“I wanted it for so long, and it finally happened,” said girls' wrestling captain Kiley Clouse, Dillingham's first statewide champion at this month's ASAA tournament. “I was just so overwhelmed and proud of myself.”
Kiley Clouse wrestles at the ASAA State Wrestling Tournament in Anchorage on Dec. 16-17, 2022. In the early 2000s, they had to petition the school board to let them join the team. Then, they were wrestling against boys. But girls’ wrestling kept growing in Bristol Bay despite those barriers.
And because there were fewer wrestlers on the girls teams, they didn’t have as many weight classes as the boys. Clouse was wrestling at the 189 weight class until this year — which meant she was 20 pounds lighter than some of her opponents.“It’s the first time I’m wrestling girls who are actually my weight,” she said.
“Boys ain’t very accepting, you know,” he said. “I was part of it. Nobody really wants to change. But they competed in middle school, in high school. They were the first two that kind of got the ball rolling around Dillingham. And then there’s been girls that’ve wrestled throughout.” Another state champion from Bristol Bay is 18-year-old Aileen Lester of Newhalen, a small community on Iliamna Lake. She also won state titles in 2020 and 2021, and she was named last year’s outstanding state wrestler. Lester has wanted to wrestle since kindergarten, and she finally convinced her parents to let her join in sixth grade. Still, she had some reservations.
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