By Toby Hammes

Before the medals, before the packed brackets and full lineups, Alayna Slifer remembers when girls’ wrestling in Manhattan looked a lot different.

“When I was a kid, there was maybe one other girl in the city who also wrestled,” Slifer said. “And to come here now and see a full varsity roster for the first time, almost a full JV roster.

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