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A peek into Winter<br />
As winter sports began in early November, players and coaches have been working hard and<br />
training. Take a look into their goals, plans and what’s new for the current season<br />
BACK ON<br />
THE MATS<br />
During last season, three<br />
boys’ wrestlers qualified for<br />
state, one returning to the team<br />
this year. This season, many<br />
underclassmen are in a position<br />
to move into the varsity spots.<br />
With many freshmen having<br />
gone through the school’s little<br />
league wrestling program,<br />
some newcomers are already<br />
experienced in the sport of<br />
school wrestling. Previous state<br />
qualifier, sophomore Mason<br />
Apple hopes to return to state<br />
this season, and is currently<br />
preparing for the teams first<br />
home duel on Dec. 4th against<br />
St. Charles West.<br />
“I’m cautiously optimistic,”<br />
coach Chris Brown said. “I’m<br />
hoping our varsity spots will rise<br />
up to the task.”<br />
With this being the second<br />
year of a separate girls wrestling<br />
team at FHN, the team is<br />
continuing to struggle with<br />
gathering a sufficient amount<br />
of wrestlers within each weight<br />
class. During the previous<br />
season, not all of the wrestlers<br />
were able to make it through<br />
the entire season as many<br />
suffered injuries. Thankfully, this<br />
season has had an increased<br />
interest in the team overall and<br />
new wrestlers have decided to<br />
try out. The team is working<br />
hard training to prepare for the<br />
Wonder Woman Tournament<br />
on Jan. 4th.<br />
“[Last year] was definitely<br />
an experiment,” Brown said.<br />
“I’m excited for this year and I<br />
hope the team rises excitement<br />
for wrestling.” (Brief by Karsyn<br />
Williams)<br />
Senior Trace Martin takes down an opponent on the home fields. Martin has been on the wrestling<br />
team all four years of high school. “I wanted to be in wrestling because I wanted to be in a sport<br />
that would push me and make me stronger,” Martin said. (File Photo)<br />
DIVING INTO THE SEASON<br />
Last season, diver and alumni Kamryn Bell had<br />
gone to state and many previously inexperienced<br />
swimmers got up to speed with learning<br />
the swimming strokes needed at meets and<br />
improving overall.<br />
Many underclassmen swimmers had also<br />
joined swim club last year, giving the returning<br />
swimmers, such as junior Olivia Neunaber and<br />
sophomore Natalia Salazar the ability to apply<br />
their new and improved skills to meets for the<br />
current season. The team will also be going to<br />
more meets this season to gain some experience,<br />
and they are working hard at the pool in order to<br />
prepare and hope to make it to state and improve<br />
their times.<br />
“We lost some really good swimmers this<br />
season because they were seniors,” sophomore<br />
Ana Remolina said. “But, this year’s seniors and<br />
juniors are amazing and many of the sophomores<br />
have improved a lot.” (Brief by Karsyn Williams)<br />
Junior Lexi Triller cheers as her teammate<br />
finished a relay during a swim meet. Triller has<br />
competed in breast stroke and freestyle swim<br />
during the previous season. (File Photo)<br />
38 FHNTODAY.COM | 11.20.19 | SPORTS<br />
PAGE BY KARSYN WILLIAMS
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