Athens Crowns Three Champs; Wins Team Title At Jarvis Tournament
By: Tim Birney / December 7, 2025 / Photo: Tim Birney
ATHENS - Athens crowned three champs - senior Hanna Rathbun, junior Joyce Clink, and freshman Skylynn Payne - and had two runners-up, and won the team title here Saturday at the annual Jarvis Memorial Girls Wrestling Tournament.
Sophomore Alyssa Rinebold and junior Abigail Wagner were runners-up, and freshmen Evelyn Cummings, Charlotte Rosh and Chelsey Renninger were all third-place finishers for the Wildcats, who amassed 150 points, well ahead of runner-up Selinsgrove, which had 124.5 points, and third-place Milton, which had 82 points.
Rathbun was 5-0 on the day - all first-period falls - to win the 136-pound bracket. Her quickest fall of the day was 33 seconds, her longest matches (1:33 and 1:37) both came against NEB's Mackenzie Clark - first in pool play and then in the championship match.
See how the rest of the Lady Wildcats placed on Valley Sports Report.
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Tim Birney
Tim Birney is the founder / owner of River Road Media Group. He was born and raised in the Valley, graduating from Waverly High School in 1984.
Birney earned an Associate's Degree in Journalism from SUNY Morrisville in 1986 and a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism / Public Relations from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1988. He began his newspaper career at The Daily Review in Towanda in 1989, before moving on to The Evening Times in 1995. He spent more than 10 years at the Times, the last four as Managing Editor.
River Road Media Group includes five sites in "The Sports Reports" family that cover 24 school districts in five counties: Valley Sports Report (launched Aug. 10, 2009), Tioga County (NY) Sports Report (Aug. 13, 2018), and Northern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 31, 2020); Northern Tier West Sports Report (March 15, 2021) Southern Tier Sports Report (Aug. 16, 2021).
