Wednesday, January 15, 2020
R-MA Hosted the 5th Annual Yellow Jacket Athletic Association Wrestling Tournament.
The Jackets had a solid performance while knocking off the rust from a long Christmas break. Of our 10 varsity wrestlers, seven wrestled well enough to place in the on-campus Yellow Jacket Tournament held on January 11th:
The place winners were:
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Before the winter break officially ended, three of our wrestlers from the local area joined up with the local Warren County Wildcats wrestling team for a week to get some extra practice in. They also participated in the fourth annual wrestling invitational held on January 4th. With only three wrestlers, R-MA finished 10th, with A.J. Sullivan earning a runner-up placing in the 138 class.
Monday, December 30, 2019
The R-MA swim team traveled to Fredericksburg Academy on Friday, December 13th to participate in their first meet of the swim season. In the four-team meet, the Yellow Jacket boys finished first while the girls finished in third.
Highlighted in the meet were the boys medley relay team of Tyler Stanford, Reilly Schweigert-Opas, Tian Tan, and Jacob Gehly who finished in second by only .54 seconds. Their time of 2:09:64 qualified them to compete in States!
Monday, December 30, 2019
On Saturday, December 7th, the wrestling team traveled to St, James School to participate in the Admiral Holloway Tournament. We had four of our eight wrestlers make the Championship Final, and another make the Consolation Final.
Results below:
152 lb weight class: Alan Williams, 2nd place
170 lb weight class: James Ross, 2nd place
182 lb weight class: J.J. Banek-Gabelle, 2nd Place
195 lb weight class: Jon Bunker, 4th place
HWT: Ahmed Hasanka, 2nd place
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
On Saturday, November 16th at the Winchester Round Robin Tournament held at Handley High School, Christian M. earned the first medal of the 2019-2020 R-MA wrestling season.