Here are Karen Naess' photos from Saturday's East Aurora Regional girls wrestling meet.

The Lincoln-Way co-op may have headlined the East Aurora Regional Saturday, but several standout wrestlers from local schools also punched their sectional tickets.

Yorkville senior Danielle Turner was a state wrestling qualifier as a sophomore, but missed most of last year with a displaced patella, returning to come up a win short of state. She's healthy now, and has her sights set on a return trip to Bloomington.

Minooka host the SouthWest Prairie Conference championships boys wrestling on Saturday afternoon.

Without the right mindset, Oswego East’s Ella Cooper wouldn’t be winning wrestling tournaments. She won the 145-pound title during Saturday’s inaugural Break the Silence tournament at Oswego East, where special t-shirts were sold to help raise awareness for mental health.

Oswego senior and Iowa softball recruit Kiyah Chavez, who took second place at 155 pounds to become the school's first wrestling state medalist, is the Record Newspapers Girls Wrestler of the Year.

Here is the 2024-25 All-Kishwaukee River Conference girls wrestling team, as selected by KRC coaches.

Images from the 2025 IHSA girls wrestling state championships in Bloomington on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Oswego senior Kiyah Chavez, an Iowa softball commit, became the first state medalist in the school girls wrestling program's history on Saturday when she took second at 155 pounds at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.