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Wrestling USA Magazine, Preseason Picks Utah Wrestlers of the
Year
Outstanding Freshman Wrestlers for 2006–2007
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Spencer Brown
Cottonwood High School, 112 lbs.
GPA: 3.94
School Classification: 4A (1,500 enrolled)
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Spencer Brown
has made dramatic improvements over the past three years.
When he's hot, he's unbeatable. He's a very
technical wrestler, with great skills and deceptive
strength. He's a three-time state champion
(once in each style), a two-time District Champ in junior
high, took titles at the USA Wrestling Rocky Mountain
Regional Championships in both freestyle and Greco-Roman
this past year in Laramie, as well as placing at USA
Wrestling Western Regional Championships each of the past
two years. To boot, he was the Outstanding Wrestler
for the Lower Weights at the USA Wrestling Rocky Mountain
Regional Championships in both freestyle and Greco-Roman
in 2006. Very impressive is his junior-high career
record of 42-1 with 32 pins, and is 2-0 against the
Outstanding Wrestler from the 4A/5A Junior High State
Championships last year, Kaleb Ashworth, and 1-0 against
another 4A/5A junior-high state champion, Brock Brown.
Spencer Brown is, indeed, a very promising freshman.
Career
Interscholastic Junior High Record: 42-1 with 32 pins, 2005–2006 Wrestling Record:
69-7 with 46 pins (all three styles).
Following is a
summary of Spencer's wrestling career so far:
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2006 5th Place, USA Wrestling Kids National Championships,
Greco-Roman
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2006 Champion, USA Wrestling Rocky Mountain Regional
Championships, Freestyle
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2006 Champion, USA Wrestling Rocky Mountain Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2006 Outstanding Wrestling, USA Wrestling Rocky Mountain
Regional Championships, Greco-Roman
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2006 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2006 State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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2006 State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2006 Team Member, Utah
All-Star Team vs. Ohio All-Stars
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2005 4th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2005 District Champion, Junior High, Granite School
District
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2005 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2005 5th Place, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Freestyle
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2004 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2004 State Champion, 4A/5A Junior High State, Middle
School Division
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2004 Silver Medalist, Junior High, Granite School District
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2004 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2004 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
UtahWrestling.org
2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org
2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
Spencer is the
2006–2007 Student Body President at Bonneville Junior
High.
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Brock Brown
Payson High School, 103 lbs.
School Classification: 4A |
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Brock Brown
comes from a prominent wrestling family in Utah, his dad
making a mark against international competition.
Brock is a chip off the old mat. He is a very
skilled technician who never seems to run out of steam.
He's a very smart wrestler who never seems to make
mistakes. When he beat the hulk, Raider Lofthouse,
at the Payson Junior High Duals, it was an amazing display
of technique and determination.
At the U.S. Folkstyle Nationals, he won the title against
Kaleb Ashworth, Outstanding Wrestler from last year's
4A/5A Junior High State Championships.
Brock Brown is a very promising freshman.
Following is a
summary of Brock's wrestling career so far:
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Two-Time National Champion, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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Two-Time Junior High State Champion, 4A/5A Junior High
State Championships
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2006 Team Member, Utah
All-Star Team vs. Ohio All-Stars
UtahWrestling.org 2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
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Kaleb Ashworth
Spanish Fork High School, 112 lbs.
GPA: 4.0
School Classification: 5A (1,765 enrolled) |
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Ashworth is a
solid technician with a lot of heart but, above all, he
always wrestles smart. He's one of those that you
can see the gears turning all the time that he's on the
mat but, when push comes to shove, he's got the moxy to
mix it up with anybody. He won the U.S.
Folkstyle Nationals in 2005, then came up short defending
his title in 2006 against Brock Brown of Payson in the
finals. He took sixth at the Rocky Mountain National
Championships last March after a pretty serious finger
injury that ended his day. But his day to shine was
at the 4A/5A Junior High State Championships, where he
took the title with a win over that monster Raider
Lofthouse of Mountain Crest. That made it a
no-brainer for Kaleb to be named the Outstanding Wrestler
for the Junior High Division.
