User:ADeng102/Collegiate wrestling/Bibliography

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adding information on women's wrestling startup dates style of wrestling and current growth Womens Wrestling:

Womens Collegiate Wrestling began 31 years ago with the first women's varsity team being created 1993-94 at The University of Minnesota-Morris. The start of the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) dates to the academic year 2007-2008, marking its formal establishment to govern the domain of women's collegiate varsity wrestling. womens-wrestling-facts-resources.aspx

There are currently 124 women's college wrestling programs across multiple divisions 42 NAIA teams. 68 NCAA. 14 JUCO. 69 NCWA. and 7 D1 club teams. https://www.americanwomenswrestling.com/college

The sport of wrestling has proved to grow each year bringing in 1,941 athletes in just this past year with 1,651 Men and 290 Women 2024-ncwa-mens-nationals-qualifying-bids-announced

In College women wrestle Freestyle in this style of wrestling the objective is still the same in throwing your opponent and trying to pin them but the scoring methods are different in the freestyle form. In Folkstyle athletes are not permitted to lock hands while in the top position and their opponent is down but in freestyle all locking of hands is permitted. Athletes can score 2 points for rolling the opponent in any direction and 4 points for throwing them they are awarded 5 points if the athlete is thrown from their feet to their back another key difference in Freestyle wrestling are Passivity in where an athlete is awarded 1 point in the event his opponent flees or refuses to start there is also attacking athletes can also score 1 point if their opponent is forced out of bounds  2 points still are awarded for a traditional takedown and 1 point for reversals there are still 10 weight classes but they vary from the traditional folkstyle weight classes Freestyle weights are commonly weighed in Kilograms the weights are 50kg 53kg 55kg 57kg 59kg 62kg 65kg 68kg 72kg and 76kg Freestyle_wrestling