Senior Emma Hanrahan is living the Cinderella life. The only thing for her…she hopes the clock doesn’t strike midnight.

Hanrahan has been on cloud nine ever since coming home on that historic Sunday night ten days ago with all the hardware. She has done something no other female wrestler has ever done at Tipp and only two other female athletes have ever done in school history, win a state championship.

Hanrahan dominated everyone at the OHSAA girls state wrestling championships on the campus of The Ohio State University by crushing the 130-pound weight class, not giving up a point in her four matches which included two pins.

“It doesn’t even feel real right now,” Hanrahan said. “I’m looking back at it and when I was a freshman, I never thought I would have gone to where I am, but now that I am here, it really makes me feel good about myself.”

“It makes me want more and I am coming for a National title this summer, hopefully. We will see.”

Hanrahan opened the state tournament with a pin on her opening match, followed by two shutouts of 15-0 and 6-0 to advance to the state finals against an opponent she has faced already this year.

“It was my last high school tournament and I wanted to leave it all out there and see what happens. You can only control what you do,” she said. “I wasn’t as worried about my finals match. I beat her 10-0 this year once and pinned her the second time. It’s like I blackout when I wrestle and just know what to do.”

Hanrahan will always be the first state champion at Tipp in girls wrestling and it is something she will be able to always have when she walks back into the school years from now and sees her banner hanging in the gym.

“It feels great to be the first to win one here, and I am going to come back here one day and get to show everyone that (the banner) is mine,” she said. “Hopefully the other girls who will be wrestling later who are in the youth program now will be up there too.”

Hanrahan will now prepare for a big summer as she heads out to the Nationals with Team Ohio but is uncertain where she will wrestle in college, but plans to do so and major in pre physical therapy or kinesiology.

This championship is something she hopes will make people look differently at girls wrestling and will allow it to grow at Tipp.

“I feel I have earned a lot of peoples’ respect hopefully and they will see me as a competitor and not just a girl now,” she said. “They will think differently about girls wrestling.”