{"id":180764,"date":"2026-03-31T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180764\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:37:16","slug":"how-a-nyc-all-girls-wrestling-club-is-changing-lives-and-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180764\/","title":{"rendered":"How a NYC All-Girls Wrestling Club Is Changing Lives and Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Ariana Byrd steps onto the mat for a wrestling match, there\u2019s always an initial feeling of fear. A few steps away, her coaches<\/a> and teammates are on their feet, shouting in encouragement\u2014just as the opposing squad is for the rival to take her down. She makes eye contact with her competition and, for a brief moment, wonders if they\u2019re better than she is. Then the high school sophomore remembers the countless hours spent in training that helped unearth strength she didn\u2019t know she had.<\/p>\n

A year ago, a friend convinced Byrd, 15, to try out for the co-ed wrestling team at her high school in Harlem. She\u2019d tried a few other sports, like tennis and lacrosse, but didn\u2019t stick with any of them. As a freshman, she was extremely shy and often afraid to try new things. Plus, as an only daughter with two older brothers, she faced resistance from her parents, whose protective instincts kicked in when she brought up wrestling, Byrd says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think I had what it took,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

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A big turning point for Ariana Byrd\u2019s confidence came in her first-ever wrestling match last year, when she pinned her opponent and won. \u201cThat was one of the happiest moments of my life so far,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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When an upperclassman recommended the Lucha Wrestling Club<\/a>, the first all-girls freestyle wrestling program in New York City, Byrd was intrigued. There she found an unexpected community of female wrestlers, led by coach Enas Ahmed, a two-time Olympian. Over several months, Byrd worked tirelessly at the club\u2019s gym in the Bronx with her Lucha teammates\u2014honing techniques taught by one of the best female wrestlers in the world.<\/p>\n

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Enas Ahmed also started her wrestling career in high school before representing Egypt at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games. \u201cI learned a lot, and I want to use my own experience for the next generations,\u201d Ahmed says. \u201cWhen I saw how Lucha is helping other girls and giving them more opportunities to be better, I wanted to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than let fear take over when she steps onto the mat, Byrd turns to positive self-talk. She reminds herself to win every position she\u2019s in and take every shot by the time three minutes are up.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Enas has helped me be so confident in my moves that I feel like nobody can beat me,\u201d says Byrd, who is already the captain of her high school team as a sophomore.<\/p>\n

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Much of Ahmed\u2019s training focuses on helping the girls of Lucha build a connection between their mind and muscles, so they\u2019re ready to execute techniques with speed and conviction.<\/p>\n

Though the Lucha Wrestling Club has only been around for just over a year, its organizers\u2019 mission of helping girls find inner strength through the sport has been an ongoing endeavor for over a decade. Founded in the Bronx, the poorest county in New York, where students often pass through metal detectors when entering school, Lucha aims to provide a pathway to college for young female wrestlers, who now have more scholarship opportunities than ever before.<\/p>\n

Emerging from the shadow of what was once a male-dominated sport, women\u2019s freestyle wrestling is on the rise. Girls\u2019 wrestling is one of the fastest-growing high school sports<\/a> in the U.S., with 74,000 participants last year, up 15 percent from the year prior, and almost 1,000 schools adding a girls\u2019 wrestling program. In January 2025, the NCAA added women\u2019s wrestling as its 91st championship sport<\/a>. The first-ever NCAA championship for women took place in Coralville, Iowa, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Wrestling is arguably the ultimate test of resilience\u2014a skill that translates far beyond the mat for the girls of Lucha.<\/p>\n

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In her second season, Byrd is aiming to qualify for the U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\"graphicFrom a Recruiting Video to an Award-Winning Film<\/p>\n

The origins of Lucha, which means \u201cstruggle\u201d in Spanish, can be traced back to a coach determined to bring wrestling to high school students in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

A former walk-on wrestler at the University of North Carolina, Josh Lee worked in insurance sales after graduating, but he soon realized he wanted to pursue a career with more purpose, he says. In 2010, Lee moved from the Raleigh, North Carolina, area to New York City, where he started teaching special education at the William H. Taft High School Educational Campus in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach Enas has helped me be so confident in my moves that I feel like nobody can beat me.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of his first students wrestled in middle school and urged him to start a wrestling team at Taft. Lee approached administrators about the idea, but they immediately turned him down, citing a lack of funding. Undeterred, he called the office every week for a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they were looking out for me, to be honest. They were right about a lot. There is no support, there\u2019s no money, there\u2019s no funding for sports, especially,\u201d Lee says. \u201cBut you tell a wrestler you can\u2019t do something and you set them on a path, like, \u2018I\u2019m going to kill myself trying to get this done to prove you wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Girls come from all over the Manhattan area, some traveling up to 90 minutes by train, to meet for Lucha practice in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

