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Gray piercing the gender gap
Freshman says qualifying for state would be "amazing"
By Dennis Pleuss write the authorFebruary 09, 2006
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Adeline Gray has more than the motivating factor of making history in being the first girl to qualify for Colorado's high school state wrestling tournament.
Bear Creek freshman Adeline Gray looks for advice from the Bears' bench during the 130-pound bout against Pomona's Matt Faurot at Bear Creek High School. Gray won the match 2-0.
The Bear Creek freshman wants to get her belly button pierced and her father told her that would only happen before she turned 18 if she qualifies for the state tournament.
"Qualifying for state would be amazing," Gray said after she scored a 2-0 victory over Pomona's Matt Faurot in the Class 5A Jeffco League championship dual Thursday at Bear Creek High School. "After wrestling for eight years, I was expecting to do something this year."
What Gray already has accomplished this season is not only impressive for a girl, but a freshman, wrestling at 130 pounds. The freshman has a 12-13 record heading into the regional tournament at Legacy High School this weekend. Gray became a technically sound wrestler honing her skills at the midget wrestling level for seven years before she started wrestling in high school.
"She's a hero isn't she?" Bear Creek coach Steve Burdick said. "A lot of folks see her as a girl, but I see her as a skilled wrestler."
Gray said her victory over Faurot was the biggest so far during her short high school career. Pomona coach Pat DeCamillis made a last-minute move dropping Faurot into the 130-pound match and moving Trevor Schuch up to 135 pounds.
DeCamillis said that move was to make sure that Faurot didn't get pinned in his match. The flipping of wrestlers by the Panthers was an extra motivating factor for Gray.
"I was like, 'They don't think I'm good'. Maybe they thought I was a joke," Gray said. "I proved them wrong I guess."
Gray nearly made a fatal late-second mistake against Faurot. She was holding on to a 2-0 lead, but Faurot was able to pull off an apparent two-point reversal as regulation time expired. However, after the official conferred with the scoring table it was determined that time ran out before Faurot got the reversal.
"I made the mistake of looking at the clock," Gray said.
Time is something that Gray does have on her side with three full seasons ahead of her. Burdick believes that she will be a staple in the Bears' varsity line-up for years to come.
"She is a real solid athletic girl," Burdick said. "I bet you won't see her move in weight much. She is a real muscular kid."
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Prep Report: Gray's 'consolation' is another U.S. wrestling title
Scott Stocker & Gerry ValerioApril 13, 2006
Adeline Gray won her fourth national girls wrestling championship April 2. |
Adeline Gray of Bear Creek came close to qualifying for the state wrestling tournament this season. Had the 5-foot-7, 130-pound freshman made it to the final weekend of the season, she would have been in the field with the first girl to reach the tournament, Golden's Brooke Sauer.
Gray, 15, compiled a 16-16 varsity record at Bear Creek, including a 2-2 mark at regionals. But Gray, who pinned seven of her opponents at Bear Creek and notched a third-place finish at the Golden Invitational, made up for it April 2 in Lake Orion, Mich. That's when she won her fourth national title at the U.S. Girls Wrestling Association championships.
"I was really proud of Brooke," said Gray, who won her first national title when she was 6 years old (100-pound weight class) and two others in middle school, at 115 and 118 pounds. "I just wish I could have been down (at the Pepsi Center) with her. I came close, though, so, maybe next season."
Gray, one of three sisters who wrestle in her family, said she did not expect to win the title at the nationals this year.
"But I went in with confidence," said Gray, who has a 41-3 record in girls wrestling. "It was just a real thrill to win the high school title, and I know that past experience helped there. I would like to win four (high school titles) now, but I've still got a long way to go."
Gray, who was pinned only twice this season at Bear Creek, had a tough bracket to navigate at nationals. In the quarterfinals, she was pitted against the No. 1 seed in the weight class and the runner-up last season, Paige Storm, of Spencer, Iowa. Gray surprised herself with a 16-1 technical-fall victory.
Gray then pinned Aubrae Putnam from Anchorage, Alaska, who never had lost in a girls match before the nationals, in the third period of their semifinal. She then defeated Christine Cunningham, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., 4-2 in overtime, for the title.
