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Peter Ming And Elk Grove Wrestling’s Swiss Dynasty
Stanford-Bound Wrestler Peter Ming Is The Latest In A Long Line Of A Swiss Family That’s Part Of The Bedrock To The Elk Grove High Program • Elk Grove senior Peter Ming has come a long way from sawdust. It’s the sacred floor of Swiss wrestling, a sport known... Read more
SportStars NorCal Wrestling Team Rankings | Dec. 24
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.... Read more
Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions
PRESTIGIOUS WRESTLING TOURNAMENT RETURNS TO ROCKLIN’S HARDWOOD PALACE, DEC. 20-21 The Women’s West Coast Tournament of Champions Always Brings Top High School and College Wrestlers to Placer Valley. This year, the final to be held at Hardwood Palace, promises to be even bigger. Placer Valley Tourism and Cliff Keen... Read more
Kainoa Acia: Viral Freshman Football Talent Hits The Mat
2019-20 WRESTLING PREVIEW: A Social Media Sensation During The Fall, Kainoa Acia Has Traded In Pads For Singlet As Part Of Del Oro’s Stellar 2023 Infusion • A month before his Nikes stepped onto the wrestling mat, Del Oro-Loomis freshman Kainoa Acia was a household name. That is, if... Read more
Sac-Joaquin Section Wrestling: Pitman Poised To Pounce
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... Read more
Amit Elor: College Park’s Pin-Seeking Phenom
2019-20 WRESTLING PREVIEW: Just A Sophomore, Defending CIF State Champion Amit Elor Has Rocketed To Superstar Status On The Mat • The next big thing in U.S. women’s wrestling is a remarkable 15-year-old College Park-Pleasant Hill sophomore with dazzling abilities and uncanny poise. She goes by the name Amit... Read more
CIF California State Championships, Since ’73
SportStars Wrestling Insider, Al Fontes (TheCaliforniaWrestler.com) chronicles the CIF California 3x and 4x State Champions/Finalists/Placers Club (since 1973) Feature image: Darrell Vasquez (Bakersfield, CS) First 4x State Champion. 3x State Champs list below… 4x CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONS Seth Nevills (Clovis, CS): 2015, ’16, ’17, ’18 Justin Mejia (Clovis, CS): 2014,... Read more
Signs to Come: CA Wrestlers Going D1
CA Wrestlers Going D1- Poway’s Jason Miranda and Elk Grove’s Peter Ming Sign With Stanford University (Division I) Jason Miranda 133/141 Pound class is a 2X CA State Medalist from Poway High Elk Grove’s Peter Ming is the 2019 CIF State Medalist/2x USAW Folkstyle All-American Gilroy’s Nick Villarreal Signs... Read more
H.S. Wrestling State Champions, Medalists
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... Read more
California State High School Wrestling Rankings

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.

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Elias Navida Wins U15 Pan American Championship (GR)
Team USA-Wrestling – Pan American Champions Elias Navida from San Diego Wins U15 Pan American Championship (GR) Wrestling U15 PAN AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS At Panama City, Panama Greco Roman medalists 38 kg Gold – Elias Navida (USA) Silver – Samir Marciaga (Panama) Bronze – Fabian Rios Bueno (Colombia) _______________________________ CONNECT... Read more
California Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction Class of 2020 Announced
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... Read more