Agreed

Once upon a time a guy by the name of RBY was a 106 state champ for sunny side people in the know know what’s up

@@npierce14 it's such a cool story and an incredible achievement.

@@haynwarrior2k2 I was actually wrestling in Hs when Helen maroulis placed 5th in my same classification (she beat a teammate of mine) she actually wasn’t the only girl in states that year another placed 2nd so I have very liberal views when it comes to woman wrestling against boys because I never had a teammate beat a girl

​@@npierce14 I remember when I was up in Fairbanks, AK for school ... Girl from Skyview in Soldotna won a State Title too. First girl in the Nation to Win a State Wrestling Title.

@@haynwarrior2k2 I was stationed in anchorage when I was in the Airforce Rand I heard about that

The state must really suck

@@ZONEPRESSLLCdid that make you feel better?

She is the first to win a state title in Arizona. Girls have won state titles in many other states wrestling in the boys tournament.

Only one girl won before and she was a senior 106-pounder. They actually have a slight advantage at this weight being smaller bone, and lighter weight to begin with. But the serious girls are better at this sport than basketball by far.@@yanawins1

Audrey Jimenez joins Michaela Hutchinson, Danielle Coughlin, Rachel Hale, Kennedy Blades, Hope Steffensen, Destiny Nunez, Heaven Fitch, Riley Holman, Maddie Riply and June Welch as State champions in the boys tournaments. These are just the ones off the top of my head. I am sure I have missed many others. State runner ups like Erica Dye, Calli Gilchrist, Deanna Rix, Kayla Miracle and Heaven Fitch are also very numerous. Many, many more have placed and stood on the podium at their respective State tournaments. They have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have earned their place on the mats.

High school and youth are getting better all around

Why? Is it because in this footage they dont look good or what? I dont see anything wrong with it

@@tylermetcalfbjj17 sloppy points everywhere, I may have nostalgia goggles on and comparing them to d1 and world team members

its arizona thats why lol id say top high schoolers are better than ever rn. Theres kids winning college opens.@@johndia5

Actually High Schoolers lately have been beating D1 top ranked wrestlers. This particular state championship is proof that every state needs to follow California's 1 state championship

The boy had the match won up and then threw it away -- too bad for him. He was leading 4 -2 with only 40 seconds of the 3rd period left but at 8:05 he let his weight get too far forward and lost the match. I think if those two wrestled 10 matches the boy would win 7 or 8 of them?

she’s shorter probably

@yanawins1 I agree there is not reason to diminish the accomplishment of the girl who won that state title. Nor should anyone belittle or mock the boy for "losing to a girl" I also agree that making comparisons across state wrestling programs could be pretty flaky too? But on the other hand if you are suggesting that girls are actually competitive with boys in wrestling -- that is not true IMO. Competitive means a realistic chance of winning every time not some super rare event that happens only at 106 lbs every few years or so? Since Title IX rudely, and wrongly, allowed girls to breaking into boys sports there have been maybe 25 - 30,000 matches in the USA for a boy's state wrestling title (do the math). Of those matches maybe 8 have been won by a girl and only at the 106 lb weight and mostly in the states with acknowledged weak scholastic wrestling programs. What is more to the point -- if boys were allowed to break into and compete in the girls state tourneys about 99.99++ percent of girl's wrestling champs would be boys! There is no doubt about that. LOL This girl won a title in an AZ division but she is a world class girl wrestler.

Don't put words in my mouth and try to refute something I did not say. I am simply going after the excuse makers that cannot handle it when a girl wrestler succeeds in this sport against guys. Having said that, their success rate is much greater than is realized and are given credit for as noted from the withdrawal of your first response to me. I have never claimed what you are implying I have claimed, but many girls have proven to be the best wrestlers in their state at their respective weight class. Only about 4 or 5 percent of wrestlers wrestling in the so-called boys programs are girls, so arbitrary, made up numbers trying to prove something here are meaningless. I have never denied that boys do have an advantage here. What I am saying is that the girls cannot be overlooked and some do turn out to be very successful even when competing with the guys. And yes, I mean competitive even using your narrow definition of the word. Many of these female state Champions win almost every single time.

