Girls Wrestling
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Diversity
‘Toughness Doesn’t Have a Gender’: Jefferson Going All-In on Girls Wrestling
Ava Catledge, Paola Swancey, Peyton Hawkins, Anna Ramirez and Kyndal Brown go through drills as coach Nick White calls them out. (Photo/Lily Grace Kilgore) The sound of sneakers squeaking on mats echoes through Jefferson High School’s wrestling room as a dozen girls warm up for practice. Sweat drips, laughter…
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High School Sports
First-Time Girl Wrestler from Jackson County Places Third in State Championship
When one of Bre Lumley’s teachers told her she should join Jackson County High School’s new all-girls wrestling team, she was skeptical. “If you had asked me this time last year if I was going to be wrestling, I would have said you were crazy,” Lumley said. Yet, she decided…