Upper school wrestler Zemen Sium was featured in the Washington Post for winning in the 126-pound weight class of the DC State Championship Wrestling meet. After the exciting win, he jumped into his coach Mr. Torrence’s arms. During the rise of the Omicron variant in January, the team persevered through Zoom training with Coach Torrence until the sport resumed as the infection numbers in the District declined. Torrence worked hard to keep his athletes working out and motivated during distance learning last year. This was the first year that DC had had a sanctioned wrestling “State” meet. There has been no governing body over wrestling in the district before this year. Zemen won his weight class all by pin and bumped UP from 120 to 126 so that his teammate (a homeschooled girl wrestler) could wrestle at the 120 spot. He went 20-0 on the season, and was voted Most Outstanding Wrestler of the entire tournament. He is the undefeated state champ of DC!!
Wrestler Grapples to Victory!
