ROCK HILL, S.C. — Rock Hill High School beat Greenwood 46 to 36 in South Carolina’s first-ever girl’s wrestling championship.
Until now, South Carolina did not have enough girls’ wrestling teams to create a championship. But according to Rock Hill’s girls’ wrestling coach Cain Beard, there’s a reason the girls are hitting the mat.
“Right now women’s wrestling is the fastest-growing high school sport in America,” he said.
Coach Beard said the team has doubled in size since its first season in 2020.
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Some of the teammates said they enjoy the sport because it allows them to be hands-on and aggressive. Seventeen-year-old Sirentiy Davis said the sport has given her tenacity.
“Not everyone wants girls to wrestle or think we can wrestle and we have to work together to build up our sport,” she said.
Davis won a match at the Saturday competition. She beat her opponent before she stepped on the mat, she said.
“I was looking at her...wound up listening to my music and I was like I’m going to destroy you,” Davis said.
Davis said wrestling has taught her to endure.
“I learned whatever is hard in life you gotta go get through it,” she said.
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