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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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Denver Sports Omelette: Coaches name their Colorado high school football players of the year

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Votes are in. Colorado high school football coaches have voted on their 2018 all-state teams and the results were published on CHSAANow.com on Thursday afternoon, with all seniors controlling player-of-the-year awards. The outlier? Colorado Gatorade Player of the Year, Fairview’s Aidan Atkinson, also a professional who’s already committed to Northwestern over supplies from Boise State,
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