FRCC All-Conference Wrestling Teams Announced
Individual State Wrestling Tournament Concludes
The Fox River Classic Conference All-Conference Wrestlers have been selected. A first team, second team and honorable mention team was selected for the boys and for the first time a girls all-conference team was also chosen. On the boys side a wrestler must have a minimum of 5 wins in the conference dual meet season in order to be considered for All-Conference. A wrestler with less than 5 wins could be considered for all-conference if there is an extenuating circumstance such as injury/illness. On the girls side wrestlers were selected to either 1st team or honorable mention all-conference.
Boys Wrestling All-Conference
Juniors Owen Wathke – Bay Port and Mycah Beckett – De Pere are repeat 1st Team All-Conference selections. In addition Wathke and Beckett were selected by the coaches as the co-wrestlers of the year. They did not meet during the season, but wrestled the same weight class in the WIAA State Tournament Series where they met four times with Wathke winning each match, including the 3rd place match in the 113 lb weight class at the state meet. Beckett was also selected as a FRCC co-wrestler of the year in 22/23. Other repeat 1st Team All-Conference selections include sophomores Alois Schlumpf – Bay Port and Mason Taylor – Pulaski, junior Alex Warden and Senior Nicholas Schomaker -Bay Port. Schlumpf placed 4th in the 120 lb weight class at the state meet.
Seniors Chase Woosencraft – Pulaski and Trevor Finger – Bay Port moved up to the 1st team this year after being second team selections a year ago. Woosencraft capped a successful senior year with a 4th place finish in the 190 lb weight class at the state meet in Madison. Braeden Hamill, Cole Welnetz, Cole Bartlein and Lukas Weyenberg, all of Bay Port are selected to the 1st Team All-Conference for the first time. With these selections the FRCC Champion Pirates claimed nine of the fourteen available 1st team FRCC All-Conference spots. Olin Neuville – De Pere and Sawyer Goodness – Pulaski round out the 1st team.
Pulaski put nine wrestlers on the FRCC 2nd Team All-Conference. They include: Alec Nelson (Sr), Trevor Nooyen (So), Conner Nooyen (Sr), Collin Pratt (Sr) Cole Gorecki (Sr), Andy Servais (Jr), Griffin Van Lannen (Jr), Lukas Ruechel (Jr) and Elliot Karcz (Sr). The rest of the second team selections include: Noah Egandrury (Sr) and Easton Hockers (Sr) – Ashwaubenon; Rex Helms and Braeden Athey – Bay Port; and Oscar Estrada (Sr) – Manitowoc Lincoln. Conner Nooyen, Pratt, Van Lannen and Hockers are all repeat all-conference selections from a year ago.
A complete list of All-Conference wrestlers, including Honorable Mention, with weight classes can be found at the following link: BOYS WRESTLING 2023-24 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS.
Girls Wrestling All-Conference
2023-24 marks the first year that the FRCC recognized an All-Conference girls wrestling team. Twelve girls were selected to the 1st team while three others made Honorable Mention.
The FRCC member schools do not yet have enough girls to field full teams, but the numbers have been steadily increasing to the point where that has started to become a topic of conversation for the future. Emjay Neumann (So) – Manitowoc and Harlow Skenandore (Fr) – Pulaski lead the first official FRCC Girls All-Conference Wrestling team. They were selected as the girls wrestlers of the year. Brooke Corrigan (Jr) De Pere was the only repeat All-Conference selection as she was an honorable mention selection last year and the only girl to get all-conference recognition.
The remainder of the Girls 1st Team All-Conference
- Aryia Yang (So) – Sheboygan South
- Jackie Zuniga (Jr) – Green Bay Preble
- Ava Peters (So) – Pulaski
- Dakota Athey (Fr) – Bay Port
- Amellia Fowler (Sr) – Manitowoc Lincoln
- Leah Kapla (So) – Pulaski
- Ellianna Robinson (So) – Sheboygan South
- Destiny Duesterbeck (Jr) – Sheboygan North
- Savannah Jones (Jr) – Green Bay Preble
A complete list of All-Conference wrestlers, including Honorable Mention, with weight classes can be found at the following link: GIRLS WRESTLING 2023-24 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS
WIAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament Review
The Fox River Classic Conference was well represented at the WIAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament held February 22-24 at the Kohl Center in Madison. FRCC Wrestlers of the Year Owen Wathke of Bay Port and Mycah Beckett of De Pere squared off in the 3rd Place match at 113 pounds. Wathke won 6-2 to take 3rd place with Becket finishing 4th. Both Wathke and Becket are juniors. Sophomore Alois Schlumpf of Bay Port finished 4th at 120 pounds and Senior Chase Woosencraft of Pulaski also placed 4th at 190 pounds. In all, nine wrestlers represented the FRCC across 14 weight classes at the Individual State Wrestling Meet.
Becket’s fourth place gives him two podium finishes at the state meet as he was a runner-up at 106 in 2023. Schlumpf also has two podium finishes at the state meet having finished 4th in 2023 at 113.
Final WIAA brackets can be accessed at this link: WIAA DIV. 1 BOYS STATE INDIVIDUAL WRESTLING
For the girls, eleven FRCC wrestlers competed at the State meet across twelve weight classes. FRCC wrestlers of the year Emjay Neumann – Manitowoc and Harlow Skenandore – Pulaski both came home with State Titles. Neumann in the 120 pound weight class and Skenandore in the 145 pound weight class. Three other girls also placed at the State Meet held in conjunction with the boys. Junior Brooke Corrigan – De Pere, a two-time defending champion, finished 2nd in the 100 pound weight class. Ava Peters – Pulaski also finished second competing in the 107 pound weight class and Dakota Athey – Bay Port finished 3rd in the 114 pound weight Class. With all but one of the girls competing at the state meet being underclassmen, the FRCC girls will look to build off of this year’s success.
Neumann’s State Championship gives her two podium finishes at the state meet. In 2023 she finished as a runner-up in the 120 pound weight class.
Final WIAA brackets can be accessed at this link: WIAA GIRLS STATE INDIVIDUAL WRESTLING
FRCC Podium Finishes – WIAA State Meet
State Champion
Harlow Skenandore
Pulaski
145 lb weight class
State Champion
Emjay Neumann
Manitowoc Lincoln
120 lb weight class
2nd Place
Ava Peters
Pulaski
107 lb weight class
2nd Place
Brooke Corrigan
De Pere
100 lb weight class
3rd Place
Dakota Athey
Bay Port
114 lb weight class
3rd Place
Owen Wathke
Bay Port
113 lb weight class
4th Place
Alois Schlumpf
Bay Port
120 lb weight class
4th Place
Mycah Beckett
De Pere
113 lb weight class
