Mercedes Carrasco is a national champion after two years of competing.
Mount Carmel High School's boy's wrestling team won its first state team championship since 1994 earlier this year.
10-year-old Mercedes Carrasco might have picked up the sport of wrestling from her older brother, but she has made the moves her own. Most of the time - the person in front of her is a boy. Mercedes is one of just a few girls in the Caravan Kids Wrestling Club -- a decade-old program out of Mt. Carmel that gets elementary-age kids on the mat.The program's founder and director Roberto Garay says Mercedes immediately took to the sport.
When Mercedes got the invitation to compete at the USA Wrestling Women's Nationals, her coaches actually warned her against going because it was a different style of wrestling, but Mercedes was adamant that she did not want to miss her opportunity.But in her first go on the national stage, Mercedes had a new challenge - she was coachless.
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