Dominic Cordero , a 61-pound All American wrestler and the Tulsa Novice National Champion.
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Maddox High, took fifth place in the 80-pound classification at the Tulsa Nationals.
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Piper Fowler, a 130-pound seventh grader at Cleveland Middle School was the Tulsa Girls National Champion.
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Cleveland Tennessee’s Higher Calling Youth Wrestling Club dominated over the weekend at the Tulsa Nationals in Oklahoma. The event is the largest youth wrestling tournament in the world.
Higher Calling Head Coach Josh Bosken took 11 wrestlers to the prestigious tournament and three earned the coveted All-American status.
Piper Fowler, a 130lb. seventh grader at Cleveland Middle School, won the Tulsa Girls National Champion title. The phenom made headlines across Tennessee earlier this year for going undefeated (27-0) on the Cleveland Middle School Boys Wrestling Team. In order to initially make the team in 2019 and become the school’s first-ever female wrestler, Piper pinned two eighth graders, both football players.
The two other Higher Calling All-Americans were Dominic Cordero and Maddox High. Dominic, a 61lb. fifth grader at EL Ross, was the Tulsa Novice National Champion. He is the younger brother of Jose Cordero, a standout wrestler for Cleveland Middle School.
Maddox, an 80lb. fifth grader at EL Ross, earned Tulsa National Fifth Place.
Bosken said the accomplishments in Tulsa were unprecedented but not unexpected, which is why families continue to relocate to Cleveland just to be a part of the Higher Calling program.
“Prior to Saturday, Higher Calling has had only one wrestler ever place at Tulsa Nationals and that was Ashton Davis,” said Bosken. “Having three of our athletes earn All-American status is amazing. We couldn’t be more pleased with the results. People tell me there is no other club anywhere with as much passion around it as Higher Calling.”
Bosken said success at the high school level starts with Higher Calling, which is a wrestling program that gives young wrestlers of all skill levels, grades K through 8, a chance to learn the essentials of practice and competition. The goal of the program is to train and maintain the highest-quality athletes to help continue the finest wrestling program in Tennessee.
“The club was created to build great wrestlers who are also gentlemen—and now, gentlewomen thanks to Piper,” Bosken said. “Piper’s family relocated here from Murfreesboro because we are the best wrestling program in the south and we will continue to get stronger. That is a guarantee.”
For more information on Higher Calling, call Bosken at (513) 646-4435.