01.18.2022 Sports Wrestling: Two SWR wrestlers surpass century mark Pain is part of the game. Anyone who knows wrestling knows that. Still, there is pain, and then there is excruciating pain. The tale can now be told. It has...
12.21.2021 Sports Wrestling: Riverhead counts on its ‘program guys’ The correlation between hard training and winning wrestling matches is a direct one. There’s no substitute for sweat equity. In other words, a wrestler gets out of the sport...
12.07.2021 Sports New Wildcat Wrestling Center unveiled as SWR seeks to defend county title Joe Condon was understandably skeptical when he first heard about a plan to relocate the Shoreham-Wading River wrestling team’s gym to a new space. For a storied program, the...
07.17.2021 Sports Riverhead girl to compete at USA Wrestling Junior National Championships Kelsey Squires has always been a thrill seeker. So it came as no surprise to her mother, Nicole Squires, when the then eighth-grader decided she wanted to compete in...
03.02.2021 Sports Wrestling: Dream ending for Wildcats, who win county dual meet championship If there was anything the Suffolk County wrestling community learned about the Shoreham-Wading River High School team this season, it’s that you don’t tell those student-athletes they can’t attain...
02.26.2021 Sports Wrestling: Freshman rises to challenge as SWR advances to semifinals Joe Condon did the math. The Shoreham-Wading River High School wrestling coach calculated that his team’s biggest dual meet of the season to date would likely rest on the...
02.05.2021 Sports Strangest of winter sports season now underway Wait, wait, wait … and then wait some more. That’s what life has been like for anxious high-risk winter sports athletes, eager to salvage something of their 2021 high...
07.17.2020 Sports Wrestling: Anderson honored for award-winner character The Thomas Fehmel Memorial Scholarship is normally presented in an auditorium in front of a large number of people. But these aren’t normal times. So, it was a more...
