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Girls showing they can wrestle, too
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary had just two girls
in its wrestling program this
season.
The Celtics will soon have
many more.
Nine girls wrestled for
Whiteaker Middle School.
Four, Ella Repp, Destiny Ro-
driguez, Elana Torres and Kay-
ly Montero even got into the
varsity lineup.
They joined the team for
different reasons.
Repp’s two brothers com-
peted at McNary. Rodriguez’s
father wrestled and she begged
him to go to practice at Celtic
Mat Club after watching her
cousin wrestle. Hope Soichy’s
uncle and cousins wrestled.
Isabella Moore’s older brothers
also wrestle, one at Whiteaker
and another at McNary.
Reyna Terrazas, who did
kickboxing and jiu-jitsu when
she lived in Las Vegas, was re-
cruited by Repp.
Montero played football at
Whiteaker and wanted to give
another sport a try.
Wolverines head wrestling
coach Kelly Hafer said he saw
Torres throwing a boy down
during bus duty and asked her
to join the team.
And Pacee Wirt said, “I just
got tired of people telling me
I was a girl and I couldn’t play
boy sports.”
All of the girls are glad
they gave the sport a try and
most plan on wrestling in high
school.
“I think this is my sport,”
said Wirt, who has also played
softball, volleyball and bas-
ketball. “I didn’t like them as
much as wrestling.”
“When I won my fi rst
match my dad was so proud of
me,” added Moore.
Three of the girls competed
in the middle school girls state
tournament in Hood River on
Feb. 18. Repp placed second
at 80 pounds, Soichy fi nished
knee injury playing soccer.
“She did a good job for us
and we’re excited to get her
back next year,” Ebbs said.
Freshmen Vio Evangelista
and Nicolette Parra wrestled
for McNary’s junior varsity
this season. Both also compet-
ed in middle school.
“We’re hoping to keep
sending them up, making it
fun,” Hafer said. “I’d love to see
McNary fi eld a girls squad.”
third at 152 and Torres took
fourth at 110.
Rodriguez, who has won
state championships in col-
legiate, freestyle and Greco,
wants to wrestle in the Olym-
pics. Women’s wrestling de-
buted in the summer games in
2004 and then trickled down
to colleges and high schools.
Just in Oregon, Warner
Pacifi c, Southern Oregon,
Pacifi c, Eastern Oregon and
Umpqua Community College
all have women’s programs.
“Women’s wrestling schol-
arships are the No. 1 un-
claimed scholarship in college
athletics,”McNary head wres-
tling coach Jason Ebbs said.
“There really is a tremendous
amount of potential for a girl
that’s willing to commit that
type of energy.”
On the high school level,
Oregon currently has a girls
state tournament exhibition
but there’s a push to follow in
the footsteps of Washington
and move the tournament past
exhibition status and make it
offi cial.
At McNary, both girls and
boys have the same shot at
making the varsity lineup. Last
year, freshman Brooke Bur-
rows wrestled at 106 pounds.
“It’s not boys wrestling. It’s
not girls wrestling. It’s wres-
tling,” Ebbs said. “Brooke
wrestled varsity for us because
she was the best 106 pounder
we had last year.”
Burrows then went on to
win the girls region tourna-
ment and wrestled in the girls
state tournament. She missed
this season after suffering a
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
Top, left: Destiny Rodriguez wrestles in a match earlier this season. Right: Whiteaker eighth grader Ella Repp defeated her Claggett
Creek opponent on Feb. 23. Bottom: Pacee Wirt, front row, from left, Ella Repp, Elana Torres, Isabella Moore, back row, Leilani
Morris, Reyna Terrazas, Destiny Rodriguez, Kayly Montero and Hope Soichy all wrestled for Whiteaker.
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