Maybe the best thing about Heaven Fitch is her flex.
Fitch won the 106-pound division of the North Carolina 1A high school wrestling championships. In a bracket with seven boys, Fitch made history as the first girl to win an individual state wrestling title. She was named the meet’s outstanding wrestler. “It’s, like, insane what I’ve done. It’s not fully sunken in yet,” Fitch, a junior with a 54-4 season record at Uwharrie Charter Academy, told WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
Fitch won the title with an incredible reversal in the final seconds of the match and celebrated with a mighty flex to demonstrate her domination, as any champion would.
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But Fitch’s personal accomplishment resonates in a much more profound way.
It is yet another bit of evidence that demonstrates women can (and probably should) compete against men. Wrestling is a great example because of its weight classes, which acknowledge that smaller wrestlers can’t fairly compete with bigger wrestlers. Wrestling by weight classifications means technique and mentality, the real hallmarks of good wrestling, become just as important as strength.
Fitch showed that a female not only compete on a level playing field with males, but can excel in a way that can’t be denied or diminished or dismissed because of her gender.