Tyra Bookman wrestles as a junior at McCaskey. She has accumulated 17 wins through her sophomore year. Tyra wrestles
any of these weight classes 136, 142 and 148 pounds. She hopes to start off strong in McCaskey’s first match, a tournament at Boiling Springs.
Last wrestling season Tyra ranked at 18th in the state meet. She plans to improve that ranking this year.
The McCaskey wrestling team recently graduated all the seniors who started the wrestling program at McCaskey in 2023. This year’s team is mostly juniors, sophomores and freshmen with four seniors.
Tyra has a packed school year of sports as a 3-sport athlete -- field hockey, wrestling and track. In track she is a sprinter
competing in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
In the off season to prep for wrestling, Tyra competes on the Lancaster Alliance of Women Wrestlers team.
In school at McCaskey, she is a peer mediator and a link leader, helping freshmen acclimate to high school.
In Tyra’s academic future are plans to study early childhood education in hopes of becoming an teacher and
scholastic athletic coach. “Definitely a coach,” she says.
A quote Tyra lives by is "You can be successful no matter from where you come.”
