2014 a look back: Three-peat for PHS wrestling team

Posted 12/31/14

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2014 a look back: Three-peat for PHS wrestling team

Powell High School senior Riley Stringer celebrates in the arms of Panther head wrestling coach Nate Urbach after winning state as a junior at 220 pounds last season. Stringer’s victory was just one of the defining moments of PHS’ run to a third straight Class 3A state championship.

Tribune photo by Toby Bonner

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2014 5:49 pm

By Tribune Staff

Less than four months after Powell High School football won its third consecutive state title, the Panther wrestling team matched that accolade with its own back-to-back-to-back performance.

Behind five individual Class 3A state champions, PHS again reigned supreme atop the team standings of the state tournament in Casper on March 1. Then-senior Zach Thompson, juniors Riley Stringer and Kye Catlin and sophomores Chance Karst and Nic Urbach wrestled their way to championships as the Panthers collected 244.5 team points for a landslide victory over runner-up Douglas (201).

Head coach Nate Urbach later said: “It was the best state championship I’ve been a part of.”

See today's edition of the Powell Tribune to take a look back at some of the other major stories of 2014.