Some Kansas City area junior varsity wrestlers had an opportunity to compete over the holidays at the Pleasant Hill JV Invitational Thursday. The tournament featured 17 teams and 28 weight divisions. There were no team scores and each weight class was done in a round-robin style format. Video Interviews: Below is a summary of the […]
From youth to high school, the sport of wrestling is short on referees in Missouri. Just ask Kyle Lewis, a Columbia Rock Bridge High School graduate and a veteran referee of 12 years who hires referees for events in the central Missouri area. Lewis said it’s been an issue for the past five years or […]
Two-time state champion Kal Miller had one of his stiffest challenges at Saturday’s Kansas City Stampede Tournament Saturday at Bartle Hall in Kansas City. The tournament brought some of the best wrestlers in the Midwest including Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee. The Park Hill senior won five matches in a loaded bracket that included […]
It was a glorious and a rough night at the same time for the Lebanon girls wrestling team Saturday at Bartle Hall in Kansas City in the Kansas City Stampede Tournament. An unfortunate incident happened in the 125-pound championship match between Lebanon’s Halea Bartel and Nixa’s Brenya Crahan. Bartel got knocked out during the match […]
The Blue Springs South wrestling team is young and inexperienced. This season the Jaguars have taken their licks, especially without Tommy LaPour and Callen Smithpeter being in the lineup due to injuries. So wins have been at a premium for the Jaguars. They met up with a Van Horn team that has had success this […]
When naming some of the top Class 4 teams in the Kansas City area, teams like Liberty, Staley, Park Hill and Blue Springs are among the teams that could come to mind among high school wrestling fans. Park Hill South could be a team that could join that conversation in 2021-22. The Panthers look dominant […]
Mason Sullivan is someone who Blue Springs wrestling coach Bobbe Lowe points to as someone who is stepping up for the Wildcats this season. The 182-pounder is a captain for the Wildcats for the 2021-22 season and has made some strides for his senior. That was evidenced in his tightly-contested match against Lee’s Summit West’s […]
There have been some strong brother duos in the history of Missouri high school wrestling. Van Horn might just have one of those in Tristan and Darrius Page. The brothers each won their weight division at the Grain Valley Invitational last weekend and repeated the same feat at the Truman Invitational Saturday. Tristan won the […]
The Van Horn wrestling program is on the rise. It’s off to a hot start after finishing third at the Grain Valley Tournament and winning the Coffman Invitational last Saturday at Truman High School. That momentum carried into the Independence City Championships Tuesday when the Falcons won the event for the first time as they […]
Year in and year out, the Staley wrestling team is one of the best teams not only in the Kansas City area, but the entire state. The Falcons always seem to be contention for a state plaque every year as top-level wrestlers consistently come through the program. That definitely seemed to be the case in […]