@yanawins1 Well I guess you are either a girl wrestler yourself or the parent of a girl wrestler? For sure you are definitely seem a bit "butt hurt" about this topic? First, the only reason I changed my original post is to acknowledge your three additional girls that won a title - I knew about 5 girls -- you pointed out 3 more (so 8 is "much greater" than 5 - if you say so I guess -- whatever.) The points I made in both versions of my post were identical - so my editing proves nothing. All my points remain true. If HS boys were allowed to compete in girl's state tourneys there would be zero girl champions -- or very close to zero. And you know that is true. As to girls being "competitive"? Sure, a person can torture any word and make it mean anything you want it to I suppose? But the facts are that a girl winning a state HS wrestling title in the BOY’S DIVISION (AZ calls it boy’s wrestling even if you don’t LOL) it is so rare that it becomes a national news story! If the situation were truly “competitive” like you claim that certainly would not be the case. QED!!! You say only 5% of wrestlers in boy's tourneys are girls? According to what data? You may or may not be right about that -- but there is a reason why there are so few girls there. The reason is MOST (like 95+%) of the girls can’t make it to the boys’ tourney because they are not competitive with boys. OK? In fact, ONLY the best or elite girl wrestlers even attempt it. So, the fact that a very few elite HS girls might rack up a winning records in a season against boys means what exactly? There is a Gaussian curve for both male and female ability - the fact that the trailing tail of the distirbution for boy wrestlers might intersect the leading tail of the distribution for girl wrestlers means nothing. This is true for all sports and all things biological really. Get serious, if an elite girl wrestler could not win against average boys then the sport/skill of wrestling would be meaningless. But that does not mean boys and girls are “competitive”. Do you claim girls are competitive with boys in track or field, basketball, volleyball, soccer etc etc. also? Even the very best girls can never win against the best boys. It is futile for the average girl wrestler to compete against boys -- of course they still do it -- but they almost never win. The only girls who have won state title seem to be at 106 lbs (save maybe one at 113??). There are some very good reasons for that of course and I assume that you know them also? -- it is not rocket science. The match in this video was between a WORLD-CLASS girl wrestler against some unknown boy in AZ -- the girl was far more experienced, and she had previously competed in international events -- right? Yet she was fortunate to win, and the match could have gone either way -- the boy made a fatal mistake in the last 30 seconds. Had he not this whole video would hardly receive any attention. That tells you all you need to know. BTW are the girl's programs then also only "so called girl's programs"?

@@Mandolin1944 You still typed all of that in an attempt to refute things I never claimed. Makes me wonder why I even responded to you in the first place. Girls have been wrestling only a short time. The first I can remember was a girl named America Morris back in the mid to late 80's. Back then they were mocked and ridiculed by mostly guys who said they could never win. That they would be injured and had no business on the mat. A few years later some started to win. But it was considered a fluke and would never happen consistently. People claimed the males that they were beating were girly boys, they had no experience, they were going easy on the girls, the boys didn't know where to grab them, etc. etc. Here we are today with several state champions. It is not the norm, true, but it is definitely not a fluke. People are still making excuses trying to explain to us why this happens. They give all kinds of excuses instead of just saying "Hey, this girl has worked hard and has become a very adept wrestler. Good for her" It is not me that is butthurt. Have your read through these comment and seen all the butthurtness? I am frustrated at the butt hurt, hard headedness and the unwillingness to acknowledge the hard work of others and give credit where credit is due. Don't be that guy. The 4 or 5 percent may be a little high. It was 2 percent. A statistic I had read several times. The interest from the girls has developed and now many states have girls wrestling. The number percentage still wrestling with boys is very small though. This is the number of girls wrestling with the boys, period, not just in the tournament. Yes, thus far the number of state champions is small and likely not to grow much more because of the separation now, but the number of state champions doesn't show the whole picture. Many of these girls are competitive. Many have winning records who may not make it very deep into the states or may not make it into the tournament at all. You can lose a wrestling match and still be competitive. One can even get pinned but have a very close competitive match. We even had a girl here in my area win the county championship at 132 lbs. about 2 years ago. She had a winning record but it wasn't quite good enough to get her in the state tournament. She was successful and she was competitive. Nothing can change that. They have proven that they can be successful beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Just saying there was a girl last year at 106 who made it to pa blood rounds. At this weight the strength between the boys and girls is only slight. Congrats to this girl for taking up this challenge and succeeding

@@IanGorsen she also has pa wrestling experience this is az there not as good at wrestling at pa

@@Bbakerwrestling That has nothing to do with Arizona's State Finals. I just watched the whole thing and Sunnyside HS had 8 of their students in the finals. What a weird thing to comment on a historic win.

@@TheSonoranDesertGrower no competition

@@Bbakerwrestling You realize Jimenez is representing the USA in the Pan Am Championships this week right? Why isn't a PA wrestler doing that? Are they not world class level wrestlers like Audrey? Did you know she got a silver medal at Worlds? No competition huh? Yet she's literally representing our country right now in International competition. You're dumb AF 🤌🏽💯

Agreed

Who gives a shit what you approve?

No one cares

@@mikecsapo9842 I do. The fewer approve of that phenomenon the better.

@@fatcatattack Not true. I care.

Hating for what

Oh my gosh would you people stop with all of this Pennsylvania glazing, it’s getting cringey and fanboyish up to this point

Who cares, she wrestles in Arizona. How about say congratulations and move on.

@@chrisswinerton9603 You must care because here you are crying to me about it.

@@icyeye6050 Hating? Nah. Spitting facts. Big difference.