Wrestling

Calling all youth wrestlers! Come pack the gym on Tues., Jan. 7, 2025, as the Trojan grapplers take on Pendleton Heights! Wear your BCHS gear or your school spirit wear for free admission, and sit mat-side as the 2A #7 ranked Trojans take on the Arabians. The meet starts at 6 pm. 

Academic Honors

• Academic All State (IHSWCA): Sam Bustamante, Kade Rickard, Andie Adams

Athletics Honors and Achievements

• Danny Adams: All Conference, City & Sectional Champ (150 lbs.)
• Sam Bustamante: All Conference, Sectional Champ (138 lbs.)
• Jack Davis: All Conference; City, Sectional & Regional Champ (132 lbs.), State Qualifier
• Gabe McNamee: All Conference (144 lbs.)
• Kade Rickard: All Conference, Sectional & Regional Champ (165 lbs.)
• Andrew Troy: All Conference, Sectional Champ (215 lbs.)
• Jillian Donnelly: Girls Wrestling State Qualifier

Congratulations to Jack Davis (132), who placed 3rd in 2024 Wrestling Semi-State competition, to advance to the State Meet. The first round will be held on Friday, Feb. 16 at the Ford Center in Evansville (5:30 p.m. CST).

Good luck Jack!

Congratulations to the BCHS Boys Wrestling team as they were runners-up in regionals. Six wrestlers advanced to 2024 semi-state competition:

• Jack Davis (132) - Regional Champion
•  Gabriel McNamee (144)
• Sam Bustamante (138)
•  Daniel Adams (150)
•  Kade Rickard (165) - Regional Champion
•  Andrew Troy (215)

Good luck in the semi-state on Feb. 10 at New Castle!

In sectionals, 11 wrestlers advanced to Regionals, including 5 sectional champions, as follows:

• Jack Howay (106)
• Cam Harden (120)
• Brian Salas (126)
• Jack Davis (132) - Sectional Champion
• Gabriel McNamee (144)
• Sam Bustamante (138) - Sectional Champion
• Daniel Adams (150) - Sectional Champion
• Payton Brown (157)
• Kade Rickard (165) - Sectional Champion
• Jack Finegan (190)
• Andrew Troy (215) - Sectional Champion

The BCHS Wrestling program has had great success during the past years through the hard work of wrestlers and coaches.

Read an article from WTHR on the program

• Academic All-State (IHSWCA) : Ethan Brown, Jack Dixon, Jef Waugh (Honorable Mention)

• 8 Wrestlers advanced to Regionals. Team placed 4th in Regionals
• Sam Bustamante: Conference Champion (132 lbs.), 2nd in Sectionals, 2nd in Regionals
• Jack Davis: Conference Champion (126 lbs.), 2nd in Sectionals, 2nd in Regionals
• Jack Dixon: Conference Champion (170 lbs.)
• Kade Rickard: City Champion (170 lbs.), 2nd in Sectionals, 3rd in Regionals
• John Rushenberg: City & Sectional Champion (160 lbs.), Sectional Champ, 2nd in Regionals
• Jef Waugh: City, Sectional & Regional Champion (195 lbs.), Sectional Champ, Regional Champ
• Andrew Troy: 3rd in Sectionals

• Academic All State (IHSWCA): Ethan Brown, Eli Bustamante
• Academic All State Honorable Mention (IHSWCA): Will Hudson, Raudel Arteaga, Jef Waugh

• Eli Bustamante: City & Sectional Champion (152 lbs.), advances to semi-state
• Tommy Hannon: City & Sectional Champion (182 lbs.), State Qualifier
• John Rushenberg: City & Sectional Champion (160 lbs.), advances to semi-state
• Sam Bustamante: second in sectionals, advances to Regionals

• Eli Bustamante: Sectional Champion; advanced to Semi-State
• 7 wrestlers advance to Regionals
  • Eli Bustamante, 152, 1st Place
  • Jef Waugh, 182, 2nd Place
  • Ben Leising, 120, 4th Place
  • Raudel Arteaga, 145, 4th Place
  • Jack Dixon, 160, 4th Place
  • Dakota Boyd, 220, 4th Place
  • Jack Woodcock, 285, 4th Place

• Academic All-State: Dakota Boyd (IHSWCA); Eli Bustamante (IHSWCA)

• Eli Bustamante: advances to Semi-State

• Alex Geise: Honorable Mention Academic All State