Junior Rachel Pike, of Strasburg, also competed in the national tournament and finished 10th.
Gray also is a member of the varsity cross country team at Bear Creek and is playing soccer this spring for the Bears.
"Wrestling and cross country are sports in which the athletes have to deal with pain," said her father, George, a Denver policeman. "She knows athletic pain and how to deal with it. No doubt, I'm extremely proud of her and her accomplishments."
And, as a national champion, so is the Colorado wrestling community.
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By Bob Castello
STAFF WRITER Published: July 3, 2007
bcastell@greenvillenews.com
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Brittany Delgado took a big step up this summer.
Delgado, a rising senior at Hillcrest High School, has been selected to TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Team for the second consecutive year. She made the first team after earning second-team honors in 2006.
Delgado is one of 14 wrestlers on the first team. She is one of nine on the first team who won national scholastic-style titles this year by claiming gold medals at the 2007 USGWA National Championships in Livonia, Mich., in April. Delgado placed first in the over-165-pound weight division.
This week, Delgado is at the Olympic Educational Center in Marquette, Mich., training for the Canada Cup international competition, scheduled to begin Thursday in Guelph, Ontario.
Delgado, who began wrestling at the age of 4 and attended her first national event when she was 9, was selected an All-American for the fourth time. She attained All-America status at nationals in Oklahoma in 2003 and in Wisconsin in 2004. Both of those competitions were against boys.
Delgado is ranked No. 1 in the nation at under 250 pounds, according to the United States Girls Wrestling Association rankings.
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Seriously, Rams wrestler is that good
Posted by Bob Castello on July 3, 2007 08:49 AM | Permalink
When you talk to Hillcrest wrestling coach Tommy Bell about Brittany Delgado, he always mentions that she's very serious about the sport.
That would be just in case anyone happens to think she's just in it as a novelty act, or just in it to meet boys.
Delgado, a rising senior at Hillcrest, wrestled mostly against boys for a long time, but that was because it was her only option. Now she's wrestling mostly against girls, and she has proven she's one of the best in the nation.
She was just named a first-team All-American by TheMat.com.
Girls wrestling is on the rise, and Delgado is right there with it. Both have even better days ahead.
Seriously.
Posted by Bob Castello on July 3, 2007 08:49 AM | Permalink
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Oh, Canada! Delgado wins title
Northern exposure leads to victory for Hillcrest senior
By Bob Castello
STAFF WRITER 7/21/07
bcastell@greenvillenews.com
Brittany Delgado wasn't worried about who her opponents were, or even how many wrestlers were in her weight class.
"I was just told when to wrestle," she said.
That was enough for Delgado, a rising senior at Hillcrest High School. She won both of her matches and the championship of the 90-kilogram (198-pound) weight class at the 2007 Canada Cup of International Wrestling, which wrapped up Saturday in Guelph, Ontario.
Before the competition, Delgado and 19 other U.S. girls trained for three weeks at the Olympic Educational Training Center in Marquette, Mich.
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"They were all pretty much the best from around the country, so it was a pretty good camp," she said. "The coaches are involved with the Olympic Training Center. The stuff that they taught was simple, but it was very effective, and I used a lot of while I was wrestling in the Canada Cup."
It's another whirlwind summer for Delgado, who will be home for a little more than a week before traveling to Fargo, N.D., for the Women's Junior National Championships. She'll make her third trip to the Junior Nationals; she finished second in 2005 and became a national champion in 2006.
Delgado also recently took a step up as far as her All-America status, earning first-team honors on TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School All-American Team. She made the second team in 2006.
"You don't like just settling for second," she said. "It's never good enough, so you've gotta work for something else."
Delgado won a national scholastic-style title at the 2007 USGWA National Championships in Livonia, Mich., in April, placing first in the over-165-pound weight division.
In between tournaments and travel, Delgado will stay busy. She returned home to Fountain Inn on Tuesday night and rejoined the football team for training Wednesday.
"I don't like being bored," she said.
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A champ: Brittany Delgado won her weight class at the recent Canada Cup wrestling competition. (GWINN DAVIS/Staff file photo)