Christian Strother
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- Height:
- 5'11"
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- Weight:
- 197
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- Hometown:
- Douglass, KS
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- Year:
- FR
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- High School:
- Douglass
News mentions
If a score is any indication of progress, the Barton Community College Wrestling team has shown a lot of progress in two months as the Cougars shut out Northwest Kansas Technical College in the first match of Tuesday night’s Cougar Dual at the Barton Gym. Having fell to the Mavericks 19-18 back on November 14 in Goodland, the Cougars swept all weight classes wrestled to chalk up a 36-0 victory. Now 5-3 in duals on the season, the Cougars have outscored opponents 235-130. Barton will look to capture the second match of the night in its first meeting with Pratt Community College.
If a score is any indication of progress, the Barton Community College Wrestling team has shown a lot of progress in two months as the Cougars shut out Northwest Kansas Technical College in the first match of Tuesday night’s Cougar Dual at the Barton Gym. Having fell to the Mavericks 19-18 back on November 14 in Goodland, the Cougars swept all weight classes wrestled to chalk up a 36-0 victory. Twenty minutes after their opening shutout win, the Cougars had its work cut out for them with fellow conference foe Pratt Community College. In the first ever meeting of the two teams, the match count finished at four apiece with the Cougars outscoring Pratt by six but two forfeits proved to be too much as Barton dropped the 25-19 match. The dual split leaves Barton at 5-4 on the season in duals with the Cougars outscoring opponents 254-155. Barton will next head to Wichita for Sunday’s Kansas Cup hosted by Newman University.
The Barton Community College wrestling team took the mat for the second time this spring in the state of Nebraska competing in the Cusatis Open this past Saturday hosted by Hastings College in Hastings, NE. The Cougars had three reaching the semifinals with Kade Sander being the lone survivor going on to capture his first third place of the season after finishing fourth four other times including as recent as last week’s meet. Barton will stay in the state of Kansas until the end of the month beginning with Thursday’s dual meet held at Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kansas.
The Barton Community College wrestling team began its 2016 portion of the schedule this past Saturday competing in the Viking-Warrior Open hosted by Midland University in Fremont, NE. Sending just six wrestlers to the mat, Great Bend’s Kade Sander was the lone survivor reaching the semifinals before finishing with a fourth placing. The Cougars return to the state of Nebraska again next Saturday participating in the Hastings Open held in Hastings, Nebraska.
Two days after hosting its first ever home match and taking on a ranked opponent, the Barton Community College wrestling team again hit the mats against nationally ranked wrestlers competing Sunday in the annual Bob Smith Open hosted by Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. Featuring nearly 300 wrestlers from powerhouse wrestling schools including four-year universities, the Cougars compiled a 15-30 individual match record with one reaching the championship bracket semifinals.
The Barton Community College Wrestling team competed this past Saturday at the fifth annual UNK Holiday Inn Open held in Kearney, Nebraska. The non-team scoring event featured forty-schools with over 600 hundred wrestlers and 700 matches.
Competing in two open tournaments to begin the season, the Barton Community College Wrestling team had its first dual experience this past Saturday competing at the Northwest Kansas Technical College Duals held in Goodland, Kansas. The Cougars won thirty-one of the forty-six matches going 3-2 in the duals while also going 6-1 in exhibition matches with five wrestlers coming home unbeaten from the weekend.
The Barton Community College Wrestling team competed this past Saturday at the fifth annual Swede Open held in Lindsborg, Kansas. Facing a field of NAIA and NCAA Division II ranked wrestlers, the Cougars came through with a 16-28 overall individual record and one fourth place finish.
Following a year in the making, history was made Sunday as the Barton Community College Wrestling program opened its inaugural season competing in the Dan Harris Open at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. Twelve Cougars including three unattached wrestlers competed in their first meet representing the Barton blue finishing the one-day event 28-24 overall in matches claiming an individual title, two third place finishes, and three fourth places.