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OCU Athletics Hall of Fame Induction happens Feb. 1
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University alumni Arya Bahreini, Meghan (McMahon) Black and Emily (Webster) Tew will enter the Athletics Hall of Fame at 10 a.m. Feb. 1 at the Great Hall inside the Tom & Brenda McDaniel University Center. Get tickets to the 2019-20 induction ceremony by clicking here or call Michele Gebhardt at (405) 208-5309. Tickets cost $25 and include breakfast.
“The Hall of Fame is the highest honor that we have for OCU Athletics,” Oklahoma City athletic director Jim Abbott said. “Arya, Meghan and Emily are deserving honorees that represent the best of our tradition of excellence in athletics.” … Tew went undefeated with four national championships from 2011-15. Tew captured four 101-pound Women’s College Wrestling Association national championships while going 118-0.
Tew, originally from Sedalia, Mo., took the 2015 WCWA Championships outstanding wrestler award after becoming the third four-time WCWA champion. She racked up 12 tournament titles during her OCU career. Tew rolled to a 31-0 mark with five falls as a senior. Tew led the Stars to the 2012 WCWA team championship and 2012 NWCA National Duals title.
She became the second OCU student-athlete ever recognized in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd. Tew, who graduated with a 3.95 grade-point average majoring in environmental studies, took the 2014-15 Jim Wade Award as the Stars’ female student-athlete of the year. She became the 2014-15 National Wrestling Hall of Fame Missouri Chapter’s person of the year.
Rest of the story at https://www.ocusports.com/news/2019/12/23/champions-club-ocu-athletics-hall-of-fame-induction-happens-feb-1.aspx?mc_cid=d9ee9c628d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Venice’s Lauren Stone a wrestling pioneer
ndian senior is a three-time girls state champion and two-time state qualifier on the boys side. As her wrestling match drew closer, Lauren Stone could be seen pacing and jumping adjacent to the mat.
Part of it nerves, part of it preparation. “She is a goer,” Venice High wrestling coach Pat Ryan said. “She’s starting to get in the zone right then and right there.” Stone tucked her braided hair under a black skull cap and put on her protective headgear. She was now ready to wrestle Tyler Washburn of Naples Palmetto Ridge for third place in the 106-pound weight class at the Captain Archer Memorial Classic earlier this month at Charlotte High. But the match did not end the way Stone wanted it to.
She was pinned with 15 seconds remaining in the second period and afterwards was applying ice to a sore left shoulder. “That’s how significant that (shoulder) injury was,” Ryan said. “She’s not one to say this is why I lost. That’s not her. That’s how injured she was. So if it hurts her that much, where she’s in tears, it’s legit. That’s not an excuse.”
Last year, Stone tore the meniscus in her knee, prior to the start of the season. She wrestled in the Indians’ first match before having surgery that cost her the rest of the regular season. But not only did she come back to win the Florida Girls State Championship — not a sport sanctioned yet by the Florida High School Athletic Association — she also qualified for the FHSAA boys state tournament by finishing second in the district and fourth in the region.
It was her third straight state championship in the girls division.
“That’s huge,” Ryan said. “They haven’t been cakewalks. There have been coaches who go to tournaments to scout her to watch her wrestle, so they could get their girls ready for what she does. She has overcome that. We’re focused on what she does and her competing at the varsity level and getting better every day.” Rest of the story at https://www.heraldtribune.com/sports/20191225/venicersquos-lauren-stone-wrestling-pioneer?mc_cid=6368d2c7ab&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

National No. 1 Soto, Elor are high school champs at loaded Women’s West Coast TOC; Southern Oregon wins college title
BY GARY ABBOTT, USA WRESTLING | DEC. 23rd
ROCKLIN, Calif. – The 5th annual Cliff Keen Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions lived up to its reputation for having a first-class, highly-competitive high school division, as well as another strong college division. The event was held this past weekend. In the high school draw, there were 13 girls who hold current rankings in the most recent National Girls High School rankings who medalled, including some weight classes with multiple ranked athletes in the tournament. Some of the unranked athletes who competed here will be considered for national rankings because of their achievements. There were a pair of Women’s West Coast TOA champions who are currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, Jennifer Soto of Orland at 127 and Amit Elor of College Park at 151. In the 127-pound finals, Soto, who is top-ranked nationally at 117 pounds, defeated Alisha Narvaez of James Logan, ranked No. 19 at 117, in a 17-2 technical fall. Elor, the national No. 1 at 152 pounds, pinned Jodie Hartlein of Etiwanda in the finals in 35 seconds.
There was a No. 2 nationally ranked athlete who was also a Women’s West Coast TOA champion, Lilian Freitas of Pitman at 144. Freitas defeated Emmily Patneaud of Gilroy in the finals, 4-0. Patneaud is not currently in the national rankings after missing considerable time from the mat due to injury, but has been ranked among the nation’s top five in the past. Other individual Women’s West Coast TOA champions who hold a national ranking are No. 14 Paige Morales of Central (102), No. 11 Desinee Lopez of Folsom (122), No. 8 Ariana Pereira of Newark Memorial (171) and No. 5 Isela Mendez of Northview (236). In the semifinals, Morales defeated nationally ranked No. 12 Lizette Rodriguez of James Logan by pin in 3:03. In the finals, Morales beat Kiely Tabaldo of Menlo-Atherton with a 36 second pin. Rest of the story at
https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/December/23/WomensWestCoastTOC?mc_cid=6368d2c7ab&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

January 5, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized