Kinnick's Jailah McDonald came away victorious at 138 pounds along with her six teammates during Wednesday's historic first Kanto Plain wrestling dual meet between girls teams. (Sandra Jones/Special to Stripes)

Make that four DODEA-Pacific schools to field girls wrestling teams.

Nile C. Kinnick became the fourth Wednesday, bringing seven girls to Tokyo’s St. Mary’s and beating the second-year girls program at Seisen.

All seven Red Devils won their bouts by pin: Annika Farin at 103 pounds, Aniella Garcia Lopez (117), Julia Blackwell (124), Audrey Snyder (131), Jailah McDonald (138), Holly Albright (145) and Gabriella Garcia Santos (160). Seisen’s three wins came by walkover.

“This is a huge step forward in putting girls wrestling on the map throughout the Pacific,” Red Devils coach Stan Hovell said.

The Red Devils join the two DODEA high schools on Okinawa, Kadena and Kubasaki, in fielding girls wrestling teams for the 2024-25 season. The Panthers have won both dual meets thus far this season. Guam High has fielded a team against island opponents for more than a decade, but has never faced other DODEA competition.

DODEA-Pacific gave the OK for what it calls a pilot program, to gauge interest in one of the fastest-growing sports in the States.

The Panthers and Dragons are wrestling a full regular-season schedule on Okinawa. Currently, Seisen and American School In Japan have girls programs, but none of the other Kanto Plain schools have enough girls to field full teams.

Seisen, Kinnick, St. Mary’s and ASIJ are expected at the 10th Rumble on the Rock tournament on Dec. 14 at Kadena. DODEA-Pacific officials say there will be both boys and girls divisions there, as well as the “Beast of the Far East” tournament on Jan. 11 at St. Mary’s.

There is no plan for a girls division at this season’s DODEA-Pacific Far East tournament scheduled for Feb. 3-5 at Zama. Whether there is one in the future will depend on the numbers, DODEA officials said.