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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Two high school sports were fully sanctioned by the Indiana High School Athletic Association on Monday.

Boys volleyball and girls wrestling will officially become part of a busy IHSAA calendar beginning in the 2024-2025 school year. Girls wrestling will be added to the winter sports program, while boys volleyball will be a spring sport.

Both sports have been working toward this moment for years.

In 2022, girls wrestling and boys volleyball were accepted into the IHSAA's Emerging Sport Process, where they played games in their respective seasons.

Full recognition includes an IHSAA state tournament for both sports. The IHSAA said in a news release that details surrounding the tournament will be announced “in the coming months.”

Since 1994, the Indiana Boys Volleyball Coaches Association has hosted a state tournament in the sport, while girls wrestling has hosted its own tournament for the past seven years thanks to the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association.

Both sports have experienced tremendous growth over the past two years during each sport's time in the Emerging Sport Process. More than 1,400 wrestlers from 177 different schools have joined girls wrestling at the high school level. More than 100 schools now take part in boys' volleyball.

Boys volleyball and girls wrestling are the first new sports in six years to receive full recognition from the IHSAA. The last sanction was given to Unified Flag Football in 2018. The only other sport to fully join the IHSAA this century was unified track and field in 2013. Both sports are community sports and partners with Special Olympics Indiana.

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