July
3, 2007: The Salt Lake Tribune
Young Utah Wrestlers Heading to
Nationals
Sandy's William Kilpack and Nicholas
Runyon will represent Utah at the USA Wrestling Kids
Nationals this week, after leading a strong Utah
contingent at the USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships last weekend in Klamath Falls, Ore.
Kilpack was one of five young wrestlers -
participants ranged in age from 9 to 16 years old, and
hailed from 11 states - to win titles in both freestyle
and Greco-Roman disciplines, while four others won single
championships.
"Utah was very well represented in
Oregon," said Craig LaMont, president of USA
Wrestling-Utah. "With only 55 kids there, we weren't the
biggest state there, but we came out second in freestyle
in terms of championships, coming in behind California,
who probably had more wrestlers there than the host state.
It was a real pleasure to see some of those kids really
excel."
Mapleton's Taylor and Grant LaMont,
Draper's Tayler Johnson and Kaysville's Ethan Lofthouse
also won double titles. Kaysville's Patrick Brock won a
freestyle championship, while Springville's Brandon
George, West Jordan's Jacob Falk and Logan's Jordan Ballam
won Greco-Roman championships. Runyon was sixth in the
freestyles in his age group.
The national meet will be held in Green
Bay, Wis.
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