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# This pin down girl can take on the boys
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/this-pin-down-girl-can-take-on-the-boys/
- Published: 2007-04-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:26:39.000Z
- Author: Melody Hanatani
- Tags: Sports, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*SAMOHI wrestler Jazzy Green isn’t afraid to mix it up*

SAMOHI Wrestling is not just a man’s sport.

Especially not at Santa Monica High School, where senior Jazzy Green has been tackling and pinning down boys for the past four years.

A member of the boy’s varsity wrestling team, Green placed third in the United States Girls’ Wrestling Association’s 10th Annual national championship in Michigan last weekend.

“It’s a very emotional sport,” Green said on Thursday. “It’s hard to stay in the sport, but I love wrestling.”

Next Sunday, Green will fly out to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado to participate in the All-American Wrestling Camp before she competes in the Freestyle Nationals.

The two-time state champion for girl’s wrestling has competed in numerous competitions, including the 2006 ASICS/Vaughan Junior & Cadet National Championship in Fargo, N.D., where she placed eighth.

The tournament is considered to be one of the largest in the world, Green said. But the recent competition in Michigan was by far her biggest achievement.

“It’s a pretty cool thing, especially since the girls who are always placing at the top are the ones who have been doing it their whole lives,” Green said.

The successful wrestling career started when Green was a freshman and was looking to join a sport similar to the Brazilian Jujitsu that she had studied during her middle school years.

Coach Brent Wright remembers when Green joined the wrestling team four years ago and how he was struck by what he calls “her amazing work ethic.”

“That’s honestly the only reason we stuck with her — her willingness to work harder than the boys every day,” Wright said.

It was the first time that Wright had coached a girl on his wrestling team and believes that her entrance into the sport at Samohi opened doors for all girls at the high school.

Four years later, Green is among three girls on the varsity wrestling team.

“She’s definitely recruited and she’s tried to become friends with those girls and pushed them to stay in it,” Wright said.

Neither the coach nor the boys ever resisted having a girl on the team, Wright said. The other team members embraced Green because of her hard-working nature.

But not everyone is as understanding. While some competitors are humble and welcome the challenge of wrestling a girl, some “get huffy and cry,” Green said.

“I had one boy who actually said he wouldn’t wrestle me and I chased him down and wrestled him anyway... and won,” she added.

For a boy, wrestling a girl can be a lose-lose situation, Wright admitted.

On the one hand, if the male wrestler beats a girl, he will get heat from his teammates. On the other hand, getting beat by a girl could do some damage to a teenager’s self-esteem.

“We’re talking about adolescent kids,” he said.“We told her that it should be a compliment. Someone refusing to wrestle you is not because they can beat you.”

Offers to wrestle at the collegiate level have come piling in from Menlo College, Pacific University, Oklahoma City University and Portland State University. At this point, Green is still undecided.

For Green, whether she eventually competes in the Olympics will not determine if her wrestling career was a success.

“I want to do my best and if I do my best in college, that will be a big success in itself,” she said.

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*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 7, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)