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Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award State, Regional Winners Announced

The National Wrestling Hall of Fame on Monday announced the state and regional winners of the Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award (TSHSEA). The award recognizes and celebrates the nation’s most outstanding high school senior female wrestlers for their excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship, and community service. Regional winners are selected from state winners, and the national winner will be chosen from the regional winners. The national winner of the TSHSEA will be announced on Wednesday while the national winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award will be announced on Tuesday. The national winners will be presented with their awards during the 43rd Annual Honors Weekend at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum on May 31-June 1 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. For information on Honors Weekend, visit nwhof.ticketleap.com/ or telephone (405) 377-5243.

First presented in 2014, the TSHSEA is named for Tricia Saunders, a four-time World Champion and women’s wrestling pioneer. Saunders was the first woman to be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2011. “We are excited that the rapid growth of girls wrestling has allowed us to recognize 35 state winners this year, which is up from 32 a year ago and 24 in 2017. This outstanding group is comprised of young women who excel on the wrestling mat, in the classroom and in their community,” said Executive Director Lee Roy Smith. “I want to thank our selection committee for the diligent work that they have done, and we are excited to follow the progress of these young women as they achieve their goals not only in wrestling, but in their lives and careers.” Kansas recently voted to make girls wrestling a sanctioned high school sport, becoming the 16th state in the country to sanction girls wrestling and the ninth to do so in the last six months.  Rest of the story at
https://nwhof.org/blog/tricia-saunders-high-school-excellence-award-state-regional-winners-announced/

May 8, 2019 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized