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A multi-sport athlete who was the first to run cross country and play football in the same season. A state champion swimmer. A hard-nosed football player who added a state
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In a matter of mere minutes Tuesday morning, the Minnesota State High School League dealt one high school sports advocacy group a serious blow while answering the hopes of another.
The league s Representative Assembly voted narrowly to reject a proposal to add boys volleyball as a league-sanctioned sport. Not long after, the 48-member body, tasked with considering amending league bylaws, voted overwhelmingly to add a girls wrestling state tournament starting next school year.
In what Chad Shilson, director of Minnesota/USA Girls and Women s Wrestling, called the biggest news for female wrestling in Minnesota ever, the vote creates a girls division within the wrestling state tournament. Girls will remain part of each school s boys program for regular season training and competition.
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Two months ago, Will Short was worried.
The highly successful head wrestling coach at Simley, where he also serves as athletic director, was convinced there wouldn t be a wrestling state tournament this year.Wrestling presented perhaps the most vexing challenge to the Minnesota State High School League s goal of holding state tournaments for winter sports this year.
Trying to reconcile the need to be safe and take the necessary COVID-19 precautions with a tournament that featured more than 650 wrestlers pursuing individual state titles along with coaches, teammates, parents and fans seemed more than daunting. It seemed impossible. Two months ago, things were in bad shape and it looked like we weren t going to have a tournament, Short said.