State Wrestling

In the program's second year of existence, our wrestling team qualified two for state (we have three wrestlers). It was awesome. For those of you who have never been to State Wrestling, the video is the "Parade of Champions" where they bring out all of the guys wrestling for 1st. Back in the Devany in Lincoln, the lights would go down and they had some special effects. They don't do that at the Qwest, but it's still pretty cool. The Qwest Center was packed. We were up in the nosebleed seats, but we actually had a pretty good view. Even though neither of our guys made it to the finals, watching the Parade is pretty cool. Ethan Jenkins from Arapahoe (Allen and I graduated from there) won the 215lb class. Kyle had to wrestle him the second round. It was weird because their coach (Jared Hemelstrand) and Allen were on the team together in high school. Actually, Allen and Jared were in the same weight class and wrestled every practice. Allen's former coach (Darrell Barnes)was there and made sure to watch all of our matches, as well as Arapahoe's. Interesting note: the National Anthem was sung by Molly Kenow from Lincoln Lutheran. Her dad, Pete, works at Concordia University. I used to work with Pete in the Admission Office and babysat Molly and her sister a couple of times. Small world, huh? By the way, she has an amazing voice!

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