The nation's best girls high school wrestlers are being honored with the announcement of the Second Annual TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team.    Five athletes made the First Team of TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team for the second straight year. They were Brooke Bogren of Santa Fe Trail High in Kansas, Erica Dye of Wirt County High in West Virginia, Mary Kelly of Mahomet-Seymour High in Illinois, Alicia Mena of Humbolt High in Minnesota and Brandy Rosenbrock of East Detroit High in Michigan.    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 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 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. These are our future Olympians in women's wrestling."    Members of the First Team, as well as TheMat.com/ASICS Wrestler of the Year, will be honored prior to the finals of the ASICS/Vaughan Junior National Championships July 27 at Fargo, N.D. This will be the first time that a women's division will be held at the ASICS/Vaughan Junior Nationals.    Michigan led the First Team selections with four athletes: Rosenbrock, plus Alaina Berube of Escanaba High, Laura DiCesare of Monroe High and Gina Heinzelmann of Heritage High.    Three states had two First Team selections. California featured Sara Fulp Allen of Half Moon Bay High and Malinda Ripley of Deer Valley High. Minnesota boasted Ali Bernard of New Ulm High and Alicia Mena of Humboldt High. Oregon athletes on the First Team were Samantha Lang of Tualatin High and Shawn Swartzlender of Burns High.    Many of the First Team members are nationally ranked on the Senior level in freestyle wrestling, competing against the best women wrestlers of all ages.    Rosenbrock placed second in the Senior World Team Trials at 130 pounds, and was also fourth at the U.S. Women's National Championships. Kelly placed third in the Senior World Team Trials at 105.5 pounds. Both are now considered members of USA Wrestling's Women's Team USA.    Other wrestlers on the First Team who earned All-American status by placing at the U.S. Senior Nationals this year were Bogren, Fulp-Allen and Ripley.    The First Team featured 11 wrestlers who won national scholastic-style titles this year, by claiming gold medals at the 2002 USGWA National Championships in Michigan. The USGWA National champions on the First Team were Bernard, Berube, Bogren, DiCesare, Fulp Allen, Heinzelmann, Lang, Ripley, Rosenbrock, Swartzlender and Wendy Casey of Binghamton High in New York,     Three First Team members won USA Wrestling age-group national freestyle titles this year. Bogren was a FILA Junior National champion and Lang was a FILA Cadet National champion. Fulp Allen was a champion at both the FILA Cadet and FILA Junior Nationals.    The First Team featured seven seniors, four juniors and three sophomores. In total, eight states were represented on the First Team. All 14 First Team members were recognized at some level on the first TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Team last season.    The Second Team was also star-studded, led by USGWA National Champions Shani Alvarado and Stephany Lee, both of Moanalua High in Hawaii. Four of the Second Team members won USA Wrestling FILA Cadet National titles this year: Heather Martin of Keystone High in Ohio, Amberle Montgomery of Tahoma High in Washington, Deanna Rix of Marshfield High in Maine and Na'Tasha Umemoto of David Douglas High in Oregon.    The Third Team featured one USGWA National champion, Melissa Fukushima of Punahou School in Hawaii, plus five USGWA runners-up. California had four athletes on the Third Team while Michigan and Hawaii featured three Third Team members.    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 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 17 selections, followed by Michigan with nine selections, Hawaii with eight selections and Minnesota with seven selections. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio had four selections each.    A total of 20 states were represented on the All-American Team. The team included 35 seniors, 19 juniors, nine sophomores and nine freshmen.    Women's wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports among youth sports for women. Women's wrestling has been added to the program of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Ga. 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.    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.    2002 TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Wrestling Team     First Team (alphabetically)  Name/year in school, hometown, high school, weight range  Ali Bernard, sophomore, New Ulm, Minn., New Ulm High School, upper*  Alaina Berube, senior, Escanaba, Mich., Escanaba High School, middle*  Brooke Bogren, senior, Carbondale, Kan., Santa Fe Trail High School, light*  Wendy Casey, junior, Binghamton, N.Y., Binghamton High School, middle*  Laura DiCesare, junior, Monroe, Mich., Monroe High School, upper*  Erica Dye, senior, Elizabeth, W.Va., Wirt County High School, light*  Sara Fulp Allen, junior, El Granada, Calif., Half Moon Bay High School, light*  Gina Heinzelmann, senior, Saginaw, Mich., Heritage High School, light*  Mary Kelly, senior, Mahomet, Ill., Mahomet-Seymour High School, light*  Samantha Lang, sophomore, Tualatin, Ore., Tualatin High School, upper*  Alicia Mena, senior, St. Paul, Minn., Humboldt High School, upper*  Malinda Ripley, senior, Antioch, Calif., Deer Valley High School, light*  Brandy Rosenbrock, junior, Warren, Mich, East Detroit High School, middle*  Shawn Swartzlender, sophomore, Burns, Ore., Burns High School, middle*    Second Team   Shani Alvarado, senior, Mililani, Hawaii, Moanalua High School, middle  Jen Chu, junior, Philadelphia, Pa., Germantown Friends School, light*  Keristen LaBelle, senior, Davison, Mich., Lapeer West High School, light*  Stephany Lee, senior, Honolulu, Hawaii, Moanalua High School, upper  Shiela Lerit, senior, Vallejo, Calif., Vallejo High School, light*  Heather Martin,