The difference between guys and girls According to Wrestling U.S.A. Magazine, the average male is 20 percent stronger than the average female and reacts 25 percent faster. Males also have a cardiovascular capacity advantage of 25-50 percent. Woodlock is determined, however, not to let these factors get in her way. Masood says that females rarely win matches in Montgomery County, although he does recall a Richard Montgomery High School female who won a few JV matches. Masood also recalls instances when a girl won by forfeit when a male did not want to wrestle her.
Girls can compete effectively with males in wrestling, however.
A female from Oakland Mills High School has wrestled so successfully she is now on the High School National Team. A growing trend Recently the number of female high school wrestlers has increased by 1234 percent in the past six years, according to Fritz McGinnes at the National Federation of High Schools. At the collegiate level, women wrestling has become an official varsity sport at five colleges, and countless women have joined collegiate men's programs, according to the Women's Freestyle Wrestling Program at The University of Minnesota-Morris.