WHY EVERY BOY AND GIRL SHOULD WRESTLE

• Wrestling is the most developmental of all inter-scholastic sports.
• The individual character of wrestling makes victory or defeat a personal responsibility.
• Wrestling is a contact sport that tests strength and endurance, conditioning, hard work, developing self-reliance, perseverance, and mental alertness.
• Wrestling is a safe sport. The interscholastic rules provide that every hold or move which might endanger life or injure a participant is absolutely prohibited and is penalized.
• Contestants are matched according to age and weight , enabling boys and girls of any size to compete in their own class.
• Wrestling is a natural test of strength, endurance, and skill. It is considered with the exception of track, to be the most natural activity in the sports program.
• Wrestling has special appeal because there is continuous movement, constant change of position and new combinations of holds on every move.
• The activity conditions the body for a variety of other sports. It helps to develop coordination, speed, accuracy, balance, keeping muscles trim and pliable.
• It is a sport which provides the physical exercise growing boys and girls need.