Source NYDaily News 
2008
Wingate’s Tony Ann Nelson (l.), Makeda Holder, Giovanna Jones and Nikita Felix are four of about 40 girls wrestling with boys in PSAL this year.
“Approximately 40 girls from 16 PSAL schools are pulling on a singlet and taking their spot on the mats, according to data compiled in December by Mike Spanakos of the Beat the Streets program. With 15 fledgling developmental squads this season bringing the number of PSAL wrestling programs to 45, the number of girls is noticeably increasing.
Some, like Gonzalez, say they were attracted to the sport’s physical component. Baruch’s Joann Lee, a former team manager who grew frustrated as a spectator and discovered she is a terror on the mat, wrote her college essay on her experiences as a grappler.
“I’m proud to be a girl wrestling in a sport with mostly boys,” she said during her team’s meet at Edison on Friday. “You feel like the crowd is kind of whispering about you when you go out to wrestle, but it doesn’t matter; I’m too busy focusing on what I have to do.”