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@JSalata

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Washed up wrestler for Team USA 🤼‍♀️ 🇺🇸. Princeton Wrestling Director of Operations 🐅. Foodie. Still trying to figure out how to behave in public.

Princeton, NJ / Canton, MI
Joined March 2009
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@JSalata
Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Wrestling is the best sport on earth. You wanna learn self-defense? Wrestling. Improve your diet and nutrition? Wrestling. Develop self-accountability, self-discipline, and an unrelenting work ethic? Wrestling. Become more mentally tough? Motivated? Mature? WRESTLING.
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4 years
NCAA D3 has now voted YES on Women’s Wrestling! D1 will vote in April.
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NCAA D2 has officially voted YES on Women’s Wrestling! D3 voting soon.
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4 years
Today is the first day of women’s wrestling being an OFFICIAL NCAA Emerging Sport! 🤩
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2 years
We had 63 girls sign up for the Princeton women’s wrestling club. SIXTY-THREE.
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5 years
Women’s wrestling is the fastest growing high school sport in the country, and is growing rapidly at all levels. Not wanting to jump on board with that is lunacy. If you’re a wrestling fan in any capacity, support ALL wrestling.
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10 years on the Senior level, 3 Olympic Trials, 16 Olympic Trials matches. If today was my last time competing here, I have no regrets. I’m filled with so much gratitude to the sport that has shaped who I am today.
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2 years
Nothing compares to the NCAA Wrestling Tournament. I've been to every major event in the world, including the Olympic and World Championships, and they don't hold a candle to the excitement and hype of NCAAs. I'm. So. Pumped.
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4 years
Flo has posted on Instagram more about Logan Paul in the last 24 hours than they have women in the past two weeks. I wish this was an exaggeration.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
The solid black singlets are such a statement.
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4 years
As a female wrestler and advocate for women in sport... There is nothing wrong with this. It’s a cool event highlighting two drastically different (but equally difficult) sports. They used a clever name to highlight the dichotomy. There are bigger battles to put energy into.
@_Lindsay_Allen
Lindsay Allen
4 years
This is a *real*, *current* advertisement for a sporting event during which our women's @WVUGymnastics team ("The Beauty") competes concurrently next to the men's @WVUWrestling team ("The Beast"). Contacted the @WVUSports Director for Communications, and was told:
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4 years
Qualified for Olympic Trials. Third time in my career. Again, proud of myself.
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6 years
Alli just made her 6th straight world team. That’s incredible. Can we all take a minute to acknowledge how good of a feat that is, especially considering she’s 25 years old.
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3 years
Kennedy Blades should be holding her head so freakin’ high. What a bright future for her.
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
Let’s play a fun game called “Count The Women’s Clips”!
@FloWrestling
FloWrestling
4 years
We should all be at Fargo right now 😔
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5 years
Burroughs/Askren is a genius. Great promotion for both USA Wrestling and UFC. Wrestling and MMA both will benefit. Here for it.
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4 years
FIRST EVER NCAA-school Championships for women’s wrestling! SOOOO proud to be a part of such a monumental event.
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4 years
Putting my Fresno State Wrestling shirts in the same drawer as my Eastern Michigan Wrestling shirts and naming the drawer “For The Programs That Deserved Better”. What a joke, dude. Up and coming program having almost immediate success gets the axe. It ain’t right.
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5 years
Ben Askren got viciously knocked out less than a week ago, and is still on the floor in Fargo right now. That’s pretty awesome. What a dude.
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Julia Salata Vargas
6 years
RT if you've spent the last 24-hours having your non-wrestling friends send you videos of that ref sliding across the mat.
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3 years
The last match that will ever be wrestled by an athlete for Stanford, and it’s a win in the NCAA National Finals. Legendary.
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Julia Salata Vargas
7 years
Maya is our first junior world champion since Victoria Anthony in 2010. THIS IS A BIG FREAKING DEAL!
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Alli Ragan: 7 in a row.
