Wrestling is a way of life for this Utah family, but winning isn't everything.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — At a national championship wrestling tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Losa and Line Nau Rarick, of Saratoga Springs, began their match with a hug.
Twin sisters Line and Losa Nau Rarick, who are 7, face off at the national championship wrestling match earlier this year. Losa, who won last year, gave up to give her sister the title. "We just said, 'Let's throw our girls in it!'" she said. "They didn't care if they were wrestling boys or girls; they just wanted to get out there on the mat."
"The reason the boys wrestle is because they're trying to go after what Likki has accomplished," she said. "When I first started wrestling, my mom took me to practice, but I was beating up on all the boys, so the coach asked me not to go back, 'cause it made the parents of the boys uncomfortable," she said. "Ever since then, I knew that this was my sport. Seeing that this sport has been seen as a 'boy' sport has definitely motivated me to become one of the greatest. I want to prove that girls can do it, too.
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