There are Seeds who arrive at Renfort with a passion so clear, so alive, that our role is simply not to dim it. Emiliana Osorio, from class J3-C, is one of them. At just 13 years old, this athlete from Antioquia has already earned national and international recognition, departmental medals, and a level of determination rarely seen at her age. And in June, she will do it again: she will compete in the National Freestyle Wrestling Championship, which will take place in Medellín.
A Story That Began with Fighting
Emiliana was never an ordinary child. From a young age, her favorite way to play involved wrestling, movement, and energy. Her parents, David and Lina, tried skating, tennis, horseback riding, and ballet. But her answer was always the same: she wanted to fight. That was when a psychologist advised them to consider martial arts as a way to channel all that energy, and that is how everything began.
At the age of 11, Emiliana became the first Colombian girl to win the world jiu-jitsu championship, a title she conquered in Abu Dhabi and repeated the following year. In 2025, she returned to the same stage and won the silver medal in the 44-kilogram division. That same year, she became champion at the Antioquia Departmental Games Final in freestyle wrestling, held in Girardot, representing Itagüí.
Her story was featured twice by El Colombiano: first in December 2025 with the profile “Emiliana Osorio, the young athlete succeeding in jiu-jitsu and freestyle wrestling,” and again in May 2026, when she was highlighted as one of the major promises of the National Championship in “Medellín welcomes the National Freestyle Wrestling Championship.”
(El Colombiano, Jheyner A. Durango Hurtado)
Photographs taken by @graciecolombia on Instagram
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The National Challenge Ahead
From June 3 to 7, Medellín will welcome nearly 300 athletes from ten leagues across the country at the combat coliseum of the Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex. The competition will include U-15 and U-20 categories and will serve as a qualifier for the Pan American Games in the category, which will take place in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.
For Emiliana, this is not just another tournament. It is the opportunity to achieve something she has not yet accomplished, and she carries that goal with impressive clarity: “This National Championship is special because qualification for the Pan American Championship in Mexico is at stake, and I want to join the Colombian National Team in wrestling for the first time,” the athlete expressed.
The challenge means competing against older and more experienced opponents. But Emiliana already knows what it means to win under those conditions. “Competing with older girls makes me feel proud. I learn so much, I gain more technique and speed, and at the same time it shows me that I can be at their level,” she said. Her ultimate goal remains the Olympic Games, and every competition brings her one step closer to that tangible dream.
Renfort: The Education That Did Not Ask Her to Choose
There is something that makes Emiliana’s story also Renfort’s story. To train at the level she trains, to travel for competitions, and to dedicate the time her sport deserves, she needed an educational model that would not force her to sacrifice one thing for the other.
And Renfort offered her exactly that: a personalized education that adapts to her rhythm and her life. A flexible system that allows her to learn without disrupting her training plans, without lowering her academic level, and above all, without having to choose between being a student and being a high-performance athlete.
This is why we exist. We do not ask our Seeds to become less than who they are. We build an environment where what makes them unique has room to grow. Emiliana is not the exception; she is the example of what happens when a Seed can be, all at once, everything she is.
At Renfort, we are with you from the heart, Emiliana.
We follow you, support you, and celebrate every step. Let’s go, Seed!
Red de Colegios Renfort
Communications · May 2026