Eventually, his persistence paid off, but administrators approached him with an unexpected change of plans. Instead of adding one wrestling team, they would create two, for boys and girls. He would coach both programs alongside his colleague Robert Carrillo starting in 2013\u2014the same year New York City launched one of the first all-girls high school wrestling leagues<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just happenstance that I was coaching girls\u2019 wrestling, but it was a bit of a case study,\u201d Lee says, adding that Taft was the only school in the city where the girls\u2019 team started at the same time as the boys\u2019 team. Until then, girls who wanted to wrestle at a school with a preexisting team had to join a program that was created for boys. \u201cAs a new team, they told us we were considered developmental, and we had two years to prove that we could recruit or they would not let us keep the program permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n

The coaches came up with the idea to create a 15-minute recruiting video in an effort to get students interested in joining the squad (and their parents on board). They started with footage shot by students in the school\u2019s film class.<\/p>\n

Lee imagined the video would feature both the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 teams, but several poignant moments with the girls\u2019 team shifted their focus to create a film that transcends sport.<\/p>\n

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In New York, high school girls wrestle freestyle, which means points are earned from takedowns and big throws, among other scoring elements.<\/p>\n

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Early on, the coaches discovered that some girls needed to leave practice early in order to care for their siblings at home, or to make it back to the shelter before curfew. After the team won a tournament, one of the athletes learned that her mother was going to be deported, and her teammates consoled her in the gym.<\/p>\n

During the summer of 2013, Lee was also working for Taskrabbit. While on a job moving art supplies into a basement filled with camera equipment, he mentioned the project to the client, Marco Ricci, a documentary filmmaker. Ricci was immediately intrigued. After attending one practice at Taft, Ricci told Lee he wanted to create a full-length documentary featuring the inspiring stories of the girls in the program.<\/p>\n

From 2014 to 2016, the film crew followed high school teammates Shirley Paulino, Nyasia Jennings, Alba Ciprian, Mariam Silllah, and Shakye Ford to create Lucha: A Wrestling Tale<\/a>. As the documentary shows, the athletes became connected as trailblazers in the sport while also navigating challenges off the mat that are all too common in the Bronx. For example, Paulino, the captain of the squad, faced periods of homelessness while trying to use wrestling as an opportunity to get into college.<\/p>\n

This spring, almost 10 years after filming concluded, Paulino will graduate from Lehman College in the Bronx with a bachelor\u2019s degree in physics and math. She hopes to work in medical physics and give back to the sport as a coach someday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing [wrestling] didn\u2019t do is provide a roof over my head, and that\u2019s because it couldn\u2019t,\u201d Paulino says. \u201cBut it gave me purpose, it gave me direction, it gave me family. It taught me how to love again. It was more than just a sport for me.\u2026 It gave me a place to thrive and be myself.\u201d When she graduated from high school, opportunities for girls to earn college wrestling scholarships were scarce. Paulino remembers hearing about only one or two schools that had a women\u2019s team at the time. Today, there are 112 NCAA programs<\/a> that offer women\u2019s wrestling.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Wrestling] was more than just a sport for me.\u2026 It gave me a place to thrive and be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the film was finally released in 2023, it won a number of awards, including the Grand Jury Metropolis Prize at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the country. After multiple screenings, Lee and the team were approached by people in the audience who were moved by the girls\u2019 stories and wanted to donate to the program, Lee says. Through fundraising, Lee was able to create the Lucha Wrestling Club<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that provides expert-level training, academic support, nutrition education, and leadership skills to wrestlers throughout the New York City area.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe goal is to make the program a consistent pipeline out of poverty into college for girls,\u201d Lee says, adding that the team\u2019s emphasis is on supporting athletes in the Bronx and northern Manhattan, where students don\u2019t have as many resources. \u201cHelping someone get a college degree, maybe the first college degree in their family, pays dividends not just for the kid, but also for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January 2025, the day after the NCAA approved women\u2019s wrestling as a new championship sport, Lucha held its first official practice.<\/p>\n

\"graphic\u2018If You Can Wrestle, You Can Do Anything\u2019<\/p>\n

Lee met Ahmed, who was coaching at another club and doing freelance training, at a wrestling clinic and encouraged her to watch the documentary. Right away, the coach became interested in the club\u2019s concept\u2014especially because there are so few opportunities for girls to train in freestyle, the type of wrestling done by women in the NCAA and the Olympics. (In the U.S, men mostly wrestle in folkstyle.) New York was one of the first states where high school girls started competing in freestyle<\/a>, a change made during the 2024 season. While the objective of both freestyle and folkstyle is the same\u2014control and pin your opponent\u2014freestyle rewards execution and big moves, while folkstyle rewards control and involves fewer throws. To get more experience on the mat, some of the Lucha girls wrestle boys in folkstyle during the off-season.<\/p>\n

