MHS - Wrestling / November 27, 2021 By Kasey McDowell
The Mulvane wrestling team has been hitting the mats for the past couple of weeks, getting back into wrestling shape for the upcoming 2021-22 season. The Cats are returning 6 seniors from last season including Trent Moses who made a run at state last year and signed with Ottawa University to wrestle after his high school career. Joining Trent is Hunter Dietrich who also just signed to wrestle in college with Newman University next year. Kelton Boster, Mason Cooper, Gage Jameson, Jackson Shields, and Luis Lazaro fill out the senior roster. The Cats currently have 11 juniors, 7 sophomores, and 11 freshman.
SENIORS
Boster, Kelton (195)
Cooper, Mason (138)
Dietrich, Hunter (138)
Jameson, Gage (170)
Lazaro, Luis (152)
Moses, Trent (145)
Shields, Jackson (152)
JUNIORS
Davis, Trenton (145)
Dietrich, Christopher (182)
Gray, Cohen (132)
Hensley, Eli (126)
Hughes, Jackson (182)
Huynh, Andrew (170)
Irvine, Ethan (182)
Lane, Tanner (285)
Moffett, Kaydon (120)
Shaw, Colten (138)
Wyant, Collin (160)
SOPHOMORES
Earl, Diego (113)
Eggleston, Matthew (132)
Fleming, Colton (220)
Hargrove, Tucker (138)
Navarro, Marco (106)
Schultz, Kyson (120)
Vanderhoof, Austin (195)
FRESHMAN
Allen, Austin (145)
Branine, Aidan (138)
Dietrich, Koehn (106)
Dillon, Alex (113)
Hagerman, Cameron (126)
Mason-Schmidt, Gaelin (152)
Rogers, Dylan (126)
Stiles, Jaydin (113)
Trione, Caiden (106)
Vanderhoof, Hunter (160)
Yates, Jonah (120)
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The women's team has 10 wrestlers and 4 returning from last year including 4-1A State Champion Kammie Schanz (Jr.) and Kasey Dillon (So.) who also qualified for the state tournament last season. Other returning wrestlers are Delaney Hamm (Sr.) and Jericka Stiles (Jr.). The Cats are looking for the seniors and juniors to lead the 10 girl squad this season and looking to freshman Leiannah Landreth to do good things this year after a very successful MMS career the last couple of years.
SENIORS
Hamm, Delaney (132)
JUNIORS
Gonzalez, Larissa (126)
Schanz, Kammie (138)
Stiles, Jericka (143)
SOPHOMORES
Bais, Karis (126)
Dillon, Kasey (126)
Gonzalez, Loren (235)
Riggs, Jayme (126)
FRESHMAN
Bundrick, Cameron (170)
Landreth, Leiannah (109)
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"I'm very excited to see the kids in competition," said Coach Jesse Myers. We split practice sessions over the Thanksgiving Break to allow the less experienced kids to continue getting the basic instruction at the pace we felt was best. There was an overlap on times so the kids still conditioned together and I think this was a really good thing for everyone. Our numbers are down a bit from the initial sign-up before the season began, but the kids that are in the room really are working hard and I'll take hard work over high numbers any day."
The women's team will kick off their season on Friday, December 3rd at the Valley Center Varsity/JV tournament. The men's varsity team will kick off their season on Saturday, December 4th at the Campus tournament.
