Wrestling places third at state
With three individual state champions, the wrestling team finished third at state on
After placing third at the state tournament, the wrestling team poses for a picture
March 2, 2021
The wrestling team finished third at state on Saturday, Feb 27. Three wrestlers won individual state titles: seniors Brodie Scott, Caiden Casella and Ethan Kremer who placed first in the 195, 220 and 285-pound weight classes, respectively. In addition, another seven wrestlers placed in the top eight of their respective weight classes.
Caiden Casella, your 2021 5A State Champion 220lbs. pic.twitter.com/uDcF3uQnUd
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For Scott, winning an individual state title allowed him to reach his goal.
“It’s what I’ve been looking forward to my whole high school wrestling career.” Scott said. “To go undefeated and end on a win feels amazing.”
Eddie Hughart, 2021 Runner-up at 113 lbs. pic.twitter.com/bgOHVopU4O
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Wrestling coach Travis Keal was happy with the team’s performance.
“I thought we wrestled hard,” Keal said. “5A is a really tough division and our kids battled and fought all day. At the end of the day, we came home with a third place trophy which is really something to be proud of.”
Carson Dulitz, 4th place at 138 lbs. pic.twitter.com/qmdaS8RtOb
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Scott attributes a lot of his success to the team around him.
“Everywhere except in the actual match wrestling is a team sport,” Scott said. “Without good practice partners, it’s hard to improve. Without support from friends and coaches, you won’t succeed.”
Ethan Kremer, 2021 5A State Champion at 285lbs. 3X Champion in H.S. Career!! pic.twitter.com/EEiY5rSMyH
— mvjaguars (@mvjaguars) February 27, 2021
With the difficulty of the year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Keal was happy that the team was even able to wrestle.
“Coming into the season, with all the COVID protocols I was just hoping that we could wrestle some,” Keal said. “We didn’t know what it was going to look like, or if we could even get there. We had some struggles early, and then at the end of January and February we got into our rhythm and started getting better. This was a pretty good year, considering all the things that were going on.”
Dillon Cooper, 3rd place at 106 Lbs. pic.twitter.com/9ZHfoxMfu0
— mvjaguars (@mvjaguars) February 27, 2021
For Scott, the difficulty of the year helped him to prepare for the increased competition at state.
“This year was more mentally challenging because we had to deal with people being quarantined, sick, or the schedule being moved or cancelled,” Scott said. “This prepared us for the toughness of state.”
Brodie Scott, 2021 5A State Champion at 195 lbs. pic.twitter.com/BuE9IItZXA
— mvjaguars (@mvjaguars) February 27, 2021
Although the team came short of their aspiration of winning a state title, Scott was happy with the end result.
“The goal every year is to get first as a team and even though we didn’t get that I still couldn’t ask for better teammates,” Scott said.

This is senior Tanner Smith’s third year on the JagWire staff. He is undertaking the position of JagWire editor-in-chief. When he is not reporting the news, Tanner can be found acting as the president of Youth for Refugees and taking way too many AP classes. Additionally, Tanner enjoys sleeping, watching Netflix and listening to music.

This is junior Aiden Burke’s second year on the JagWire staff. He will be taking on the role of copy editor for the JagWire. Outside of the journalism room, Aiden spends his time running with the track and cross country teams, procrastinating on school work, reading Michael Crichton books and finding any excuse to learn about philosophy, math and science.
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