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On Wednesday, the CHSAA Board of Directors for girls wrestling, boys volleyball and unified bowling — a solid move by the association toward sanctioning three sports that have demonstrated a verifiable participant base.
Girls wrestling, as explained in the Post Preps enterprise story from last season’s state tournament, has continued to grow at the local and national level over the past decade.
Six states currently sanction the sport, and while Colorado held an unofficial girls state tournament each of the past two years, now the state gets a crack at a CHSAA-backed state tournament for the 2018-19 year.
Meanwhile, boys volleyball — which has been shot down for sanctioning on multiple occasions — will have its inaugural pilot season this upcoming spring, where the who participate in the can now compete in CHSAA. The sport is already sanctioned in 23 states.
The pilot season of Unified bowling is also a great move, and hopefully the first step in getting even more Unified sports sanctioned.
Unified soccer, Unified basketball, Unified track and more are all worthy of inclusion under the CHSAA umbrella, as students with and without intellectual disabilities to compete and learn a lot about life, friendship and mutual respect.
The reason these three sports were so easily green-lighted for pilot seasons is because of during January’s Legislative Council meeting that overhauled the process for adding burgeoning non-sanctioned sports.
