Sigourney’s Reanah Utterback won the state championship last weekend at the Girls’ State Wrestling meet at Coralville.  The freshman won all five of her matches by pinfall to win the 110 pound title.  Three of those matches ended in less than a minute.

“Having those matches quick and done just made me want to just wrestle even more.  I didn’t have to worry about trying to go through all three periods working hard.  I knew I could go out there and get it done.”

Last weekend, it was announced that girls wrestling will be a sanctioned high school sport in Iowa starting next school year.  Utterback says she’s happy about that.

“It’s pretty nice knowing that girls are getting what they’ve always wanted: to have girls wrestling as their own sport, so they don’t have to do boys.  Because most of these younger girls are used to wrestling only girls now, so it’s nice for them to get the chance to do what they want.”

Utterback and the rest of Sigourney-Keota wrestlers will compete Saturday (1/29) at the South Iowa Cedar League Conference meet at BGM.