Crull To Face Whiting At WNO In Showdown Of Midwestern Stars
Crull To Face Whiting At WNO In Showdown Of Midwestern Stars
Heather Crull of Indiana will wrestle Taylor Whiting of Wisconsin for the number one spot at 110-pounds at Who's Number One.
Heather Crull of Indiana and Taylor Whiting of Wisconsin are facing off at 110-pounds with the number one ranking on the line at the appropriately named, Who's Number One!
Both Crull and Whiting are 2024 Junior National Champs. Crull won at 105-pounds, though she had been ranked at 105 for most of the season, while Whiting won at 110-pounds, though she had been ranked at 105.
The two elite midwestern competitors decided to settle things this Sunday at 110 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Crull has been one of the premier high school lightweights in America for the last two years, making the 2023 U17 World Team and earning a bronze medal at 49 kilograms in Istanbul. She followed that up in 2024 by making another U17 World Team. Crull brought home bronze from the 2024 U17 PanAm championships held over the summer in Rio Negro, Columbia at 50kg.
Watch Crull win bronze last summer:
Whiting doesn't have the international accolades just yet, but she has come on strong lately, finishing the season near the top of the rankings and capping off the summer with a Fargo stop sign.
Whiting, a native of Oconto, Wisconsin, also finished third at the 2024 U17 World Team Trials and was also a top placer at last year's national championships in Fargo.
Watch Whiting win a 2024 Junior National Championship:
Her opponent at WNO will be from a couple of states over, as Heather Crull calls Richmond, Indiana home. Whiting will be a junior at Oconto Falls, where her older brother Clayton, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, also attended. Crull will be a sophomore at Northeastern High School this season.
You can watch #1 Crull vs #2 Whiting live in Johnstown, PA in person on September 29 by purchasing tickets from this link!