As a two-time state champ and recent junior national champion, Lewiston High School senior Joely Slyter loves wrestling meets more than almost anything. But as a 10-year-old spectator, she found them quite boring and was not afraid to let her father know.
When Slyter grew tired of watching one of her younger brother’s meets, her father gave his dissatisfied daughter an ultimatum:
Stop complaining or start wrestling.
She chose the latter.
“I think I just wanted to make my dad angry,” Slyter said. “He was over the complaining and I was like ‘Ok, I’ll do it.