She’s a 17-year-old junior at Beebe High School and she’s Arkansas’ first female state wrestling champion, ever. Destiny Nunez, wrestling at 106 pounds, beat the No. 1 seed in her weight class to take the crown.
Destiny Nunez becomes Arkansas’ first female state wrestling champion
A true pioneer.
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She doesn’t have a college picked out yet, but she has a pretty good mindset for wrestling against boys: “Don’t expect them to take it easy on you just because you’re a girl.”
Or, as Yahoo! Sports reports:
“I don’t want to be just compared to girls,” she said. “I want to be compared to good wrestlers.”
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