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losing some, she
made a name
for herself as
the Lansing
area's sole
female wrestler.
"When she
got into high
school, I some-
how got ahold
of a USA
Wrestler maga-
zine," said Gail
Wolfe, Lamb's
mother. "And in
that magazine, I
saw an article
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that said,
`Women's
Lamb, on top, at the 1998 World Championship team trials.
Nationals in
Toledo, Ohio.'
So I said, 'Look, Lauren, there's a
I had to take a semester away from
women's meet you could go to.'
school" when a tournament was sched-
"I didn't realize it was the biggest
uled near mid-term exams. Despite the
women's meet in the country, but I
difficulties of balancing her academic
took her there. She was 13."
and sports lives, Lamb won't allow one
After seven years of being the only
to detract from the other.
girl in the ring, Lamb would have the
Morton Hoffman, rabbi emeritus
opportunity to grapple with other
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
girls from throughout the country.
Lansing, has watched Lamb juggle
"She practiced with the girls all week
her interests throughout the years. In
and then they had a tournament on the
school and synagogue, he said, "she
weekend, and she won," Wolfe said.
was a solid citizen. And she was a
The only rule that prevented Lamb
leader. She was a leader in Okemos
from going on to the world champi-
High School in many activities.
onship tournament was her age: she was
"At her invitation, I was invited to
slightly too young to qualify.
come to Okemos High School and
Now, recently married to fellow
offer up a session on what Jews
wrestler Casey Lamb and a graduating
believe. And that was her doing," he
senior at Cornell (Ithaca, N.Y.)
recalled.
University, Lauren Lamb is still at the
"We're only about 2,000 Jews in
top of her sport. A five-time national
this area," Rabbi Hoffman said. But
champion, she has competed
Lamb's contributions and gains from
throughout the world, placing in five
greater Lansing were substantial, he
world championships and several
continued. "For a small Jewish com-
other international meets.
munity, she had major immersion in
Nearly as difficult as the sport itself
Jewish organizations, clubs, activities.
has been her effort to gain recogni-
After she was both bat mitzvah and
tion for an activity considered by
confirmed, she became a teacher's
most to be male territory. Even with-
aide in our religious school."
in her family, Lamb said, she got
Lamb's involvement in Jewish pro-
mixed responses to her pursuit.
grams also included camping and
"My grandparents never really
traveling to Israel with Young Judaea.
approved. But as the years have gone
Now finding herself graduating
by, even my grandma will be cheering
this month and continuing to hold
at tournaments now.
her own at her sport's highest levels,
"Usually it just takes people time
Lamb is keeping an eye on the future.
to warm up to the idea. Some people
With women's wrestling gaining in
just have ideas that women just
popularity, she hopes one day to rep-
shouldn't be in a physical combat
resent her country in the Olympics.
sport like that."
But right now, she's job hunting,
Studying chemistry full-time in a
looking for a synagogue to join
rigorous program while staying in com-
around Cornell, and dreaming of
petitive shape hasn't been easy, she
being a science teacher and wrestling
said. "It's been tough to do them both.
coach.

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