Wrestling

Meet the 2025 Northwest Herald All-Area boys wrestling team.

Crystal Lake Central coach Justen Lehr brought out the best of the Tigers in key moments to help the program get back to dual team state for the first time since 2017. For his efforts, Lehr was named the 2025 Northwest Herald Wrestling Coach of the Year.

Marian Central sophomore Jimmy Mastny dominated once again this season, taking down some of the nation's top wrestlers and winning his second straight state title. Mastny was named the Northwest Herald's Boys Wrestler of the Year for a second straight year.

Here is the 2024-2025 Suburban Life All-Area boys wrestling team.

IC Catholic Prep senior and Penn commit Deven Casey, who won his second consecutive individual state championship and helped lead the Knights to the program's first dual team state title, is the Suburban Life Boys Wrestler of the Year. Here is his Q&A with Joshua Welge.

Oswego senior and Iowa softball recruit Kiyah Chavez, who took second place at 155 pounds to become the school's first wrestling state medalist, is the Record Newspapers Girls Wrestler of the Year.

Here are the wrestlers that made the Daily Chronicle 2025 Boys Wrestling All-Area Team.

Cooper Bode went 40-13 this year and took sixth at the Class 2A State Championship. The Sycamore junior wrestler is the Daily Chronicle Boys Wrestler of the Year.

See who the best of the best from around the area in girls wrestling were this past year.

Tucker went 32-1 and won the state championship at 170 pounds.

Fourteen of the area's top girls and boys wrestlers make up the 2024-25 Times All-Area Wrestling Team.

Ottawa junior Juliana Thrush is the Times 2024-25 Girls Wrestler of the Year after placing sixth at state for the second straight season and ending the season with 35 victories.

Seneca sophomore Raiden Terry is the Times 2024-25 Boys Wrestler of the Year after finishing third at 106 pounds at Class 1A state, while compiling 52 wins and 24 technical falls, both school records.

Led by Player of the Year Angelnia Gochis, here is the 2024-25 Kane County Chronicle All-Area Boys Wrestling team.

After a 36-0 season and her second state title, Kaneland sophomore Angelina Gochis is the Kane County 2025 Girls Wrestler of the Year

After a 36-0 season and her second state title, Kaneland sophomore Angelina Gochis is the Daily Chronicle 2025 Girls Wrestler of the Year

Here are the wrestlers that made the Daily Chronicle 2025 Girls Wrestling All-Area Team.

Led by Player of the Year Dom Munaretto, here is the 2024-25 Kane County Chronicle All-Area Boys Wrestling team.

After going 52-1 and winning the Class 3A 120-pound bracket for his second state championship in three seasons, St. Charles East junior Dom Munaretto is the Kane County Chronicle Boys Wrestling Athlete of the Year.

A look at the top boys wrestlers in the NewsTribune area for the 2024-25 season.

Meet the 2024-25 Herald-News All-Area Boys Wrestling Team.

Charles Walker of Joliet Central, the Herald-News Boys Wrestler of the Year, topped a previously unbeaten wrestler to win the Class 3A state championship at 215.

The IHSA announced three significant changes to its classification policy Tuesday. Starting next school year, the IHSA will go back to using fixed classification cutoffs, change its multiplier waiver process and adjust its “Success Adjustment Policy.”

After capping off her sophomore season with a state silver medal, Central-Iroquois West's Payton Temple is this year's Daily Journal Girls Wrestler of the Year.

Coal City junior Brody Widlowski and sophomore Cooper Morris have been named the Daily Journal's 2025 Boys Wrestlers of the Year after both placed second at individual state and helped the Coalers win gold in the Dual Team State Finals.

The 2024-25 Daily Journal All-Area wrestling team.

Casey Etheridge made the state tournament a year ago, but was the only wrestler of four from Princeton not to medal. He didn’t forget it. This year, Etheridge made it through the “blood round” at State, taking his place on the podium, placing fourth at 165 pounds.

Coal City's Dominic Zuccarello and Max Christensen won state titles at the IESA State Wrestling Tournament over the weekend, where nine other area wrestlers also placed.

Here is the Record Newspapers All-Area boys wrestling team.

Yorkville senior Jack Ferguson, who won a program record 52 matches this season and took third in the state in the Class 3A 157-pound class, is the Record Newspapers Boys Wrestler of the Year.

Dozens of youth wrestlers from around the Ottawa/Streator/Morris area who had qualified in the previous weeks competed in a pair of Illinois' youth wrestling state tournaments this past weekend.

A multitude of the area's young wrestlers have advanced to various youth wrestling state tournaments being held in both Peoria and DeKalb this weekend.

Here is the 2024-25 All-Kishwaukee River Conference girls wrestling team, as selected by KRC coaches.

Here is the 2024-25 All-Kishwaukee River Valley Conference boys wrestling team, as selected by KRC coaches.

Hinsdale South junior Callie Carr capped off a 39-0 season Saturday with her first state championship, while Montini senior Kat Bell and Glenbard East junior Nadiia Shymkiv took second in their respective brackets.

IC Catholic Prep, after a dramatic semifinal win over rival Montini, knocked off two-time defending champion Washington 46-17 in the Class 2A final for the first state dual team championship in program history.

After trailing 19-11 through six matches, Marmion went on to win six of the final eight matches to secure a 42-31 victory over Hononegah to secure the program's first Class 3A boys wrestling dual team title.

For the second time in three years, the Coal City wrestling team is the top wrestling team in IHSA's Class 1A, as the Coalers took home the gold at the IHSA Boys Wrestling Dual Team State Finals Saturday.

La Salle-Peru junior Kiely Domyancich placed fifth and Ottawa junior Juliana Thrush sixth to earn medals at IHSA Girls Wrestling State Finals on Saturday at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

No. 3 Coal City knocked off the two teams ranked ahead of it – flipping the script in the Class 1A final to beat No. 1 Vandalia – to win the program's second state title in three seasons. Meanwhile, Joliet Catholic placed third in Class 3A for its third trophy in four seasons.

Crystal Lake South sophomore Annalee Aarseth took second in the 110-pound bracket at the IHSA girls state wrestling championships on Saturday in Bloomington, while Hampshire had three medalists to take second place in the team standings.

Marian Central regrouped from a tough loss Saturday morning to take third at the Class 1A dual team state tournament at in Bloomington, Ill. on Saturday night. The Hurricanes won back-to-back trophies for the first time in program history.

Images from the 2025 IHSA Boys Wrestling Dual Team State Championships in Bloomington on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Plainfield Central’s Alicia Tucker and Lockport’s Claudia Heeney each claimed championships at Saturday's IHSA Girls Wrestling State Finals on Saturday at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

Images from the 2025 IHSA girls wrestling state championships in Bloomington on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

Kaneland sophomore Angelina Gochis won her second straight state championship Saturday at the IHSA Girls Wrestling tournament to cap off a perfect 36-0 season.

Kaneland's Angelina Gochis won a state championship Saturday at the IHSA Girls Wrestling tournament. The sophomore was one of four area medalists, including teammate Brooklyn Sheaffer, Sycamore’s Ema Durst and DeKalb’s Alex Gregorio-Perez.

Oswego senior Kiyah Chavez, an Iowa softball commit, became the first state medalist in the school girls wrestling program's history on Saturday when she took second at 155 pounds at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington.

Payton Temple's headed to the state semifinals in girls individual wrestling and Coal City's in the semis for boys team wrestling in Friday's Daily Journal roundup.

Marmion advanced to the Class 3A boys dual wrestling state semifinals after defeating Schaumburg 63-10 to keep the hopes of winning their first-ever team title alive.