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 […]
Sampson Stillwell will leave his legacy at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic High School one year earlier than planned. The senior will not be attending the Lee’s Summit school for his final year of high school. Instead, he’s headed to Colorado for the USA Wrestling Elite Accelerator Program. Stillwell entered this season with a chance to […]
This summer Carter Temple committed to being a two-sport athlete like never before. The Kearney wrestler headed to Fargo last month and came back with a national championship in Greco-Roman and was an All-American in freestyle. Last year, he struggled in his first trip to North Dakota after not having a lot of mat time. […]
The St. Pius X brothers, who live in Parkville, competed in two different brackets earlier this month. Kyler was in 16U and Rylan in Juniors at the 2024 USA Wrestling Junior and 16U National Championships in Fargo, North Dakota. Kyler was a double all-American in freestyle and Greco-Roman, while Rylan added his third All-American medal in freestyle. “It was awesome,” […]
Miller Sipes joined a pretty exclusive club when he won the 16U Greco-Roman championship at the 2024 USA Wrestling Junior and 16U National Championships in Fargo, North Dakota. The junior-to-be at Staley High School became only the school’s third-ever Fargo champion. The two before him? Missouri standouts Rocky Elam and Zach Elam. “It’s pretty great (to join them), […]
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 […]
Chance Ruble just sent a big message to all college wrestling coaches from his performance at Fargo. Last year’s trip to Fargo was one that Chance Ruble still remembers for the wrong reasons — an early exit and no medals. This year, the Seckman standout went back to North Dakota and came back with a […]
The trip to Fargo for the 2024 USA Wrestling Junior and 16U National Championships provided a start and ending for Kevin Carey. The Nixa High School assistant wrestling coach attended the tournament not only as a referee for the first time but he was also as a coach/dad for the last time. Carey had been a referee off and […]
