State Competition

Here is Blake's cheering section at the State Wrestling Finals in Tacoma. Ann flew in Thursday night to be with us. She was suppose to go to a conference with Keith (my mind went Blank where it was, but it was some place warm and nice.) Ann decided to fly home instead. We were excited to have her. Erin took almost all the photos for me while I used the video camera. As you will see below she did a great job. Mickayla was SICK of wrestling. She chose to play at Camille's instead of coming with us. She reported to us that she had a great time at Camille's. Some of the time at the wrestling match I think Dad would have rather been playing at Camille's. It got really noisy at times. Any very boring at times also.

The Tacoma Dome was so full of mats that you couldn't take a picture of all the mats in one photo. Ann took these pictures to give a feel of how massive this competition was.

This is the side that Blake wrestled on. There were 16 mats. The 4 A schools wrestled on the 4 mats closest on the right hand side and one mat on the left hand side. We could see the wrestling very well from our seats.

Blake lost his first match in the State competition. He pinned the guy in the second competition and lost his third match. It was an exciting day.

Blake is pinning his man. He did great. He was able to pin him in the second round.

Reed and Blake joyfully talking after Blake's win. They were both pretty excited.

These are all the boys that went to State from Redmond High School. It was Redmond High School's best year ever. Only 4 boys were able to wrestle. The other 5 boys were alternates. There are also 7 coaches in this picture. One of them is Reed.

Regional Competition

Reed has had a great year doing some volunteer work. He has enjoyed being an assistant coach at the high school. It has been a great experience for him. He has even been asked to be an assistant coach for a free style wrestling club. He wants to do it. He will be starting working at the Tire store again on Monday. He is hoping his schedule will work out so he can do both.

Mickayla is enjoying the Wrestling match. She really got so tired of being at the wrestling matches. I started bringing movies for her to watch. She has been a good sport about spending so much time in High School gyms.

Blake took 4th place at the Regional Wrestling Match. He fought hard to make it to 4th place. He did awsome. Now he heads for State this weekend.

Redmond High School Wrestling is #1. For the first time since 1967, Redmond High School wrestling took 1st place at Kingco Wrestling tournament. What a year for our guys in Wrestling!