AHSAA approves changes to Alabama state wrestling schedules

Central Board votes to extend the state and sectional championships to accommodate girls championships

Gary Adornato | Oct 11, 2024

The AHSAA state wrestling tournament will be extended by a half day in 2025 and the Super Regional North and South Wrestling championships will be extended one day each. / Mickey Welsh / Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK

The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) Central Broad announced on Wednesday that it has approved additional expenses to extend the length of the AHSAA section and state wrestling tournaments to accommodate girls wrestling.

The change is effective for the 2025 state tournament, as well as the Super Regional North and South Wrestling championships. The state tournament will be extended by a half day and the two regional events will be extended by one day each.

“I thank the Central Board for their actions,” said AHSAA Executive Director Heath Harmon," in a statement published on the AHSAA web site. “I especially thank them for helping us provide ample time for our girls’ and boys’ wrestling tournaments at each site. This will be the first year our girls have competed in their own division in the AHSAA state wrestling program.”

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Published Oct 11, 2024

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.