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The National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS) does an annual survey of high school athletic participation. It has shown some recent years of steady wrestling growth in schools and participants:
Year 89-90 Schools 8,416 Participants 233,856 Year 94-95 Schools 8,559 Participants 216,453 Year 99-00 Schools 9,046 Participants 239,105 Year 04-05 Schools 9,562 Participants 243,009 Year 05-06 Schools 9,744 Participants 251,534 That is good news but it appears though that there was a peak hit about thirty years ago in participants:
Year 75-76 Schools 9,772 Participants 355,160 Year 77-78 Schools 9,653 Participants 338,328 Year 78-79 Schools 8,683 Participants 281,704 Year 79-80 Schools 8,751 Participants 273,326 Year 80-81 Schools 8,512 Participants 245,029 Year 81-82 Schools 8,869 Participants 256,107
Does anyone know if these numbers from thirty years ago that can be found on the NFHS website are really accurate? It seems like a pretty significant drop over five years from the 75-76 season to the 80-81 season. If they are accurate does anyone know the reason for that significant of a five year drop in both schools and participants?
Also if we really did have 355,160 participants in the 75-76 season why are the numbers for the 05-06 season at 251,534 so much lower than they were 30 years ago (103,626 or over 41% more participants in 75-76 than the 05-06 season)?
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Maybe I'm crazy but where would the "Baby Boomer kids" fit into this picture?
I bet a lot of them got the heck out of Kansas when no jobs were available.
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... I would say perhaps you need to look at Title IX
Are you making a POSITIVE difference in the life of kids?
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Randy:
Did high schools actually drop wrestling teams in the mid to late seventies due to Title IX or are you suggesting that high school participation started to drop as college's dropped programs and kids did not see enough college opportunities in wrestling?
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Maybe I'm crazy but where would the "Baby Boomer kids" fit into this picture?
I bet a lot of them got the heck out of Kansas when no jobs were available. Aaron: You may be correct about the Baby Boom effect. I have seen that it went from 1946 to 1964 but I have also read that it peeked around 1960 so those kids would have been about 15 to 16 in the 1975-1976 season and it would make sense that a decline in numbers could have occurred after that year since the birth rate started declining after 1960.
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I did notice that the number of schools with programs was about the same in the 75-76 season at 9,744 as the 05-06 season with 9,772. The average per team in 1975-1976 was a little over 36 wrestlers per school but it has dropped to just under 26 per school in the 2005-2006 season.
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Part of the problem was that all who were there can't remember what was going on in 75-76. So when they took the survey of student and asked... did you wrestle in high school? most said "I don't know!"
I’m not very smart… but I can lift heavy things!
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