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MLK Day 2024: H-F female wrestlers show how it’s done

by Marilyn Thomas on January 19, 2024

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Homewood-Flossmoor High girls wrestling team coach Scott Aronson explains to Violet Such of Flossmoor how she should position herself for a half-Nelson move against H-F wrestler Nina Hamm. (Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle)

Young girls took to the wrestling mat at Homewood-Flossmoor High School as girls wrestling team members gently flipped them, trained with them and became their buddies.

The demonstration was part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service events Jan. 15. The program opened…