For Amy Foster, attending the Dick Pruett Memorial Wrestling Tournament is a nice way to keep her father’s memory alive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent-Meridian High School last Saturday hosted the fifth annual tournament, which is named in honor of Pruett, who coached Kent-Meridian wrestling for 26 years, from 1966-1992, produced 63 state placers, 16 champions and three team titles. Pruett died at the age of 69 in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“It has been something our family looks forward to every January,” Foster said of the tournament she has attended since it began in 2012. “It is just nice to see up and coming wrestlers just because the sport was such a big part of our family when we were growing up.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Foster’s brother, Joe Pruett, lives in Texas and was unable to attend the tournament.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We always send him pictures,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Foster said her children, Josephine, who attends Kentlake High School, and Owen, who is an eighth-grader at Cedar Heights Middle School, get a hooded sweatshirt every year to commemorate their event. Owen, a wrestler at Cedar Heights, is following in his grandfather’s footsteps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sunnyside High School, in Eastern Washington, took first place in the tournament, followed by Auburn and Tahoma. Kent-Meridian finished in sixth place. Other local schools included Renton in 10th place and Hazen finished 12th.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent-Meridian’s Emmanuel Daigbe pinned Tahoma’s Dagen Kramer in 45 seconds to capture the 195-pound weight class. Marquise Card of Kent-Meridian won the 285-pound division.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Other local results:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
113<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kendrick Untalon, Renton, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
120<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tyson Mowrey, Hazen, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Noah Miller, Tahoma, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Makynoyt Sittideth, Kent-Meridian, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
132<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Nic Whitehead, Tahoma, first place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Drew Aplin, Auburn, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
138<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Justin Sipila, Tahoma, first place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dylan Weiding, Tahoma, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Jamison Glenn, Auburn, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
145<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022Sjon Snitily, Auburn, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
152<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Michael Yadon, Auburn, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Steve Rieve, Tahoma, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
170<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Cole Washbrun, Auburn, first place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
182<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Leroy Rowe, Renton, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Phu Ly, Kent-Meridian, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Deshawnre Appleton, Auburn, third place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
220<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Kyle Guthrie, Auburn, first place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Nic Carbone, Tahoma, second place<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Note: Wrestlers were presented co-third-place medals. No third-place matches were held to keep wrestlers under the five matches per day maximum.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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