Sierra Blasone is the only female wrestler on Sparta High School’s male wrestling team.
BY ALEXIS TARRAZI – Straus News
SPARTA — Women and wrestling? Not exactly what comes to mind when thinking of the sport. Yet females across the country are making headlines.
Danielle Coughlin, a teen girl in Massachusetts, became the first female wrestler to win the state championship last week. A mixed martial arts competition with nuances of wrestling — the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) — also brought women to the limelight when it held its first female match on Saturday.
Making headlines in Sparta, Sierra “Sissy” Blasone, a sophomore at Sparta High School, is the only female wrestler on the varsity team.
This is the third and final installment in a series of articles that featured women playing in men’s sports.
Alexis Tarrazi 