Good Sports: Clovis East wrestler Isabella Gonzales dominates the mat

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a remainder time for Clovis East wrestler Isabella Gonzales.

"Feels truly bully to beryllium honest. I mean I've been moving for this each play truthful it feels truly bully to conscionable unafraid it again," Gonzales said.

The inferior has earned it aft each - winning a 2nd consecutive CIF authorities rubric successful Bakersfield this February.

"It's ever astonishing erstwhile she gets her manus raised but CIF is other special," Clovis East Timberwolves women's caput manager Ray Blanco said.

Gonzales is not lone the champion successful California - she's the No. 1 ranked 115-pounder successful the nation.

"Bella conscionable seems to radiance nether the spotlight," Blanco said.

"I emotion the spotlight similar I emotion erstwhile everyone watching maine and everything," Gonzales said.

But earlier her emergence to dominance connected the mat - Gonzales had to marque a determination backmost successful simple school.

"At the clip hoops was an outdoor athletics and it was wintertime and I didn't privation to beryllium successful the acold truthful wrestling was the lone different option," Gonzales said.

As the archetypal wrestler successful the household - Gonzales and her dada Geoffrey got to work.

"He would look up wrestling videos connected YouTube and that's however we started from there," Gonzales said.

A twelvemonth successful - Gonzales turned things up a notch.

"But I didn't instrumentality it earnestly until my 5th people twelvemonth and that's erstwhile I started doing nine and extracurricular of school," Gonzales said.

That's erstwhile manager Blanco came in.

"She liked it. She liked the grind she liked the hard enactment astir it," Blanco said.

That grind became a lifestyle.

With Gonzales grooming 3 to 4 times a day.

"I got to archer you it's hard but I conscionable negociate my clip erstwhile I person thing to do, I conscionable got to bash it," Gonzales said.

Outside of school, Gonzales has qualified for the inferior Pan-American games 3 years successful a row, winning a rubric for squad USA astatine each turn.

"And the goals conscionable started getting bigger and aft that she conscionable started making her ain goals and present we are," Gonzales said.

Despite the conception titles, authorities championships, and planetary medals successful hand.

It's inactive onto the adjacent for Gonzales.

"But we're onto bigger things, this was the archetypal portion of the twelvemonth present we're onto satellite squad trials," Gonzales said.

With the satellite squad trials coming up successful April.

Gonzales tin gain a travel to the nether 17 satellite championships successful Amman, Jordan.

But she's hoping to correspond her state successful thing overmuch bigger.

"Olympian. Why not? Why can't she bash it. She's done everything else," Blanco said.

With the summertime games coming to Los Angeles successful conscionable 4 years. Gonzales has her eyes acceptable connected the eventual homecoming.

"It would beryllium the satellite to maine getting to correspond my state and getting to bash the happening I love," Gonzales said.

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