@SpeyWrestle
Andrew Spey
5 years
Nick Gwiazdoswki: 3 straight world/Oly teams J'den Cox: 4 straight teams James Green: 5 in a row Kyle Snyder: also 5 Jordan Burroughs: NINE DANG TEAMS IN A ROW🤯🤯🤯
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
“I’ve won two national titles with no ACLs, so it’s been a lot of fun.” 😂😂😂
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3 years
Six mother effing World Titles. Pinned to win #6 . The American GOAT, no questions asked.
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Julia Salata Vargas
7 years
This video is absolutely silly. There are innumerable opportunities for women to compete collegiately, and all against women. Stop it.
@ACLU
ACLU
7 years
We're going to the mat to end discrimination in college wrestling.
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
The only thing faster than my Twitter fingers are my low singles 😅
@trackwrestling
Trackwrestling
5 years
Quick strikes from @JSalata ⚡️ She downs Jessica Brouillette (CAN) 11-0 in her opener. #WrestleBuenosAires
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4 years
Stanford dropped wrestling? WRESTLING COMMUNITY, ASSSEEEEMMMMBBLLEEEEE!
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
My Mom: Why didn’t you go to NCAAs this year? Me: I was wrestling at World Cup. Mom: What World Cup?! Me: The one in Japan..? Mom: YOU WERE IN JAPAN?! .... alrighty then.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
In spite of Iowa’s team title, I still don’t think it can be argued that there’s another team in the country that consistently gets the best out of their guys in March than Penn State.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
Got some great holiday work in this past week! Thank you to my new friend @sangeeta_phogat for the great training.
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
If there is one thing that has been PROVEN in the last 48 hours, it’s that the main cause for people not watching women’s wrestling is NOT because the majority think we are not entertaining from a technical aspect. It is primarily because WE ARE NOT COVERED. We are unfamiliar.
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2 years
I hope Russian wrestling never ever changes
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3 years
The wresting community might not be perfect, but MAN, do we have some freakin’ awesome people.
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3 years
How is this dude gonna sleep tonight? What an embarrassment.
@_wrestlersgrind
WrestlersGrind
3 years
Madness 🤯
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
Dolly Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the same day. No one cares.
@ComplexMusic
Complex Music
4 years
Billie Eilish "wrote a whole song in its entirety" during quarantine.
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Why is everyone so worked up about Zain’s draw? Is it tough? Yeah. Does Zain care? Probably not. The athletes aren’t training in hopes they get an easy path to the semis and sneak into a medal match, they’re training to be the best in the world. Draws be damned.
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3 years
Honestly God, I think Gilman was two seconds away from a Gold medal
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3 years
Helen gonna Helen... but what an absolute freaking run from Jenna. Pretty increíble.
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5 years
I don’t want to take away from what was a truly impressive win, but for the second time in a week, DeSanto’s post-match antics have made me really, really uncomfortable.
@WeAreWrestlers
WeAreWrestlers
5 years
👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥
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4 years
I don’t do slick things very often, but when I do, it looks like this.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
This is an outstanding celebration, 9.8/10 for me.
@VNcaas
Virtual NCAAs
3 years
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4 years
BUT DID WE HAVE FUN OR WHAT. Let the women wrestle, we like to score points.
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3 years
If Helen repeats, I swear I will lose my ENTIRE mind. It’ll be gone. Poof. Road to Gold #2 starts tonight. Tough test right outta the gate, but I got da faith!
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
Another great Tamyra story… One time on a trip she asked Rich Bender if he was the Athletic Trainer. That’s all. That’s the story.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
Stanford would be very wise to get on the phone with Troy Steiner, like, immediately.
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Let’s start with sanctioning women’s wrestling because we already compete in the Olympic style so it makes sense in relation to this partnership 😊
@NCAA
NCAA
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USOC announces plans to further strengthen ties with college sports. More from @TeamUSA :
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Good morning to everyone except the person behind the decision to show basketball instead of the 125lb. B1G Championship match.
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
There are 7 World Championships and 11 world medals ins this photo. And two phenomenal ambassadors for the sport, as well. I love it.
@trackwrestling
Trackwrestling
4 years
👏👏👏 for wrestling.
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
We don’t deserve Mama Woodley.
