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  1. 02-06-2006, 08:03 #1
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    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2320537

    Girl first to win state prep wrestling title over boysAssociated Press

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Michaela Hutchison became the first girl in the nation to win a state high school wrestling title while competing against boys.

    Hutchison won the final of the 103-pound weight class during Alaska's big school wrestling championships. The Skyview High sophomore entered the state tournament ranked No. 1 in her weight class.

    Amid chants of "C'mon, Michaela" and "Girl power," Hutchison earned a 1-0 victory Saturday over Colony High School's Aaron Boss.

    She scored an escape with 16 seconds left to beat Boss for the second time in two weeks. Family and friends mobbed Hutchison as she walked away from the mat with a bloody nose, while the crowd rose in a standing ovation.

    "They were helping me," Hutchison told the Anchorage Daily News.

    She finished the season with a 45-4 record that included 33 pins, one shy of the state single-season record. Hutchison is the third in her family of 10 children to win a state title, joining brothers Zeb and Eli.

    How exactly are you supposed to wrestle a girl? Yeah yeah, please stop sniggering, I'm serious! Those guys look pretty... errr... friendly out there anyway, and with a girl, wouldn't the boys (or more likely coaches) be terrified of sexual harrassments? I wonder how that was dealt with. Probably a legal document long than her hair.

    This reminds me of the military academies. Now I wonder how long it will be until we get a Dateline Katilsday report detailing how horrible anything with a Y chromosome is to girls who try to wrestle with boys, no matter that some just can't hack it.

    On another note, is it still humiliating to lose an athletic event to a girl, even if she happens to be a state champion?

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    How exactly are you supposed to wrestle a girl? Yeah yeah, please stop sniggering, I'm serious! Those guys look pretty... errr... friendly out there anyway, and with a girl, wouldn't the boys (or more likely coaches) be terrified of sexual harrassments? I wonder how that was dealt with. Probably a legal document long than her hair.
    Got any pictures of this girl? As a former wrestler I must say my hats off to her . I find it hard to believe. I do know I would have a problem wrestling a girl. Well not really.

    The thing is why should girls be allowed in mens sports and not vica versa or does society acknowledge mens superiority?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
    Got any pictures of this girl? As a former wrestler I must say my hats off to her . I find it hard to believe. I do know I would have a problem wrestling a girl. Well not really.

    The thing is why should girls be allowed in mens sports and not vica versa or does society acknowledge mens superiority?
    Careful, you might get all those latent feminists back here on you. Wait... this is a video game site. Nevermind!

    Actually, I was worried when I saw the headline this girl was going to be in the superheavy weight class (you know, the 250lb+) and have a picture similar to Roseanne (eww, Bad mental image! bad! Roseanne in spandex). But she is in the 103lb so she is probably just your standard gangly high school girl athlete.

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    But she is in the 103lb so she is probably just your standard gangly high school girl athlete.
    Or she could be gorgeous. Which could be the secret to her success. I dont see it though as to be a wrestler you have to rid yourself of all excess body weight, I cant see her having much in the breast and buns areas.
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    Actually not too bad and definately not hideous

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    Just a tad too muscular for my tastes. Mind you, I wouldn't mind a woman who could kick my *** but she better look like something like Angelina Jolie, or some other super model
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    Well, their K-bars did give them a bit of an advantage!
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    Props for Seamus.
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    I think I've heard something about US marines winning easily vs proffesional sumo wrestlers some while ago.
    Well....... You pick the winner here



    I love the look on the Marines face like"are you kiddin me" as he appears to gaze at the Sumo wrestler.
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    The sumo gets points for intensity, tho'.

    Props for Gaw too.
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