Gilroy Leads The Pack, But It’s Not A Runaway As Vacaville, Pitman, Del Oro And Oakdale All Trail By Narrow Margins • All season, SportStars will align the best wrestlers of each weight class, and the top teams in Northern California into lists of the 10 or 15 best. We... Read more

2019-20 WRESTLING PREVIEW: Pride Out To End Sac-Joaquin Section Wrestling Reign Of The Usual Suspects • Coaches often call them “The Big Three.” In Sac-Joaquin Section wrestling, that’s Vacaville, Oakdale and Del Oro-Loomis.  No other team has won a Masters wrestling title in the last 13 years, and the three... Read more

WRESTLING’S 3x CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONS Jesse Vasquez (Excelsior, S, 12): 2017, ’18, ‘19 3X CALIFORNIA STATE MEDALIST Aaron Nagao (Esperanza, S, 12): 5th, 2nd, 1st (2017 – ’19) _______________________________ CONNECT WITH US: Follow SportStars on Twitter & Instagram | Like us on Facebook | Subscribe! _______________________________   2x CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONS Richard Figueroa (Selma, CS, 11): 2018, ‘19 Maximo Renteria... Read more

California High School Wrestling state rankings are used to follow athlete success and overall team rankings. Rankings are seen by college recruiters to give insight which leads to interest in recruiting to upper division wrestling programs. Read more

SportStars INSIDER Al Fontes announces the California Wrestling Hall of Fame Inductees. Stay tuned as Al plans an in-depth write up on each candidate. This post alerts the masses to the candidates. Here’s the Wrestling HOF Induction Class of 2020! _______________________________ CONNECT WITH US: Follow SportStars on Twitter & Instagram | Like us on Facebook | Subscribe! _______________________________ HOF INDUCTEES... Read more

Vanguard Matmen 2019-20 Wrestling Season Preview After a 39-year hiatus, the “Matmen” will once again return to The Pit behind Head Coach Caleb Flores in 2019-20. The last time Vanguard had wrestlers compete was 1975 when the Lions had wrapped up their third NAIA District III Championship. With a perfect... Read more

Adidas National High School Wrestling Rankings from The Open Mat Following is a list of California wrestlers who were included in the Open Mat Individual Top 20 national high school rankings released on October 16. List is ordered by weight class: 113 – Richard Figueroa (Selma, CS, 11) 2x State... Read more

This past summer, Selma was placed on the national radar again when Fresno State incoming freshman Selma wrestler Jace Luchau took the Fargo Dome by storm and dominated the 152-pound weight group, earning the “Outstanding Wrestler” award in the process. He joins fellow Californians Roger Roberts (Jr. FS – 1974)... Read more

SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes provides a California Wrestling Roundup of regional wrestlers making their names known on the international stage. Intro by theopenmat.com We officially ring in the start of the 2019 high school season with perhaps the season’s biggest tournament. More than 1,000 high school wrestlers will head to... Read more

Founder Bill Grant Brings a “Who’s Who” of Wrestling every year to the Monterey Peninsula. At 41 Years, the 2019 edition is as star-studded as ever. SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes (The California Wrestler Editor in Chief) wrote a historical perspective of the Monterey Clinic of Champions this past August, which... Read more

Sacramento City College Wrestling Sacramento City College Wrestling Coach Gales adds a 3-time World Champion and National Wrestling Hall of Famer Kemp to his staff. Coach Gales has announced that Lee Kemp has been hired to join his staff as an assistant wrestling coach. Kemp’s Gold Medals in Wrestling Coach... Read more

Winchester the Winner at Women’s World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Gold – Jacarra Winchester (USA); Winchester dec. Irie, 5-3 Silver – Nanami Irie (Japan) Bronze – Olga Khoroshavtseva (Russia); Khoroshavtseva tech. fall Sedneva, 13-1 Bronze – Bolortuya Bat Ochir (Mongolia); Bat Ochir dec. Gun, 12-9 5th – Marina Sedniva (Kazakhstan)... Read more