On the Wrestling Ring They Promised to Wed in the Spring
For the last time, she walked to the wrestling mat’s center ring, only to turn around and find him on bended knee – holding a ring.
Samantha Tuttle isn’t the type to wish for a “ring by spring,” as the Grand Canyon University student adage goes, but even this gutsy grappler started to cry.
The former New Mexico high school wrestler had transferred from a nearby college to GCU in 2022 after the coach told her she’d never be an all-American. She promptly joined a GCU women’s team in Club Sports that just launched the year before and never forgot his words, becoming an all-American for the second time in mid-March.
“A couple years ago, we were talking about not bringing wrestling back