Choctaw’s Peyton Hand just soaked in the moment after her state championship match Thursday.
She wasn’t taking in her undefeated season, or even her dominating finals performance. She was soaking in the history that was still being made just a few yards away as Broken Arrow’s Allison Hynes and Guthrie’s Khaleah Kirk’s match at 118 pounds got underway at Jim Norick Arena in Oklahoma City.
Hand was one of 10 individual champions in the first OSSAA-sanctioned girls state wrestling tournament on Thursday. Hand became Oklahoma’s first ever official 112-pound girls champion wrestler.
“I didn’t really think this was going to happen in women’s wrestling,” Hand said after her match. “It took a whole century