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JV Sport in the Spotlight: Wrestling

By David Zheng
<dzheng@hilite.org>

The junior varsity team’s first meet is next Monday against Anderson Highland. It begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Eric Clark Activity Center.

“Anderson Highland always has a full and fairly decent JV squad,” said Head Coach John Kopnisky. “But we’ve got a group of guys that had been working since last season to improve.”

However, wrestler and sophomore Nathan Ziems has another thing to worry about: wrestle-offs. “There are a couple of good kids in my weight class I have to beat to make it to the varsity squad,” Ziems said. “Our team has so many good people that not all of them can be on varsity.”

Kopnisky said that the JV team’s depth attributes to its dominance. “We’ve had an undefeated JV squad for four or five seasons so we take pride in how they do,” Kopnisky said. “JV is not for going out there and filling a hole. It’s to go out there to improve and win some matches.”

Ziems said he agreed with the JV team’s depth being a cause of their success. “A lot of JV teams are just not as deep as ours is,” he said.

“We haven’t lost to (Anderson Highland) in the past six seasons,” Kopnisky said. “But it’s still a good way to gauge how our guys are doing.”

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