Girls’ wrestling now the fastest growing sport in the country, and it starts young

EXPORT, Pennsylvania — When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to play football. However, his parents had some strong feelings about that sport.

“My parents wouldn’t let me play football, and I was just looking for a sport that I could be really physical in and get some of that energy out that I think all fourth-grade boys have,” Fallon said.

Wrestling was a sport in which he competed during middle school, high school, and college. It was a passion for the sport he never really lost because, as he says, it shaped his character and his adult life.

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