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Spotlight on Redlands High School
1/31/06
Caroline Williams - senior, wrestling
Redlands head coach Mike Kerber says: "Caroline has wrestled well this year at the girl s tournaments. She has recorded a couple of second place finishes and a first place finish. On the weekend of Jan. 21 Caroline finished second in the inaugural CIF Girl s Regional Tournament. Caroline plans on attending a college that has a women s wrestling team, but has not made any decisions as to what college that will be."
Athletic achievements: I am the only girl on the varsity wrestling team and just being able to hold my own is such a challenging sport is in itself an achievement. I ve also taken second in the CIF girl s state championship for the southern section of California. Against other girl wrestlers I have 13 wins and three loses.
Favorite sports: Wrestling.
My best game as an athlete was when: My best matches are the ones I wrestled against Anastecia Giles. They were always good matches and really close and I always had to be thinking.
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Favorite TV shows: "South Park" and "That 70 s Show."
Favorite reality show: "The Real World."
Favorite movies: "The Notebook," "The Butterfly Effect" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
Favorite actor: Ryan Gossling.
Favorite actress: Julia Roberts.
Favorite foods: Peanut butter and strawberries - peanut butter is good on everything.
Favorite junk foods: cookies, doughnuts and brownies.
Cats or dogs? Dogs.
I love to shop at: I m not really a big shopping kind of girl.
Favorite Web sites: My space.
DVD in my player: "The Notebook."
CDs in my player: Limp Bizkit - "Midtown."
Where I ll go to college: I haven t decided for sure which school, but I will definitely be wrestling in college.
What I ll do for work someday: I am going to be famous someday. I want to be an actress or a musician.
If I could meet one famous person alive today: Bam Margera.
If I could meet one famous person from history: Marilyn Monroe.
Most influential person in my life so far: I try not to let things influence me too much. I like to make my own decisions and be my own person. However, I am probably most influenced by Rachelle Bone.
Few people know that I ... love riding horses.
Favorite quote: "Get down!" - coach Nick Chavez.
How I want to be remembered by my classmates: I want to be remembered as someone who was true to herself and never took no for an answer.
Describe yourself in 20 words or less: I am a strong and independent individual. I can be or do anything I put my mind to and when people say I can t it pushes me to prove that I can. I strive for great things, but find enjoyment in the simple things, as well.
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Sonoma wrestling's Diaz off to girls state tourney; Dragons 14th in Ukiah
By Steven Serafini
Monday, January 30, 2006 6:00 PM PST
Lady Dragon senior Jasmine Diaz (top) defeats a Casa Grande girl opponent by way of a first-round pin in Golton Hall last week. Photo by Steven Serafini/Index-Tribune
1.31.06 -- With her winning first-place performance at Saturday's South San Francisco Girls Wrestling Tournament, Sonoma Valley High School senior Jasmine Diaz will next be competing at the CIF Girls State Wrestling Championships.
Sonoma's varsity wrestlers competed in Saturday's annual Ukiah Tournament with two Dragons short of filling all 14 weight classes, and then standout starters junior Coleton Cramer and sophomore Nick Pappas came up with injuries during the event. Sonoma had a 14th-place team finish in the 27-school field.
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Local girls ready for Invitational
Los Angeles Newspaper Group 2/1/06
Kelsi Nervik of Mayfair High and Lacey Clair of Cypress are the first known girls wrestlers from the area to place at the CIF Southern California Championships on Jan. 21 and earn berths to the California Girls Invitational Tournament beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday at Hanford West High.
Wrestling continues at 10 a.m. Saturday at the same site.
Reo Avila of Mayfair, who didn't place last week, will also compete at the event that will attract the best wrestlers from the Southern and Northern section regional tournaments.
The competition is double elimination, and the top eight wrestlers in each weight class earn medals.
At the Southern regional, Nervik placed fourth at 132 pounds and Clair finished eighth at 154.
This weekend's event is recognized by CIF but is not considered a state championship because not all sections have a championship tournament.
-- Earl Williams
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