Rousey won all three of her matches by ippon, throwing Natalie Laursen (Livermore, Calif. / Northern California Elite Team) in the first round and pinning Jennifer Tutass (El Cerrito, Calif. / Cunningham’s Judo) in the semifinal.
In the final, Rousey armbarred Katie Sell (Oshkosh, Wis. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center) to win the match. Sell later defeated Tutass and will be the 70kg alternate.
source: USJUDO.org
Bonus Link: Ronda pinning opponent (youtube) video
nytimes link Tani Ader of Honolulu will attend Jamestown College in North Dakota because it has a women’s wrestling program.
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The growth of such an unconventional women’s sport at these small, private institutions has little to do with the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX and everything to do with their bottom line. Officials at tuition-hungry colleges say women’s wrestling is an untapped market of prospective students, one that has curiously been all but ignored by bigger universities.
The inclusion of women’s wrestling in the Olympics beginning in 2004 provided a huge boost to the sport’s popularity and credibility. Five thousand girls nationwide wrestled in high school in the 2006-7 academic year, yet only eight colleges offer it as a varsity sport. Three of those eight programs are starting this fall.
Wingate’s Tony Ann Nelson (l.), Makeda Holder, Giovanna Jones and Nikita Felix are four of about 40 girls wrestling with boys in PSAL this year.
“Approximately 40 girls from 16 PSAL schools are pulling on a singlet and taking their spot on the mats, according to data compiled in December by Mike Spanakos of the Beat the Streets program. With 15 fledgling developmental squads this season bringing the number of PSAL wrestling programs to 45, the number of girls is noticeably increasing.
Some, like Gonzalez, say they were attracted to the sport’s physical component. Baruch’s Joann Lee, a former team manager who grew frustrated as a spectator and discovered she is a terror on the mat, wrote her college essay on her experiences as a grappler.
“Stephanie Finochio (born December 1, 1971) is an Italian American stuntwoman and professional wrestler/valet better known by her ring name Trinity. She is best known for her work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. Finochio has done stunt work for such movies as Daredevil (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Swimfan (2002), and School of Rock (2003). (She is also slated for the new Indiana Jones.) source: wikipedia
The most famous female wrestler in the world, WWE Superstar Trish Stratus (Patricia Anne Stratigias) has reently opened a Yoga studio just north of Toronto, Canada. Here is the Thestar.com take on this accouncement: “Seven-time former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Trish Stratus is no longer prowling the ring in search of opponents to pin to the canvas. These days, she’s just north of Toronto, in Vaughan Mills, pinning clients to a yoga mat. “Yoga is like a power nap for the mind,” says Stratus, sitting down to talk meditation, money and mid-life career changes. This is, after all, the eve of the unveiling of her aptly named Stratusphere - a 5,200-square-foot complex devoted to the practice of the eastern art - which opens on April 26. It is the big-box suburban alternative to the downtown yoga cubbyhole.
No, I am not putting up a wrestling clip. Here is Trish on MTV Cribs.
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Star is a pioneer among female surfers. She is one of the first ladies to charge the best-known big-wave spots on the planet. She was one of the first women to surf big waves at Waimea, off of Oahu, a feat she accomplished the week her mother, Merry, died nearly eight years ago. She won the first Billabong XXL performance of the year award for women in 2005 and 2006, and she has been a nominee in the category every year since. And in 2007, Natural Geographic Adventurer magazine named her one of its adventurers of the year.
Growing up, Star, who was born in 1977 but says she has no age, wasn’t the type to pay heed when someone told her she couldn’t do something, be it in water or on land. While attending Santa Cruz High, for example, she became the first female wrestler to compete in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League.
Rousey won all three of her matches by ippon, throwing Natalie Laursen (Livermore, Calif. / Northern California Elite Team) in the first round and pinning Jennifer Tutass (El Cerrito, Calif. / Cunningham’s Judo) in the semifinal. 
Tani Ader of Honolulu will attend Jamestown College in North Dakota because it has a women’s wrestling program.
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Star is a pioneer among female surfers. She is one of the first ladies to charge the best-known big-wave spots on the planet. She was one of the first women to surf big waves at Waimea, off of Oahu, a feat she accomplished the week her mother, Merry, died nearly eight years ago. She won the first Billabong XXL performance of the year award for women in 2005 and 2006, and she has been a nominee in the category every year since. And in 2007, Natural Geographic Adventurer magazine named her one of its adventurers of the year.
