8 Beat the Streets student-athletes win 2025 PSAL Girls Freestyle City Championships

Twelve BTS Academy members made the finals, including six who claimed city titles.

Eight Beat the Streets student-athletes won a city title at the PSAL Girls Freestyle City Championship on Saturday at Harry S. Truman High School in The Bronx.

Leona Gao, Ariana Oliveri and Ana Carolina Mindlin Lockard each repeated as city champions. Gao won with an 11-0 technical fall, while Oliveri and Lockard each posted a fall. Lockard had the most dominant performance in the tournament with three falls in a combined 2:04 and did not allow a point.

Aracelli Rodriguez, Lorena Martinez, Jazalin Perez, Tehana Savory and Mary Famuyide also took the top spot on the podium.

Rodriguez, Martinez, Gao, Oliveri, Lockard and Savory are all active participants in the BTS Academy program, which provides student-athletes with life-changing opportunities on and off the wrestling mat.

Rodriguez, who took second place last year, needed just 34 seconds to grab first this year. Martinez followed with a dominant 12-2 win and Perez had a 48-second fall. Savory knocked off returning city champion and fellow BTS Academy member Belen Medina 8-2. Famuyide scored a fall in 1:28 against BTS Academy member Nicole Polyan.

BTS was well represented in the finals with 21 of the 26 finalists, including 12 who are in the BTS Academy. The 13 championship bouts included eight matchups with both finalists involved in BTS programs.

PSAL Girls Freestyle City Championships

Individual Results

94: **Aracelli Rodriguez (Harry S. Truman) VFA *Dayalaris Epsejo (A.P. Randolph), :34

100: **Lorena Martinez (W.C. Bryant) VSU1 *Emili Lok (HS Fashion Industries), 12-2

107: Maddaena Moog (Curtis) VFA **Esther Nawaday (Brooklyn Tech), 8-0

114: **Leona Gao (Brooklyn Tech) VSU **Jada Guervil (Edward R. Murrow), 11-0

120: Madison Tavares (Cardozo) VFA **Anaiya Pagan (Samuel Gompers), 1:55

126: **Ariana Oliveri (Bronx Science) VFA *Jenieve Thomas (Harry S. Truman)

132: *Jazalin Perez (Seward Park) VFA **Juliette Villafane (Harry S. Truman), :48

138: Sasha Shuster (Curtis) VSU *Siena Vega (Brooklyn Tech), 11-0

145: **Ana Carolina Mindlin Lockard (Brooklyn Tech) VFA *Aliyah Perez (Harry S. Truman), 1:18

155: **Tehana Savory (Brooklyn Tech) VPO1 **Belen Medina (W.C. Bryant), 8-2

170: Leah Nunes (Harry S. Truman) VFA *Flor Zellerford-Agron (Edward R. Murrow), :36

191: *Mary Famuyide (A.P. Randolph) VFA **Nicole Polyan (Brooklyn Tech), 1:28

255: Daphne Appiah (Curtis) VPO1 *Isabella Decaro (W.C. Bryant), 9-3

Since being founded in 2005, Beat the Streets has pioneered a movement that now includes 150 individual wrestling programs, a youth league and the first girls high school league.

BTS works to develop the full human and athletic potential of New York City urban youth and strengthen the city's wrestling culture. BTS aims to make a lifelong impact on student-athletes through the lessons learned on the wrestling mat -- discipline, perseverance, self-reliance, humility and a strong work ethic. Discover how you can make a meaningful contribution to BTS' work at btsny.org/donate.