Video games led Kendra Hayden to the sport of wrestling.
Homewood-Flossmoor’s sophomore 190-pounder is an athlete. She swims and plays water polo. But she’d never stepped on a mat before last summer.
Hayden developed a friendship with Aleksia Ramirez, an accomplished wrestler from Lakewood, Washington, over online gaming. She needed something to do in the winter and Ramirez encouraged her to try out wrestling.
“We just became really close. I don’t even play that game…
