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I didn’t truly get into wrestling until my freshman year, in 2014. I first began my wrestling career in the 7th grade, where I participated on my middle school team. The whole 6 week long seasons where you learn a half and double. I did not plan on wrestling in high school at all until I found out my freshman biology teacher was the program’s head coach where he (Mike Klapp) told me I was going to join. Half thinking I actually had a choice and half believing I had to go, I decided why not; which ended up being one of the best decisions of my life. My highs school coach has done so much for me and the growth of women’s wrestling. Reed high school continues to be the only school in Northern Nevada that constantly sends a girls team to California to find other girls to compete with instead of the boys. |
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My freshman season was the first real season this happened. Me, along with two other girls , Linsday and Mariah, would travel a couple weekends to California where I got a little beat up. My freshman season was definitely the hardest for me, not only physically but mentally too; from getting beat up by both other guys in town and girls when we traveled. Nearing the end of this season there was a big changing point for me. My coach entered me into a girls novice division at one of the last tournaments of the season where I took first after literally pacing for 2 hours prior to the finals match. This moment kind of made me realize the point where I was at in my young career and the potential I had. |
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| The summer going into my junior year was the first time I ever went to Fargo, 2017. I ended up taking 8th place in the cadet division and losing in the blood round in juniors. I was so ecstatic with the whole experience and my accomplishment, which seemed huge at the time. My junior year I sat down with my coach and listed out all the major tournaments we wanted to go to during the off season, body bar being at the top of the list since it was thought as the second best thing compared to Fargo. I entered the bracket as the 10th seed and ended up winning the whole thing. During my finals matches (best of three) I was teched in the first 45 seconds of the match and came back to win the second with a 4-0 decision. For the third and final match, I got a fall in the second period while being up 4-0. Looking back on this tournament in 2018, I realized that leading up to the finals, I had been losing at some point in every single match except the quarterfinals. |
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Winning the best of three finals patch punched my ticket to the cadet world championships held in Zagreb Croatia. Making the Cadet world team gave me tremendous new opportunities and experiences, allowing me to travel cross country to participate in developmental camps and even being given the opportunity to compete with team USA in Sweden and Japan during my senior year of high school. I competed at Fargo for a second time, right after my graduation from high school, where I went on to take second.
During my high school career I earned 6 all americans and made an all-tournament dual team. I also won the tricia saunders award for the state of Nevada, graduating with a cumulative 4.3 GPA. I also participated in the first ever “Who’s number one” all girls dual held in Wisconsin in 2018. I went on to continue my academic and wrestling career at Presbyterian College. |
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My freshman year of college I saw massive improvements and achieved goals I never really knew I could do. I went a total 29-5 wrestling 143 and bumping up to 155 to help fill the line up of my team. 19 of my wins came by fall and 6 were by tech fall, leaving 4 of them to decision. I also won the WCWA and took 5th at the inaugural women’s NCAA national championships. By winning the WCWA’s I qualified for the 2020 olympic team trials, which are currently postponed due to COVID-19. |
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