You go, girl! Good job!
Wow! What a season for her! Took a lot of guts for her to even try - and incredible skill to come out on top!
She does look incredibly happy. Congratulations to her! (and the others on the podium as well- placing at a state competition is always a hell of an achievement)
(*As a sidenote to the “placing” comment and as I haven’t seen a good other place to grumble about it. I, like the rest of america, watched the recent “Cheer” documentary on Netflix. I was very disappointed to learn that there are literally only two schools in their division at the Florida competition. Not to take away from the interesting team stories, but it does take away from the 13 time national champions.) So this is to say that Heaven’s win is all the more awesome.
Bo, what were you googling when you found that?
j
It is on the CNN home page right now. I saw it in my news feed this morning.
I know you were joking, but it seems to be fairly big news.
I ran across the story on imgur, my newsfeed, and now here.
Huge news in the wrestling world. Three of my nephews were wrestlers in school, one still coaches. They’ve each messaged me today about this.
Woo-hoo! SO cool! And she’s only a freshman? Wow!
I notice the other kids–all boys–on the platform don’t look too happy, whereas the finishers in the other weight-class photos do mostly look happy.
heh wonder if wwe will be watching her in the next few years …
I think she’s a junior.
I was expecting her to be something like a foot taller than the boys at that weight class, but she isn’t that tall.
Quick - someone call the NCAA and have them allow schools to give out women’s wrestling scholarships! (Yes, I checked, and no, they can’t. Somebody can give her a men’s wrestling scholarship, but I don’t see that happening.)
Yeah, joking - but I had no idea it was such big news (hasn’t reached Europe yet, so far as I can tell). But yes, well done her.
j
I don’t get it. What’s the joke?
Congratulations to Ms. Fitch, of course, but you are probably correct that a wrestling scholarship is not likely. AFAICT there are only seven schools in her division.
Still, good for her - there were three other female wrestlers in the same tournament, but I don’t think any of them placed.
Regards,
Shodan
Curious what the boys had to say. Were they happy for her?
They were happy for their sport. I know nothing about wrestling; I used to ask my nephews if it hurt when they got hit with folding chairs. My ~28 year old nephew coaches at the Highschool level and he was really pumped up.
Hey Bo, you’re joking me right back, yeah? 
Just checking in to report that the story has made it across the Atlantic - this was posted 3 hrs ago. There’s even a snippet of video.
j
Great! I’m happy to hear that she has support from her fellow athletes and coaches!
Looks like her parents took the “boy named Sue” route to producing a fighter.
Too bad she’s up next against Inglebert Snoodflap.
All my friends assume that I often google “Teenage Girls That Could Body Slam Me”.
But I am not admitting that that’s how I saw the story…
Regards, **
digs**
(who *'rassled *all the way through High School and College and finally won ONE match … got painfully pinned every other time, so I respect this girl!)
A friend of mine wrestled in school and provincially (has the cauliflower ear to prove it) and he told me that height isn’t an advantage in wrestling. Short and compact body structures apparently work better in wrestling. Easier to get leverage against tall skinnier opponents.
I once was calling at the wrestling at the Canada Summer Games (en français) and watched many matches. It did seem that the shorter wrestlers found it easier to flip taller wrestlers.