KEN CHERTOW'S OLYMPIAN WRESTLING SCHOOL RESULTS FROM AAU NATIONALS
TWENTY-TWO WRESTLERS FROM KEN CHERTOW'S OLYMPIAN WRESTLING SCHOOL COMPETED IN THE AAU NATIONALS
IN ST LOUIS MARCH 28-29, 1997. EIGHTEEN PLACED IN THE TOP 5, INCLUDING SEVEN
CHAMPIONS.
THE CHAMPIONS WERE
- STEPHEN FERRIS AT 40 POUNDS 8 & UNDER DIVISION
- ANTHONY EASTER 55 LBS 12 & UNDER
- MITCH SMITH 85 LBS 12 & UNDER
- ROBBIE RIPLEY 85 LBS 14 & UNDER
- ADAM SCHINDLER 95 LBS 14 & UNDER
- CHRIS JOHNSON AT 90 LBS 16 & UNDER
- JASON WARD 152 LBS 18 & UNDER.
RUNNERS UP WERE CODY TYLER 40 LBS 6 & UNDER, JUSTIN BROWN 45 LBS 8 &
UNDER AND ALEX REED 103 LBS 18 & UNDER.
THIRD PLACE FINISHERS WERE SETH
EASTER 50 LBS 8 & UNDER, HEATH GRALEY 95 LBS 12 & UNDER, JARED WALTERS
119 LBS 16 & UNDER, AND DALLAS NIBERT 160 LBS 18 & UNDER.
FOURTH PLACE FINISHERS INCLUDED JUSTIN CHAPMAN 130 LBS 16 & UNDER AND JASON
SCOTT 130 LBS 18 & UNDER.
MATT EASTER 70 LBS 12 & UNDER AND CHRIS GIBBS
85 LBS 14 & UNDER FINISHED IN FIFTH PLACE.
Notes:
- THE OLYMPIAN SCHOOL TEAM HAD MORE CHAMPIONS (7) AND MORE PLACEWINNERS (18)
THAN ANY OTHER TEAM THERE, AND MORE THAN MOST STATES.
- MISSOURI AND
SOUTH DAKOTA,WHO HAD OVER 100 WRESTLERS THERE, PROBABLY HAD MORE
PLACEWINNERS, BUT ASIDE FROM THOSE TWO STATES THE MEDALS WERE DISPERSED
TO WRESTLERS FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF STATES.
- NO OFFICIAL TEAM SCORE WAS
KEPT.
- THIS WAS THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE AAU NATIONAL TITLE FOR SMITH AND WARD.
- SCHINDLER TECHNICAL FALLED HIS OPPONENT IN THE FINALS AND RIPLEY
CLOBBERED EVERYONE IN HIS WEIGHT CLASS.
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