Following is a
summary of Kaleb's wrestling career so far:
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2006 Silver Medalist, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2006 6th Place, Rocky Mountain National Championships
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2006
Outstanding Wrestler, 4A/5A Junior High State
Championships, Junior High Division
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2006 State
Champion, 4A/5A Junior High State Championships, Junior
High Division
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2005 National
Champion, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2005 Silver
Medalist, 4A/5A Junior High State Championships, Middle
School Division
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2004 State
Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Freestyle
UtahWrestling.org
2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org
2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
Kaleb served as Student Body President for the 2004–2005
year.
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Derek Malan
Weber High School, 112 lbs.
GPA: 3.7
School Classification: 5A |
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Derek
is good. He's a technician with explosiveness and
speed. He hits his moves with no holding back, which
pays off the vast majority of the time. He is a
four-time 4A/5A Junior High State Champion, as well as a
freestyle and Greco-Roman state champion, and won the gold
in Greco-Roman at the USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships in 2003. He took state in freestyle
and Greco-Roman last year ahead of two studs: Dakota Payne
of Millard and Trae Bennett of Elite, both national
champions. In freestyle, Malan avenged a loss to
Bennett the previous year at state. And those are
only a few of the tough opponents he had taken out.
In 2004, he beat the very tough Ryker Vandertoolen of
Bingham in the finals for a junior-high state title.
That same year,
the only one to beat him when he took silver at state in
both freestyle and Greco-Roman was Jaes Jones of Brighton. I
look forward to see how many opponents he lights up his
freshman year.
Following is a
summary of Derek's wrestling career so far:
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Four-Time State
Champion, 4A/5A Junior High State Championships
(2003–2006)
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Two-Time State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman (2005–2006)
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2006 State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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2005 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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2005 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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2004 4th Place, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Greco-Roman
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2004 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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2004 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2003 Champion, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
UtahWrestling.org 2005 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
UtahWrestling.org
2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
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Colton Cannon
Payson High School, 135 lbs.
GPA: 3.8
School Classification: 4A |
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Colton is sharp. He has solid technique and is
explosive. He hits his moves hard, he hits them
accurately, and he is fast. In the finals at 4A/5A
Junior High State last year, he handled Travis McRae (who
had been pinning opponents left and right to get to the
finals). Colton is a three-time champion at the U.S.
Folkstyle Nationals, and was named the Outstanding
Wrestler at that tournament in 2001. He is a
three-time Junior High State Champion, and placed three
times at the very tought Reno World Championships. I
look forward to see how many opponents he lights up his
freshman year.
Following is a
summary of Colton's wrestling career so far:
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Three-Time National Champion, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
(2001–2003)
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Three-Time
State Champion, 4A/5A Junior High State Championships
(2004–2006)
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Two-Time State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle (2003–2004)
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2006 4th Place, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2005 4th Place, Reno World Championships
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2004 Silver Medalist, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2003 Bronze Medalist,
4A/5A Junior
High State Championships
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2003 Bronze
Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Greco-Roman
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2002 Bronze
Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Freestyle
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2001 Outstanding Wrestler, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2001 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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Carson Kuhn
Alta High School, 103 lbs.
School Classification: 5A |
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Carson Kuhn is
one of the slickest young wrestlers I have ever seen.
He is smart, level-headed, a fine technician, and never
seems to lose his cool. And it's paid off for him,
where he has been racking up credentials on the state,
regional and national level for years. He's won a
whopping 10 national tournaments between the three styles,
three junior-high titles (including Outstanding Wrestler
honors in 2004), and was the UtahWrestling.org
Youth Wrestler of the Year in
2004. The only thing threatening his freshman year
of wrestling is his size. If he hasn't grown since
lance season, then he will be giving up a good 20 pounds
at 103 (he took state at 80 lbs. at 4A/5A Junior High
State Championships last year); but, if anyone can do it,
it's this kid.
Following is a
summary of Carson's wrestling career so far:
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Seven-Time National Champion, Freestyle, Greco-Roman,
Folkstyle
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Fourteen-Time
Champion, USA Wrestling Western Regional Championships,
Freestyle and Greco-Roman
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Eighteen-Time
State Champion, Freestyle, Greco-Roman, Folkstyle
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2004
Youth Wrestler of the Year,
UtahWrestling.org
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2004
Outstanding Wrestler, 4A/5A Junior High State
Championships
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2003 Champion, World Cup
UtahWrestling.org
2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org
2005 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
UtahWrestling.org
2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
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