Deanna Rix

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1. https://www.sunjournal.com/2005/01/29/deanna-rix-records-100th-wrestling-win/ · Sun Journal, Jan. 29, 2005 (AP): Deanna Rix beat Noble's Heath DeVoll 5-2 in the 130-pound class for her 100th high school wrestling win and became the first female interscholastic wrestler in Maine to reach the milestone; it was her 22nd win of the season and she was 16-0 at 130 and 6-1 at 135; her father Matt was the Marshwood coach; she started wrestling at age 4; official records for girls in the sport had not been established in Maine or nationwide; she would attend Northern Michigan University on a full wrestling scholarship in the fall; her next stated goal was to win the state tournament
2. https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/10062438-womens-stars-leading-boys-and-girls-high-school-wrestling-teams · FloWrestling, Nov. 30, 2022, by Kyle Klingman: officials stopped mats B and C at the Maine state wrestling championships because so many people wanted to watch Rix's 2005 Class A final, where a win would have made her the first woman to defeat a boy in a state tournament final; she lost with four seconds to go in double overtime; she is quoted on the pressure and on realizing later that she was the only girl out there; Rix, now Betterman, placed fifth at the 2008 and 2009 World Championships; she coaches middle school and high school wrestling at James Irwin Charter Academy in Colorado Springs and runs Betterman Elite with her husband Joe, a two-time Greco-Roman World teamer, a club they founded in 2013
3. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/sports/high-school/wrestling/2023/03/15/marshwood-matt-rix-inducted-into-high-school-wrestling-hall-of-fame/69991162007/ · Seacoast Media Group, March 15, 2023, on Matt Rix's induction into the New England High School Wrestling Hall of Fame: he coached Marshwood for 35 years, 33 as head coach, and the Hawks won 10 state titles under him; his daughter Deanna won three national titles and became Maine's first girl to win 100 matches while wrestling in the boys division; she missed making history as the first female wrestler in the United States to win a boys state championship in 2005, losing in the final seconds of the Class A state final at 130 pounds; Deanna is a wrestling coach in Colorado with her husband
4. https://www.fosters.com/story/sports/2006/02/14/a-fresh-start-deanna-rix/52550178007/ · Foster's Daily Democrat, Feb. 14, 2006: Rix, 18, the former 100-win wrestler at Marshwood, finished second at the Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs on Feb. 4, pinned in the final by 24-year-old Canadian Breanne Graham, who was ranked 13th internationally at 59 kilograms (130 pounds); two-time World bronze medalist Sally Roberts was third and Rix was unranked; Rix won the National Junior Women's Championship in Fargo, N.D., on July 29-30, 2005 at 128 pounds and was named the meet's outstanding wrestler, her third career Junior National title and a record for girls; she left Northern Michigan University and the U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette after a semester; she was listed with the New York Athletic Club at the October 2005 Sunkist Invitational, where she was fourth wrestling up at 138.5 pounds, was second at the New York Athletic Club meet in November and first at the Canadian Cup; national women's coach Terry Steiner invited her to train at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs; she planned to compete at 59 kg with an eye on 55 kg
5. https://www.themat.com/news/2009/march/05/usa-beats-canada-in-two-women--19908 · USA Wrestling, on the USA vs. Canada women's exhibition wrestled at halftime of a Lehigh dual at Stabler Arena, listed on the page as Bethlehem, Pa., November 21: Deanna Rix (South Berwick, Maine/New York AC) pinned Amanda Gerhardt of Canada with a headlock at 1:56 at 130 pounds after leading 5-0. The athlete biography block reads: born July 6, 1987; college Northern Michigan; high school Marshwood, Maine; fifth in 2008 World Championships; 2008 World Team Trials champion; fourth in 2008 U.S. Nationals; 2008 University Nationals champion; 2006-07 FILA Junior Nationals champion; third in 2006 U.S. Nationals; 2003-05 Junior Nationals champion; second in 2005 Maine HS state championships, competing against boys. The page also says she competed on the 2007 U.S. Junior World Team.
