LCI wrestling teams earn 3A provincial championships

Lethbridge Collegiate Institute wrestlers were golden on the weekend at the 2022 Alberta Schools Athletic Association Provincial Wrestling event in Calgary at Sir Winston Churchill High School.
LCI earned gold in the overall team results in both the female and male 3A categories. The female team finished with 17 points, well above the eight points from second-place Wetaskiwin Composite, while the male team’s 26 points outpaced the 20 points from second-place Vimy Ridge Academy.
Payton Shields took gold in the female 61 kilogram division, while Tamryn Bly earned gold in the female 47 kilogram division.
On the male side, Nolan Gobiel was golden in the 120-plus kilogram division, while Solomon Prenevost (68 kg) and Ethan Boehme (56 kg) took bronze in their respective categories.
Ryder Lowry earned a fourth-place finish (90 kg), while Jager Sommerfeldt (59 kg) and Tyler Saruwatari (98 kg) were both fifth in their divisions.
Rawley Selk (62 kg) and Briggs Butler (72 kg) earned sixth-place finishes.
Pat Selk and Riley Ellis Toddington coached the LCI wrestlers.
Chinook High School's Reese Ferguson also won silver in the female 57 kilogram division.