The World Championships took place in Denmark last week. The U.S. hopeful, a recent high school graduate, Adeline Gray, was in the lead all the way late into the second period. Her lead was over when she was pushed out of bounds by Nigeria’s, Ifeoma Iheanacho.
Gray never recovered from the loss and ended up taking fifth place in her first visit to the World Championships. The U.S. team ended up placing 6th overall. This was the first time the U.S. did not take a medal miss since joining the competition in 1989.
“We’re finishing a lot of matches trying not to lose,” U.S. National Coach Terry Steiner said, “We have to win. We have to wrestle to dominate. We have to take some risks and right now, we’re not doing that as a team. These athletes are great athletes, they’re great learners. They’re students of the sport.
“I firmly believe this group of athletes, we can win with them. We can win with these people. We need to continue to sharpen each other and be a team. We haven’t been ‘a team’ for a while. We need to get together and push each other.”
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