@ufc
UFC
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"It's all good, baby. It's all good. It's your turn. It ain't his turn." @Usman84Kg & Woodley's mother shared a beautiful moment backstage after #UFC235 . Watch the full episode of 'Thrill & Agony' ➡️
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Regardless of how you feel about Willie, it’s crazy that Flo is taking legal measures to prevent him from covering wrestling for a year. Dude is just trying to do his job. He’s a wrestling journalist.
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3 years
Who can beat this version of Tamyra? I'm thinking nobody.
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4 years
Spencer Lee won the US Open less than a week ago, and is wrestling at Midlands today. Kid’s a machine.
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Mensah is also the the poster child for everything that is good and pure and fun. How she is in interviews is how she is in real life. If anything, her interview goofiness is scaled down from her normal self. Just a good all around human.
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Julia Salata Vargas
2 years
Some guy (a troll, undoubtedly) is seriously in my DMs trying to question what I know about WTTs/OTTs/Final X and attendance. My dude, I have wrestled in 7 WTTs, 3 OTTs, and a Final X. Sit down. Being a woman in this sport is exhausting sometimes, I swear.
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3 years
I love watching 88-pound kids flex after winning.
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5 years
Why is this so cool? Literally a basic wrestling warm up that you see in kids clubs lol
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UFC
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3 years
If Michigan gets both Shane Griffith and Max Dean I will lose my mind.
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Wrestling is so close. Omg. Here’s to the next 7 nights of minimal sleep, maximum stress, and Team USA puttin’ a whoopin’ on everybody. I’m so pumped.
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5 years
I can’t WAIT for NCAAs in Detroit. Location is gonna surprise a lot of people with how much there is to do, good restaurants, good bars, etc.
@detsports
Detroit Sports Commission
5 years
Today's #ThrowbackThursday features the 2007 #NCAAWrestling Championships at The Palace of Auburn Hills. The event will make its return to the region in 2022, this time at @LCArena_Detroit with the @UMichAthletics serving as the host institution.
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3 years
Captain’s Cup starts TODAYYYYY!
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Spencer Lee haters can see themselves out. The kid is an absolute winner.
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4 years
Came up a little short in the semifinals tonight, but this was the 7th straight US Open/Senior Nationals that I’ve made it to the semis. I don’t mean to brag, but I’m pretty proud of that.
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
Who in the WORLD, male or female, is better in par terre than @AdelineGray ? I’ll wait.
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HEY @Pink ! There are a bunch of awesome female wrestlers right across the street from the arena competing at the National Championships. 5 minute walk. Would be awesome if you came and inspired them to continue kicking ass.
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4 years
350+ women competing at the Missouri Valley Open today! Incredible.
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4 years
Today I worked on moving my feet when I’m wrestling. It’s wild that you can be almost 13 years into a sport, and still need to work on something so simple. Fundamentals matter!
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3 years
Helen, Amine, Micic, Gilman, and DT are ALL wrestling tonight! What a treat.
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3 years
TAMYRA MENSAH STOCK, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST!!!!!!!
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7 years
*whispers* I hope you all continue to invest your time and energy into the women and Greco the next 4 days, Jr Worlds aren't over yet.
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Julia Salata Vargas
2 years
Brought home gold from my first IBJJF Pans today. V stoked.
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3 years
John Smith’s technically analysis was spot on the whole time lol
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6 years
Like, yeah I was a 3x Fargo champ. But my biggest accomplishment in this place was jumping over the railing once without getting yelled at by Sandy Stevens.
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6 years
I went straight DeSanto on somebody at practice tonight. The difference is that I was at jiu jitsu, not wrestling.
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4 years
Amid all this women’s wrestling stuff, true colors have been shown on both sides. I had two great phone calls today (almost out of the blue) with male coaches who are trying to push women’s wrestling and create positive change. Our male advocates are so valuable and appreciated!
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6 years
Yianni D gets interviewed by the incomparable Wayne Fish.
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3 years
Gutted, but man, still so damn proud of Adeline.
