Highlands boys wrestling pins down the competition

Ady Klosterman and Luke Deegan

November 22, 2024

On February 10, the boys’ wrestling team was captured supporting Rilen Pinkston at the state tournament last season.

Last season, the team took four wrestlers to the state tournament after hoping to take seven. One wrestler finished in the regional tournament as an alternate for the state tournament, and two others were injured and sick. To create stronger competition, they have added more teams to their schedule.

“We have just as strong a team this year as we did last year, and hope to send at least half of our lineup back down to the state tournament,” Coach Colin Roth said.

The team has thirteen away matchups and two home matchups. This season, its biggest competitors are Campbell County High School, Covington Catholic High School, and Walton-Verona High School.

“Our region has a lot of tough wrestling competition and is one of the toughest regions to get out of to qualify for the state tournament,” Roth said.

The team is working together during their off-season to prepare for the upcoming season and adding more Ohio competitors to their schedule.

“We’ve seen good competition in years past, but I think this year will be some of the strongest competition we’ve seen,” Roth said.

Merrick Boberg (10) is said to be the season’s breakout player. He is spending time preparing by working in practice, and his goal is to wrestle through the season.

“I’m most confident about my discipline,” Boberg said.

TJ Hicks (12) is said to be the strongest player of the season. He is practicing every day and always doing something wrestling-related, and his goal for the season is to win state.

“I go to work every day and try my hardest in everything,” Hicks said.

Support the wrestling team this season at their first matchup at home on Thursday, December 12, at 5 p.m.

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About the Contributors

Ady Klosterman, Photo Assistant

Ady Klosterman is a freshman at Highlands High School. This is her first year of high school journalism, but her fourth year overall. She participated in journalism for two years at Johnson Elementary and again in her 8th grade year at the middle school. Ady used to write a lot of stories when she was younger. She would type them on a computer and print them. Even though they were just around 10 pages long, they were packed with details (and run-on sentences). While she enjoys writing, Ady's true interest is sports photography. She grew up in a household that loves sports, and you can guarantee the TV was turned on on game day. She spends a lot of her spare time at sporting events, most often on the sidelines taking pictures or yelling from the student section, and when she isn't at an event, she's usually catching up on something from the previous one or getting ready for the next one.

Luke Deegan, Staff

Luke Deegan is a Sophomore at Highlands High School and transferred from Campbell County Middle where he went to Cline Elementary for grades K-5. This is his second year in the journalism program. Luke does a lot of sports photography and enjoys taking photos.

Katrina Carrier

Katrina is a Junior at Highlands High School and has enrolled in Fort Thomas independent schools since middle school. She struggled with writing her stories for years until she took Ms. Brubaker's English Class and now has 8 stories on the way, already published on Wattpad. Katrina loves writing and reading about mangas or short romance stories and wants to accomplish a long storybook with many short stories. She is opinionated as a woman who can speak her mind on a topic she loves, which could affect people's perspectives of her. Katrina is a hard worker and tries to complete all the work even if she isn't there. Carrier learned to manage her time, push herself, and give herself deadlines to accomplish work. Her love for her family and friends is endless. She always puts her friends and family first.