High School Sports in the United States - Scholastic Wrestling, Gatorade Player of the Year Awards, Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, All-America, Nike Cross Nationals, Brentwood Academy V. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn. (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Scholastic wrestling, Gatorade Player of the Year awards, Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, All-America, Nike Cross Nationals, Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Assn., Wendy's High School Heisman, VYPE High School Sports Magazine, Preps On The Net, New York Interscholastic Athletic Association, Long Island Interscholastic Athletic League, Bigteams, High school fencing, Dial Award, True Team, MSG Varsity, National Scholastic Indoor Championships, USGWA. Excerpt: Scholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently practiced in 49 of the 50 states in the United States. When practiced by wrestling clubs of younger participants, scholastic wrestling is better known as "Folkstyle." According to an Athletics Participation Survey taken by the National Federation of State High School Associations, boys' wrestling ranked eighth in terms of the number of schools sponsoring teams, with 9,445 schools participating in the 2006-07 school year. Also, 257,246 boys participated in the sport during that school year, making scholastic wrestling the sixth most popular sport among high school boys. In addition, 5,048 girls participated in wrestling in 1,227 schools during the 2006-07 season. Scholastic wrestling is currently practiced in 49 of the 50 states; only Mississippi does not officially sanction scholastic wrestling for high schools and middle schools. Arkansas, the 49th state to sanction high school wrestling, began scholastic wrestling competition in the 2008-09 season. In scholastic wrestling, great emphasis is placed on one wrestler's control of the...