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Wrestlers must adjust their diets according to their weight

Athletes wrestle with their opponents — and their weight

Ruiyan Zhu December 5, 2024

You are what you eat.  This common saying often describes the relationship between an athlete’s diet and their performance.  Wrestling, in particular, places heavy emphasis on weight by categorizing...

Freshman Quinn Bossow’s SCVAL bracket and performance.

Multisport athletes draw on past experiences for an improved wrestling season

William Cao and Nikhil Mathihalli February 14, 2024

Seven wrestlers on the wrestling team competed against 30 teams at Wilcox High on Feb. 2-3 for the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League (SCVAL) Finals. JV boys and girls competed on Feb. 2, while varsity...

Budding wrestling team gains experience through tournaments, dual meets and college visits

Budding wrestling team gains experience through tournaments, dual meets and college visits

Victoria Lin and Aiden Ye January 27, 2024

As her opponent went for a single-leg shot, junior co-captain Rebecca Bossow caught her overextended arm with a “cowcatcher” move, flipping her opponent onto their back and winning the match with...

Freshman Quinn Bossow works a kneebar ankle technique on Coach Paola Ramirez as Hayley Aguilar, sophomore Jayden Kwon and David Baek observe.

Wrestling head coach invites her past teammates to help team improve techniques

William Cao and Nikhil Mathihalli December 11, 2023

Juniors Rebecca Bossow and Keion Ashjaee-Marshall emerged as the high finishers at the wrestling team's debut match on Dec. 1 at Overfelt High School. The competition pitted 21 teams against each other....

Junior Keion Ashjaee-Marshall works towards a cradle hold against sophomore Jayden Kwong.

New wrestlers work with experienced new coach

Aiden Ye November 17, 2023

Head Coach: Bianca Vargas Last year’s record: 0-7 Recap: The team of five coached by Taylor Wilson often lost matches due to their inability to fill out all the weight classes against larger teams....

 Coach Taylor Wilson and senior captain Sohum Bhan instruct a series of wrestling moves to the rest of the team.

5-member wrestling team hopes to increase size in future

Nikhil Mathihalli February 15, 2023

The wrestling team this year has only five members — an extraordinarily small team even for a group that annually fights to attract participants. Those five members recently competed in their league...

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