NHSCA Girls Preview
SE will be well represented in the Girls Division
Lots of girls registered for this year’s NHSCA tournament with many from the SE in the tournament and also in the pre-seeds. It is a little surprising the number of girls coming from Florida - at 58 it is significantly more than most other states. Pennsylvania comes in #2 with 41 followed by North Carolina at 38. Georgia, California, and Virginia will all bring 30+ each as well. A full breakdown is below:
As mentioned above - the SE has many hammers that are pre-seeded at their weight, and three that are #1: Mariana Bowen is your top seed at 132 after claiming another Tennessee title this past year. She headlines a weight class that is deep with SE talent (8 of the 10 pre-seeds are all from the SE). The 138 lb. bracket includes Florida State Champ Emma Hoppe, a quartet of Alabama hammers in Elizabeth Rosentiel, Kimber Alford, Aenaya Vines, and Annabella Harris as well as Floridians Lahela Turnquist and Shamari Smith. Levendusky is the top seed at 145 - just ahead of North Carolina’s Faith Bane and Niya Turner of Alabama is the top seed at 235 just ahead of Mississippi’s Chykiya Miller. For a full list of those from the SE that are pre-seeded (look below).
The table below shows pre-seeds by state:
I’m a believer that pre-seed information shouldn’t reside behind a paywall, but they do for NHSCA’s … behind the paywall on MatScouts (Rokfin) … as a result we will not list them below, but will mention those wrestlers from the SE. If you’d like to see the full list of those pre-seeded - check out MatScouts on Rokfin.
SE Wrestlers:
100
#5 Kirra Mitchell (GA)
#10 Sawyer Mitchell (GA)
107
#2 Mariah Mills (FL)
#3 Maya Alvarado (FL)
#7 Addysin Mollendor (MS)
#8 McKenzie Nguyen (AL)
#9 Khiry Reese (NC)
#10 Mikayla Williams (GA)
114
#2 Beyonce Espinosa (FL)
#5 Delialah Betances (GA)
#8 Jaden Evans (TN)
#9 Addison Gore (NC)
120
#2 Willow White (FL)
#7 Lynleigh Weltzin (AL)
#10 Vera Spencer (GA)
126
#3 Evelyn Holmes-Smith (AL)
#4 Christina Borgmann (FL)
#5 Sophia Satterfield (TN)
#7 Kalyse Hill (AL)
#8 Artemis Eaton (GA)
132
#1 Mariana Bowen (TN)
#2 Emma Hoppe (FL)
#3 Elizabeth Rosentiel (AL)
#4 Kimber Alford (AL)
#6 Aenaya Vines (AL)
#7 Annabella Harris (AL)
#9 Lahela Turnquest (FL)
#10 Shamari Smith (FL)
138
#2 Jada Lawrence (SC)
#4 Moriah Antis (NC)
#5 Serenity State (SC)
145
#1 Audrey Levendusky (TN)
#2 Faith Bane (NC)
#4 Bianca Connell (SC)
#5 Promise Parlett (MS)
152
#4 Sawyer Ward (TN)
#5 Stephanie Diaz Mendoza (NC)
#6 Taylor Williams (NC)
165
#2 Taliah Wade (AL)
#9 Ariana Blanc (FL)
185
#3 Irelynn Laurin (TN)
#5 Cheyenne Cruce (FL)
235
#1 Niya Turner (AL)
#2 Chykiya Miller (MS)
#4 Daniella Jenkins (NC)
I don’t usually comment on pre-seeds for a two reasons … 1) they aren’t the seeds so we don’t know how things will change once everyone weighs-in, etc. and 2) seeding is hard especially where comparing wrestlers from different parts of the country. Seeding is done by criteria (but a state champ in one state is very different than a state champ in another) so at this level of a tournament you really need other measures to help decide the seeds. That said - the girls pre-seeds are not very good. There are wrestlers that have won state titles that are not listed, wrestlers that won multiple state titles pre-seeded below others that have not won a title or placed nationally, etc. Hopefully this gets worked out before the tournament because I believe seeding is important. I don’t think it is crucial to get everyone in the exact right spot … there isn’t much of a difference between #2 and #3, but in a 32-woman bracket - you shouldn’t have the two best wrestling one another in the opening round. That would be a shame.
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