Minot State to add Women’s Wrestling program
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Updated: May. 6, 2021 at 7:17 PM CDT
MINOT, N.D. - Minot State University announced Thursday it’s adding a women’s wrestling program.
The inaugural season will kick off in the 2022-23 academic year, according to a news release from the university.
Minot State will be the first of the 11 campuses in the state’s university system to have such a program, according to the release.
This comes as North Dakota will be the 30th state to have sanctioned high school girls wrestling.
The university is launching a nationwide search for the program’s first head coach.
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