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Julia Salata Vargas
7 years
A JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION IN ALL THREE STYLES. I LOVE AMERICA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
I’d rather be a decent human than a UFC Champ who hits pregnant ladies with cars and cheats on a frequent basis 🤷🏼‍♀️
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3 years
I can’t wait to riot over NCAA seeds. It’s probably one of my top 3 favorite Wrestling Twitter™️ days of the year.
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3 years
HAHAHAHA GO OFF TAMYRA
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
To clarify for everyone, we have not yet officially earned Emerging Sport Status. It has just been RECOMMENDED to the NCAA by the CWA, but it’s a HUGE step in the right direction. There’s still a lot of work to do, keep doing your part to grow women’s collegiate wrestling!
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Julia Salata Vargas
2 years
No commentary on the livestream on either mat for the Women’s National Championships semifinals here in Fargo. Not even in the building. Classic @FloWrestling .
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Helen Maroulis winning the first gold medal in women’s wrestling for Team USA, and beating the greatest female wrestler in history in the process. Monumental.
@TeamUSA
Team USA
4 years
Your top #TeamUSA moments of the decade... Ready. Set. Go. ⤵️
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Kyle Dake is the best wrestler to never win a match on social media and message boards, but always win on the mat. When are y’all gonna learn?
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
0/10 would not recommend relaxing with 1 second still on the clock.
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Julia Salata Vargas
6 years
Dude who cares about draws/seeds. Are we trying to win gold medals, or hoping for a good draw in hopes of sneaking into a bronze medal match? You have to beat everyone anyway. I guarantee you our competing athletes aren’t concerned with draws, they’re out there to win it all.
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I will always be grateful to have experienced this in person. I’m not an emotional person, but watching Helen beat Yoshida got to me.
@TeamUSA
Team USA
5 years
A moment that will live on forever in @USAWrestling history. #TBT to @helen_maroulis becoming the FIRST U.S. woman to win an Olympic wrestling gold medal. #Rio2016
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Julia Salata Vargas
4 years
Is Kaitlin Bennett one of those most embarrassing humans in the country? Retweet for yes, favorite for also yes.
@KaitMarieox
Kaitlin Bennett
4 years
Honestly, letting women vote in this country wasn't one of the best ideas. Females vote with emotion and overwhelmingly support Democratic feel-good policies that take away our ACTUAL rights. I'd rather lose my "right" to vote than lose my right to defend myself with a firearm!
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Today should have been the first day of Olympic Trials. Instead, I woke up and ate an egg, cheese, and avocado burrito with a hash brown and blueberry espresso, and got right back in bed.
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3 years
We are all Shane Griffith fans now.
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2 years
Can we please remove Pyles from the wrestling community forever now? Please? Dude is a cancer.
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3 years
American exceptionalism when it comes to sports has an ugly side. We had two teams earn a silver medal today, and they’re being considered failures. Second in the WORLD is an accomplishment.
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Julia Salata Vargas
6 years
I’ll see y’all at Final X. June 23rd. Bethlehem, PA. LET’S DO THIS! #USOpen2018 #FinalX
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Julia Salata Vargas
2 years
It’s officially official! #GetIn
@tigerwrestling
Princeton Wrestling
2 years
We are proud to announce @JSalata has joined our staff as our Director of Operations! Great career as a wrestler, and a great addition to our team! 🔗:
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Julia Salata Vargas
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Our whole team is dealing with this and has showed up and showed out in spite of it. These ladies are freakin’ warriors. There’s Jordan’s flu game, and then there’s the U20 Women’s World Team performance this week.
@AWWnewsfeed
American Women’s Wrestling
8 months
Kennedy Blades had severe food poisoning at U20 Worlds. She was 6 kg under weight and went to the hospital after her loss in semis. Still came back to get bronze. 📸 @Tony_Rotundo
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Julia Salata Vargas
3 years
7 medals for 🇺🇸 in WFS, let’s goooo
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Julia Salata Vargas
5 years
Adeline 15 minutes ago: “I’m gonna take this girl down and then pin her with a bar.” Adeline 15 seconds ago: *Takes the girl down, pins her with a bar*
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