weight classes for boys and one of the three sets (12, 13, 14) for girls. These recommended weights are based upon data from over 215,000 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) assessments.
I have added a couple of new articles written by, and for, female grapplers. The first is a compilation of different reasons women might want to study grappling, and the second is guide for women stepping onto the mat for the first time.
Carrie, our newest fem, takes on Kasey in this fun little grappling match. While Carrie is only 5'2" and weighs 94 pounds, she has speed and agility that quickly surprises the bigger Kasey! Our long haired country gal is totally dominated with belly punches, scissors, leglocks, and choke holds until she finally cries out her submission!
BUJUMBURA, 4 June 2008 (IRIN) - Lost in their thoughts, the women sit patiently on benches as they wait for assistance at the offices of the League Iteka, a Burundian human rights group. Among the 10 or so women at the offices are two young girls. "One of them was raped by a close family friend - and she is only 13," an official at Iteka said. "Now she will have to live with the memory all her life." Located in a downtown district of the Burundian capital, the human rights group is one of the organisations trying to help victims of rampant human rights abuses in the country, including sexual abuse. Each day, about 30 people - most of them poor women and young girls - come to seek assistance. Cases of sexual abuse constitute nearly half the entire caseload and are often the most traumatic. From January to October 2007, the organisation handled 301 cases of rape. "The cases that we handle are only those reported to us," Jean Pierre Kisamare, League Iteka deputy executive secretary and head of information, said. "There are many, many others that are not reported." "They each have a different story, but all are victims of abuse seeking help," one Iteka official said. "For example, the elderly lady sitting over there was raped by rebel soldiers a few days ago. She is back from hospital to seek more help." Then there is 15-year-old Belize (not real name), who can no longer do basic chores such as washing clothes because a rapist dipped her hands in scalding water. Now pregnant from the rape, Belize is unable to figure out how she will support her child. Twenty-year-old Matilda (not real name) was raped then beaten and left for dead in a gutter. Her body was found by dogs whose barking attracted the attention of passers-by. Now undergoing psychiatric treatment, she is still traumatised by her ordeal. "The trends are worrying," said Kisamare. "Over the last five months, we have had more cases resulting from the fighting between the FNL [Forces nationales de libération] and government troops." Aid workers in Bujumbura point fingers at the rebels as one group of perpetrators. Others they accuse include government soldiers and the police, civilians, neighbours and school authorities. Since the return to Bujumbura of FNL leader Agathon Rwasa from exile on 30 May, however, rebel activities have slackened. "There has been an improvement in the last two weeks," Kisamare told IRIN on 4 June. "Before that, a lot of violations [rapes] occurred involving them." Widespread problem Throughout the 15 years of conflict in Burundi, violence against women, especially sexual abuse and rape, has been a widespread phenomenon, according to international human rights organisations and the United Nations. Between 2004 and 2006, for example, an average of 1,346 women annually reported cases of abuse to aid agency Médecins sans Frontières (MSF); 26 per week. The war may have largely ended, but rape continues to be a major problem, according to aid workers. "Sexual violence against women and children remains widespread," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a 15 May report to the Security Council. "A significant increase in the incidence of rape has been recorded since the beginning of 2008." The report criticised the government, noting that: "the president's commitment and that of his government to stem impunity and punish national security personnel for human rights abuses has, in some cases, yet to be translated into concrete actions." Government officials said they were trying to do something; at least 20 police officers were dismissed by the president in December 2007 for involvement in abuses, with several defence force personnel also being prosecuted. "Ending impunity for those guilty of sexual violence and other egregious violations against women and children deserves the highest priority," Ban told the Security Council. More child victims According to Amnesty International, the majority of reported rape victims are girls under the age of 18. The perpetrators in many cases escape prosecution and punishment by the state, giving Burundi an extremely low rate of successful prosecutions for sexual crimes. Iteka found that in other cases, the victims chose to remain silent, often out of fear of social stigmatisation. "Most victims are scared to talk about rape. Married women, for example, fear to speak out because the husband could throw them out of the house if he found out that she had been raped," Audace Gahiga, of Iteka's gender project, said. Other victims resort to traditional and informal dispute resolution systems, often negotiating and agreeing on compensation from the perpetrator or the family of the perpetrator. According to League Iteka officials, the majority of cases of sexual violence reported to their offices involved 10- to 18-year-old girls, reflecting an increase in the number of child victims such as a 12-year-old victim whose father accepted 60,000 francs (US$60) from the perpetrator to drop the matter. Cases of incest where children are raped by their grandfathers, fathers and uncles are also becoming more frequent; most of which are sorted out within the family. Many of these victims are exposed to a high risk of disease infection, including HIV/AIDS, despite Burundi's relatively low prevalence of 3.3 percent. "We have recently seen more and more cases of small children aged two to four years being raped," Kisamare said. "We thought we were moving forward, but instead we are going back to the past," he said. Girls and young women are most at risk with 60 percent of reported rapes being committed against minors, according to a 2007 study by Amnesty and a Burundian NGO, Action des Chrétiens pour l'Abolition de la Torture. "Girls as young as three are the victims of rape today in Burundi," said Arnaud Royer, a researcher at Amnesty. "Rape is the most reported form of sexual violence in the country, committed by both state and non-state actors, but is becoming more and more prevalent in the home and community." eo/aw/jm 2b1af7f3a8