What an awesome night for our wrestlers! We finished off with 4 STATE CHAMPS, setting the school record for state champs in a season! Previous record was 2!
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earning his 2nd National Championship and making his first United States World Team!!! He will represent the USA in Croatia this July!!
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Congratulations to Nick James and Lee Herrington on earning All-Americans honors for
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They are the first Kearney High wrestlers to become All-Americans since 2005
Congrats to the Loper Wrestling Team on winning a National Championship! There are 5 former Bearcats on the team including All-Americans Nick James & Lee Herrington! The Loper Wrestling team does a ton for our program & we couldn’t be more excited for them!
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Today in Nicks semis match he broke not one but two school records! He broke the season takedown record previously head by Adam Keiswetter (161) and the career takedown record previously by Jerry Thomas (470)
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Safe to say Phillip has had a successful year!
✅ UWW All-American
✅ Fargo Freestyle All-American
✅ Fargo Greco National Champion
✅ 2x State Champion
✅ Top 5 in All-time wins at KHS
✅ 100 Career Pins
✅ NEUSA & Kearney Hub Wrestler of the Year
We are excited to announce that Girls Wrestling is officially coming to Kearney High in 2023-2024! As part of this effort, Kearney High will be hiring two girls' wrestling coaches. Those job postings will be posted soon on
Tonight we had a little State send off for Flavia! We presented her with her State Champion banner from last year that will be hung in our room! We look forward to watching her Friday and Saturday compete for her 2nd state title!
Phillip Moomey was selected as Nebraska’s recipient of the Dave Shultz High School Excellence Award!! This goes to a senior that showed “excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship, and community service.”
I’m extremely excited to announce that I will be continuing my academic and wrestling career at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. I would like to thank my coaches, teammates and mostly my family for helping me achieve my goal of wrestling at the collegiate level
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I am very excited to announce that I am verbally committing to Cornell University! Huge thanks to everyone that has helped me reach this point. Big things are coming!
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Tonight we have 5 former wrestlers/coach get inducted into the Kearney High Athletic Hall of Fame!! Congrats to Brandon Brill (3x State Champ), David Miller (3x Champ), Jerry Thomas (3x Champ), Coach Tom McCann (42 year as KHS Coach) & Marc Bauer (2x State Medalist, UNK Coach)!
What an awesome night of wrestling!! Thank you to all the Rowdies, Matcats and fans that showed up tonight and cheer us on! Special thanks to the KHS Fine Arts department and administration for allowing us to use such a beautiful facility!
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For those that asked for updates on Phillip’s trip to the World Championships, today he landed in Croatia! Do to different flight plans he was telling me that he had to ride to the venue with the whole Russian team! He said it was definitely a unique way to arrive in Croatia.
Finished up the District Tournament as Runner Ups with 12 heading to the State Tournament! Congrats to Kaden Kowalek on winning the District Championship!
We would like to wish Coach Bauer a Happy Birthday! Nothing he would like more for his birthday than seeing the whole team at Open Mat this Thursday at 5PM!!