Yohanni Costa '21 Recruiting Profile

Hello Coaches welcome to my profile! My name is Yohanni Costa and I’m from Brazil. To begin with I have three sisters and I moved here with them and my parent. It was really hard for my parents to make the decision of moving to the United State because they didn’t want to leave our family and friends and we have a big family in Brazil. Unfortunately Brazil was getting really bad, the education wasn’t that good and even if you worked really hard you weren’t going to get good results. As they had four daughters they wanted a good future for us and they knew that if they moved here with me and my sisters we could have great opportunities if we worked really hard. As we loved doing sports since birth we had in mind in joining some sport that we would like and try to get a scholarship to go to college because my parents wouldn’t be able to afford college for their four daughters neither here and Brazil. It has been four years since 2015 that I moved to the United States it was really hard to move here because I didn’t know the language. It was a whole different new culture for me. As the days passed I started learning English and I was getting much better each day. When I moved here I went to Florida first, a city called Boca Raton and I stayed there for three years. My first year I was in 7 grade and I did track & field, I ran 800. On my first time competing I got in 1 place but I realized that Track wasn´t for me. On my first year of high school I started wrestling for the first time and I really liked. I went to States but unfortunately I got a concussion in one of my matches and I had to go to the hospital. After all of this I had a feeling of winning and my main goal was “You are going to be a State Champion” and I worked really hard to achieve it. Florida wasn’t a good place for an immigrant to get money, my mom worked as a house cleaner and my dad also worked a lot. Our condition wasn´t good then they decided to move to a town called Malden in Massachusetts. When I arrived in Malden I got a little bit upset because they didn’t have any girls at the wrestling team on my high school and they didn´t have that much of girls tournaments but I still didn’t give up even if I knew I would have to wrestle only guys. I wanted to be varsity (even if it was too hard to beat the guy on my weight class)but I won the match and I became a varsity. I’m the type of woman who works really hard when I want something. After I had a concussion at girls states tournament in Florida I had a dream to become a state champion. There are women who wrestle since birth and never had the chance of being a state champion, it has been 2 years I wrestle and I became the first ever Girls State champion 2019 in my school at the state of Massachusetts. Sometimes I can have many problems in my life as everyone have but I’m someone who will never give up until I got what I want and I’ll always find a way to get through no matter what happens I won’t give up that’s my quote “DO NOT GIVE UP” and that’s why my main goal now is to get a scholarship and make my parents really proud of me. I hope you liked reading a little bit about my story in US and I really hope you would like to have me in your team. Thank You.