“The other two got me started,” she recalled.įigueroa has the most individual success of the four girls this winter. Reitnour was in the situation of having Boyertown’s current high-school head coach, Dave Jones, running the team at Boyertown Middle School-West when she was there, Mia, in turn, found encouragement from both her female teammates and older brother Ray, a heavyweight competitor who graduated in 2017. Their middle-school wrestling programs were the starting spot for the wrestlers. Samantha Reitnour, standing right, competes on the Boyertown wrestling team.
“A lot of people want to know how I got into it,” Reitnour added. “It’s a ‘you can’t beat me up’ kind of thing,” Figueroa said. Their passion for the sport is a constant for the foursome.
A junior in the 113-pound category, she’s in her third season at the high-school level after two years at Boyertown Middle School-West. Up in Boyertown, Samantha Reitnour continues to take her place in the Bear program as the lone representative of her gender.
Zoe and Julianna, both sophomores, wrestle at the lower end of the weight scale and Mia is a freshman competing at 145. Pottstown’s team has three girls who are a presence on the varsity roster: Zoe Earle, Julianna Figueroa and Mia Bumbarger. Some people consider them “inspirations.” Others may consider them a “novelty.”īut, first and foremost, they’re high-school girls looking to establish their place in a sport that’s been almost exclusively a domain of manhood since the ancient Greeks competed in it at their Olympic games. They’re described by such terms as “pioneers” and “trailblazers.”
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