The familiar setting in Lock Haven as in many cities throughout Pennsylvania for athletes is the local wrestling room.  Hot and stuffy, tightly packed bodies fighting for space.  The consistent sound of limbs pounding on the mat, going through repetitions of drills to hone the techniques meant to make champions.      The wrestling look is familiar as well, a steady stream of steely eyed competitors with worn tournament t-shirts and tattered sweatshirts.  Bruises and scrapes and taped fingers are commonplace with the athletes on the crowded training surface.  Wrestlers quickly go from drill to drill and rarely grab an occasional shot of water.  There's little time for let up, a wrestler's drive and focus is always on that next goal.  But, even in Lock Haven, also known as "Mat Town USA", it's sometimes necessary for one athlete to take the occasional "PTO"--a ponytail timeout, in Mat Town USA.       Sara McMann has earned her way on to the United States Women's World Wrestling Team.  McMann who wrestles at 62 kgs is one of many American Women Wrestlers transforming the look of amateur wrestling nationwide.  However, McMann with a wide smile and an infectious laugh off the mat in no way would be a disappointment to the fan of hard-nosed, in your face wrestling.      Sara McMann at age 21 sports a wrestler's build born out of the same hard work and sacrifice that other male wrestlers have been carrying though the generations of competitive wrestling.  Call her cut, shredded or ripped---the traditional muscle terms once reserved for males can be fairly used in describing this World Team athlete.        On a recent visit to a mall in Colorado Springs McMann had a familiar conversation.  While picking up some lotion to combat the drying skin from the frequent training and showering during the Women's World Camp, a thirty-something retailer jealously remarked on how wonderful it must be to be so muscled and physically fit to McMann.      McMann politely accepted the compliment from the lady, but as she headed out of the mall she said, "I hear that a lot from people, but if they only knew how hard I had to work to get this way they wouldn't even think about trading places with me.  There's no shortcuts in wrestling; I've done things that would make a billygoat puke."      McMann is as tough minded as wrestlers come.  "Steel sharpens Steel", is one of her favorite phrases.  She walks the walk and talks the talk, and rarely is wrestling far out of McMann's thoughts.      Sara McMann knew about wrestling from an early age following an older brother to youth wrestling practices.  Like many youngsters on the sides of mat waiting for practice to finish up Sara could be seen mimicking the movements of the older kids on the mats, the sprawls, the shots, the running and the pushups.  "I loved being around wrestling when I was growing up", McMann said, "My dad was of the mindset that wrestling was for the boys, so I didn't get started until I was in high school."        Eventually though, as the teenage years rebelliousness came out Sara's parents Thomas and Paula relented and allowed McMann to join the wrestling team at her high school in North Carolina.  McMann's community and coach weren't quite ready to allow girls to wrestle but once challenged, McMann's mother was in full support and Sara's father conceded to the push.  "Wrestling was something I always wanted to do.  It just sucked me in.  I wasn't doing it to be a trailblazer or to tread on the "boys" territory.  I just wanted to wrestle."      McMann eventually won over her high school coach, Tim Hutchins, with her hard work.  According to McMann she liked it when the coach in the heat of a tough practice would yell, "You're getting outworked by a girl.  You guys better suck it up."      McMann wrestled on varsity consistently throughout her high school career.  She competed in the middleweights wrestling up to a 135 pounds.  Her senior year she finished with a 15-13 record, and at least one stern lecture.  Once when an opponent backed out of a match for the fear of losing to a girl, McMann did the unsporting thing and through her headgear across the gym.  "I got treated like any other wrestler.  There was no way my coach was going to accept that kind of tantrum.  I learned the same type of lessons about sportsmanship from wrestling and in the same ways."      With Women's Wrestling no longer in its infancy and battling for recognition in the Olympic movement, McMann has a great deal of respect for the women that started to lay the groundwork for acceptability.  Tricia Sauners, multiple-World Champion and America's World Team representative at 46 kgs, is among those the McMann cites.  "She is a great person who speaks her mind and is always willing to help me on a personal level", says McMann "and wrestling wise she's very strategic and tough."      While many people promoting Women's Wrestling believe that true acceptance can only be gained by the addition of the sport into the Olympics, McMann doesn't seem hung up on that barrier.  "Sure I want to see Women's Wrestling in the Olympics, but not at the expense of Men's Wrestling.  If that doesn't happen then it's not like I'm going to stop wrestling.  I'll just have to settle for being a multiple-World Champion instead."      Throughout the summer after her victory in the World Team Trials, McMann would venture from her residence in Lock Haven to workout at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  McMann's heavy regiment of training is bolstered by her disappointment from last summer's World Championships.      When speaking about the Worlds from 2000, Sara's jaw tightens and eyes narrow.  "I didn't have a good Worlds last year", McMann shortly replies, "I lost to the girl who won it, Nikola Hartman from Austria, and ended up finishing 9th."  There's no humor in her voice remembering the experience.  Her mood quickly sours but returns to what it will take to be a champion.      Like any wrestler after a bitter defeat McMann uses last summer's tournament to motivate her for this year's Worlds.  "I'll be attacking every second of my match.  I can't sit back and wait for my opponent.  I have to take the match to her."      McMann expresses her love for close combat competition saying, "I was meant to wrestle and I thrive on the pressure of a big tournament," as she finishes a meal before heading to another practice at the wrestling room.  McMann always looks forward to her trips to the OTC.  The coaching and training partners coupled with the environment of the Olympic setting would heighten anybody's determination to maximize their potential before a major competition.      In getting access to terrific training, McMann cites the importance of the support of the Sunkist Wrestling Club founded by Art Martori.  This year all six women on the World Team wrestle for the Sunkist Club.  The clean sweep of Women's weight classes is not lost on McMann.  "We joked that the Women's World Team warm-up should have the Sunkist logo on it.  But, really I couldn't have reached the level I'm at without the great support of Art Martori and the Sunkist Club.  They get me to the tournaments and make sure I have access to great partners and coaches, and it has really helped me to improve."      When and where Sara McMann will get to wrestle for another shot at her first World Title is still a mystery.  The stunning tragedy in New York set her goal back a bit farther out of reach.  However, her training did not drop off as word of the postponement worked its way to the wrestlers.  "It's a terrible thing that happened.  I really want to wrestle in