Sadie Adelstein was taking part in sports history just by stepping onto the wrestling mat at Oklahoma City University.
She had never wrestled in a dual before, and her background back home in Massachusetts was in jujitsu, not wrestling. But here she was, a member of Oklahoma State’s Cowgirl wrestling team, participating at OCU in the Cowgirl program’s first dual meet on Jan. 31.
“(I was) sh***ing bricks,” Adelstein said.
Adelstein lost her match, and the Cowgirls lost the dual. That wasn’t the most important thing for Cadence Dare, the team's founder. This was a chance for the program to make its debut after a long road to becoming a club sport.