Springfield Wrestling Team Displays Grit, Determination and Resilience at Saturday's Tournament

Springfield Wrestling Team Displays Grit, Determination and Resilience at Saturday's Tournament

posted Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Grit. Determination. Resilience. These are all qualities that will get one through life, and they are embodied in the kids on the Springfield Wrestling Team. Boys and girls in grades K-12 have been training hard and traveling to tournaments around the tri-state area to test their mettle against the best of New England, and it's paying off.

The big home tournament last Saturday was host to over 100 Junior High and Junior Varsity wrestlers from VT and NH; lots of excellent, nail-biting matches were to be seen all day! Coming in third place were Springfield wrestlers Skyler Congdon, Skylar Wallace, Gillian Guy, and Mo Stettner. Second place winners were Mason Olney, Matt Prosser, Brandon Bennett, and Trent Lewis-Briere. Landing first place were Tim Bapp-Cederholm and Josh Sharron, newcomer to the 'green team' from Newport NH.

Also this past weekend, 170-pound junior Matt LaChapelle went 4-0 and brought home the title of CHAMP from the Jason Lowell varsity tournament at Mt Mansfield in VT. First-year wrestler Garrett Brickey, a feisty second-grade wrestler with the team, grappled his way to the gold in the Queen City Classic tournament in Manchester NH.

Way to go, Cosmo wrestlers! The HS team heads to Bennington on Saturday and the 3rd-6th graders trek to Orleans VT on Sunday for the New England Qualifier tournament.

Many thanks to all the team's supporters this year, with a special shout-out to the following: IVEK Corporation, Outnumbered Grill on Wheels (formerly the Silver Bullet Food Cart), Springfield Parks & Recreation Dept, JH Dunning, Suburban Propane, and the Paige Graham Memorial Fund.

Photo: Peter Berlenbach by Katie Lacasse.

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