Mikayla Marquez & Stevie Joyce Martin

Our Athletes of the week are Castro Valley, student wrestlers, Mikayla Marquez and Stevie Joyce Martin. Over the course of three days, these two athletes earned All American honors by placing in the Top 8 of their respective weight classes, in one of the nation's toughest youth wrestling tournaments, the Reno World Championship. The event took place at the Reno Livestock Event Center with 18 mats of competition with youth from all over the country. Stevie Joyce Martin is an 8th grader at Creekside MS and placed 5th in the 106lb 15-and-Under division while representing the Livermore Elite Wrestling Club. Mikayla Marquez is a sophomore at CVHS who brought home the 8th place finish in the 15-and-Under 125lb division while representing the Castro Valley Wrestling Club.