Zac Strother
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- Height:
- 6'0"
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- Weight:
- 285
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- Hometown:
- Douglass, KS
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- Year:
- FR
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- High School:
- Douglass
News mentions
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.
Unfortunately for the Barton Community College Wrestling team the nationally ranked Golden Norsemen of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College were party spoilers in handing the Cougars a resounding 45-3 defeat in the inaugural home wrestling meet Friday evening at the Barton Gym. Cougar freshman Zach Vesta made Barton history capturing the first individual home match as NEO captured nine of the ten matches including five falls as the currently No. 14 ranked Norsemen put on a clinic from its high caliber athletes within a program that finished fifth nationally last season after having won the national title two years ago. Barton will have short rest as the Cougars head to Hays, Kansas, on Sunday for the highly competitive Bob Smith Open hosted by Fort Hays State University beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Gross Memorial Coliseum.
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.
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.
