Mia Macaluso
Mia Macaluso of Otisville, New York is a two-time girls New York Public Schools Athletic League state champion and a three-time New York State freestyle state champion.
Ranked second at 127 pounds in the National Girls High School Rankings, she has signed a letter of intent to wrestle at East Stroudsburg University.
The daughter of Heath and Nikki Macaluso, she finished fourth at the boys 2020 Section IX, becoming the first girl in the section to make semifinals.
She won the Woodlands Varsity boys tournament, earning Most Outstanding Wrestler honors, and the Gene Brigham tournament, becoming the first girl in Section IX to win a varsity tournament.
Macaluso was the first girl in history to make the Minisink Valley High School varsity team, lettering five years, and helping the team win the 2020 NYS Championship D1 boys dual team title and the Section IX D1 boys dual team title in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
She received the Robert Feldmeier Award from the Upstate New York Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame for being the outstanding female wrestler in NYS.
Macaluso won a gold medal and the Golden Boot, awarded to the Outstanding Wrestler, at the 2019 Pan American Cadet Championships and a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Junior Championships.
Macaluso won a silver medal at the 2019 Austrian Flatz Open and also competed in the German Open and the Russian Open.
She won the Cadet title at Fargo and the USA Folkstyle Nationals in 2018 and finished second at USA Folkstyle Nationals and fourth at Fargo in 2019.
Macaluso won the NYS-USA freestyle state championship three times and was the 2019 National High School Coaches Association national champion.
She also started four years on the varsity lacrosse team and played on the varsity soccer team since eighth grade.
Macaluso is a member of Future Business Leaders of America and "Study Buddies," an after-school club where high school students assist middle, intermediate and elementary school teachers in the classroom.
Awards:
Year
2020
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Award
Tricia Saunders High School Excellence Award
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Chapter/Region
Northeast, New York
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