While high school wrestling has long been known as a sport that excels the most in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest regions of the United States, Cleveland High School has certainly helped put the Southeast on the map.
The Bradley County wrestling mecca is currently one of only eight high school’s in the country to have both their boys’ and girls’ wrestling programs ranked in the top 40 nationally.
Joining Cleveland in elite company to have both program’s ranked are Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Seminary and Bishop McCort, Oklahoma’s Bixby and Edmond North along with Iowa’s Bettendorf, New Jersey’s Blair Academy and Arizona’s Sunnyside.
In just their third year of existence, Cleveland’s Lady Blue Raiders are ranked sixth in the National Girls High School rankings. The poll is selected by USA Wrestling, FloWrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
World champion Piper Fowler is the No. 2 pound-for-pound high school wrestler in the country. The junior is the top-ranked 170-pound prep wrestler in the country and one of eight state-ranked wrestlers for the Lady Blue Raiders, which includes Senna Grassman (1st), Bella Harris (1st), Diamond Young (2nd), Makya Parker (2nd), Jakyra Parker (5th), Kemoria Turner (5th) and Adelyn Vanoy (5th).