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ATTENTION ALL GIRLS: WANNA WRESTLE?

Posted On: Saturday, February 23, 2008
By: sporter
ATTENTION ALL GIRLS: WANNA WRESTLE?

by  Lem Satterfield

Dalyce Wilson had considered trying out for the Oakland Mills wrestling team for a while, but when she finally did, it was only after having had to convince her mother and father that it was okay for their darling daughter to wrestle against boys.

“My Mom was worried that I would break my nose or get my faced messed up. My dad didn’t want me rolling around on the mats with other guys,” said Wilson, an attractive 16-year-old junior who has been competitive swimmer and participated in lacrosse, soccer, cross country and both indoor and outdoor track.

“I had to really convince my parents to let me wrestle,” said Wilson. “I believe that it should be something that anyone and everyone should be able to do.”

Wilson was finally allowed to wrestle, and now has completed her first year as a 130-pound member of the Scorpions’ junior varsity.

But her goal is to make it easier for high school girls to compete in the sport, whether or not it’s against boys.

Toward that effort, Wilson has begun to distribute flyers with her contact information, hoping to convince other girls to join her as members of an amateur team in Howard County.

“I wanted to see if I could make it easier by starting an exhibition team in Howard County schools,” Wilson said. “Obviously, girls could still wrestle guys, but if that doesn’t work for them, then they can just join the girls’ exhibition squad. Either way, it shouldn’t be such a hassle for girls to wrestle.”

Wilson said the participants would likely begin wrestling among themselves at a central location, with long-range goals of eventually having teams at each of the schools.

“My idea is that the girls’ teams would wrestle as exhibitions after the junior varsity,” Wilson said. “But they wouldn’t count as points toward the team score.”

Wilson’s success on the mat this season has brought mixed results, but she nevertheless enjoys the competition.

“I’ve wanted to wrestle ever since I was a freshman, and during my sophomore year, I went to a lot of the matches, made a lot of friends among the wrestlers,” said Wilson.

“I decided that instead of just kind of being on the sidelines and watching, that I would try out this year. I won one match against Wilde Lake,” Wilson said. “I don’t really get pinned, and I’ve beaten one guy, which is the only match that I’ve won.”

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