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Shelton senior Diandra Nault attempts to escape from a hold by senior Kayla Ed during wrestling on Monday, Nov. 21.
Lad3+ Climbers hit the mats
By Ell'liLY i!iANSON
In a predominately male sport, five Shelton girls are
showing tile ttighclimbers that wrestling is for girls.
SI-IS seniors Diandra Nault, Kayla Edwards and Sabri-
na Dennis along with juniors Kaitlin Woods and Rachel Fry
are wrestling with the Highclimbers this winter.
"Some people don't think girls can keep up with the
guys," Woods, m her:second year" as a wrestler, said,..
Dennis added that people don't have high expectations
*f the Lady Climbers and Fry explained that it's because
<!:est;]Ji,g is sach a contact sport and so aggressive.
"People said [ couldn't do it and I wanted to prove them
wrong," Woods said. "Then, I fell in love with wrestling."
Fry said she started wrestling because she has a lot of
brothers who have done it and she wanted to try. Denais'
brother also influenced her. Johnathen Dennis, her twin
bother, has been wrestling since the eighth grade.
N ault said she started wrestling as a way to toughen up
[bl rugby. She said people often look at her and ask: "You're
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"They have good, strong work ethic which trickles down
from the senior class,' goadman said.
Head coach Chris Lacy said the SH ; team has been av-
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eight years.
"The girls are doing pretty well so Jhr," Lacy said. "It's
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that they k ave good workout partners."
One par L of being a girl wrestler is having to deal with
boys refusi ag to compete against them. Woods said she has
had a coac] l pull a boy out of a match against her and she's
also had a oy refuse to wrestle her because she's a girl.
"When t aat happens, I just shake it off," she said.
Dennis Ldded that she just goes with the flow.
Roadma n said this shouldn't happen too often.
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Fry sai< part of the challenge for her comes from her
family.
"My wh. le family is against me wrestling and don't want
me to do it but I do my best regardless,'! she said.
ley're just for girls," he said. "The state is really
that to change it fkom a male sport."
ough the girls are in such a strongly masculine
• each say they are not tomboys. Woods and Ed-
even SHS cheerleaders.
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ghth-grade Shelton Kings ;earn for the 2011 season finished sec-
the championship. In the 'ront, from left to right, are: Robert
, Chase Salisbury, Tanner hodes, Jacob Hellenthal and Tim-
Lopez. In the middle, from left to right, are: Jesse Tauscher, Mi-
Blythe, Ronny Dean, Kyle Carlson-Plews, Forest Hunter, Brandon'
and Cody VanBeek. In th,
y, Damon Ponder, head co
Zeth Brock, Tyler Bucholt
Peterson and Nick McKey
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season, the seventh-grade Shel-
gs football players didn't see m mh
time.
season, as eighth graders, he
ok second in the league.
y few of the seventh graders pla red
en only a couple of plays," had
;am Pettis said. "Only the diehard
me back this season."
a team of just 14 boys, Pettis,
dth fellow coaches Zech Brock md
Praiser, led the Kings to a succ ss-
1 season.
had an undefeated season until the
ionship, when the team lost c 10
back, from left to right, are: Michael
ch Sam Pettis, coach Chris Fraiser,
and Aaron Johnson. Not pictured are:
"They gave it their
best, but the other
team had it go+ng
on we+Is"
points to Fife," Pettis said.
He stated the 14 players all played on
offense and defense and they played where
the coaches needed them to go.
"The team was quiet about the loss,"
he stated. "They gave it their best, but
the other team had it going on pretty
well."