Cal-State Bakersfield, are other schools who had a number of women competitors that only competed against each other or occasionally against Canadian college teams. With so much growth in female participation, the International Olympic Committee announced that women's freestyle wrestling would be added to the Olympic games that were to take place in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece with a total of four different weight classes.[21] In 2004, Missouri Valley College held the first Women's National Wrestling Championships which honored four individual champions.