To make matters worse she started running her mouth as we were shaking hands. Luckily there were very few spectators and thank God no photographers on hand but I could see how deflated everybody on our side was afterward. I thought she must have been doing something illegal but the bottom line was I got pinned in my home gym by a freshman girl.
I guess I was so worried that she was going to break my arm that I barely noticed she just about had me pinned until I saw the referee on the ground checking and by then it was too late. This girl was strong and very quick but I was ahead on points going into the third round when she stuck me with what I later found out was a popular judo hold where she had my arm twisted and the back of her leg across my neck holding me down. As soon as the match began I knew it was not going to be easy. Actually I should have been the one who was indimidated by this short but stocky girl who had very muscular legs. When I got onto the mat I was so pumped up that I decided to try to intimidate her so I told her she was dead meat and she just shrugged and said "whatever". My coach asked me if I was all right with wrestling a girl and we spoke about me possibly forfeiting or wrestling up but my team mates kept telling me to teach her a lesson and I foolishly let them talk me into wrestling her. Obviously she was Asian and as a freshman she was also a first year wrestler although I was told she had considerable judo experience and was enjoying some early success at wrestling. I had no idea until that day that my opponent was most likely going to be a girl and a pretty rough one at that. My only exposure to wrestling up until that point had been in gym class but I was a good athlete and I knew the team was short and had open spots and I was doing well and enjoying myself until a neighboring school visited our gym a few weeks into the season. I quit basketball because I had'nt made the varsity that year and I did'nt see eye to eye with the jayvee coach and I decided to join the wrestling team. I was a first year wrestler for my high school team yet I was a junior because my first two years I played basketball.
I read the other accounts and all I can say is once you have lost to a girl in front of all your coaches, team mates and whoever else shows up to watch that day it never goes away.