Chaminade College Preparatory senior, Jake O’Brien earned pre-season All-American status by placing third during at the U.S. national wrestling tournament held in Las Vegas at the end of October. Look for him to be ranked in the Top 10 of California wrestlers once the first round of rankings are announced.
Three other Eagles competed in the tournament and represented Chaminade well – Thomas Price ’16, Jacob Wong ’16, and Jack Cheney ’17.
Wrestling’s regular season began on November 1.
By Keith Price P ’12 ’16
On Saturday, January 31, Chaminade Wrestlers competed in the Mission League Championships at Alemany High School. Eagles set a school record qualifying ten wrestlers and two alternates for the CIF tournament on February 20 and 21, at Lakeside High School in Lake Elsinore. It was a monumental day for Chaminade with four 1st place League Champions, three silver, and three bronze medalists. Eagle wrestlers went 4-6 in ten head-to-head matches against perennial powerhouse, Bishop Amat, who is currently ranked #1 in the CIF-SS Northern Division. While coming in second in team points to Bishop Amat, Eagles dominated valley rivals beating Crespi, Harvard Westlake, and Alemany.
League Finals Medalists, CIF Qualifiers
1st Place – Thomas Price ’16 (120 lbs.), Jonathan Skidmore ’15 (160 lbs.),
Jake O’Brien ’16 (170 lbs.), Okalani Langi’ 15 (220 lbs.)
2nd Place – Jaidin Tharanee ’17 (106 lbs.), Jack Cheney’ 17 (113 lbs.),
Jacob Wong ’16 (138 lbs.)
3rd Place – Andrew Giessinger ’16 (152 lbs.), Jonathon Delgado ’16 (182 lbs.),
Alec Kohn ’15 (285 lbs.)
Alternates – Henry Zuniga ’18 (132 lbs.) and Josh Britt ’16 (145 lbs.)
On Saturday, February 1, the Chaminade wrestling team competed in the Mission League Championship finals at Bishop Alemany High School. It turned out to be a monumental day for Chaminade with four wrestlers making it to the championship match. The majority of Chaminade’s wrestlers are freshman and sophomores.
Chaminade heads to the CIF Individual Championships on Friday, February 21. Out of 14 weight classes, Chaminade qualified eight wrestlers and one alternate.
Chaminade’s Medal winners at the Mission League Finals are:
1st Place – Jake O’Brien ’16 (160lb)
2nd Place – Jaidin Tharanee ’17 (106lb), Thomas Price ’16 (113lb),
Jacob Wong ’16 (138lb)
3rd Place – Andrew Giessinger ’16 (152lb), Conor Fairtlough ’17 (182lb),
Alex Morales ’16 (220lb), Alec Kohn ’15 (HWT)
4th Place – Noah Younesi ’15 (145lb)
On Friday night, Chaminade defeated second-seeded Oak Park 76-59 in the Division III-A semifinals to reach their first boys’ basketball final since 2009. They will take on St. John Bosco at the CIF-SS III-A Championship game Saturday, March 2 at 10 a.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center.
After defeating San Luis Obispo 64-40 on Saturday night, the girls’ basketball team advanced to the CIF-SS Championship for the first time in school history and will square off with St. Joseph of Lakewood on Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Congratulations to seniors Alex Fuentes, Mason Nystrom and Arashdeep Gill, all are going to the State Wrestling Championship March 1-2 at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield.
By John Wareham, Special to the Daily News
Posted: January 26, 2013, Daily News, Los Angeles
The host Chaminade wrestling team made a statement at the Best in the Valley tournament Saturday and it was punctuated with three exclamation points.
Three of the four Eagles wrestlers who reached the finals won titles — as did a former teammate who transferred to El Camino Real earlier this year — which led the local group of competitors at the 32-team tournament.
Mason Nystrom (145 pounds), Alex Fuentes (152) and Arashdeep Gill (171) all won for Chaminade and Roman Ramirez (132) got to the finals and took second. They all improved upon their places from last year’s tournament, when Nystrom finished second, Fuentes placed fifth, Ramirez was 10th and Gill didn’t compete due to injury.
“We’re just all proud of what we did,” Fuentes said. “If I can speak for the team: ultimately we’re just going to wrestle hard every time.”
The three winners were victorious in almost consecutive order. Two of them beat the same opposing team.
Nystrom took an early 2-1 lead against Ventura’s Kamwren Aiken, who kept the 145-pound final close until Nystrom scored five points late in the last period and won 13-6.
Fuentes followed against Ventura’s Jack Sartee and held a 6-1 lead until his opponent put a scare into him with three late points. Fuentes then held the slim two-point lead for the last 15 seconds, despite a clock malfunction delaying the start for at least five extra seconds. Read More