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By WARREN MAYES<br />
Lafayette High’s Faith Cole knows what it<br />
takes to be considered the best; you have to<br />
beat the best.<br />
Earlier this summer, she defeated No.<br />
1-ranked Samara Chavez, of Amarillo, Texas,<br />
at the Great River Rumble in Shawnee, Oklahoma.<br />
Cole trailed 6-0 in the championship<br />
match but rallied to score an 8-6 victory in<br />
the 19U freestyle competition.<br />
Cole also followed the tournament<br />
with a first-place finish at the<br />
Legends of Gold event in South<br />
Dakota. She went 5-0 with five pins<br />
or technical falls to prevail.<br />
Does that make Cole the top<br />
wrestler in the nation? Her coach<br />
and dad, Jesse Cole, thinks so.<br />
“Faith has never been ranked No.<br />
1 in the country but now she has<br />
beaten the No. 1-ranked girl at 106<br />
and 112 (pounds) so she definitely<br />
deserves it,” Jesse said. “There is<br />
no one left that she needs to beat.<br />
She has beaten all the top contenders.”<br />
Cole, a junior, hopes to be back<br />
in action in October. No doubt, the<br />
bullseye on her back is bigger now<br />
with the victory over Chavez.<br />
The Super 32 is set for Oct. 24-25<br />
in Greensboro, North Carolina. A<br />
decision on whether the competition<br />
will be held is expected this<br />
month. That decision is dependent<br />
on North Carolina moving out of<br />
COVID-19 Phase 2 and lifting<br />
restrictions on indoor gatherings.<br />
The <strong>20</strong><strong>20</strong> USA Wrestling Brian<br />
Keck Memorial Preseason Nationals will be<br />
held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 at Hyvee Hall inside the<br />
Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa.<br />
At both events, Cole will be looking to<br />
build on her accomplishment at the Great<br />
River Rumble. It was her first competition<br />
since the state wrestling tournament in February<br />
and she was eager to get back onto the<br />
mat and compete.<br />
“I was excited to compete again and get<br />
mat time. I had no specific goals other than to<br />
improve on my game plan,” Cole said.<br />
She and Chavez had wrestled twice before<br />
the Great River Rumble. Once was at the<br />
world team trials; the other was at preseason<br />
nationals. The results were the same. She lost.<br />
Cole said she was apprehensive about<br />
facing Chavez in the championship match.<br />
“This was a very nerve-racking experience<br />
because I had put a lot of pressure on myself<br />
to compete well against her,” Cole said. “I<br />
walked into that match knowing what a great<br />
wrestler she was and I walked out very happy<br />
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Nation’s top female wrestler?<br />
Faith Cole defeats nation’s No. 1, seeks crown<br />
with the way our match went. This was a very<br />
big challenge for me. I had been preparing<br />
for this match for months before it had taken<br />
place. I wanted to see results.”<br />
As predicted, Cole started slow in the<br />
match.<br />
“The girl took her down three times in the<br />
first period,” Jesse said. But Cole made the<br />
adjustment to rally back.<br />
“This was very much a mental game I<br />
Faith Cole and her dad/coach Jesse Cole at the Great<br />
River Rumble<br />
(Source: Jesse Cole)<br />
“There is no one left that she<br />
needs to beat. She has beaten<br />
all the top contenders.”<br />
– Jesse Cole<br />
played with myself in the match,” Cole said.<br />
“I soon realized that for me to get back into<br />
the match I needed to get to work on my<br />
moves which I did. I changed my mental gear<br />
and went to work.”<br />
Jesse liked what he saw in his daughter<br />
after the first period.<br />
“Faith came out much harder in the second,”<br />
he said. “(Faith) threw (Chavez) to her back<br />
for four points to make it 6-4. Faith exposed<br />
her back to tie up the match and got a takedown<br />
with 10 seconds left to win the match.”<br />
Cole was definitely happy with the outcome.<br />
“This was a huge accomplishment for me<br />
personally,” she said. “I was very happy<br />
with my performance on the mat that day. I<br />
was finally seeing results for my work. My<br />
dad reassured me of the progress that I was<br />
making lately and let me know that he was<br />
proud me for more than my most recent<br />
accomplishment. He is definitely what kept<br />
me going in that match.”
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