For those of you who coach HS girls. . .

[ChuckElias]

I did a set of 3 HS girls games last week, and I noticed that a very few of them had very well defined arm muscles. It made me wonder if they had been lifting weights, which a lot of boys do.

I'm just asking out of curiosity if girls coaches encourage/require their HS varsity players to lift weights. And if you do not encourage it, is it b/c you feel it's detrimental to their overall health or just b/c you don't feel strength training (I think that's the current terminology) is as important in girls basketball?

I'm asking strictly out of ignorance here. I take weight-lifting as a given for boys ball, so thought I'd ask if it's as prevalent in girls ball and why or why not.

BTW, the one thing that I like better about girls ball than boys ball is that there's more smiling in girls ball. It seems more like fun than boys ball.