{"id":160143,"date":"2026-02-02T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:20:07","slug":"news-12-long-island-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160143\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 160 girls took the mat this weekend to battle for the Nassau County wrestling title.<\/p>\n<p>They competed at Long Beach High School, for a chance to head to Albany for the state championships.<\/p>\n<p>One competitor tells News 12 what it means to break barriers in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone says it\u2019s a male-dominated sport, but honestly females are also coming into the sport, and making the sport alive,\u201d says Brianna Marquez, of Uniondale, one of the event\u2019s 13 champions.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Nassau schools will be represented at the state championships later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 160 girls took the mat this weekend to battle for the Nassau County wrestling title. They&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,44927],"class_list":{"0":"post-160143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-wrestling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}