To have an elite female wrestler coach an all-girls team is also a rarity. It\u2019s more common for girls to train in a co-ed program led by a male coach, if their high school offers a wrestling team at all. Ahmed has a deep appreciation for female representation in the sport.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome girls believe wrestling is not for them. They are afraid to try,\u201d Ahmed says. \u201cWhen I show them that a supportive environment is here for them at Lucha, they feel safe to fail and try again\u2014and that\u2019s when the real growth happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, Ahmed didn\u2019t realize girls could wrestle until she started looking for ways to earn scholarships for college. Hyperfocused on academics, she didn\u2019t participate in sports as a kid. Her dad was a wrestling coach and suggested she try it.<\/p>\n

At 16 years old, Ahmed began with the basics, learning among a team of female wrestlers who helped her realize that \u201cnothing is impossible,\u201d she says. She won her first match ever, which ignited a love for the sport that spans decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWrestling made me discover myself and made me feel like I\u2019m stronger than I expected,\u201d Ahmed says. She represented Egypt at the Olympic Games in 2016 and 2021. She placed fifth overall in Rio de Janeiro. She\u2019s also a six-time medalist at the African Wrestling Championships, winning gold in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n

As the head coach of Lucha, Ahmed aims to create an environment where the girls aren\u2019t afraid to make mistakes or try something new. One way she removes the element of fear is by having the athletes practice particular moves on teammates across every weight class, so they are prepared to take on any competitor they come across.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe women have a lot of power, more than what they expect,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I\u2019m working in that, they believe it too, and that\u2019s what makes Lucha different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWrestling made me discover myself and made me feel like I\u2019m stronger than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knowing that all her athletes are coming from their own unique situation, Ahmed tries to meet each girl where she\u2019s at. Whether it\u2019s building confidence to help an athlete reach the point where she\u2019s ready to wrestle or navigating disappointment from a recent loss, Ahmed faces the challenges head-on with them, knowing how far they can apply those skills.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can wrestle, you can do anything else in your life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\"graphicA Different Kind of Confidence Builder<\/p>\n

On a frigid Saturday morning in early February, the girls made their way to the gym at A.P. Randolph High School in Harlem, one of the facilities Lucha uses for training. In 12-degree weather, some athletes traveled up to 90 minutes by train to practice with Ahmed. It\u2019s always worth the effort.<\/p>\n

After the warmup, Ahmed went straight into a demonstration of double leg to tilt roll-through, an advanced sequence of moves that enables the wrestler to effectively end the match. While the girls watched Ahmed\u2019s example on the mat, Lee noted he didn\u2019t learn these moves until his third year of wrestling.<\/p>\n

As they progress, the athletes of Lucha are redefining resilience and defying expectations in what is still an emerging sport for women.<\/p>\n

Angelina Ramirez, 14, was introduced to wrestling through a friend who hosted an informal clinic in her living room. There, an older female classmate, who was on the school\u2019s wrestling team, taught them the basics. A then-12-year-old Angelina was already practicing tae kwon do and karate (she\u2019s a black belt in tae kwon do and a brown belt in karate), but she\u2019d always thought of wrestling as a sport that wasn\u2019t open to girls. The impromptu lesson fascinated her.<\/p>\n

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Angelina Ramirez loves how wrestling brought out her inner strength. \u201cI felt very strong, and it helped me grow mentally,\u201d she says. \u201cI just like to feel like a strong woman, an independent girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing a girl wrestle was pretty cool,\u201d Angelina says. \u201cWatching her throw us and teaching us how to go through the moves was really cool to watch, and it got me interested, because it was like, \u2018Wow, I can actually do something challenging and something that helps me through life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, her mom, Raquel Ramirez, was taken aback when Angelina told her she wanted to try out for the wrestling team at her middle school. They were driving home when Angelina shared the idea from the back seat of the car. A former college softball player, Raquel always imagined her daughter taking up a similar sport\u2014maybe something more traditional for girls, like volleyball. Wrestling was never a consideration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI immediately just gripped the steering wheel and took a deep breath. I was fearful. Like, she\u2019s going to get hurt, she\u2019s so tiny. That\u2019s a scary feeling,\u201d Raquel says. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t want to hold her back. I told her, \u2018Go try out, and if it\u2019s something you like, then we can talk about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for Angelina to make her mark on the co-ed squad, which included three girls on a team of mostly boys. Early on, the school\u2019s coach told Raquel her daughter had talent. Unbeknownst to her mom, Angelina was also sneaking into practices with the high school program after school\u2014often wrestling in jeans.<\/p>\n

