Wrestling
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 06:00
Canyon Randall assistant wrestling coach Keegan Buchanan has been named the head wrestling coach at Grapevine. Hereford wrestling coach Sion King has accepted the assistant's job at Canyon Randall.
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Wrestling
Sunday, 28 February 2010 15:09
Every time he wrestled this season, McAllen's Sam Mangum faced a kind of pressure different than any other Rio Grande Valley wrestler. After winning the 2009 UIL 180-pound state championship, Mangum moved up to 189 to try to win another crown.
Each wrestler he faced went into matchups with Mangum knowing he could be the one who knocked off a reigning state champion. None did, culminating with Mangum going 38-0 and winning the 189-pound state championship on Saturday in Austin, beating previously-undefeated Trevor Ward of Coppell 3-2 in overtime.
Wrestling
Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:09
San Antonio Reagan senior Alex Gilpin came to the UIL state tournament with one mission: a gold medal. He knew he was the best wrestler at the Delco Center. His coaches and even his opponents knew it too. Saturday night, they were all proved right as Gilpin claimed the gold in the 112-pound class, beating Scott Akers of Flower Mound 7-6.
It was the least he could do after coming up short in the final at 103 pounds last year.
“I felt like I should have been on top of the podium last year,” Gilpin said. “I had to make sure that didn't happen this year.”
Wrestling
Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:03
Like many young wrestlers in Texas, Alex LeGrande left home with the knowledge that finality was a pin away.
No future in the sport waited for LeGrande on the other side of the UIL wrestling state championships. The long-limbed, sandy-haired senior at Allen High School already had decided to attend community college next year, to leave wrestling behind with letter jackets, study halls and the other trappings of high school. His final match in Austin would be the last one of his life.
So LeGrande arrived Friday morning at Delco Center for an experience that hung between melancholy and triumph.
Would his career end with a gold medal — or a bus ride back to Allen with no gold around his neck?
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