Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Many Former Kansas HS wrestlers at Kansas Cup

There were many former Kansas high school wrestlers who had great days at the Kansas Cup at Baker University today in Baldwin. This is why it is so important for the entire Kansas wrestling community to step up and support the Kansas College Wrestling Fund. I posted the following on the Kansas Kids Forum and this support is also strongly needed from the current Kansas High School wrestling community. Pleae consider donating today. Thanks.

It was good to see the Kansas College Wrestling Fund table at this tournament. This tournament is really what it is all about. So many of the college wrestlers participating today at this tournament have wrestled for many years in USAW-KS youth wrestling tournaments. Many of these young men were wrestling ten to fifteen years ago all thru Kansas youth and high school tournaments. It was great to see so many of them getting the opportunity to still wrestle in their college years in Kansas. I don't how many times I heard the tournament announcer say that both wrestlers were from Kansas high schools.

This is what this fund was established for about eight months ago to benefit the future generations of Kansas youth wrestlers so they can further their higher education and continue to wrestle in Kansas during their college careers. This fund will mainly benefit in the future the young kids who are wrestling today in Kansas high schools and especially the very young wrestlers currently in the youth USAW-KS wrestling clubs. This KCWF fund is establishing a strong foundation for them that will help insure that there are college wrestling programs available for them in the future.

The Fund is in its first year and has received contributions from individuals, clubs and from tournaments especially youth tournaments in District I. We need to build on this momentum. I urge every individual to consider personally donating to this fund. Make the committment to add the Kansas College Wrestling Fund as one of your annual donations. Also I urge all clubs to consider fund raising for this Fund. A good way to do that might be thru contributing a $1 per ticket and/or entry fees as many clubs have already done. Clubs could find other ways to fund raise too for the Fund.

This has got to be a state wide effort for it to be successful. All individuals, clubs and high school programs need to participate. I know many of you would like to have a D-I program in Kansas. I believe if over a period of years we can strongly support this Fund that we will show that the Kansas wrestling community is willing to financially support college wrestling in the State of Kansas. This would be a very strong message to potential D-I programs at WSU, KSU or KU.

I hope the entire Kansas wrestling community will step up to do this across the state of Kansas. Thank you very much to all of you individuals and clubs that already have.

Please consider sending the KCWF a contribution today._________________________

Here is a link to yesterday's brackets to the Kansas Cup held yesterday Sunday 1-29-2012. You can see how many ex Kansas youth and high school wrestlers participated.

The number of Kansas wrestlers will only increase at next year's event when Benedictine College is involved for its first year of college wrestling.

http://www.bakeru.edu/images/pdf/Athletics/2012_Kansas_Cup_Official_Results.pdf

Great show! Good to see some old SEK wrestlers making an impact Koehn, Napier, Hambleton, Johnson sorry if I missed anyone!



Kevin Seybold

I thought after reading your post that it would be interesting to expand on your list so the Kansas wrestling community who like to follow the progress of their Kansas ex youth and high school wrestlers to see how they did in the Kansas Cup. I will start with the 125 weight class.

125:

1st- Jeff Vesta- Neosho CC-Manhattan KS - Manhattan HS
2nd- Garret Jones- Labette CC -Oxford KS - Arkansas City HS
3rd- Bo Newport-Baker University-Fontana KS-Prairie View HS
4th- Collin Hase-Fort Hays State-Silver Lake KS-Silver Lake HS
5th- Brandon Goodwin-Bethany College-Lawrence KS-Lawrence HS
6th- Jordan Krenek-Newman University-Austin,TX-LC Anderson HS
DNP-Zach Hoehn-Pratt CC-Wellsville,KS-Wellsville HS
DNP-Marco Tamayo-Colby CC-Carrollton,TX

133 Weight Class will be reported next.

If I made any errors above, please post the corrections so I can edit the list.

If you live in the vicinity of Baldwin Kansas you may want to take your young wrestlers to a college dual tonight 6 PM at Baker University. Baker University, NAIA #10 national ranked team has a dual match against Oklahoma City University #5 ranked national NAIA team.

I thought after reading your post that it would be interesting to expand on your list so the Kansas wrestling community who like to follow the progress of their Kansas ex youth and high school wrestlers to see how they did in the Kansas Cup. I will start with the 125 weight class.

125:

1st- Jeff Vesta- Neosho CC-Manhattan KS - Manhattan HS
2nd- Garret Jones- Labette CC -Oxford KS - Arkansas City HS
3rd- Bo Newport-Baker University-Fontana KS-Prairie View HS
4th- Collin Hase-Fort Hays State-Silver Lake KS-Silver Lake HS
5th- Brandon Goodwin-Bethany College-Lawrence KS-Lawrence HS
6th- Jordan Krenek-Newman University-Austin,TX-LC Anderson HS
DNP-Zach Hoehn-Pratt CC-Wellsville,KS-Wellsville HS
DNP-Marco Tamayo-Colby CC-Carrollton,TX

133: Kansas participants at 2012 Kansas Cup

5th- Kyle Johnson Fort Hays State -Girard, KS, Columbus HS
6th- Colt Rogers Bethany College Smith Center HS
DNP- Skyler McComb Pratt CC Derby HS

Please list any corrections that need to be made.