The Skyline women\u2019s wrestling team continued its development this season, earning two medals and gaining experience at its Bakersfield meet on Saturday, March 21. The Trojans competed with a smaller roster but showed improvement.<\/p>\n
Standout performances for the Skyline came from Saphire Altamirano and Lynelle Legados, who led the group a total of six match wins and two medals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
These two were supported by Jax Saeed, Yaharia Torres, and Hailey\/Mika Ronquillo, who each battled through closely contested matches, according to head coach Olga Camacho.<\/p>\n
Legados said the team is in a strong position, and that each match reveals areas for improvement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are in a pretty good spot, every match we are finding stuff to improve on,\u201d Legados said \u201cThe coaches are doing a really good job of implementing that work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Altamirano said that even though the team has competed in meets without its full lineup\u2014due to injuries and other reasons\u2014they have still performed well.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the girls that are competing, they are doing really good,\u201d Altamirano said\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistant coach Geovanny Aguilar said the team did not perform as well as they wanted at the Bakersfield tournament, but noted the team is still in a good position moving forward. Aguilar said he believes the coaching staff as a whole have done a solid job preparing the girls and it has shown in their performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs coaches collaboratively we have been taking the right steps and preparing the team the right way,\u201d Aguilar said.<\/p>\n
Head coach Olga Camacho also said the tournament provided a valuable opportunity for her players to compete at a high level while continuing to develop and improve their skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis tournament was a great opportunity for our athletes to compete at a high level and continue developing their skills,\u201d said Camacho in a press release regarding the match.<\/p>\n
Torres also said that although not every player places at each meet, the team has shown significant improvement from the beginning of the season to now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we are doing well, obviously we have our details and things we need to work on, but overall a lot of the girls have been doing really well, \u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n
The Trojans will look to use their growth and experiences in the team\u2019s quick turnaround for its first home meet on Wednesday, March 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Skyline women\u2019s wrestling team continued its development this season, earning two medals and gaining experience at its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-236389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}