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When she was in eighth grade, Angelina beat a boy for the first time in a match\u2014the first of many victories against male competitors. \u201cA lot of girls don\u2019t think they can beat a boy, they feel lesser than them, but I can match them,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Though early on she was still nervous watching her daughter wrestle, Raquel could see that Angelina\u2019s love for the sport was undeniable, and she wanted to support her. When Angelina\u2019s middle-school coach recommended she join Lucha last year, Raquel was in disbelief that an all-girls club existed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different facilitation at Lucha that allows girls to be comfortable but still with focus, and the coaching is very technical, very firm, structured,\u201d Raquel says. \u201c[Ahmed] doesn\u2019t waste a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Whin Eimicke\u2019s father encouraged her to try wrestling because he believed the skills would translate well to her other sport, jujitsu. \u201cI found Lucha and started wrestling with them more, and I really fell in love with the sport,\u201d she says. \u201cI love the feeling of stepping on the mat and giving it your all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For Whin Eimicke, 15, training with the Lucha team was instrumental in helping her return to competition after a devastating injury.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the high school sophomore was competing in a jujitsu match against a male rival when her collarbone shattered\u2014a \u201cterrifying\u201d moment that nearly punctured the arteries next to her heart and lungs, she says. Eimicke took six months to recover physically. Mentally, it took much longer, and she still battles with some apprehension when wrestling boys, she says. But Ahmed helped her come back even stronger.<\/p>\n

After months of repeating skills on the mat and with overwhelming support from her Lucha teammates, Eimicke finally reached a point where she was winning again. More importantly, she was back to believing in herself.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose skills that Coach Enas and Coach Lee gave me, they really helped show me that I can do it,\u201d Eimicke says.<\/p>\n

In November, Eimicke wrestled a boy in competition for the first time since the injury, and she didn\u2019t hold back. Using constant pressure and attacking maneuvers, she ultimately beat him with shot recovery\u2014a technique for turning a failed takedown attempt into a neutral, defensive, or offensive position rather than giving up points. At the buzzer, Eimicke\u2019s opponent slapped the mat in frustration over the loss, while she beamed with pride as the referee lifted her arm as the winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo beat him and see him smack the mat like that, it was just like, \u2018I can do this,\u2019 and it felt really, really good. I burst into tears after,\u201d Eimicke says. \u201cI was so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her dad, Pierce Eimicke, pointed out the importance of these hard-earned experiences. \u201cIn all respects, it\u2019s a fight, and they\u2019re going at it,\u201d he says. \u201cOther obstacles they\u2019ll face in life after doing all of this will seem easier to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This season, Eimicke hopes to become a city champion and win a state title. After that, her goal is to wrestle in college.<\/p>\n

\"graphicPaving the Way for Girls in Wrestling<\/p>\n

For high school senior Areti Kokonas, 17, the best part of training with Lucha is having a female mentor. After training with boys for most of her early years in the sport, she was surprised to discover moves and abilities that give women an edge on the mat.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Ahmed] understands that because of the different physiology, boys and girls wrestle differently, and we have different strengths we can play into,\u201d Kokonas says. Ahmed shows them that women are more flexible and can wriggle out of maneuvers most men cannot. At practice, they train for flexibility\u2014stretching and strengthening their necks and backs\u2014so they are able to break free from an opponent\u2019s grasp.<\/p>\n

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After spending her first three years as one of the few girls on a wrestling team of mostly boys, Areti Kokonas was thrilled to join a community of women in the sport for the first time. \u201cThere\u2019s something about being in a wrestling room with all girls that makes me want to train better, train harder,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe shows us the full potential of our bodies, that we can do things unique to us to improve our game,\u201d Kokonas says. \u201cI feel like she sees more in me than I see in myself sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the club\u2019s first season, Lucha produced 14 state qualifiers, five state medalists, and three national qualifiers, including Monique Teal\u2014the program\u2019s first college scholarship recipient.<\/p>\n

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Monique Teal initially joined her high school\u2019s wrestling program as the team manager, until her coach encouraged her to try it herself. After a few weeks of training, Teal won her first match. From there, she was hooked.<\/p>\n

Last year, the high school senior finished third at the New York state meet and qualified to compete at the U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota. It was a proud moment for the Bronx native, who is the youngest of seven kids and the first to take up wrestling\u2014a decision that shocked her family, until they saw her compete, she says.<\/p>\n

In the fall, Teal, 17, will join the women\u2019s wrestling team at Alfred State College, which is in its third season. For now, she\u2019s focused on returning to Fargo and improving on her 0-2 finish at last year\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat made me work harder my senior year. Even in the summer, when I came back from nationals, I was back on the mat working on things I could have done better,\u201d she says. \u201cIt really opened my eyes to bigger things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For the past decade, Taylor has reported on sports, health, and wellness for leading fitness publications including Runner\u2019s World, SELF, Bicycling, and Outside. She\u2019s also a podcast host and film producer focused on amplifying the stories of women and other underrepresented communities in endurance sports. When she\u2019s not writing, you can usually find her running\u2014or eating breakfast tacos with her family in Austin, Texas.

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