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Iowa wrestler defaults rather than face girl
Yahoo! via AP ^
| 17 Feb 2011
| LUKE MEREDITH
Posted on 02/17/2011 11:10:10 AM PST by shove_it
DES MOINES, Iowa – An Iowa high school wrestler who was one of the favorites to win his weight class defaulted on his first-round state tournament match rather than face one of the first girls to ever qualify for the event.
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"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan and their accomplishments. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times," wrote Northrup. "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."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: iowa; rassling; wrestling
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posted on
02/17/2011 11:10:11 AM PST
by
shove_it
To: shove_it
I wouldn’t wrassle her either. She must be a brute.
2
posted on
02/17/2011 11:11:44 AM PST
by
bkepley
To: shove_it
I think his stand actually has more impact on just how PC sports have gotten lately. I applaud this young man.
3
posted on
02/17/2011 11:12:08 AM PST
by
LowOiL
("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
To: shove_it
Strength and Honor Brother.
4
posted on
02/17/2011 11:12:43 AM PST
by
mosaicwolf
(Strength and Honor)
To: shove_it
lemme see a pic. i might rassle with her;-)
5
posted on
02/17/2011 11:13:46 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: shove_it
He really was in a “no win” situation.......
6
posted on
02/17/2011 11:13:46 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: shove_it
What kind of mother lets her daughter wrestle guys?
To: bkepley
It’s a no win situation. You beat her and you get grief. You loose and you get even more grief.
To: bkepley
Not really...
The Cedar Falls freshman is pictured with her father, Bill, after a victory during a meet at West Des Moines Valley in January. Read Sean Keeler's column in Saturday's Des Moines Register.
9
posted on
02/17/2011 11:14:04 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: shove_it
I hope this guy runs for political office in the future.
HE is a tower of moral strength and intellect - unlike the levelling idiots in Congress and the White House.
10
posted on
02/17/2011 11:14:08 AM PST
by
ZULU
(No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
To: shove_it
Wrestle her in private, in a pool of butter or jello.
11
posted on
02/17/2011 11:14:16 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(Don't let the name fool ya, toots.)
To: All
To: shove_it
I remember another case where a wrestler got a hold by putting a finger in the anus.....
try that with a girl and get arrested for sex assault...
... that would be a hoot of a lawsuit, wouldn’t it?
13
posted on
02/17/2011 11:14:29 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: shove_it
The boy is wise.
He is in a no-win situation in wrestling a girl.
14
posted on
02/17/2011 11:15:18 AM PST
by
EyeGuy
(Gimme Shelter)
To: camle
Cassey is the one on the left.................
15
posted on
02/17/2011 11:15:37 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: shove_it
She might be as female as some of the East German “female” Olympic athletes were in times past.
16
posted on
02/17/2011 11:15:37 AM PST
by
howlinhound
(Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
To: shove_it
Lose-lose for him: He wins and all he did was beat a girl. He loses and he was beaten by a girl.
Besides, wrestling holds/hand-placement includes touching/grabbing sometimes very near private places. . .sometimes actually private places (inadvertently). Add that and now you have the guy possibly being prosecuted/fouled for “inappropriate” touching.
17
posted on
02/17/2011 11:16:01 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: camle
You might not win...
Cedar Falls' Cassy Herkelman, left, controls Marion's Scott Morehouse on the way to victory in a Class 3A 112lb. wrestle-back match at the district tournament, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, in Waverly, Iowa. The win makes her the first female wrestler to qualify for the state wrestling tournament.
18
posted on
02/17/2011 11:16:42 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: TSgt
Probably just bad timing for a pic,
He is blinking and laughing about something, probably at his own joke...
but it kinda looks like he is checking out his own daughter.
19
posted on
02/17/2011 11:16:42 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
To: shove_it
“Wrestling is hugely popular in Iowa”
HMMMMM. This level of intellect must explain some of their primary election peculiarities.
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posted on
02/17/2011 11:16:56 AM PST
by
ZULU
(No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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