Former Hawkeye Spencer Lee secures Olympic wrestling berth thegazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dominique "Domino" Parrish, 27, a pioneer for women's wrestling in Santa Cruz County, accomplished her goal Saturday well, part of it in State College, Pennsylvania.
Because Spencer Lee’s 57 kilos bracket is one of five Olympic weights not yet qualified for the Olympics, his U.S. trials win Saturday isn’t an automatic ticket to the Summer Games. He still has to qualify the United States at that weight in Istanbul, Turkey on May 9-12 by placing among the top three at the World Olympic Games Qualifier.
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A stacked 18 brackets of the country’s best wrestlers over the next two days will grapple for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team in Paris later this summer, including 14 who identify as Hawkeyes in some capacity – either past, present, or professional.