High school wrestling season in Kansas City is officially underway and the first tournament of the year took place Saturday. Many girls wrestlers had their first chance to get involved in tournament competition in a few months as the 2024-25 season kicked off with the Fest in The Nest girls wrestling tournament at Staley High […]
The MO West Fire Dragons, a team that consisted of some of the best girls in Missouri had a chance to do something impressive. It entered a tough Central Cup Dual Tournament, which featured girls wrestlers from Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Sunday at Belton High School. The Fire Dragons started off well in their pool […]
It had been two months since a lot of high school boys’ wrestlers in Missouri competed. That’s because the last big wrestling tournament took place in mid-July at U.S. Marine Corps Junior & 16U National Tournament in Fargo, N.D. For a lot of the wrestlers competing in Saturday’s Super Early 32 Tournament Saturday at Belton […]
The atmosphere at the FARGODOME was nerve wracking for Holt graduate Cassidy Benwell. She was preparing for her championship match with Zao Estrada of Hilton Head, S.C. in the 115-pound junior division of the U.S. Marine Corps Junior & 16U Nationals tournament on July 14 in Fargo, N.D. The Holt grad didn’t have anyone there […]
Recent Fort Osage graduate Aroma Marrufo looked up to former teammate Haley Ward. Ward came from a wrestling family and was a prodigy coming into the Indians girls wrestling program. She was a four-time Missouri state champion, was a two-time gold medalist at the Pan-American Wrestling Championships and a multi-time All-American in the U.S. Marine […]
With some big tournaments coming up like national duals and the Southern Plains Regional Championships, some wrestlers got some competitive mat time in at the Kumite Championships. Those two big tournaments will take place in late May and early June, so competing at the Kumite Tournament was a chance for some of the top-level wrestlers […]
GroWrestling hosted its final freestyle tournament of the season as it hosted the Ultimate Freestyle Tournament last Saturday at Blue Springs High School. Watch interviews from: Some wrestlers were in the thick of things and had competed in freestyle tournaments since the beginning of the month. Others were wrestling their first freestyle tournament of the […]
Takeaways: One of the biggest freestyle wrestling tournaments in the Kansas City area took place last Saturday as several Missouri wrestlers competed in the Fight or Flight Tournament at Platte County High School. Ninety high-school aged girls competed in the cadet and junior freestyle divisions and there were 13 competing in the Greco Division. Wrestler […]
Takeaways: One of the biggest freestyle wrestling tournaments in the Kansas City area took place last Saturday as several Missouri wrestlers competed in the Fight or Flight Tournament at Platte County High School. Two-hundred and twenty-two high-school aged boys competed in the cadet and junior freestyle divisions and there were 100 competing in the Greco […]
Park Hill junior Angelina Vargas’ didn’t have the ending of her 2023-24 season she wanted. She had two state championships in 2022 and 2023, but she was upset in the championship match of this year’s state tournament by Fort Zumwalt South’s Jena Gumahin, who pinned Vargas in the third period. Wrestler Interviews: The junior had […]