Hilarious podium photo after female wrestler beats male rivals
A female wrestler has made history by winning a state high school wrestling championship in North Carolina.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association said on its website that junior Heaven Fitch of Uwharrie Charter became the first female to win one of the association's individual state wrestling championships.
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She won the 106 pound (48 kg) weight class at the 1A division on Saturday.
A photo released on the association's official Twitter account shows her beaming, standing next to three boys who finished behind her in the tournament.
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She had a 54-4 record for the season and won Most Outstanding Wrestler for the 1A division.
“I'm just really overwhelmed ... It's like insane what I've done, it's not fully sunken in yet,” she told WRAL-TV.
Fitch beat Robbinsville's Luke Wilson to win an eight-person bracket that included seven male wrestlers, said James Alverson, assistant commissioner for the high school association.
Overall, she was one of only three female wrestlers in the tournament, he said.
Heaven Fitch became the first female wrestler to win a North Carolina individual wrestling state championship while competing against boys 💪
"I kind of dominated the match if I'm being honest"
(via @myfox8)pic.twitter.com/Yq0WVbrFoJ— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 27, 2020
Last year she became the first female wrestler to place, coming in fourth in her division.
She said that when she started high school, she would have never expected to have this much success.
“I thought as a freshman I wouldn't even have a winning record, and to do this now, I would have never thought of it,” Fitch said.
