(Corning, Iowa)  – Officials with the Southwest Valley School District’s Athletics Department posted on social media Monday night, that Southwest Valley will now be providing their our own district high school girls wrestling program. Athletic Director Allen Naugle said “This past year working with SWAT (CAM, Nodaway Valley, Griswold and Atlantic) went very well. Our girls were able to practice and compete with girls from a few different school districts. However we felt that moving forward it is in our district’s best interest to provide our girls an opportunity to compete for Southwest Valley.

“Due to future transportation difficulties and the increased popularity of girls wrestling,” Naugle said “We felt that it was best to make the change now. We want to be able to provide the girls here at Southwest Valley (Corning and Villisca) their own program and the ability to compete for their school.

“We greatly appreciate all of the support this past year from the girls who competed, their parents and the community as we competed as SWAT. We appreciate the cooperation and success we had working with 4 other school districts. The coaches did a great job working with the girls and they were able to see some success. We wish the SWAT program continued success in the future.”

Naugle added, “We are extremely excited to be able to grow our girls wrestling program and provide our girls with an opportunity to practice and compete in their own district. We will be posting and start looking for a girls wrestling coach in the very near future. We will start to work on scheduling as well. We hope that any girl who will be in high school next year that does not play basketball will consider coming out! Experience is not necessary and everyone is welcome!