A high school senior won her second consecutive state wrestling title, defeating multiple opponents en route to the Maine state championship.
Maddie Ripley, a 17-year-old from Oceanside High School in Rockland, Maine, defeated three opponents en route to competing in another state wrestling championship against boys.
The feat was even more impressive considering she had won the inaugural women’s title in another weight class just days earlier. Ripley won the girls state championship in the 107-pound weight class, then defeated the boys in the 113-pound weight class a few days later.
“I didn’t hear much about it being a fluke. Now that I’ve won two games, it’s been proven that it wasn’t a fluke,” Ripley said with confidence. ABC News.
“The girls are working hard,” Ripley continued. “I was so excited when I won last year. It was my first time winning. And I was still so excited this year.”
Ripley’s coach and father-in-law said more and more colleges are starting women’s wrestling programs, and wrestling is now full of talented female athletes.
“I think women’s wrestling is just exploding right now,” he said. “The more athletes we get, the better they can do.”
Ripley isn’t the only female wrestler competing against men at a time when male athletes are often invading the world of women’s athletics.
The name of a high school senior in Arizona is Audrey Jimenez Won the Division I state wrestling title against the boys a few days ago.
“Why not?” Jimenez said of her decision to wrestle boys first. The 18-year-old actually needed special permission from his state athletics body to compete against the boys, but he took advantage of that decision.
In 2022, Bela Mir, daughter of UFC legend Frank Mir, compete against a man in a wrestling match. Mir wrestled against the boys along with Jenavi Alejandro and Juliana Alejandro, who in 2019 became the first girl to win a match against the boys at the state level.
Mr Mill expressed sympathy for the boys and said they were in a lose-lose situation.
“I feel sorry for the boys. If I win, they’ll look bad because I hit a girl. But if I lose, it’s worse because a girl hit me,” she explained.
Mil is currently a professional mixed martial arts fighter, Agency contract Due to her name, image and likeness, she joined the UFC while in college.
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