Union is taking a crew. Wondering if any other Ky boys are going. 

What dates is the Va Beach nationals?

March 23 -25.

Are you all taking any middle school aged kids?

Yes. They are taking 4. 

Woodford is taking 8-12 kids. Hopefully more! 

Brandon and Bradley Miller are going.

Looking forward to seeing Team Ky put a bunch on the podium!

LaRue sent 4 

Alex Rivera from Moore is there

There's a crapload of kids from Ky. 

Freshman

Sophmores

Juniors

Seniors

Yost dropped to 126. wow. 

Our KY boys are representing our state very well. Yost, Moore, Smith, Ervin and Johnson are all in the quarters. Keep it KY!

Mason Smith and Ryan Moore are in the finals tomorrow.

Trent Johnson will be wrestling for 3rd/4th.

Great way to end their Senior years!!

22 minutes ago, dutch said:

Mason Smith and Ryan Moore are in the finals tomorrow.

Trent Johnson will be wrestling for 3rd/4th.

Great way to end their Senior years!!

 

That's awesome!! 

Not sure KY has ever had 2 kids from the same team in the finals! What an awesome accomplishment. Looks like quite a bit of hardware coming back to KY!!! 

Yost is now a 2x All-American 

Awesome job Chase!!

Super excited to see Trent Johnson's rematch against the #9 ranked 138 in the country.  He looked really good losing 1-0 to him in the quarter finals.  No doubt Trent can get him in this one and end up finding  himself ranked next week.

Mason also has a big one for the championship against #3 in the county out of OH.  Theres no douby he will find himself back in the rankings after winning this one.

Great job to all!!!!

Yost 8th Place, Johnson 4th Place, Ervin 3rd, Place, Moore Runner Up, and Smith Runner Up. Amazing accomplishment for all of these young men.

Freshman

8th  Dalton Russelburg 

7th Tom K-C

Sophomore

8th Chase Yost

8th Colin Stevens

4th Matthias Ervin

5th Thomas Deck

8th Tucker Shelton

Senior

2nd Mason Smith

2nd Ryan Moore 

4th Trent Johnson 

18 hours ago, Nike Man said:

Not sure KY has ever had 2 kids from the same team in the finals! What an awesome accomplishment. Looks like quite a bit of hardware coming back to KY!!! 

Fausz and Meyers were twice...freshman/sophomore and junior/senior

My MOW award for our KY wrestlers at VA Beach goes to Trent Johnson.  He took 4th losing 1-0 & 4-3 in 2 closely contested matches against Marshall Keller out of VA.  For those that don't know, Keller is ranked #9 nationally at 138.  He's also #17 on Flowrestling's Top 20 NCAA Prospect Ranking at 149 lbs and is also #92 in Flowrestling's Top 100 Class of 2018 Big Board.  Super job Trent! Way to compete!

Congrats to all the other KY wrestlers that are bringing hardware home as well as to those that fell short but were willing to go outside your comfort zone.  

It was exciting being able to follow so many of our wrestlers at a national tournament.

Congratulations to Colin Stevens who was a big dark horse in this tourney great job to fight back hard after an early loss and to all the other All-Americans. Also

congrats to all the coaches who have spent the hours and time away from family and jobs to help these kids. Way to

represent Kentucky Wrestling on one of the biggest stages. We are proud of you all and keep up the hard work.

A fantastic showing from Kentucky

Even though it didn't work out in the finals we are very proud of the boys and their efforts.  They have had success at Virginia Beach during their 4 years of high school.

Ryan Moore is a 4X All American

Mason Smith is a 2x All American 2x finalist

Trent Johnson 3x All American

Multiple kids from KY are making the trip every year and I hope every year we continue as a state to send our kids to compete.  The high school journey is over for these 3 and what a ride it has been.  I hope more and more KY wrestlers continue to compete at National tournaments and get our state noticed.  We have so many great KY wrestlers and sky's the limit.

It's amazing how far Kentucky has come in the last 10+ years. I remember the days when we were lucky to get one placer at this event. Congrats to all of the wrestlers that took on the challenge. You all represented the state of Kentucky in a tremendous way. 

Really good job to both the kids and the coaches.  I really agree we should support and appreciate the time commitment these coaches (and parents) make to get the kids to these tournaments.  Kentucky showed well!!!!  11th place in the senior division is really outstanding, particularly since we didn't throw hundreds of kids at the tournament, as some states do.  Great, great job.

Now, underclassmen, wrestle freestyle, greco, sambo, folkstyle, any style you can, any time you can get on a mat.  Year round wrestling, if possible, and you will be a different wrestler next school year.