Lang
1/23/22
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has officially announced girls wrestling as a sanctioned sport next year.
The announcement came during the unsanctioned girls state wrestling tournament at Xtreme Arena in Coralville on Saturday, although the official vote from the IGHSAU board of directors came on January 12th.
To date, 58 schools have committed to sponsoring girls wrestling programs in Iowa. The latest data from Trackwrestling.com shows 1,018 girls participating in high school wrestling, represented by over 185 Iowa schools.
Wrestling becomes the 11th sport to be sanctioned by the IGHSAU, and the first since bowling was added in 2007. Iowa becomes the 34th state association to sanction girls’ wrestling.
The first state-sanctioned wrestling season will take place during the 2022-23 school year.