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Wrestling USA Magazine and IntermatWrestle.com,
Preseason Picks Utah Wrestlers of the Year
Outstanding Sophomore Wrestlers for 2008–2009
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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. As a
freshman, giving up a TON of weight, he still won the
championship for Region II and was the Outstanding
Wrestler for the lower weights. The only thing that
held him back as a freshman was his size. His
sophomore year did not have that problem, as his
undefeated 49-0 record attests and pinning his way through
the state tournaments. He racked up more USA
Wrestling All-American finishes this summer, taking 3rd in
Greco-Roman and 5th in freestyle in Fargo. The
previous year, he won that tournament in freestyle, after
finishing second in Greco-Roman. At the USA
Wrestling Junior Western Regional Championships in Las
Vegas, he won titles in both freestyle and Greco-Roman.
In 2007, he took second at the FILA Cadet Nationals last
year in Greco-Roman and represented the United States in
China, going 2-2. He was also the Intermountain
Champion for the Cadet division last year. He was
the UtahWrestling.org
Youth Wrestler of the Year in
2004.
2008 State
Champion as a freshman (103 lbs.). 2007–2008 Record:
49-0. 2006–2007 Record: 34-13. Career
Interscholastic Record: 83-13.
Following is a
summary of Carson's wrestling career so far:
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High School State Champion
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Twelve-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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Twelve-Time
State Champion, Freestyle, Greco-Roman, Folkstyle
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Two-Time Region II Champion
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2008 Bronze Medalist, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2008 5th Place, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2008 5A
All-Star Team Member
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2007 National Champion, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, freestyle
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2007 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2007 Silver Medalist, FILA Cadet Nationals, Greco-Roman
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2007 Region II Outstanding Wrestler for the Lower Weights
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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
Wrestling
USA Magazine Picks
UtahWrestling.org 2008 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2007 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2005 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
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Raider Lofthouse
Mountain Crest High School, 112 lbs.
School Classification: 4A
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Raider destroys
opponents — he beats them down and reduces them to
nothing. His brother (and uncle) are just monsters,
but Raider is meaner. I have a nephew who had to
wrestle Raider and Ethen both, and Ethen was satisfied
with dominating his opponent — Raider wanted to dominate,
but make sure you left the mat limping, to boot. He
took state as a freshman and a sophomore. He pinned
his way through the tournament as a freshman, but had a
major brawl in the finals his sophomore year against his
long-time nemesis Tucker Ray of Roy. The state
finals came down to an 11-9 decision in overtime.
Raider also hits the toughest tournaments in the country
and comes back a winner almost as often as Ethen. In
Fargo last summer, at the USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, he finished third in freestyle and eighth
in Greco-Roman, after finishing fourth in folkstyle at USA
Wrestling Western Regionals and fifth in freestyle in
Pocatello. He's a four-time state champion in
Greco-Roman and a three-time state champ in freestyle. He
won a national title at the Rocky Mountain Nationals in
Denver, and finished sixth at the NHSCA Freshman Nationals
in Virginia Beach. This kid's got the stuff.
2008 State
Champion (112 lbs.). 2007 State Champion as a
freshman (103 lbs.). 2007–2008 Record: 41-7.
2006–2007
Record: 34-3.
Career
Interscholastic Record: 75-10.
Following is a
summary of Raider's wrestling career so far:
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Two-Time High
School State Champion (as a freshman)
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Three-Time State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle (2004–2006, 2007)
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Four-Time State Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Greco-Roman (2004–2007)
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Two-Time Region V Champion
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2008 3rd Place, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Freestyle
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2008 8th Place, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2008 4th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Folkstyle
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2008 5th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2008 4A
All-Star Team Member
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2007 Freshman
Wrestler of the Year, UtahWrestling.org
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2007 National Champion, Rocky Mountain Nationals,
folkstyle
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2007 4th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2007 6th Place, NHSCA Freshman Nationals, folkstyle
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2007 Champion, Richardson Memorial
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2006 3rd Place, Layton Invitational
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2006 2nd Place, Intermountain Duals
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2006 5th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2005 5th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, freestyle
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2005 5th Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2004 3rd Place, USA Wrestling Western Regional
Championships, freestyle
Wrestling
USA Magazine Picks
UtahWrestling.org 2008 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2007 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2006 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2005 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
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Bryson Foy
Altamont High School, 130 lbs.
GPA: 3.5
School Classification: 1A (200 enrolled) |
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Bryson
is a tough, solid wrestler who keeps coming at you, no
matter what he might be hit with. He's skilled and,
at the same time, has that mental toughness that makes all
the difference in the tough matches. His sophomore
year, he took state, pinning everyone except for Chase
Ellet of Wayne, who he beat by major decision (10-0) in
the semis, then won his championship match in less than a
minute. He then followed that with a USA
Wrestling-Utah state title in folkstyle wrestling.
He took state as a freshman at 119 pounds, beating Wayne's
Jeffrey Stephenson 14-11 in the finals (we all know how
tough Stephenson is) but, before that, he beat a state
runner-up from the previous year, Derek Hererra of
Duchesne 6-2. The state title in high school
followed on two junior-high state championships, as well
as being named Outstanding Wrestler at 1A/2A/3A Junior
High State Championships in 2006. In 2006, he
finished third at the U.S. Folkstyle Nationals behind two
talented kids, Spanish Fork's Kaleb Ashworth and Payson's
Brock Brown. He won his region in high school
and will undoubtedly continue his winning ways his
sophomore year.
2008 State
Champion (130 lbs.). 2007 State Champion as a
freshman (119 lbs.). 2007–2008 Record: 48-5.
2006–2007 Record: 48-3 with 29 pins. Career
Interscholastic Record: 96-8.
