The most wrestlers Yutan has ever had on a girl’s team and a new NSAA class structure. The girl’s wrestling team plans to use both of these factors to their advantage to set some big goals for this upcoming wrestling season.
“As a goal I would like to win a state title, but I especially want to win a state title as a team this year,” senior Alexis Pehrson said.
As the Yutan girls wrestling team expands from six up to nine wrestlers, they plan to use it to their advantage to get better and strive for more success on the mat.
“We have a pretty stacked team this year, a lot of girls from what I’m used to, compared to freshman year was just me and my sister, and sophomore year was just me, my sister (Alexis), Jordan, Nicole and Anna, but now we have like, nine-ish girls on our team to hopefully make us better,” senior Aubrie Pehrson said.
Although many people see wrestling as an individual sport, it really is more than that.
“It’s just like the team aspect even though it is an individual sport everyone on the team supports each other especially since we have a bigger team now,” Alexis Pehrson said.
With the new class structure, the girls wrestling team will be competing in Class B rather than the four different classes, which they feel will give them more opportunities for success.
“I’m going to be wrestling at different schools because last year there weren’t classes but now they were split into two, A and B, so I will just be wrestling a lot of different people to hopefully make me more successful,” sophomore Ella Henkel said.
To help the wrestlers reach success, head wrestling coach Dan Krajicek just wants them to improve their individual skills.
“I just want them all to get better than what we already are. We already have a bunch of really good girl wrestlers, so that will hopefully help us in the end,” Krajicek said. As the wrestling season starts, the girls are looking to practice those individual skills that will help them achieve the one major goal in the end.
“I plan on going to every practice with a purpose, not just going through the motions, and just think about my goals as I’m going through practice, like if we’re conditioning I’m going to think, ‘Oh, this is really hard,’ but it’ll just give me that extra push to get through it, to know that it’ll help me reach my goals in the end,” Aubrie Pehrson said.
