We honor the best of high school athletes of our winter sports season with our All-News4JAX teams. First up, girls wrestling and how Middleburg sophomore Cheyenne Cruce is doing her part to put the Broncos on the map.
Cruce, the All-News4JAX girls wrestler of the year, had an unforgettable season. The Middleburg sophomore finished 39-0 and continued a Clay County wrestling tradition in the sport that is the area’s best. And she’s just getting started. The sophomore has great expectations for the rest of her career, both in high school, the summer circuit and beyond.Only two Broncos wrestlers have even made it to a state final before.
She looked at last year’s All-News4JAX girls wrestler of the year, Clay’s Madisyn Blackburn, as a trendsetter in the sport. It was after that where Cruce said she wanted to follow Blackburn’s lead and become a pacesetter of her own. Cruce and Blackburn both wrestled together at RPA Wrestling in Orange Park. And seeing the success and visibility of Blackburn made Cruce go all in on the sport.
If seeing a fellow Clay County wrestler emerge was one part of the motivation for Cruce, the other was getting to experience the competitiveness on the mat. She went on to finish fourth at the state tournament. That was a precursor to the summer circuit for Cruce. She traveled to Fargo, North Dakota for the USMC/USAW Junior and Cadet National Championships last summer. Cruce finished fourth there. The competitive fire was lit.
Cruce said that trip to Fargo was significant in her development. She was up there with wrestlers from area schools like Oakleaf and Orange Park, as well as others from around the state. Seeing the talent at Fargo, and getting to experience that with grapplers from the area was just a sample that the best is yet to come.
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