Tomorrow night the Girl’s wrestling team is hosting their senior night. In prior years the girls have not had much for senior night, last year no seniors where on the wrestling team, making it unnecessary to host one, and years before it’s been scattered, sometimes not even having enough girls on the team to host a home meet. With 26 wrestlers this year- six of them being seniors- Glacier Peak has one of the largest amounts of wrestlers in 4A Wesco, so the team is excited to have a group to honor tomorrow night.
Ava Thomas
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“Officially, this is my second full season.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being Senior this year?
“Just seeing all the freshmen and the underclassmen look up to me as a senior, as an upperclassmen, was pretty cool.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“There’s just so many. I guess the van rides, there’s always some really out of pocket things said in the van rides to tournaments early in the morning. Those are pretty entertaining.”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana.”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“It’s not the same as boys wrestling. It’s drastically different.”
Elly Shreve
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“Six or seven years, no I’m kidding, four.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being Captain this year?
“I Love being a leader and someone my teammates can look up to and I love bossing ’em around.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“Freshmen year we went to the Othello girls wrestling tournament and obviously it was winter so it was snowy, and on our way home from the tournament, we were all in our singlets and had to make a pit stop. At the pit stop we went in the snow in our singlets and had a snow ball fight. That is single handedly the best memory, we also shoved our faces with Othello burritos.”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“‘Party Rock Anthem’ by LMFAO or ‘That’s the Way I like it.'”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“That it is ten times harder than the average sport, especially as a women because people think that female wrestlers are just modified males. We can’t do the same things men do, like weight wise, we can’t lose weight like they do, we are not male athletes. We are not modified male athletes, we are female wrestlers. We can’t do the same things men do, in a scientific way. It is a lot harder than people make it out to be, people make fun of us and call our sport weird, but they’ve never been to a single wrestling practice, so they don’t know the reality of it and they don’t know how excruciating it can get.”
Lilah George
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“I started wrestling when I was five, sorry that’s not true, I started wrestling my sophomore year and so it’s been three years.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being a Senior this year?
“As much as I love the senior year festivities and all my senior teammates and being with them for another year, my favorite part has been seeing my own improvement. Last year I went 0-2 at almost every single tournament, and this year I’ve only gone 0-2 once, so seeing that physical proof that I’m getting better is really good.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“There was this thing we did last year with Coach that he said we were going to make a tradition. So after districts, which we did pretty well at, the next morning, it was super snowy, but instead of having a normal mat room practice, Coach was kind of letting us have a cool down as we just played Ultimate Frisbee. He loves Ultimate Frisbee because he’s a freak. It was really fun, even though it was freezing cold. Everyone was laughing so much, and we were actually all really getting into it. Then afterwards, we went to my teammate, Sammy Wilner’s, house and we had breakfast there, and it was super fun. Everyone was dancing around and laughing, and obviously eating because we didn’t have to make weight for two more weeks.”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“I listen to worship music before my matches, I think a specific song would be ‘I Thank God’ by Maverick City.”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“Many people don’t take it seriously and say it isn’t ‘real wrestling’ and they don’t realize it’s the fastest growing high school sport in America. Older generations aren’t understanding how quickly it’s picking up and how strong all the girls in it are and that we can do just as much as the boys can even if our style is different.”
Jacqueline Berks
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“Three years.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being a Senior this year?
“Getting to see my improvement. Obviously my first year in the sport, I sucked so bad. Your first year, you’re still trying to figure things out and you don’t really know what you’re doing, even if you think you do. But then as you get betters through the years you can look back and be like, oh, actually, I just really sucked. ‘Cause you learn more each year and then you’re like, wait, I literally was so dumb. I could have been doing this the whole time.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“Funny memory is when Coach thought me and Audrey Miller where dating. He was like ‘so Audrey and Jacqueline are really close, right? Are they just friends?,’ Obviously I denied that relationship, she’s ugly.”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“Lana Del Rey, Brooklyn Baby.”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“It’s not that stinky, people are pretty sanitary. ‘Cause when you think about wrestling, you think of people touching each other, and when you think of people touching each other, you think of stinky, sweaty, gross. But it’s not that stinky, I mean it’s a sport, but they’re girls, so it’s a clean stinky. People smell like perfume, when I wrestle matches and someones wearing a perfume, I reach a flow state.”
Lucy Choyke
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“This is my second year of wrestling.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being Senior this year?
“Probably, having all the freshmen and stuff be super lost and confused, and being like, no go this way and do this thing. Just being a guide for them.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“I love when we play games in the room and we goof off with coach and stuff, when coach acts like a kid. (When we get lucky).”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“‘S&M’ by Rihanna.”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“So many people do it. It’s so much more of a big deal than people think it is.”
Audrey Miller
Q: How long have you been Wrestling?
“I’ve been wrestling since my sophomore year, so for three years.”
Q: What has been your favorite part of being a Senior this year?
“I love the pressure of not having another season, everything I want to achieve from this sport has to be this year, right here and now. So it really puts into perspective how privileged I am to being able to work hard. I also love conversing with the team and feeling confident in the friendships I have with everyone.”
Q: What is your favorite funny moment or good memory with the team?
“One of the funniest moments with the team was at State with everyone. From staying up too late and being a little too loud in the hotel rooms, to running around Winco searching for snacks, to jumping on each other at Dicks, and crashing in the vans home. It was a fun experience that I was so lucky to share with everyone on the team.”
Q: What is your favorite pre-match song?
“Anything in the Rocky soundtrack, it’s classic pump up music.”
Q: What’s something most people don’t realize about girls wrestling?
“A lot of people assume it’s ‘gross’ or ‘unsanitary,’ but it’s really not that deep. It’s not like you’re being a creep and touching other girls, it’s a legit sport that so many people take so seriously and it’s just a bit immature to spread bad things about the reputation of it all, especially if you’ve never been to a practice or even a match.”