Following is a
summary of Bryson's wrestling career so far:
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Two-Time High School State Champion
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Two-Time High School Region Champion
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2008 1A
All-Star Team Member
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2008 State
Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Folkstyle
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2007 Champion, Panguitch Invitational
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2007 Freshman
Wrestler of the Year, UtahWrestling.org
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Two-Time Junior
High State Champion, 1A/2A/3A Junior High State
Championships
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2006
Outstanding Wrestler, 1A/2A/3A Junior High State
Championships
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2006 Champion,
Manti Tournament
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2006 Champion,
Juab Tournament
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2006 Champion,
Panguitch Tournament
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2006 Bronze Medalist, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
Wrestling
USA Magazine Picks
Bryson is also the varsity quarterback, and serves as the
Sophomore Class Secretary.
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Kade Moss
Bingham High School, 130 lbs.
School Classification: 5A |
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Kade is a
talented kid with drive that has taken him a long way in
his wrestling career.
He won a second state titles as a sophomore, beating
Davis' Zak Baker in the finals with a 5-1 decision.
This came after beating Fremont's Trae Bennet and
Brighton's Connor Meadows, both with sound decisions.
He finished third in Greco-Roman at the FILA Cadet
Nationals this past summer, as well as a sixth-place
finish in Greco at the Junior Western Regionals in Las
Vegas. (He won that tournament in 2007.) He
came out on top of the 2008 Rocky Mountain Rumble, beating
Wasatch's Trevor Sweat in the finals. He won a state
title as a freshman, beating Weber's Bracken Nipko in the
finals, 3-2, after beating Viewmont's Mike Winger 7-2 (who
was the one who put Alta's Carson Kuhn into the
consolation bracket). In 2006, he was the runner-up in
Greco-Roman at the USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships in Fargo. He is rock solid and has the
mileage on the mat to prove it, even including two
junior-high state championships, including in 2004, where
he placed ahead of names like Fremont's Matthew Finger,
Box Elder's Koleton Hardy and Payson's Brock Brown.
2008 State
Champion (119 lbs.). 2007 State Champion as a
freshman (103 lbs.). 2007–2008 Record: 35-6.
2006–2007 Record: 35-4. Career Interscholastic
Record: 70-10.
Following is a
summary of Kade's wrestling career so far:
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Two-Time High School State Champion
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Two-Time High School Region Champion
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2008 Bronze Medalist, FILA Cadet National Championships,
Greco-Roman
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2008 6th Place, USA Wrestling Junior Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2008 5A
All-Star Team Member
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2008 Champion, Rocky Mountain Rumble
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2007 Champion, USA Wrestling Junior Western Regional
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2007 5A
All-Star Team Member
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2007 Champion, Viewmont Invitational
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2006 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling Cadet National
Championships, Greco-Roman
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2006 National
Champion, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals
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2005 Runner Up,
USA Wrestling Western Regional Championships, Greco-Roman
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2005 4th Place,
USA Wrestling Western Regional Championships, Freestyle
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2005 State
Champion, USA Wrestling-Utah State Championships,
Freestyle
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2004 Champion,
USA Wrestling Western Regional Championships, Freestyle
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2004 Runner Up,
USA Wrestling Western Regional Championships, Greco-Roman
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Two-Time State
Champion, 4A/5A Junior High State Championships (2004,
2006)
Wrestling
USA Magazine Picks
UtahWrestling.org 2008 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2007 Youth Wrestling Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2005 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
UtahWrestling.org 2004 Freestyle/Greco-Roman Ranking
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Colton Cannon
Payson High School, 152 lbs.
GPA: 3.6
School Classification: 4A (1,100 enrolled)
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Colton is sharp and explosive. He hits his moves hard, he hits them
accurately, executing very sharp technique, and he is
fast. As a sophomore, he took a serious step up from
his freshman year, finishing with a record of 42-9 and as
a runner up at state, where the only person to beat him
was Matt Brown of Cyprus. (And we all know how tough
that kid is.) That came after a Region VII
title and Outstanding Wrestler honors. He also
placed sixth at the Rocky Mountain Rumble and 4th at the
Viewmont Invitational as a sophomore. This kid has
got some serious stuff. I first took real notice of
him in
2006, in the finals at 4A/5A Junior High State, where he
handled Travis McRae of Bingham (who had been pinning
opponents left and right to get to the finals). I
knew, then and there, that he was the real deal.
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 four times at the very tough
Reno World Championships, including being one of only nine
Utah wrestlers to make it to the finals in 2008.
2008 State
Runner Up (135 lbs.). 2007 4th in
State (135 lbs.). Career
Interscholastic Record: 20-8. 2007–2008 Record:
42-9. 2006–2007 Record: 20-8.
Following is a
summary of Colton's wrestling career so far:
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2008 Runner Up, High School State Championships
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2007 4th Place, High School State Championships
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2008 Sophomore Wrestler of the Year, UtahWrestling.org
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2008 Champion, Region VII Championships
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2008 Outstanding Wrestlers, Region VII Championships
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2008 Runner Up, Reno World Championships, Folkstyle
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2008 6th Place, Rocky Mountain Rumble, Folkstyle
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2007 Wrestler to Watch, UtahWrestling.org
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2007 4th Place, Region VII Championships
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2007 4th Place, Viewmont Invitational
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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 Champion, Viewmont Invitational: Junior Varsity,
Folkstyle
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2006 4th Place, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals, Folkstyle
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2005 4th Place, Reno World Championships, Folkstyle
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2004 Silver Medalist, U.S. Folkstyle Nationals, Folkstyle
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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,
Folkstyle
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2001 Silver Medalist, USA Wrestling-Utah State
Championships, Freestyle
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