Good morning! What’s that cooking? It smells like dynasty.
The Women’s Wrestling team capped off a historic season in 23-24 with 5 state tournament qualifiers. Four of those wrestlers placed and two were crowned State Champions on Saturday night at The Big House.
Ryleigh Lefkowitz and Ashley Maldonado won their third places matches via pin during the first session Saturday. Then the fireworks happened! Alexis Ahtone and Tessa Goodner won their state title matches late Saturday night.
Two State Champs, two 3rd place winners. The Pirate Women finished 5th overall in team points at state capping off an incredible year. Along with Lefkowitz, winner of a 2023 state title, Ahtone and Goodner made the title count 3 for the Pirates in 2 seasons. The dynasty is in the oven, and it smells good!
The men’s team also saw Monty Hall wrestle his way into the state tournament this year. He finished with an overall record of 28-7 during his junior campaign.
Women’s basketball was eliminated Saturday night from the playoffs, but not before winning their first playoff game since 2016. The victory also gave the Lady Pirates 10 Wins on the year, the most wins by the program in 5 years. All of this during their first year under head coach, and PC Alumnus, Porsche Young.
Coach Young was featured in a story by News 9 last week that also featured Lady Pirate captain Pashintz Booker.Lady Pirate basketball is back on the map!
With that, winter sports drew to a close and Pirate Nation now turns its attention to the spring slate.
Here’s a look at the week ahead:
Soccer and Baseball have their regular season home openers this week and track will compete at PC West on Saturday. Come out and support all our Pirates this spring!