The heroics in the seventh inning of Sunday’s
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 12:00 pm
Fawcett, a two-time state wrestling champion, plans to attend 2025 NAIA women’s wrestling national champions Life University in Marietta, Georgia, majoring in business and chiropractic. Five times, since 2020, she has been a triple-crown winner at the prestigious Western States Tournament, meaning she won all three disciplines at the event – Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Folkstyle.
“I think wrestling for me it’s more of like the community,” Fawcett said. “I like the friends I make and like the people I’m surrounded with. I like their drive and Elor has shown us anything is possible.”
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Toriana Johnson, 15, had been waiting for Elor to arrive in town.
“I met her at my work at Goldbelt Tram a couple days ago and she signed my singlet,” Johnson said. “I was waiting for her all day long. My coach told me that he bought her tickets to the tram so I was waiting all day. I had my singlet ready and everything. I was just so excited to meet her and I almost teared up because I was so thankful. It means a lot to me. I look up to her. She’s very successful at a very young age. So she has a lot in front of her. If she can do something like that, that gives me motivation to think that I can do things like that. So, I’m learning from the best, technically. She went to the Olympics, she won first place, so I’m going to phone number list try my best to remember all these things and really think about them and practice them.”
Elor started wrestling at age four while watching an older sister and brother compete.
“All the time watching them during their practices, wrestling just looked so fun,” Elor said. “It was unbearable for me to be a viewer. My mom had to hold me back from going onto the mat and wrestling these giant high schoolers and I was a 4-year-old little girl. It was just very compelling, and then immediately when I started wrestling, it just felt very natural and fun to me. Just controlling somebody, learning how to take them down. Just the roughhousing of it… I grew up playing so many different sports but slowly learned over time that wrestling was my favorite and I continued to slowly fall more and more in love with it over the years.”
“I think wrestling for me it’s more of like the community,” Fawcett said. “I like the friends I make and like the people I’m surrounded with. I like their drive and Elor has shown us anything is possible.”
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Toriana Johnson, 15, had been waiting for Elor to arrive in town.
“I met her at my work at Goldbelt Tram a couple days ago and she signed my singlet,” Johnson said. “I was waiting for her all day long. My coach told me that he bought her tickets to the tram so I was waiting all day. I had my singlet ready and everything. I was just so excited to meet her and I almost teared up because I was so thankful. It means a lot to me. I look up to her. She’s very successful at a very young age. So she has a lot in front of her. If she can do something like that, that gives me motivation to think that I can do things like that. So, I’m learning from the best, technically. She went to the Olympics, she won first place, so I’m going to phone number list try my best to remember all these things and really think about them and practice them.”
Elor started wrestling at age four while watching an older sister and brother compete.
“All the time watching them during their practices, wrestling just looked so fun,” Elor said. “It was unbearable for me to be a viewer. My mom had to hold me back from going onto the mat and wrestling these giant high schoolers and I was a 4-year-old little girl. It was just very compelling, and then immediately when I started wrestling, it just felt very natural and fun to me. Just controlling somebody, learning how to take them down. Just the roughhousing of it… I grew up playing so many different sports but slowly learned over time that wrestling was my favorite and I continued to slowly fall more and more in love with it over the years.”