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Success at State

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...

Junior Kaden Hart prepares to pin his opponent. Hart placed first at the District Championship, meaning he will advance to State.

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...

Junior Kaden Hart prepares to pin his opponent. Hart placed first at the District Championship, meaning he will advance to 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...

Varsity Boys Wrestling Takes Tough Loss

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...

Two boys wrestle on the mats in a recent dual. Francis Howell Centrals wrestling team won with a 39-36 lead.

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...

freshman Sophia Miller was one of three girls to compete against Timberland High School. Here she can be seen putting in the hours required to succeed in matches like the one they had on Tuesday.

The Toll On Timberland

Kana Chung and Natalie Walsh 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...

Senior Sophia Tran placed fourth at the tournament on Jan. 3 and 4. She earned a plaque for her sucsesses.

Wonder Woman Wrestling in Columbia

Natalie Walsh and Kana Chung 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...

Two wrestlers compete.  By cutting weight, a wrestler can gain the cutting edge.

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...

Female wrestlers practice as they prepare for their first match on Dec. 12

Girls Wrestling Prepares for First Meet

Natalie Walsh and Kana Chung 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...

Taking the mat

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...

Sophia Tran wins her first match on December 5th against Fort Zumwalt South. This was the first win by a girl in the schools history.

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...

Senior Austin Smith prepares himself to take down his opponent. His goal for the season; make it to the state level.

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...

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