The Manchester Enterprise
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Manchester raises another champion
Jackson wins national girls' wrestling title
By Marsha Johnson Chartrand, Editor
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2006
Off the wrestling mat, 11-year-old Nichole Jackson doesn't look much different than any other middle school girl.
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But on the mat, her competitors better watch out.
A member of the Manchester Wrestling Club for five years, this young woman has earned a national championship, taking first place in the United States Girls Wrestling Association tournament held in Lake Orion last weekend.
With 651 female wrestlers representing 41 states participating in the tournament, Nichole's grandparents, Dave and Cheryl Bunn, said they were surprised at the number of girls wrestling, from the elementary, middle school, high school and college levels.
Nichole wrestled her way through the tournament, collecting four pins for a perfect record to earn her first-place medal and stand atop the podium.
Dawn Jackson, Nichole's mom, said that one of the hardest things she's ever done is stay and help to coordinate the Wrestling Club's annual home tournament while her parents took Nichole to Saturday's tournament events. Fortunately, however, she was there on Sunday to watch her daughter earn her championship.
Jackson thanks her parents for their support as well as former state champion James Tobias and all-state wrestler Cevin Walker for helping to coach Nichole to her victorious finish.
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