This is definitely great for the sport and will change the landscape of college and high school wrestling! Who will be the next Power 5 conference to follow suit? Iowa State?
Iowa adds Women's Wrestling
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Good for the women's wrestling, but kinda confusing seeing that they just cut sports due to budget constraints.
I think it would be great but they have to get the budget ironed out.
The more I think about it this is a really strange move considering less than a year ago Iowa cut a couple of programs due to their budget.
And the award for most ignorant and insulting post of the year goes to...
I seriously hope you don't have daughters.
Pretty cool, but I would imagine it will take some time to gather the kind of numbers it will take to make it a widespread, competitive sport.
Hope they talk with the swimming and diving program about having a lawsuit ready to save them from getting cut
My wife joined crew at her college. They didn't even have a boat at that time.
Well the PR department at Iowa isn't known for being geniuses.
I have no idea what the numbers are but I would think that wrestling is quite a bit cheaper to run than swimming or diving
Regardless of the numbers, it is terrible optics to cut successful programs and within a year add a new one. Not to mention a terrible FU to the student athletes who were affected.
It’s already grown exponentially in Iowa and other states in past five years or so. Very ideal compared to the 90s and 00s situation of just a single female competing in all men’s division with no women’s option.
I’m sure UFC has played a part but I also think it’s just the natural solution to create equal participation and avoid the issues that existed without women’s divisions.
the scholarship #'s would likely be about the same. iowa already had the students pay for a new swimming facility. a new wrestling facility is being built. All but one of their meets is a bus trip.
I can't help but think that Iowa wanted a new wrestling facility, but ran into a big donor that suggested giving more $$$ if there was a women's program? I also wonder how long this has been in the works. I suspect well before March of 2020.