6. https://www.themat.com/news/2008/october/12/deanna-rix-places-fifth-to-lea-19611 · USA Wrestling, Oct. 11, 2008, from the Women's World Championships at Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo: Rix lost the 59 kg/130 lbs. bronze medal match 1-0, 1-0 to Elvira Mursalova of Azerbaijan, both periods scoreless after two minutes before Mursalova won the ball draws and finished takedowns from the clinch; Rix finished fifth in her first World Championships appearance and went 2-2; she had swept Nestan Kiiazova of Kyrgyzstan in her first wrestleback; she is described as a past National High School Wrestler of the Year; U.S. coach Terry Steiner is quoted on the match
7. https://www.themat.com/news/2010/june/15/deanna-rix-named-2009-usa-wres-22125 · USA Wrestling, June 15, 2010: Deanna Rix (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC) named 2009 Women's Wrestler of the Year, the first time she received the award; she placed fifth at 59 kg/130 lbs. at the 2009 World Championships in Herning, Denmark in September, her second straight fifth, and was one of three U.S. women who were fifth that year; she qualified by winning the 2009 World Team Trials in Council Bluffs, Iowa in May, defeating Kelsey Campbell in the championship series, after finishing second to Campbell at the 2009 U.S. Open in Las Vegas in April; that season she won the Dave Schultz Memorial International and the Guelph Open, was second at the Sunkist Kids International, the New York AC International and the Canada Cup, took bronze at the Hargobind International and the Ukrainian Memorial, and went 3-1 at the Women's World Cup; she was a U.S. Olympic Training Center resident athlete who attended Northern Michigan and Marshwood High School in Maine, was second in the state tournament competing against boys, and won three Junior National titles
8. https://www.themat.com/news/2011/february/09/deanna-rix-earns-third-straigh-23093 · USA Wrestling, Feb. 9, 2011: Rix won her third straight Dave Schultz Memorial International Open title at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, beating Canada's Amanda Gerhart 1-0, 1-0 at 59 kg/130 lbs.; the finals results list her with the Sunkist Kids; she is described as having placed fifth in the World in 2008 and 2009; Canada won the team title and the Sunkist Kids were second
9. https://www.bettermanelitewrestling.com/deanna-betterman/ · Betterman Elite Wrestling Club page for Deanna Betterman: a former Olympic-level athlete in women's freestyle who was ranked among the top five wrestlers in the United States, with tournament wins and placements overseas; now retired from competing; previously led Colorado USA Women's Wrestling and is a coach with the Betterman Elite Wrestling Club
10. https://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/01/former-star-wrestler-from-maine-back-on-mat-with-new-fervor/ · Portland Press Herald, April 1, 2016: Deanna Betterman, 28 and a mother of two living in Colorado Springs, had chased a spot on the U.S. Olympic women's wrestling team for 10 years and was focused on the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials on April 9-10 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City; she is the daughter of Marshwood High wrestling coach Matt Rix and made headlines in 2005 when she nearly won a Maine high school state championship competing against boys; her husband is Joe Betterman
11. https://vancouversun.com/sports/vancouver-wrestler-amanda-gerhart-kicked-under-the-bus-by-two-year-ban · Vancouver Sun: 'Vancouver wrestler Amanda Gerhart says she feels like she's been kicked under the bus...'; the photo caption on the same page reads 'Canada's Amanda Gerhart at the senior wrestling world championship in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2011.' Used to settle the spelling of the Canadian opponent Deanna Rix beat in 2008 and 2011.
12. https://www.themat.com/news/2009/may/21/u-s--world-team-trials-women-s-20351 · USA Wrestling, May 21, 2009, World Team Trials preview at 59 kg/130 lbs.: 'Kelsey Campbell claimed her first U.S. Senior National title this year, upsetting No. 1 ranked Deanna Rix in the finals'; the results block lists '1st - Kelsey Campbell, Tempe, Ariz. (Sunkist Kids) dec. Deanna Rix, Colorado Springs, Colo. (New York AC), 0-1, 1-0, 1-0'; Rix is named the 2009 Dave Schultz Memorial International champion and Guelph Open champion
13. https://www.cleveland.com/olympics/2016/04/olympic_wrestling_trials_2016_2.html · Cleveland.com live results from the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, women's freestyle 53 kg: 'Deanna Betterman, Sunkist dec. Samantha Klingel, King 3-1' and 'Michaela Hutchison, TMWC dec. Deanna Betterman, Sunkist 3-0'. No final placing for Betterman appears on the page.