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I told her I wouldn t want her any other way."

Kandice had the OK from her new coach, but a more pressing approval was still to be obtained.

"I was the one that was totally against it,” said Kandice's father, Kerry Calderwood. "When the coach asked me, I said, 'No, absolutely not.'

"Then I left and went out of town, and when I came back, she was wrestling.”

"I just think it's a boys’ sport," said her father. "It always has been, and it's a rough sport. I Wrestled in high school, and some of the matches are brawls."

"I was really nervous," said Pixie Calderwood, Kandice's mother. "I had some mixed feelings about it in the beginning, but I feel she's earned her spot on the team, and I'm proud that she’s sticking with it."

Earned her spot she has, with three match victories on her brief resume, including a pin in 47 seconds of Marshall freshman Bob Azadi, Jan. 15.

Kandice is hardly the first woman to wear a singlet, but she is the first, in Loudoun County at least, to wear the uniform and excel as she has.

According to her parents, Kandice" really isn't the epitome of an athlete. Her sister Jamie is currently performing for the school's gymnastic squad, and, as her proud parents say, has the athletic blood in her veins more than Kandice has.

That doesn't mean to that Kandice is fragile. No, she’s a tomboy through an^ through.

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