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State Tournament Interviews
Bookmark this page, we’ll be putting state tournament interviews here! Saturday Friday Thursday More
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Kaylynn Albrecht: A Texan Wrestler’s Road to the U.S. Olympic Trials
Only weeks away from the biggest wrestling tournament of her life, so far, Kaylynn Albrecht still marvels at what she has accomplished in the sport in her short time on the mat. The girl who did about every sport she could stumbled upon wrestling in high school and will be competing in the U.S. Olympic […] More
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Texans WC bring back hardware from Twin Rivers Girls Youth Duals in Iowa – Choo named OW
2024 Twin Rivers Girls Youth Duals. 30+ K-8 teams and over 50 high school teams competed on over 20+ mats at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Pool wrestling followed by team championship brackets was the format for this outstanding competition wrestling tournament that featured Texans WC. Texans WC High School Duals Texans […] More
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Texas Women Registered in the 2024 Womens National Championship
The 2024 Marine Corp Women’s National Championship is coming this weekend to Spokane Washington and Texas has 41 entries registered from U23 thru 14U traveling to the northwest coast. Some wrestlers have double entries. Zaylyn Woods was a champ at 12U last year and is registered in the 14U this year. Hailey Delgado is a […] More
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El Paso’s Own: Eighth Grader Hailey Delgado Prepares to Take Texas High School Wrestling by Storm
With high school wrestling in the background now, wrestlers are preparing for the 2024-25 season in Texas. While there are many state qualifiers putting in the work to get back to state, there will also be a group of freshmen trying to make their mark. One to keep an eye on will be El Paso’s […] More
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Olivarez, De La Cruz, Milsaps NHSCA Champions for Texas
The NHSCA Nationals are in the books and Texas Wrestlers will come home with 3 Champions and 23 placers total from all 6 divisions.  The freshman boys come home with 3 placers, the sophomore boys come home with 3 placers as well. The junior boys brought home the most hardware with 6 placers, Including the […] More
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Texas Recap: 2024 NHSCA Nationals – Virginia Beach Day 1
The National High School Coaches Association hosts one of the nation’s toughest and final folkstyle wrestling tournaments, featuring teams from across the United States. With over 100 wrestlers from Texas competing for All-American status, the tournament kicked off with intense competition. Here’s a recap of Day 1’s action. Freshman Division Early in the morning, Hector […] More
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Sisters On The Mat: Uniting Texas Wrestlers for Growth and Community
A little more than a month after the state wrestling tournament wrapped up in Cypress, a handful of wrestlers from the North Texas area are traveling to Prosper Rock Hill High School each Wednesday for a mix of bonding and wrestling. Kortney Livingston, the Rock Hill girls’ wrestling coach, is one of the coaches who […] More
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From Wheelchair to Wrestling Champion: Hadyn Stine’s Remarkable Journey
Hadyn Stine’s trajectory to becoming a state champion — the first ever for Prosper Rock Hill — isn’t like most. The junior won the 6A 145-pound championship with a 40-2 record this season. She was a sixth-place finisher the year prior. That is a big progression for someone who started wrestling in eighth grade. However, […] More
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E’Shawn Tolbert delivers Seguin’s first state title
Charles Bryant just had to watch a little bit of video last summer when he heard Arlington Seguin a pair of brothers transferred in from Portage, Indiana. Newcomers E’Shawn and Lashon Tolbert were joining a Cougars program. E’Shawn, a senior, was a state-ranked wrestler in Indiana and won a sectional title last year. By the […] More
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Record Number of Texas Wrestlers Headed to NHSCA National Championships
The NHSCA Folkstyle National Championships are going down this weekend at Virginia Beach, Virginia with almost 100 Texas wrestlers making the trip east this weekend. 98 Texas wrestlers total will be battling it out against nationally ranked wrestlers from around the USA making this one of the largest amount of Texas wrestlers making the journey […] More
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National Placers for Texans in College
Folkstyle wrestling has finally completed its 2023/2024 season with the end of the NCAA Championships this weekend in Kansas City. Below we listed the Texas College placers from all the national championship tournaments with more detail on the D1. NCAA Division I National Championships More
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Texas wrestlers bring back hardware from Folkstyle Nationals
The 2024 Air Force Special Warfare 16U & Junior Boys and Girls Folkstyle Nationals, hosted in the iconic UNI Dome in Cedar Falls, IA, is primed to be a groundbreaking event in the world of wrestling. This year marks the introduction of a revamped format aimed at showcasing the elite young talent in the 16U […] More
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Texas Shines in The final National Girls High School team rankings
The committee responsible for the National Girls High School Rankings, which includes representatives from USA Wrestling, FloWrestling, and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum located in Texas, announced the final national high school team rankings for the 2023-24 season today. This ranking encompasses both public and private high schools across the United States, […] More
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Brown and Jamison Punch Ticket to Kansas City
