I have been an underdog since I was in 6th grade. At times I’ve been described as too girly and been told I have no business in the world of wrestling. I would describe myself as bold and unstoppable. When I started wrestling, I got a lot of backlash from other parents or male opponents. I've had boys completely forfeit to me rather than wrestle a girl. That was how wrestling in middle school went, no one wanted to wrestle the girl. As I grew up, it felt like a constant battle. When I moved the summer before high school, not only was I going to a new school, but I was also on a new team. I still remember walking into practice the first day feeling so isolated. It's very intimidating walking into a room as a meek freshman and realising you are …show more content…
Being a female in a male predominate sport left me feeling underrepresented. I felt like I had no one I could look up to, so I learned to become someone young girls could look up to. I had to fight tooth and nail to be respected in this sport. I understand how it feels to be undercut when it comes to resources to succeed. My first girls only tournament in high school, my dad came with me to coach me. At the time he was not on the coaching staff, but there was not a girls coach on my team to go with me. My dad did not know what I had been learning at practice, but none the less he did his best to help me succeed. The struggles I had at the beginning of my wrestling career have motivated me as I have moved on to college. My goal is to get my Bachelors degree in Business Administration and move on to get my MBA. With this education I want to start a youth wrestling team and be a role model to young girls and give them the access to resources to create success. Looking back on what wrestling has given me, I would take the role of the underdog a million times over. The lessons that those hard times taught me have helped sculpt me into an unstoppable young