Author: BTSPhilly

At 5:00 am early Saturday morning, 14 Beat the Streets girl wrestlers traveled 3 hours to Thomaston, Connecticut to compete in the Green Knights All Girls Tournament.  The Green Knights Tournament featured a girls division for wrestlers 8^th grade and younger for the very first time. Led by BTS Girls Program Director, Jen Chu, all fourteen girls went home with hardware led by 2 tournament champions, 5 runner up finishes and 2 bronze medalists. Chu was assisted by Unique Jones, a second year wrestler and senior at Mastery Charter School, who will be competing in the Public School Championships this weekend.  Once again BTS Philly impressed the competition with their aggressive style of wrestling and sportsmanship garnering compliments from competitors, spectators and coaches. Girls came from  4 BTS sponsored youth programs including Wissahickon Charter, Mantua Youth, Marianna Bracetti Academy and Belmont Charter School. BTS Philly girls on the high school level will wrestle next weekend in the City Championships on Saturday Feb 15^th at George Washington High School. Youth wrestlers will compete in the Annual BTS Philly Youth Wrestling Day which will host a girls only division for the first time ever on Sunday February 16^th also at George Washington High School.

Twenty-two girls from Beat the Streets Girls Wrestling traveled to Union NJ to compete in the New Jersey Women’s State Wrestling Championships. On Sunday Jan. 26, wrestlers from across the tri-state area battled in three different divisions for elementary, middle school and high school age wrestlers. While the tournament determined a state champion for New Jersey wrestlers only, outside competitors from Pennsylvania and New York were also invited to participate. Girls from 6 different BTS sponsored school sponsored programs took part in the travel event. All participants wrestled with pride and good sportsmanship, garnering positive comments from officials , parents and coaches of other teams praising the girls’ wrestling skills and camaraderie. The all-girls travel team will hit the road again on Saturday Feb. 8^th traveling to Connecticut for the Green Knights All Girls Tournament.