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Alumna Kayla Miracle wins GOLD in Pan American Games for Team USA

08/10/2019

Alum Kayla Miracle wins GOLD at Pan American Games in Peru

 

 

 

 

 

LIMA, Peru — Çà¹ÏÊÓÆµ women's wrestling alum dominated her competition and won her first gold medal at the Pan American Games for Team USA.

She is the first graduate of Çà¹ÏÊÓÆµ to claim a Pan American title.

In her first match at 62 kg, Miracle, a 2016 Junior World bronze medalist, handled two-time Pan American champion and 2018 fifth-place World finisher Lais Nunes de Oliveira of Brazil.

Miracle showed off with two four-point takedowns, putting Nunes to her back and eventually getting the fall in 2:29.

To advance to the finals, Miracle registered another first-period pin in the semifinals over two-time Pan Am Championships gold medalist and 2015 Pan Am Games silver medalist Yakelin Estornell Elizastigue.

In the gold medal match, Miracle took on two-time Olympic bronze medalist Jackeline Renteria Castillo of Colombia.

In the finals, Renteria was put on the shot clock and unable to score allowing Miracle to gain a 1-0 lead. Then it exploded to a 7-0 lead after Miracle used a cradle for a takedown and added in two tilts. Another takedown gave her a 9-0 lead and crotch lift extended it to 11-0. Team Columbia threw their challenge brick, but the call stood the same allowing Miracle to win 12-0.

Miracle, a 2018 graduate of Çà¹ÏÊÓÆµ, won four national championships while a Lady Tiger and led CU to its first national championship at the WCWA level in 2018.