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Yorkville’s Danielle Turner, back now after missing most of last year with patella injury, seeks state return · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville's Danielle Turner, back now after missing most of last
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  year with patella injury, seeks state return. Written by Joshua Welge,
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  this article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. Danielle Turner is in a very
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  different place than she was last year at this time,
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  and that's a good thing. The Yorkville senior a wrestling
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  state qualifier as a sophomore, missed the entire regular season
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  of her junior year with a displaced patella in her knee.
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  Cleared to wrestle at conference regionals and Sectionals, Turner lost
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  in the blood round at the Sectional meet, a win
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  away from her return to State, But she's healthy now
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  and has her sights set on going back to Bloomington.
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  Their Turner and the Foxes will be wrestling at the
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  Belvedere Regional this weekend. I feel really good, a lot
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  stronger and at a lower weight, said Turner, who now
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  wrestles in the one hundred pound class. I was so
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  excited to be there State. Loved getting the opportunity to
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  see myself at that level. Proud of myself to be
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  able to do that. I would love to go back
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  down there. Turner is twenty three to nine on the
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  season and coming off a championship at the Southwest Prairie
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  Conference Meet. Conference was really good. Turner said, I feel
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  like all of my hard work paid off, especially being
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  injured all of last year. With a shortened season last year,
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  she is exceeding expectations. Yorkville coach Kevin Roth said Turner's
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  competitive background started in third grade when she took up
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  jiu jitsu. My dad did judo and I was bullied.
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  He wanted me to learn some self defense. Turner said.
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  She stuck with it, competing in several tournaments until eighth grade,
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  when Turner decided to switch her focus to wrestle. I
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  had a lot of fun with it. I loved the
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  combat sports, Turner said. When I started, I would just throw.
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  I kind of knew the foundation of wrestling. It came
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  as muscle memory. Turner has quickly become a student of
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  the sport. According to her coach, it's something she's been
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  passionate about. Ross said she puts herself in good positions,
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  learned from her past mistakes. She is somebody that is
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  a mat rat and loves the sport. She has put
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  forth a time and effort to do everything she can
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  to make up for lost time. Whether it's the state tournament,
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  we'll see. She is trying to make a name for herself.
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  Turner hurt her knee in a match the spring of
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  twenty twenty four. She didn't have surgery, but it required
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  a great deal of rehabilitation to strengthen the patella and
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  get it back in line. It did affect me a
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  little bit, she said. I was nervous about injuring it again,
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  but I was able to overcome my fear of that
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  and I was able to push through. I feel a
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  lot better and good this year. Turner is one of
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  eight Yorkville girls who will be competing at regionals. The
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  Foxes are looking to return to the state tournament after
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  being shut out from any state qualifiers for the first
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  time in twenty twenty five. Senior Janiah Murray twenty four
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  to eight at one a naughty like Turner, was a
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  match from qualifying for state last year, and junior Annalise
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  Garretson thirty one to seven at one oh five is
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  also a returning sectional qualifier. Sophomore Lauren Trotter, who was
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  unable to finish last season because of a shoulder injury.
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  Is thirty four to six at one hundred and fifty five.
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  She is someone who is not new to the sport.
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  Roth said she qualified for Fargo Nationals as an eighth grader.
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  You don't see that often for an incoming freshman. She
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  knew the ins and outs beforehand. Trotter, ranked in the
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  top ten in the state at her weight class, avenged
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  an earlier loss in winning a conference championship last week.
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  We knew going in that she would be good. We
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  saw last year, knew she had some talent. Roth said
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  she is making her strides and peaking at the right
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  time having the background that she has. I don't think
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  the big stage of the postseason will be too daunting
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  to her. Sandwich, like Yorkville is at the Belvedere Regional,
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  led by returning sectional qualifiers Jasmine Rios, Lydia Cartwright and
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  and Noravic. Oswego and Oswego East will be two of
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  thirty teams at the East Aurora Regional this weekend. Oswego's
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  top contenders include mack Hill twenty eight four f one
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  fifty five, Jocelyn Sheets twenty five fourteen at one thirty five,
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  Ashlynn Roberts seventeen six at one seventy, Nina Witkowski twenty
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  three twenty at one twenty five, and Helena Torres twenty
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  four to sixteen at one ninety. Oswego East top contenders
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  include Quinn Janssen's twenty two three at one forty pounds,
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  Emily House twenty to seventeen at one hundred and forty five,
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  and Ella Cooper twenty four to seven at one forty
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