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New York\u2019s next generation of female sports stars has already made the pages of Sports Illustrated \u2014 for their game, not glam. <\/p>\n
Honor Smoke, a 10-year-old wrestler from Erie County, looks fierce and ready to fight on the front page of Sports reIllustrated \u2013 the sports mag\u2019s special edition released in February aimed at empowering young female athletes \u2013 where she made history as the youngest person ever to appear on its cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked onto the mat for the first time three years ago, and now I\u2019m on Sports Illustrated and I won [a state championship title]. It\u2019s crazy how much I have accomplished,\u201d Smoke told The Post during a recent Zoom interview from her family home in Akron, a small village located about 25 miles east of Buffalo.<\/p>\n
The fifth-grader \u2013 who practices wrestling moves like \u201cthe three-quarter Nelson\u201d up to six days a week \u2013 was the first girl to join the Akron Youth Wrestling Club when she decided to try the sport on a whim at age 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first started, I would never win any of the matches, so I was really determined to win. Once I started winning a lot of the matches, I was like, \u2018Oh, I really like this,\u2019 and I wanted to keep doing it,\u201d recalled Smoke, who now aspires to wrestle in the Olympics one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI like wrestling the boys better. It feels better to beat them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The tween has pinned her place in the record books, taking home first place in her age and weight bracket in the girl\u2019s division of the New York Wresting Association for Youth State Championship last year, placing third at the USA Wrestling Kids Folkstyle National Championship held in Indiana in January and, most recently, qualifying to represent the Empire State at the USA Wrestling 2025 Western Regional Championships in Utah in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smoke was one of 10 young, female athletes from across the US who were spotlighted in the Sports reIllustrated, which launched in partnership with Dove to take on a tough opponent: body-image pressures driving nearly half of girls out of sports.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York City came to play \u2014 with three cover girls including Pepper Persley, a 14-year-old Harlem basketballer; Julia Dinar, a 13-year-old fencer from Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Liana Chan, a 12-year-old ice hockey player from Pelham Gardens in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love basketball. It fulfills me, and it\u2019s taught me so much in terms of my confidence and leadership and teamwork, and those are things I will carry with me throughout my entire life,\u201d said Persley, who played point guard on her K-12 independent school\u2019s varsity team as an eighth-grader this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI love everything the campaign stands for, so being able to be a part of it is so cool,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cAnd having my pages be alongside these other girls who are so incredible means everything to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dinar, who started fencing simply \u201cto stay active\u201d during the pandemic, now practices her \u201cparry defense\u201d up to 16 hours a week, for competitions in Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, and Washington D.C., she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I was in shock to see myself in a magazine, but I feel empowered and happy,\u201d said Dinar, who plans to continue fencing into college, or until the sport interferes with her dreams of becoming a pediatrician.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chan, who is the smallest of all players on her ice hockey team at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, was \u201creally happy\u201d being featured in the mag playing a sport she loves, she told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Three years ago, \u201cthe first time I went on the ice, I wasn\u2019t sure how I felt, but over the years, I have developed a love for ice hockey,\u201d said winger Chan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always get really excited to go play\u2026it would be amazing if I could play in college,\u201d the youngster said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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