{"id":5626,"date":"2016-09-09T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2016-09-09T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:06:44","slug":"los-fresnos-high-school-to-add-boys-and-girls-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos High School to Add Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5628\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020.jpg\" alt=\"Two high school students wrestling (collegiate, scholastic, or folkstyle) in the United States. Photo: Dreier Carr\/wikimedia\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Wrestling_glenninvite020-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Los Fresnos High School is joining the wrestling alliance. The Falcons will start boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; wrestling for the first time in school history.<\/p>\n<p>Los Fresnos will become of part of District 16-6A, joining 18 other schools from the Rio Grande Valley. Others in the district in the district include four schools from Edinburg, four schools from P-SJ-A, three from La Joya, three from McAllen, two from Weslaco, Mission and San Benito.<\/p>\n<p>Announcements have been made at school, and about 25 students are working out so far in the weight room during first period. &#8220;As soon as football is over, we may have 100 more boys,&#8221; Athletics Director Patrick Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Inskeep will be the head coach for the boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; teams. He will be assisted by Ausencio Garza and Valerie Flores.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling practice is held year-round. The first day for meets and tournaments is Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling is similar to powerlifting in weight classes. There are 14 weight classifications in the boys&#8217; division, starting with the lowest of 106 pounds to the highest of 285 pounds. In the girls&#8217; division, there are 10 weight classifications, starting with the lowest of 95 pounds to a the highest of 215 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling teams may compete in seven tournaments each year. The district wrestling meet must be held by February 11, 2017. The Region IV meet will be held Feb. 17-18 in San Antonio, and the State Tournament will be held in Cypress Feb. 24-25.<\/p>\n<p>In district tournaments, the top four wrestlers in each weight class advance to the regional tournament. At regional, the top four in each class advance to the state meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD Los Fresnos High School is joining the wrestling alliance. The Falcons will start boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; wrestling for the first time in school history. Los Fresnos will become of part of District 16-6A, joining 18 other schools from the Rio Grande Valley. Others in the district in the district include four schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}