Two Indianola girls wrestlers qualified to the state meet last week, as Summer Wolff and Lanie Frericks will travel to Xtream Arena in Iowa City starting tomorrow to represent the Indians. The Girls High School Athletic Union announced last year that girls wrestling would be a sanctioned sport, making this meet the first sanctioned girls state meet in Iowa history.

Wolff compared her prior experience as a wrestler to many athletes who were starting out with no experience, there was a lot to learn for everyone.

“It was really fun watching the team grow and learn, because at the first practice nobody knew what they were doing. Nobody knew what they were doing, and you looked around and thought this was the future team? But then second week rolls around, third week rolls around, and you think this is okay you can work with it. Now we are two months into the sport, everyone has grown a lot and come a long way, and I am so proud of everybody.”

Frericks said from week one to now is night and day, and she loves being a part of it.

“It’s been amazing. From the first week to now, we were just talking to our coaches the other day if we had a video of our first week and how amazing it would be to watch that. Just to see how much we have grown, how much we have grown together as a team as well, not just individually. But I think we have grown so much as a team, and individually.”

To listen to the full interview, tune in to today’s Let’s Talk Indianola.