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Final X: Rutgers women’s freestyle championship series preview

BY GARY ABBOTT, USA WRESTLING | JUNE 03, 2019, 
Final X: Rutgers will feature five women’s freestyle championship series, two in the 12:00 noon session and three in the 6:00 p.m. session. Seven of the 10 women wrestlers competing in Rutgers on Saturday are past Senior World Team members, including two Senior World medalists. All 10 of the women have competed on at least one U.S. age-group World Team, with a combined nine age-group World medals from this group. There is a rematch from Final X last year, the 50 kg battle between Whitney Conder and Victoria Anthony. Conder won the 2018 Final X series, needing three matches to get past Anthony.  Four of these pairings feature a rematch from the 2019 U.S. Open, which means most of these wrestlers have competed against each other recently. All of them have wrestled against each other during the past year. We provide a preview for each of the women’s freestyle matchups below for Final X: Rutgers.

Session One – 12:00 noon
Bout 2: Women’s FS 72 kg – U.S. Olympic champion Alyvia Fiske (Napa, Calif./Titan Mercury WC) vs. World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion Victoria Francis (Litchfield, Ill./Titan Mercury WC)
This battle features one of the fastest rising young stars in women’s wrestling, Alyvia Fiske, against a veteran talent and past Senior World team member Victoria Francis, who did not compete last year and has been rounding into top form this season. This is a rematch of the U.S. Open finals, won by Fiske, 5-4.  Rest of the matches in the story at

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