The shiny new field house glistens in the mid-May sun, looming over the south endzone of Earl Quigley Stadium. Juxtaposed against the nearly 90-year-old football stadium, the sleekly modern steel-and-glass athletic facility seems out of place, like someone strapped a jet engine to the Wright Brothers’ plane.

Inside the field house, on the southeast corner of the second floor, Little Rock Central High School’s girls wrestling team is wrapping up practice.

“Last round,” Coach Aaron Butler yells. “Let’s go! Everything you’ve got!”

Pairs of wrestlers grapple and roll around with one another as Butler and assistant coach Adam Cline watch, correct and teach. A lesser team might be taking it easy by now. After all, these girls won a state championship back in April, the first team wrestling

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