Losing pounds to wrestle at a certain weight isn’t something Newton Girls Wrestling Coach Chad Garvis encourages his wrestlers to do. Garvis knows that’s part of wrestling. But he does not believe it grows the team. 

 “I want kids to get into shape. I want them to work hard in practice. I want them to eat as much as they can. I just want it to be healthy. If they make the weight they do. If they don’t it’s no big deal.”

Garvis says he would rather have twenty-four happy wrestlers at the end of the season instead of eighteen happy ones and six who say they are not coming out next year because they didn’t like losing weight to wrestle.

The Newton Girls Wrestling team opened the season last Tuesday, placing 3rd at a tournament in Sigourney. Their next meet is the Saydel Girls Invitational at Saydel High School December 16th.