Tigers Place 20th out of 110 Teams at National Prep Tournament

The varsity wrestling team ended its season placing twentieth out of 110 teams at the National Prep Tournament this weekend. Brandon Walker, Duke Pickett, Taylor Reuss, and Cary Jones represented Woodberry in this tournament, in which they competed against the best private school wrestlers in the country.

Cary Jones went 2-2 over the weekend against wrestlers who placed first and sixth at Nationals.

Freshman Brandon Walker finished one match away from placing in the tournament.

Taylor Reuss wrestled well, scoring some very tough wins to make it to the semi-finals. Because of a shoulder injury, he “injury defaulted” on the advice of medical trainers and finished in sixth place, but still earned the title of Prep All American.

Duke Picket wrestled well in a very tough weight class placing fourth and earning two-time Prep All- American honors.

Duke ended his Woodberry wrestling career with an overall record of 156 wins and 29 losses. He broke the record for most wins in a season with 48 wins this year. Duke also shattered an eight-year-old Woodberry record for consecutive dual meet wins. Previously the record was 30consecutive wins, but Duke tallied 44 consecutive wins over the past two seasons. He also broke the record for career wins, which previously stood at 134, with a new record of 156. Lastly, Duke posted 100 career pins, breaking the previous record of 95. Very impressive!

Please join us in congratulating all of the Tigers on their strong finish this season.

Tiger Wrestlers Place 3rd at State Tournament

The Tigers placed third in the State Wrestling Tournament this past weekend.   

Woodberry placed eight wrestlers, with Taylor Reuss named champion in his weight class, earning All-State honors.  Duke, Josh, and Cary all made the finals and placed second in their respective weight classes.  

Josh, who was seeded fourth, upset the number-one seed in an exciting semi-final match that avenged an earlier loss to his opponent.

Brandon placed third and also avenged an earlier loss in the consolation finals. 

Spencer and Rogers both placed fifth. 

Israel, who was unseeded, placed sixth. 

The overall team scores were very close — the Tigers finished only one point ahead of the fourth-place team and four points out of second place.  Twelve out of fourteen Woodberry wrestlers scored team points at States, all contributing directly to our third-place finish. 

The Tigers worked very hard this past weekend and represented Woodberry well with a very solid effort and performance.  Please congratulate them when you see them.

Brandon Walker: 3^rd place

Josh Trudgeon: 2^nd place

Duke Picket: 2^nd place

Taylor Reuss 1^st place

Spencer Brewer: 5^th place

Israeal Arana: 6^th place

Cary Jones: 2^nd place

Rogers Clark: 5^th place

Additional congratulations go out to Brandon Walker, Josh Trudgeon, Duke Pickett, Taylor Reuss, and Cary Jones, all of whom have qualified for the National Prep Wrestling Tournament.  They each placed in the top four this past weekend at the State Tournament.  National preps will be held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA this weekend. 

Tigers Take 8th Out of 30 Teams at St. Albans

 St. Albans

The Tigers placed eighth out of thirty teams at the St. Albans Tournament this past weekend, which is significant since we did not bring a full team.  Five out of the seven Woodberry wrestlers who competed in the tournament placed in this tournament that featured some of the best private schools in the country including three teams that are ranked in the top ten in the nation. 

Tigers place 5 out of 7 wrestlers

Duke and Taylor were both champions in very competitive weight classes.  This marks the first time in over twenty years that the Tigers have had two champions in the same year at the St. Albans Tournament. 

 Two champs at St. Albans for the first time in at least 20 years

In the finals Duke wrestled David Wesley from St. Chris.  Wesley was National Prep runner up last year and proved to be tough competition this year, but Duke wrestled well and won. 

Taylor defeated a very tough wrestler, Adam Morris, from Wyoming Seminary in the finals.

Brandon, who was unseeded going into the tournament, wound up beating both the second and third seeded wrestlers and moving on to the finals where he continued to wrestle well and placed second. 

Taylor wins again

Both Josh and Witt placed 8^th.

This coming weekend the Tigers will be competing at States.

Tigers Take 2nd in Prep League Tournament

Five Tigers win All Prep honors

Brandon came in 1st in the Prep League Tournament

Josh at the top of the podium

Taylor on top of the podium again

Cary with his new hardware

The Tigers placed second in the Prep League Tournament at Norfolk Academy.  Of particular note are the five Woodberry wrestlers who earned All Prep honors: Brandon Walker, Josh Trudgeon, Duke Pickett, Taylor Reuss, and Cary Jones.  Israel Arana and Rogers Clark placed second in the tournament, while Witt Moye, Raymond Fenstermaker, Nick Cirillo, Michael Armstrong, Spencer Brewer came in third place and Douglas Semerling came in fourth.

 Aside from placing 1st, Duke won the Outstanding Wrestler award

Duke was also voted Outstanding Wrestler of the tournament by the coaches in attendance for avenging an early season 4-1 loss to David Wesley of St. Chris with a gritty 7-4 win in the finals where Picket and Wesley met again.

While the Tigers wrestled well all day, the final score came down to a couple key upsets that allowed St. Chris to edge ahead and take first place and the Prep League title. 

 The Tigers will wrestle in the St. Albans tournament this coming weekend.

LCA and Results from Freedom Tournament

 Duke stacking up his opponent with a double arm bar for the pin

 Taylor stretching out his opponent

 Spencer had one of his best matches of his career and won by decision

Rogers springs into action.

Over the weekend the tigers placed 8th out of 12 teams including some of the best in the state.  Here are the individual results:

Josh Trudgeon: 4th 

Duke Pickett: 1st 

Taylor Reuss: 1st 

Israel Arana: 6th 

Rogers Clark: 4th 

Pierre Courpron: 4th 

Cary Jones: seeded 11th, placed 2nd!

Woodberry vs. Collegiate, Western Albemarle, Covenant

 Brandon sitting through for the pin

 Raymond "RUNNING" the WFS signature Half Nelson

 WFS Tigers went undefeated all weekend (7-0)

 How Duke stacks up

 Pierre working for a pin

 Cary wrapping his opponent in Barbed Wire

 Cross Face courtesy of Taylor

Rogers with a tight pinning combination

Josh running an arm bar