When Waitsman’s mother and grandmother died in recent years, she used wrestling as a way to cope with those losses. She then made history with a second-place finish at the CIF State meet this…
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Waitsman began wrestling her freshman year of high school after practicing jiu jitsu since she was 8 years old. It was something that she and her mom shared a passion for. Waitsman eventually was spending hours at a time at the gym and her mom’s training partners became her surrogate family. “And then Alex came around and made it fun again,” Terndrup said. “She changed the environment, the attitude in the room. Everyone was like oh, if we work a little harder like Alex, we could see the success that she’s seeing. Me as a coach, it pushed me to have a tougher practice.”
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