Sports in Society: College Wrestling

Sports in Society: College Wrestling

College or collegiate wrestling, also called folkstyle wrestling, is practiced in the United States at the post-secondary level. The sport is also practiced in elementary, high, and middle school. It is noted that the style and rules of college wrestling differ from the Greco-Roman wrestling and Olympic styles of freestyle. The college wrestling programs are found in all states of the USA, plus universities such as Simon Fraser in Canada. College wrestling differs based on scoring and practicing styles. For instance, the wrestler is not given the exposure points for forcing the shoulders of the opponent to rotate quickly and get exposed to the mat. The college wrestler must control one shoulder of the opponent on the mat and force the other shoulder to the mat at an angle of 45 degrees for three seconds. This situation generates the points called the near fall points. I chose this sport because it is entertaining and enjoyable, especially when watching live.

I have attended college wrestling since joining high school with my parents, which never bothers me. College wrestling is among the sports I find comfort with, and it is part of me since it gives me room to dance with stars. I also like this sport because wrestlers are our friends, icons, legends, villains, peers and heroes. I enjoy watching these people because they do extraordinary things we only dream about and accomplish feats we have never achieved, even though we aspire. Some people like Vince McMahon argued before the New Jersey Athletic Commission in 1989 that wrestling is not a sport because the matches sport have predetermined outcomes. The aim was to ensure his business was exempted from licensing fees for sports. But in a real sense, wrestling is a combat and martial art sport involving opponents grappling and striving to gain an advantage through different techniques based on a given set of rules.