CHASING PERFECTION: JADEN MEADOWS, SANDIA HIGH SCHOOL

With the weight of her final season on her shoulders, Sandia High School senior Jaden Meadows is preparing for the finale.

“I think my senior year is pretty good, I couldn’t wish for a better senior year,” said Sandia High School wrestler Jaden Meadows.

She’s not wrong.  Senior Jaden Meadows is perfect, undefeated this season.  In fact, the senior has only lost one match in her entire high school career.  “That’s kind of been my goal all four years, but obviously things could happen,” she said of her undefeated record this year.  “It’s more of being in a good mind state and not just going in thinking I’m going to stay undefeated and whoop on everybody.”

She has a long list of opponents who can verify just how good she is. “I’m aggressive on the mat and most of the time I have a flow when I’m wrestling and I can go from move to move to move and take a shot and turn somebody,” she said.

Jaden is a three-time state champion, looking to cap off her career with a fourth this weekend. “It’s an amazing feeling to go out there and show people that you are worthy of winning a state title and even that you’re worthy, as a girl, of just wrestling,” she explained.

Her journey on the mat started with someone close to home.  “I got into wrestling because of my brother,” she explained. “He wrestled when I was younger and then at the age of five there was a King of the Mat they had one day and I went in there and basically beat all the boys up until my brother.  That’s when I knew I wanted to wrestle.”

Now her dreams stretch beyond the high school mat. “One of my goals is to at least try and go the Olympics and go to the Trials and be able to be seen under that light,” she said.

From a five-year old taking on anyone in her path, to a senior chasing perfection, Jaden Meadows has become one of the most successful wrestlers in New Mexico.