By Lacy Cano
Staff Writer
The Mira Costa wrestling team successfully closed out its season at the League of Finals meet on Feb. 2. The boys claimed second place in Bay League, a significant improvement from last year’s fourth-place finish.
All 12 varsity competitors qualified for CIF, a large increase from last year’s seven.
“This is one of the strongest team’s we’ve had in a while,” coach Jimmy Chaney said.
In their weight classes, sophomores Miles Gilliam and Jimmy Millea each claimed first place, while sophomores Lars Cameron and Michael Cervantes, juniors Kit Murphy, Jake Shapiro and Adrian Navarro and senior Mustafa Hafezzada all had second-place finishes. Rounding out the team’s CIF qualifiers were freshman Kelly McNamee, junior Griffin Lay, and seniors Will Goodwin and Ben Kolodny, who each took third place.
The wrestling team is currently waiting to see if it will get an at-large bid into the CIF Dual Tournament.
“I think we have a good chance to get in,” Chaney said.
I apologize for being so picky about this, but I noticed that you wrote the “boys claimed second place in Bay League.” I feel annoying pointing this out, but it will annoy me if I don’t. There is a girl on the team and it’d be appreciated that you could put the “wrestlers” instead. Just a suggestion. I would like girls to become socially accepted and recognized in the wrestling world and a little change like this could make a difference. Thank you.