As a little girl who fell in love with the sport of wrestling, I only ever had male Olympic champions to look up to. Women’s wrestling wasn’t even an Olympic Sport yet. I attended summer camps, collected all the signatures I could from the greats (Cael Sanderson, Dan Gable, etc), and studied what I could learn from them. What stood out to me most was that I felt unrelatable. I seemed (and honestly am) way more emotional than them. I thought I wouldn’t be able to achieve my dreams if I couldn’t emulate them. Growing up as the only girl on an all boys team, I dressed, talked and acted like the guys. I wanted to fit in and be accepted. But God showed me that I wasn’t going to achieve what I wanted by rejecting parts of myself. I learned to accept myself for who I was and to appreciate what made me..me. Then my dream came true in 2016 and I became the first female to win a gold medal for the United States. I couldn’t believe it. I spent so much time growing up feeling weird, differe...