Cierra Foster Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award biography
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Cierra Foster of Post Falls, Idaho, is the 2017 recipient of the Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award.
Foster won the gold medal in the 56 kg/123.25 lbs. division at the 2016 Pan American Cadet Championships and helped the U.S. capture the team title. She received the Golden Boot as the Outstanding Wrestler of the event after winning all three of her matches by pin. The daughter of Todd and Angelique Foster, she is a two-time champion and five-time finalist at USA Wrestling Folkstyle Nationals, while also winning the USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals and finishing second at USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals.
Foster finished third in the Class 5A state boy’s tournament as a freshman, after becoming the first girl to be a 5A district champion in Idaho. Foster was named Sophomore of the Year and Wrestler of the Year by USA Idaho Wrestling. She also captained the girls’ soccer team as a junior and senior, and she was awarded the Scholar Athlete award all four years in two sports.
Foster volunteers at Real Life Ministries, local churches and soup kitchens while also coordinating food drives for food banks in Idaho. She was asked to be a member of the National Honor Society but had to decline because of her class and wrestling schedule. Foster has signed a letter of intent to wrestle at Oklahoma City University. Her older brother, Drake, wrestles at the University of Wyoming.
Foster was selected as the West Region winner and then was chosen as the national winner over other regional winners.
The Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award and the Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award recognize and celebrate the nation’s most outstanding high school seniors for their excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship and community service.
First presented in 2014, the TSHSEA is named for Tricia Saunders, a four-time World Champion and women’s wrestling pioneer. Saunders was the first woman to be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2011.
Foster won the gold medal in the 56 kg/123.25 lbs. division at the 2016 Pan American Cadet Championships and helped the U.S. capture the team title. She received the Golden Boot as the Outstanding Wrestler of the event after winning all three of her matches by pin. The daughter of Todd and Angelique Foster, she is a two-time champion and five-time finalist at USA Wrestling Folkstyle Nationals, while also winning the USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle Nationals and finishing second at USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle Nationals.
Foster finished third in the Class 5A state boy’s tournament as a freshman, after becoming the first girl to be a 5A district champion in Idaho. Foster was named Sophomore of the Year and Wrestler of the Year by USA Idaho Wrestling. She also captained the girls’ soccer team as a junior and senior, and she was awarded the Scholar Athlete award all four years in two sports.
Foster volunteers at Real Life Ministries, local churches and soup kitchens while also coordinating food drives for food banks in Idaho. She was asked to be a member of the National Honor Society but had to decline because of her class and wrestling schedule. Foster has signed a letter of intent to wrestle at Oklahoma City University. Her older brother, Drake, wrestles at the University of Wyoming.
Foster was selected as the West Region winner and then was chosen as the national winner over other regional winners.
The Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award and the Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award recognize and celebrate the nation’s most outstanding high school seniors for their excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship and community service.
First presented in 2014, the TSHSEA is named for Tricia Saunders, a four-time World Champion and women’s wrestling pioneer. Saunders was the first woman to be inducted as a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2011.
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