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(‘black wrestler’ pinning his ‘white opponent’)
(aka ‘getting packed’)
(te best you could do for your team’ to help your team is to pin your opponent)
(as for yourself, you leave yourself open to ‘permanent injury’)
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(“scholastic wrestling”, sometimes known in the ‘united states’ as folkstyle wrestling, is a style of ‘amateur wrestling’ practiced 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 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 8th in terms of the # of ‘schools’ sponsoring ‘teams’, with 9,445 ‘schools’ participating in the 2006-07 ‘school year’)
(257,246 boys participated in the ‘sport’ during that ‘school year’, making ‘scholastic wrestling’ the ‘6th ‘most popular’ (? in what way?) sport’ among ‘high school boys’)
(5,048 girls participated in ‘wrestling’ in 1,227 schools during the “2006-07 season”)
(for a total of ‘262,294’ scholastic wrestlers at any given time)
(is # of participants ‘growing’? / ‘shrinking’? / ‘staying constant’ (?))
(or ~ 1.9% of ‘scholastic wrestlers’ (at any given time))
(will this % ‘rise’ or ‘shrink’ in the ‘academic years to come’)
(and what of ‘transgenders’?)
(or are all of them on the ‘gender spectrum’ so to speak)
(my first ‘school team’ was ‘middle school baseball’)
(my 7th grade spring)
(“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” with over 40 schools participating)
(shortly after, “ocean springs high school” became the first school in ‘mississippi’ to have a ‘high school team’)
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