North Carolina Wrestling Forum
ANY ISSUES - admin@ncwrestlingscoutreport.com => High School Wrestling => Topic started by: Longdayrunner on October 07, 2021, 12:35:23 PM
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NCHSAA and BCBS enter into a sponsorship for Women's Athletics, but still no sanctioned Women's Individual or Team State Wrestling Championships. Girls have been wrestling boys in NC since 1997. How can you praise Title IX and continue to keep girls at a disadvantage? When is the NCHSAA going to be a true champion for Women's Sports?
Blue Cross NC to serve as the official health insurance partner of the NCHSAA
https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/sports/blue-cross-nc-to-serve-as-the-official-health-insurance-partner-of-the-nchsaa/article_a2a07c0a-2785-11ec-b8fd-478c7ba6f02a.html
HAPEL HILL - The North Carolina High School Athletic Association is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC).
As part of the partnership, Blue Cross NC will be recognized as the official health insurance partner of the NCHSAA and the presenting sponsor of a new yearlong campaign to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title IX and women’s athletics in the NCHSAA.
Throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, the NCHSAA and Blue Cross NC will honor significant moments, accomplishments, teams and individuals that have made an impact on the growth of high school women’s athletics in North Carolina. Part of this campaign will also include a social media spotlight series, concluding on June 23, 2022, the official adoption date of Title IX in 1972. Blue Cross NC will also serve as a sponsor for all 2021-2022 NCHSAA Women’s Championships.
“NCHSAA is proud to kick off our partnership with Blue Cross NC,” said Que Tucker, Commissioner of the NCHSAA. “Working together, we’ll continue to lift up and highlight women’s athletics and support healthy communities across all 100 counties in North Carolina.”
This fall, Blue Cross NC and Healthy Blue, Blue Cross NC’s Medicaid managed care plan, are hitting the road for a hometown spirit tour. Throughout the tour, Blue Cross NC will visit eight member schools to highlight gender equity in sports. At some of the state's most anticipated high school football matchups, Blue Cross NC and Healthy Blue will be interacting with fans to promote community pride and hometown rivalry traditions. In addition, Blue Cross NC will also be presenting a $1,000 donation to the athletic programs of each visited school to further support women’s athletics in the NCHSAA.
"We resolve to be a champion for women everywhere – and this collaboration with NCHSAA allows us to do just that, celebrating the importance of women in sports and fostering the next generation of leaders," said Reagan Greene Pruitt, Vice President of Marketing and Community Engagement at Blue Cross NC. “Working in our local communities, we’re proud to support women across North Carolina as they strive for equity in every facet of life.”
For more information about this initiative and the NCHSAA women’s sports celebration, visit www.NCHSAA.org.
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I'm all for sanctioning wrestling for girls, so don't take this post the wrong way, but sanctioning girls wrestling is going to cause some unforeseen consequences. First, there is a shortage of coaches for the boys wrestling teams. There simply aren't enough coaches to go around as it is and when you throw a girls team into the mix that shortage will only be amplified. When girls wrestling is finally sanctioned I think they can offset this problem by offering girls wrestling in the fall. I'm certain most coaches would happily take the reigns of the girls coaching position. Having girls wrestling in the same season as boys would put additional coaching responsibilities on the coach, who deserves to be compensated at the same rate of pay for being the boys coach. My bet is many school systems would attempt to force boys coaches to also coach the girls team at the same time without offering any additional pay. I can tell you right now that will not be happening to me, and I hope other coaches will demand compensation for taking on the girls program. Of course, this doesn't consider the other factors such as practice time, practice space, scheduling of matches, etc. Again, I'm all for the cause and want to see girls wrestling sanctioned in NC, but sanctioning the sport is just the beginning of issue's problem. There are much deeper problems associated with girls wrestling than simply sanctioning the sport.
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I'm all for it and a big fan of girls and women's wrestling. I get up in the middle of the night to watch our women Olympic and world teams compete just as I do the men. Like Coach Atwood, I am of the opinion that the girls should have their won season, their won coach a separate practice time, etc from the boys. It shouldn't be any different from basketball, soccer, tennis, etc.
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All good points brought up, however these are just details and they can be worked out.
A bigger question would be, what style of wrestling will the girls wrestle. At the college level, girls wrestle the international style vs the collegiate style. I think if fairness is the issue, the international style should be considered over the collegiate style.
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Moving girls to another season other than winter would be detrimental to the sport. In winter the only other girls sport is basketball and then well I guess swimming which really isnt much of a pull from the athletic girls in the school. Fall has volleyball and spring has softball and soccer. It would drastically decrease the number of girl wrestlers moving the season from the fall. I am able to run two pre season conditioning and mat workouts, get my children to their rec league sports and my daughter to her dance class. It is not that difficult to manage two different teams. Line up your season schedule with tournaments that also offer girls divisions. Our girls will get 30+ matches this season in our first girls season. We have girls gear ordered and on the way. Our boys program will not suffer, we have over 60 matches on the schedule lined up for boys. Many of them will have to sit at some of the dual events to not go over the 55 limit. Most coaches are to lazy to put in the work for just a boys team much less a girl team is the issue. Coaches who want to be successful will be successful. The question of style is a good one... colleges do only wrestle womens freestyle which if youre starting girls in high school they wrestle folkstyle currently. USA girls events are increasing in popularity pretty quickly. The girls who don't participate in spring sports will be able to compete in the international styles. Our presence in folkstyle definitely benefited our world teams this year. Hell, Gilman, Taylor, Marloulis all had pins via bar and wrist at the world championships.