The 12-year-old female wrestler at Lancaster High School is now officially cleared to wrestle on the JV boys team.

Trista Blasz, a seventh grade student, has been wrestling since she was 8 and even won a state championship earlier this year.

In August, her mother, Danielle Blasz, began working with coaches at Lancaster High School who wanted Trista to compete at the varsity level.

However, Dr. Michael Terranova, an independent contractor with the district for nearly 40 years, denied her multiple times from joining the boys’ team.

Trista's mom, Danielle, said Terranova rejected her based on outdated medical charts and allegedly wrote "girls don't play boys sports" on a form from the district.

Staff at Terranova’s office said he is unavailable to comment on the situation.

At a special meeting this past weekend, the school board voted to terminate his contract and appoint Forestream Pediatrics to serve as the district's new physician.

The Lancaster Central School Superintendent, in a statement Tuesday morning, said “We're glad that the review committee reached a positive outcome and that this student athlete will be practicing with the team today."

On Tuesday, Trista had her first JV practice. She said it was exciting and cool to now be on the team. She has the following message for other girls.

“Just keep fighting and prove that you can and show them that wrestling is just not for boys, it’s for girls too,” she said.

Danielle Blasz said she’s proud of her daughter and the fact that she never gave up.

“Now that I look at it, it’s helped female wrestlers, it has opened new doors to females just in case they were scared to do what Trista did and Trista proved them wrong that they can go out and do anything that they want to do,” Blasz said.

Trista said she hopes to wrestle for a long time.