The nation's best girls high school wrestlers are being honored with the announcement of the First Annual TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team.    TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team is selected by a nationwide panel of wrestling experts. It is the only national all-star team for which female high school wrestlers competing on all four grade levels are eligible. Athletes from across the nation were considered for their achievements in high school wrestling, as well as the major post-season freestyle and folkstyle competitions.     TheMat.com is the official web page of the Amateur Wrestling Alliance, and is one of the leading sports web pages on the internet. Asics Tiger is a national sponsor of USA Wrestling and a major supporter of wrestling at all levels. ASICS has sponsored the nationally respected Asics Tiger High School All-American Team for boys wrestlers for 16 years.    "The ASICS Tiger Corporation is proud to be a sponsor of the first All-American wrestling team for girls," said Neil Duncan, Vice President of TW Promotions which represents ASICS. "We see this sport having a huge potential for growth, and look forward to the day when many high schools and colleges across the country offer wrestling programs for the female athlete."    Michigan led the First Team selections with three athletes: Katrina Betts of Milan High, Keristen LaBelle of Lapeer West High and Brandi Rosenbrock of East Detroit High.    Ohio and Pennsylvania each had two First Team selections. Ohio featured Toccara Montgomery of Cleveland East Technical High and Jessi Shirley of Northmor High. Pennsylanians honored on the First Team were Lisa Bisers of Hampton High and Erin Tomeo of Grove City High.    The First Team featured a number of wrestlers who are nationally ranked on the Senior level in freestyle wrestling, competing against the best women wrestlers of all ages. Montgomery was a 2001 U.S. Senior Nationals Champion and earned a spot on the U.S. Senior World Team that will compete at Madison Square Garden in New York City in September. Montgomery beat two past World Champions to qualify for the U.S. team.    Tomeo placed second in the 2001 U.S. Senior Nationals, and has held national rankings on the Senior level for the past two years, while Bisers was third at this year's U.S. Senior Nationals.     Other wrestlers on the First Team who earned All-American status by placing at the U.S. Senior Nationals were Mary Kelly of Mahomet-Seymour High in Illinois, Erica Dye of Wirt County High School in West Virginia, Melina Hutchison, a homeschooled student from Skyview High in Alaska, Cathilee Albert of Fairview High in Colorado and Alicia Mena of Humboldt High in Minnesota.    The First Team featured four wrestlers who won national scholastic-style titles this year, by claiming gold medals at the 2001 USGWA National Championships in Michigan. The USGWA National champions on the First Team were Montgomery, LaBelle, Betts, and Rosenbrock.    Seven First Team members won USA Wrestling age-group national freestyle titles this year:  Montgomery, Tomeo, Hutchison, LaBelle, Rosenbrock, Dye and Brooke Bogren of Santa Fe Trail High in Kansas. Rosenbrock and Dye won two USA Wrestling age-group titles this year, the FILA Cadet Nationals (ages 15-17) and the FILA Junior Nationals (ages 17-20). Also qualifying for the First Team was former Cadet World medalist Jenna Pavlik of Cape Henelopen High in Delaware.    The First Team featured eight seniors, five juniors and one sophomore (Rosenbrock).    Each year, a TheMat.com/Asics Tiger High School Wrestler of the Year will be selected and honored, recognizing the best individual wrestler in the nation. This award winner will be announced at a later date, and the award will be presented at a major national wrestling tournament. Each of the First Team members will also receive their award at an appropriate major wrestling event next season.    The Second Team was also star-studded, led by two-time USGWA National Champion Jennifer Wormwood of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High in Maine. Other Second Team members claiming 2001 USGWA National titles were Alaina Berube of Escanaba High in Michigan, Melyssa Fuqua of Westfield High in Massachusetts, Erica Hartman of Amador Valley High in California, Gina Heinzelman of Heritage High in Michigan, Samantha Lang of Tualatin High in Oregon and Shoni Plagman of Lebanon High in Oregon. Also on the second team was Tanya Miyasaki of Castle High in Hawaii, a Hawaii state high school champion who also placed sixth at the U.S. Senior Nationals in freestyle.    The Third Team featured three USGWA National champions, Laura Felix of Calabasas High in California, Wendy Casey of Binghamton High in New York and Shawn Swarzlender of Burns High in Oregon. The Third Team also included a pair of sisters, Rebekka and Rosaria DeCola of Ann Arbor Community High School in Michigan.    As the National Federation of State High Schools has yet to determine specific weight classes for girls wrestling, the athletes were selected based solely on achievement and ability. The top 14 athletes were named to the First Team, the second 14 athletes were named to the Second Team and the third 14 athletes were selected to the Third Team. Thirty athletes were named as Honorable Mention. An effort was made to make a reasonable spread of weights on each team. If the National Federation sets specific girls weight classes in the future, the selection committee will consider using those weight classes for the selection criteria at that time.    For the TheMat.com/Asics Tiger Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team, athletes were identified in three weight ranges: Light (100-121 pounds); Middle (122-140 pounds); Upper (141 pounds and above).    In total, 72 wrestlers were selected to TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team. California led all states with 13 selections, followed by Michigan with 12. Pennsylvania had seven members, Hawaii had six members, and Ohio had five team members. A total of 23 states were represented on the All-American Team. The team included 33 seniors, 24 juniors, nine sophomores and six freshmen.    Women's wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports among youth sports for women. There are an estimated 5,000 girls competing on the high school level in the United States today, and the number has grown each year for the last dozen years. A number of colleges have begun to add women's wrestling on the varsity and club level across the nation. Women's wrestling is expected to be added to the program of the Olympic Games in the near future.    TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team will be prominently featured on TheMat.com web page, as well as in USA Wrestler, the official publication of USA Wrestling.    2001 THEMAT.COM/ASICS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN WRESTLING TEAM    Name (listed alphabetically), year in school, city, high school, weight class range    FIRST TEAM   Cathilee Albert, senior, Boulder, Colo, Fairview High School, middle  Katrina Betts, senior, Milan, Mich., Milan High School, light  Lisa Bisers, senior, Allison Park, Pa., Hampton High School, middle  Brooke Bogren, junior, Carbondale, Kan., Santa Fe Trail High School, light  Erica Dye, junior, Elizabeth, W.Va., Wirt County High School, light  Melina Hutchison, senior, Soldotna, Alaska, Skyview High School (homeschool), light  Mary Kelly, junior, Mahomet, Ill., Mahomet-Seymour High School, light  Keristen LaBelle, junior, Davison, Mich., Lapeer West High School, light  Alicia Mena, junior, St. Paul, Minn., Humboldt High School, upper  Toccara Montgomery, senior, Cleveland, Ohio, East Technical High School, upper  Jenna Pavlik, senior, Lewes, Del., Cape Henelopen High School, upper  Brandi Rosenbrock, sophomore, Warren, Mich, East Detroit High School, middle  Jessi Shirley, senior, Galion, Ohio, Northmor High School, middle  Erin Tomeo, senior, Volant, Pa., Grove City High School, middle    SECOND TEAM   Sara Fulp Allen, sophomore, El Granada, Calif., Half Moon Bay High School, light  Ali Bernard, freshman, New Ulm, Minn., New Ulm High S