2024-25 Believe You Belong

The 2024-25 School Year is about to begin and that also brings a new chapter to the LSE Wrestling History Book. As we head into the new season, we are bringing a new year motto, 'Believe You Belong'. Every kid on this team has put in so much time and effort into Wrestling this off season that everyone belongs in every match. It doesn't matter who is across from you on that mat, LSE Wrestlers are always in every match, and Belongs with the best wrestlers. 

This off season we had a lot of Knights compete in Big Tournaments and competitions. At AAU State, we had Raye Aldag place 4th, which ended up qualifying her for a Nebraska National Dual team in Iowa later in the summer. Raye Aldag also took 2nd at USA State, which Qualified her for the Disney Duals and Virginia Beach Duals where she had a total of 16 extra matches. Joseph Schaffer and Zander Ferguson both also took 6th Place at USA State. 

Zander Ferguson and Isaac Cooper both placed at Adidas Nationals down in Kansas. Zander took 3rd while Isaac took 4th. Heading into Freestyle and Greco Season we had 9 wrestlers competing at FRECO State. Placing top 4 qualifies you for Fargo and we had a few kids qualify. In Freestyle, Zander Ferguson and Maia Ruben both took 3rd place, while Joseph Schaffer and Raye Aldag took 4th. In Greco Roman Raye Aldag and Maia Ruben both took 2nd, Christian Zuniga finished with Bronze and Zander Ferguson took 4th. Raye Aldag, Maia Ruben and Joseph Schaffer all took their opportunity to go to Fargo, ND for Freestyle Nationals. Schaffer and Aldag both won a match on the backside. 

Due to placing in both Freestyle and Greco Roman State, Zander Ferguson was asked to wrestle in Utah for the Nebraska 16U National Teams for Greco Roman and Freestyle where he got an additional 17 matches. 

We had 22 Wrestler head to the Malcolm Team Camp where everyone ranged from 4-8 matches. After Doane was the UNK Team Camp where we took 26 Wrestlers to UNK. One of the nights we split into two teams for our Kickball Game (Blue Team won 19-18 over Red Team). The boys also won the Camps Tug of War competition against all the other teams at the camp while the Girls took runner-up in the Women's division. Also at the UNK Camp, Joseph Schaffer and Marley Holzer were both Nominated to wrestle in the All Star Dual where they both had very good matches. 

To end the Camp Season for LSE Wrestlers, we took 17 kids to the Doane Camp and then hosted 38 kids from grades 7-12 at our own LSE Clinic. We also hosted 36 Kids in grades K-6.

The 2024-25 Season starts up in November! Come see them in action at the LSE Jamboree on December 3rd in Prasch!