Success at State
Rhyen Standridge, Staff Photographer
March 3, 2020
A huge season for this years wrestling team, sending 4 male qualifiers who all came back with medals. Throughout the season, the team kept their heads up and reminded themselves that the losses they had in the season were making them stronger for what truly mattered, the state tournament. David Cross...
Boys Wrestling Competes at State Championship
Kayla Reyes, Print Editor-in-Chief
February 21, 2020
This past weekend, the boys wrestling team competed at the District Championship at Francis Howell High School. Junior Kaden Hart took home the District Champion title with a first place ranking, with freshman Aidan Hernandez and sophomore Peyton Shepard also advancing to the State Championship. State ...
Destroying Districts
Rhyen Standridge, Staff Photographer
February 20, 2020
The varsity boys wrestling team competes their hearts out for their place in the state tournament. The team had a hard fought district tournament on Feb 14-15. with many of the individuals advancing to the semi-finals round. In the end the team sent on 4 athletes to the state tournament. Aidan Herna...
Varsity Boys Wrestling Takes Tough Loss
Erin Reitz, Staff Photographer
February 4, 2020
The Varsity boys wrestling team faced a challenging competitor, Holt, on Wednesday Jan. 29. The team fought hard and won a few individual victories, but was overall defeated in the end with a score of 41-28. "We did good in some areas but still need to get better in others," says freshman Aidan Hernand...
Tear Down with Timberland
Zoe Michals, Staff Reporter
January 31, 2020
Tuesday January 28, the varsity boy’s wrestling team competed in a home dual against Timberland. The score was close up to the very end, but the Spartans pulled ahead in the final matches to defeat the Wolves with a 39-36 win. Juniors Andrew Mirth, Khris Humes, and Kaden Hart competed hard to defend thei...
The Toll On Timberland
January 30, 2020
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, three girls form the FHC wrestling team faced off against Timberland High School. Although the Howell Central girls wrestling team currently lists 22 people on their official MSHSAA roster, many schools don’t gain as much female interest. Timberland lists seven athletes on their r...
Wonder Woman Wrestling in Columbia
January 15, 2020
The girls wrestling team traveled for the first time to Columbia Missouri to compete in the Wonder Woman Wrestling Tournament. On Jan. 3 and 4, the girls competed and won awards. One of these awards was won by senior Sophia Tran who placed fourth in the tournament. “I got fourth place… I have...
Cut the Gut to Make the Cut
Anna Carroll, Staff Reporter
December 20, 2019
145, 152, 160, 170, 182, 195, 220, 285…See the pattern? The difference from number to number, from weight class to weight class is the hard-earned product of hundreds of calories, countless workouts and ceaseless dedication. By dropping pounds, wrestlers hope to gain an athletic edge against their ...
Girls Wrestling Prepares for First Meet
December 11, 2019
The girls wrestling team takes on Seckman high school Dec. 12. This will be the team’s first match in MSHSAA history. Seckman, on the other hand, has competed in two matches prior to this one, losing both. Despite the Seckman Jaguar’s losses so far in the season, they finished last year with a...
Taking the mat
Emma Hultz, Taylor Krieg, staff photographer
December 6, 2019
By only having a guys wrestling team it has made it hard for girls over the years who were interested in wrestling to join and start learning the sport. This year marks the first year that FHC will have had a girls wrestling team, and now having wrestling as an option for girls will hopefully help i...
Fierce first female
Jacob Edwards, Staff reporter
February 25, 2019
Wrestling is a physical and mental sport. It takes every ounce of strength possible to be successful, and even then there is no guarantee of success. For the longest time, wrestling was known as a purely male sport. But times are changing, and so is the sport. This winter, Francis Howell Central introduc...
Winning in Winnetonka
Maddie Fuller, Staff reporter
February 7, 2019
The wrestling team had another successful meet as the varsity team went to their Winnetonka Invitational on Jan. 18th-19th. As a team, the varsity team got eighth. Individually, they had four people placed in the top. Four people ended up in finals. One person took first, two people took second, and one...
Grace Bahru, Staff Reporter
May 17, 2020
While being stuck at home can be an extremely difficult task, many people have found many different outlets to pass the time. For some that consists of working out, reading,...
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