


“Something happens between your junior and senior year where there’s a lot of confidence. She’s been in the system, and she just has an awesome attitude,” he said. That’s really all you can do.”īonifas thinks his juniors and seniors will really step up this year. … This is my senior year, so just leave it out on the mat. I didn’t get cleared until summer to wrestle again. “I had a really good season up until I got a concussion, which took a while. “I almost had some unfinished business,” George said. George will practice and compete as a Sailor but travel with the growing Soroco High School girls team. She had a concussion at the end of last season, so she couldn’t compete at regionals to qualify last year. George qualified for the second-ever Colorado State Girls Wrestling State Championships in 2020. He and senior Adalia George are the only returning state qualifiers. I’m excited about that, and he’s stepping into the leadership role.”

“Last year, he showed a lot of mental maturity, which is so important in this sport. “I think the sky is the limit with him,” Bonifas said. Muhme finished fourth at regionals last winter, which normally would have sent him to state, but with the tournament restructured and smaller due to COVID-19, only the top two in each weight class qualified. Most coming back to the team have wrestled in past years and want to improve on 2021 results. Steamboat has a few strong returners in Cole Muhme, Aiden George and Jacob Skolnick.
