Young girl push boys around on the wrestling mat
A young female wrestler from Pretoria is busy making a name for herself on the wrestling mat and boys who take her on in the sport often gets beaten by this determined young lady.
There is nothing anyone can tell the 11-year old Chloe Brewis from the TuksWresling Club and one of North Gauteng Wrestling’s upcoming stars about the “battle of the sexes” as she is in the midst of it nearly daily.
It has led to her getting bruised and on occasions some blood has been spilt, but that will not lead to her quitting. It only motivates her to work harder as a wrestler.
Brewis also has set herself definite goals. One is to represent South Africa at the Youth Olympic Games in four years from now.
She certainly seems to have the talent to do so. Earlier this year she won a gold medal competing at an international event Estonia. For the past six years, the Tuks wrestler is also the South African champion in her weight category of the women’s competitions.
However, the biggest challenge she faces is lack of proper competition and training partners. That is why she has resorted to competing against boys. For the same reason, she mostly trains against boys.
Brewis loses more often than she wins locally. There was that one fight in which her nose got broken. It did not stop her from finishing what she started. She went on to contest her last two fights at the tournament. Afterwards, apart from a swollen nose she also sported a nice “shiner”.
The tough young girl was not fazed by this at all, as she believes in what does not kill you, makes you stronger.
Her proud dad, Morne Brewis, says in the beginning when his daughter won a fight, it did not always go down well. There definitely were some bruised “boy-parent ego’s” but once it was realised that she was there to stay, her rivals grudgingly started to accept her.
Her opponents even started to admire her efforts, as they understood in spite of being a girl, she worked as hard, if not harder, and that she never expects preferential treatment.
Morne Brewis admits that wrestling might not be the sport many parents would want their daughters to take up. He is, however, openminded about. She, after all, got hooked when he made a comeback as a masters-wrestler to keep fit.
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