ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Freedom girls wrestling program is one of the best in the state, winning its second state championship this year.<\/p>\n
Paola Ramirez led the way for Freedom, finishing in second place in the 130-pound division earlier this month. That was the best finish for a Patriots girls wrestler.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Freedom girls wrestling program won its second state title since the Florida High School Athletics Association authorized the sport in 2022
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Senior Paola Ramirez finished in second place in the 130-pound division, the highest finish among her teammates
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In college, she will wrestle at West Liberty in West Virginia next year\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great. We’ve got great coaches in place, great kids on the team,” Freedom High School girls wrestling coach David Bush said. “It’s always fun when you have a great staff and great kids and everybody puts in work.”<\/p>\n
Ramirez pinned her way through regionals on her way to state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis season has been very special. It’s very emotional. I feel very free, so there’s no pressure whatsoever,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most rewarding thing is just going and hugging Coach Mike right after. That’s just a feeling that I can’t explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
She transferred to Freedom for her senior year and was a leader on this year\u2019s team, saying she fit in from the day she became a Patriot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese girls are my sisters through and through. It was just something special, and with them, all the love and support, I was able to just fit right in,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/p>\n
Her leadership on and off the mat was a factor, Bush said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls enjoy being around her. So, her ability to come in and be part of the culture and help create a culture has been awesome,\u201d Bush said.<\/p>\n
Now that Ramirez’s senior season is wrapped up at Freedom, she can look ahead to wrestling in college. She will head to West Liberty in West Virginia next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0The Freedom girls wrestling program is one of the best in the state, winning its second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1747,1238,274,1748,1236,3745,115,1335,139,141,140,110,1237,1746,278,835,39961],"class_list":["post-194516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-high-school-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-florida-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-thomas-cook","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}