Girls Wrestling Results Presanction years

[REVDL]

Does anyone know know the exact year that Girls wrestling started having it's own separate state tournament and what any of the results were because I was under the impression they started having a girl's state invitational in the 2010-11 season, but the TSSAA only has results listed going back to 2013.

[CoachBray]

I believe that they started having the girls invitational back in 2009-2010, but it was just that, an invitational.  Results on TSSAA only go back to 2013 because that was when it became a sanctioned sport in our state.  I remember 2009-2010 because that was when Emily Gessler (Tullahoma) wrestled in it without giving up a point the entire season.  It wasn't sanctioned, so she decided to wrestle boys instead.  She lost in the match to go to boys state 4-2.

[CoachKramer]

I came down in the 2008-09 season and we took a girl to the state tournament who wrestled girls there.  im sure it wasn't sanctioned but it was the first time they had girls wrestling girls only at the State Tournament