An up and coming US high-school wrestler, Joel Northrup of Iowa, has given up any chance of winning the Iowa state tournament after forfeiting his first round match against Cassy Herkelman, a teenage girl.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times... As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa."
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times... As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa."
4 comments:
Somebody without this lad's scruples is going to kick her ass.
My thoughts exactly, McGonagall.
From the photo they look pretty evenly matched, give it a few years and she'll come face to face with some corn-fed country lad who will thoroughly enjoy repeatedly bouncing her off the mat.
Mixed wrestling would have transformed my school days for the better.....
I've been predicting "mixed wrestling" in the Olympics for a while now but only in jest, never did I really think that it would come to pass.
Oh well, bring on the mud wrestling but, bravo Joel Northropp, moral victor.
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