Tag: prep wrestling

With dad battling cancer, Hayden’s Dylan Zimmerman aims for a Parade of Champions showing for both of them

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To get Dylan Zimmerman, it’d be special to progress in his Class 2A mount into the coveted “Parade of Champions” which presents the finalists Saturday night at the Pepsi Center. But to walk under the lights together with his dad and coach, Mark, who has been battling with cancer for over three decades? That’s exactly
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Cherokee Trail two-sport star Sam Hart enters state tournament undefeated and a favorite to win Cougars’ first title

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For all Sam Hart has accomplished in his training careerhe s driven by what he and his college haven’t completed. The Cherokee Trail junior is the preferred at the Class 5A 220-pound mount when the CHSAA country tournament opens Thursday at Pepsi Center. On those mats Hart intends to become the first individual state winner
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CHSAA state wrestling tournament: Schedule, ticket info and individuals, teams to watch

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The 2020 CHSAA state are upon us, with the tournament running Thursday through Saturday in Pepsi Center in Denver. Here’s everything to understand: Schedule The action starts Thursday using 2A/3A preliminaries at 2 pm, followed by 4A/5A preliminaries in 6 pm On Friday, 2A/3A quarterfinals start at 9 a.m., with first-round consolation matches immediately after.
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A roundup of the 2019 Colorado high school state wrestling tournament

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Happy Monday, Omelette readers! History was made this weekend in the Colorado high school state wrestling tournament in the Pepsi Center. A three wrestlers won their fourth state title this season, becoming the 22nd, 23rd and 24th student-athletes to do the mark. And for the first time in the championship ’s 84-year history, a female
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CHSAA state wrestling preview: Names and story lines to know heading into the Pepsi Center

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With the CHSAA state wrestling tournament running Thursday through Saturday at the Pepsi Center, here will be the biggest names and story lines to see. Out a fourpeat is sought by four.  There’so plenty of individual history inclined to be made this weekend like Ponderosa’s Cohl Schultz, Greeley Central’s Andrew Alirez, Pomona’s Theorius Robison and Pueblo County’s Brendon
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As Legacy’s Grady Funk eyes a Class 5A state title, the weight of his family’s wrestling name intensifies

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Most gritty wrestling tales don’t begin with a love story. This one does. Mike Funk met Colleen Senich at Northwestern in the late 1980s, where he was a four-time All-American wrestler while she was a three-time All-American field hockey player who also starred in lacrosse. The two were inducted into Northwestern’s Hall of Fame in 2004. It
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Colorado prep wrestlers closing in on the four-time state champion club

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Together with the 2019 CHSAA state wrestling championship about a month off on Feb. 21-23 at the Pepsi Center, four seniors have been closing in on linking the prestigious four-time winner club. Twenty-one wrestlers have achieved the feat in CHSAA history, with one student-athlete linking the club each of the previous five seasons. This past
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