Teshya Alo named USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week

Teshya Alo with her 2016 Junior Nationals first place award. Photo: John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com.

Teshya Alo (Honolulu, Hawaii/Team Hawaii) has been selected as TheMat.com Athlete of the Week on July 20, 2016.


The record books continue to be re-written by Alo, who won her sixth individual title at the Cadet and Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D. on Tuesday.


Wrestling in the Junior division at 139 pounds, Alo was supremely dominant. The high school sensation dispatched all five of her opponents by technical fall without surrendering a single point. Alo defeated two-time Cadet World Team member Ashlynn Ortega of Colorado in the championship match, 12-0.


Alo now owns four Junior freestyle national championships and two Cadet freestyle crowns making her the winningest woman in Cadet and Junior Nationals history. No other wrestler has won Fargo more than four times in the women’s divisions.


The 18-year-old has achieved high-level results on the Senior level over the past two years. Last December, Alo won her first U.S. Senior Open championship, taking out 2012 Olympian and 2016 Olympic Trials champion Kelsey Campbell in the finals. She finished in third place at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at 58 kg in April. Alo has made the U.S. Senior National Team the past two seasons.


In 2014, Alo topped the World at the UWW Cadet World Championships becoming the fifth U.S. woman to win a Cadet World title. She won bronze at the Cadet World Championships in 2013.


Alo was a four-time Hawaii state champion for Kamehameha High School and is a four-time ASICS All-American First Team member. She was recognized as ASICS High School Wrestler of the Year in 2015 and 2016.


Each week USA Wrestling will select an Athlete of the Week based upon performance within wrestling for that week. The selection committee will consider any level of wrestling, from youth programs through the Senior level.


To nominate a wrestler for USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week please send the athlete’s name, wrestling program and weekly and career accomplishments to Richard Immel at rimmel@usawrestling.org.