The NCAA College D1 boys went down this weekend and we kept up with the Texas wrestlers in the journey to the big Show in Kansas City in two weeks to the NCAA National Championships. This year we have 8 wrestlers who were all Texas state champions from 4 different conferences wrestling to punch their […] More
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Ashley Lekas, NAIA National Champ
The College Women National Championship Tournaments went down this weekend. The NCWWC National Championships went down in Cedar Rapids Iowa at the Alliant Energy Power House and the NAIA National Championships went down at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. The NCWWC currently includes NCAA programs from the Division I, II and III levels. Athletes […] More
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Strategic Victories: A Deep Dive into the 6A Girls Wrestling Finals
With the last bead of sweat dropped, and the mats carefully rolled up and stored for next season, it is time to take a closer look at the 6A Girls’ finals matches, with an eye towards what gave each champion the winning edge. I can tell you beforehand that if coaches and wrestlers want to […] More
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Midlothian’s Eli Biermann & Karson Tompkins: Midlothian’s Undefeated Duo
Midlothian not only had a pair of champions at the boys 5A UIL championships, the Panthers had a pair of undefeated champions. Eli Biermann capped off his perfect season by winning the 138-pound crown, while Karson Tompkins capped it with a 190-pound championship. The title for Biermann was his second, while Tompkins capped off his […] More
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2024 State Tournament Pick’em Winners
Here we go, the results from the 2024 state tournament pick’em! We’ll just display the Top 20+ for each division, we won’t embarrass those who didn’t get many picks correct 🙂 We had a tie for 6A Boys and 5A girls making the winner the person who picked the team title the closest. This was […] More
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Demon Dominance: How Bogner and Baxter’s Triple Titles Tore Up the 5A Record Books
Hunter Bogner became a three-time champion and then teammate Bronson Baxter followed with his third state title. The duo helped the Demons become the first 5A team with multiple three-time champions. In the two-class UIL system, only two teams have accomplished that feat — the other is Arlington Martin thanks to a win by Isaak […] More
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Resilience and Victory: Remarkable Journeys to the UIL 5A Wrestling Championships
There was more than a fair share of 3-time state champions among the 5A boys champions at the UIL Championships held at the Berry Center in Cypress. But only one of the four to 5A wrestlers to win three state champions had a story like the one of Lucas Lovejoy’s Sam Reynolds. The senior won […] More
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Unstoppable Forces: Celebrating the Achievements of 6A Wrestlers at the UIL Championships
Garrett McChensey not only won another state title, he left with the Most Outstanding Wrestler award for 6A wrestlers. That was one of the highlights on the final day of the UIL Championships held on Feb. 17 at the Berry Center in Cypress. The senior capped off his senior season with a 43-0 mark and […] More
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Champions Beyond Team Trophies: Highlighting Individual Triumphs: 5A Girls
We took a look at the top three 5A teams in the standings, now we dive into the state champions in the girls’ bracket that weren’t part of a trophy-winning team. 5A 100 Zurri Zamora won the 5A 100-pound title and earned the most outstanding wrestler award for Amarillo Tascoca. The senior had to rally […] More
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Lubbock Cooper’s Historic Victory: Claiming the State Title with a Dominant Performance
Lubbock Cooper officially won the state title on Feb. 17 at the Berry Center in Cypress. But, the argument could be made a trip to Euless the month prior was the start of the state championship march for the Pirates. Cooper rolled up 99 1/2 points and won the title by 29 1/2 points over […] More
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Azle Shines with Trio of Finalists: Secures Second Place in 5A Girls Wrestling
Behind a trio of finalists, Azle took second in the girls’ 5A title hunt. It was the team’s highest finish since being runners-up at the 2022 finals. The Lubbock Cooper won the title with 99 1/2 points, while the Lady Hornets finished with 70 points in the first year under the guidance of Jayson Conger, […] More
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Frisco’s Remarkable Journey to the Podium: A Third-Place Triumph in Girls Wrestling
Frisco has had a meteoric rise in girls wrestling in recent years and its results showed during the final day of the 5A finals at the Berry Center. The Raccoons placed third overall with 63 points, earning the final trophy by four points ahead of Richmond Foster. Three of the six wrestlers from the original […] More
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Amarillo Tascosa: Five of the six wrestlers earned medals; Rebels place third in the 5A finals
Despite being low in numbers compared to other teams, Amarillo Tascosa made the most of those who made it to Cypress. Five of the six wrestlers earned medals and helped the Rebels place third in the 5A finals — a year after winning the title. Dumas, Canyon Randall and Frisco Centennial are the only programs […] More
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Runner-up Melissa: Half of their qualifiers come home with all-state medals, including two champs
Melissa was vying for it first-ever state title and was in contention after day 1 of the UIL State Wrestling championship. The Cardinals came up short in that quest but took a jump from being fifth last year to finishing second in 5A this year. Coach Oliver Pierce’s program continues to make strides. Ten wrestlers […] More