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Queens of the mat: LBHS girls’ wrestling the girls have gotten closer, spending more time together,” Rodriguez said. “They’re like a When Long Beach High family.” Before the season started in School inaugurated a girls’ wrestling team last fall, its 30 November, many students athletes joined girls around the approached Rodrigue z and country in what has become expressed interest in joining one of the nation’s fastest-grow- the team. For someone who has coached the Long ing high school Beach Gladiators, a sport. According to yo u t h w r e s t l i n g the National Federclub, as well as the ation of State High middle school socSchool Associacer team, that tions, there are now meant a lot. more than 74,000 “I want kids to female high school try something new wrestlers nation- MIguEl and create memowide. RoDRIguEz ries,” said RodriOn Jan. 13, the Head coach, gue z, who has a Long Beach High LBHS 4-year-old daughter team captured the girls’ wrestling team and a 15-year-old Girls’ Nassau Counstep-daughter. ty Conference B Similar to the boys’ high championship. Head coach Miguel Rodri- school squad, the girls practice guez said that the program has for two hours after school every seen success in its first year day during the week, and have despite the inexperience of its lear ned technique and mat wrestlers. He noted that while strategy as well as mat and some of the girls have compet- body awareness. As a male coach, Rodriguez ed in other sports — mostly soccer and lacrosse — others have said, getting to know his athnot, and only five had wrestling letes has been a challenge. He experience. But that clearly has had to adjust his mindset hasn’t deter red them from from stern to supportive, and building a unique camaraderie. f o c u s m o r e o n p e r s o n a l “As the season has gone by, Continued on page 3
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long Beach endures a snow emergency For the better part of three days, maintenance crews were clearing dangerous roads, plowing nearly a foot of snow in temperatures far below freezing. With schools shut down to start the week, the frigid weather didn’t stop 2½-year-old Riley Rothman from enjoying sledding time with her mom on the boardwalk.
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want kids to try something new.