{"id":793371,"date":"2019-02-24T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/valleys-angel-rios-becomes-first-female-to-place-on-podium-at-boys-state-wrestling-tournament\/"},"modified":"2019-02-25T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:29:46","slug":"valleys-angel-rios-becomes-first-female-to-place-on-podium-at-boys-state-wrestling-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/valleys-angel-rios-becomes-first-female-to-place-on-podium-at-boys-state-wrestling-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley\u2019s Angel Rios becomes first female to place on podium at boys state wrestling tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valley’s Angel Rios won her consolation semifinal round match and avenged her only loss by beating Pagosa Springs Trevor Torrez Saturday morning Feb., 23, 2019 during the CHSAA State Wrestling championships at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Rios won by earning a 4-2 sudden victory in overtime over Torres, who put her out of the championship round on Thursday. Rios wrestles for 3rd place on the podium Saturday afternoon. (Michael Brian\/mbrian@greeleytribune.com)<\/strong>
Michael Brian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DENVER \u2014<\/span> Those in the Pepsi Center on Saturday morning witnessed Colorado wrestling history. Valley\u2019s 106-pound wrestler, Angel Rios, became the first girl to make the podium at the boys state tournament.<\/p>\n

She marked her name in the record book when The Classical Academy\u2019s Brendan Johnston forfeited for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir core values are as such that there is a lot of physical interaction and contact with female wrestlers, and for them they don\u2019t want to handle a woman in that manner,\u201d The Classical Academy\u2019s coach Sean Collins said. \u201cBased on their core values and faith, they don\u2019t want to disrespect them, but it is his personal decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rios understood the decision and wasn\u2019t upset by it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s his decision and I understand that if it\u2019s against his religion,\u201d Rios said. \u201cI have no control over the situation, so if that\u2019s what he chooses to do then that\u2019s on him I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Rios earned her place on the podium when she defeated Pagosa Spring\u2019s Trevor Torrez 4-2 in sudden victory. She faced and lost to Torrez in the first round of the tournament by a 2-1 decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the match, my brother told me to shoot, so I just ended up listening to him and I had nothing to lose at that point,\u201d Rios said.<\/p>\n

After the emotional win, she began to cry as the referee raised her arm in victory. She then ran into the arms of her coach Ruben Lucero.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was relief because it was what I was working for for the past 15 years,\u201d Rios said.<\/p>\n

She moved on to the consolation championship where she faced off against Weld County\u2019s Robert Estrada for the fourth time this season. Estrada got the best of her in the Valley Invitational with a 2-0 decision.<\/p>\n

This match again was tight. Rios was behind 3-2 in the third period but couldn\u2019t find a way to get that final point. She finished fourth, the highest any girl has ever placed in the boys state tournament.<\/p>\n

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Valley’s Angel Rios won her consolation semifinal round match and avenged her only loss by beating Pagosa Springs Trevor Torrez Saturday morning Feb., 23, 2019 during the CHSAA State Wrestling championships at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Rios won by earning a 4-2 sudden victory in overtime over Torres, who put her out of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:54:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}