Wrestling Benefits Girls

Wrestling benefits female athletes in a myriad of ways, instilling within them: confidence, grit, resilience, mental toughness, self-esteem, self-reliance, and discipline. Wrestling also encourages physical fitness, teaches basic self-defense, and provides a family of wrestlers.
Wrestling forges strong and capable leaders.
Wrestling provides increased opportunities for employment and higher education. Wrestling has a notably high population of first-generation college students; the NCAA found that 23% of college wrestlers are first generation college students, this is the second-highest sport in the country, just behind football at 25%.
On coed wrestling teams, young men and women learn how to manage working/professional relationships.
Wrestling will change a girl’s life.

Coaching Girls is Rewarding

Coaching girls is rewarding, as girls can be very attentive and focused during practice. Coaches report that their female wrestlers are very coachable; they tend to ask technical questions, retain information, and can be organized.
By opening up wrestling to girls, coaches can share the best sport in the world with the other half of the population.
Bottom line, coaches can reach more kids and affect more lives.
- There are girls that need to be in the room just like those boys that need wrestling.
- Article from the Aspen Institute: Why Good Coaches Matter.

Adding females makes wrestling arguably the most inclusive sport and is the answer to the Title IX challenge for men's wrestling.
Adding women’s wrestling increases the presence of wrestling in higher education.
Female wrestling supports men’s wrestling.
- No four-year institution with women’s wrestling has ever dropped men’s wrestling.
- Since women’s wrestling became more mainstream in college in 2012 - 2013, male programs have increased every year. Male numbers had previously been decreasing.
- Wrestling legend Dan Gable explains, “[Women’s wrestling is] helping with the overall success and helped wrestling stay in the Olympic Games.”
Girls wrestling is bringing new energy, audiences, awareness, and credibility to our sport.
- Coaches report adding a girls program increases fundraising efforts. After all, adding girls wrestling can double your donor base.
Mentoring and coaching females brings more ambassadors and supporters into our sport, expanding the pool of officials, directors, and coaches.
Expanding wrestling to include women and girls supports wrestling’s value/equality/credibility. Together we are redefining gender norms; join the movement.