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Pain Is Temporary, Pride Is Forever





         This  year's  Tiger  wrestling         the  State  competition  in
       team  broke  new  ground.                Lakeland.  CHS  has  not  sent
       During  the  1993  - 94  season.         anyone  to  the  state  level  of
       Having  had  their  district             competition since 1988.
       changed  from  4A  to  SA,  the             Ending the season,  the Tigers
       Tigers  had  to  defend  their           came away with one state placer.
       district  title  against  new  and       Travis  Gilbert placed 4th in  the
       stronger  teams.  Disregarding           state at  the 189  lb.  weight class
       the  toughness  of  these  teams,        division.  Travis  was  the  first
       the  wrestlers  went  on  to  claim      sophomore  ever  in  Columbia's
       the title of "District Champions"        history to place at the state level.
       once again.                                 The  Tiger's  season  record
          As  a  result  of  the  District      ended  at  13-2.  A  spectcular
       meeting,  the Tigers  took  twelve        season      at     any      rate.
       wrestlers  to  Orlando  for  the         Congratulations, Tigers, on a job
       Regional  Tournament at Lyman             well done.
       High.  As  a  team,  the  Tigers
       placed  a  respectable  6th  place
       out of  24  teams.  This  was  the
       best  ever  for  Columbia  High.
       Out  of  the  twelve  wrestlers
       taken  to  Regionals,  four  placed                                               Ending the regular season with a fla,NlCl;tl
                                                                                         in the finals match at Districts.
       and  went  on  and  competed in






















        lot Row: John Price. ~be Gon:ulez.. Jacob Anderson, Krysta C.non, Curie Ebert, Michelle Cameron. M!U C.rrao, Matt Thomas, Matt Gny2.nd
        Row: Jay Price John C..rno, Nield Raulerson, M!u  HocUtt, Rya.n  Terry, Riehle  Brown, &ton Albury, Jerry Smlth, Jason Lee, Harry Mote, Juon   Performing a switch, Jason Lang goes on to
        Blair.  3rd R-: Hrad Coach Harrl>on, Coach David, Jerry Motte, Daniel Hicks, Brian Abbott, Robby atfleld, Alan Bedenbaugh, Jason Hoffman.
        Sl<eeter Taylor, Juon Lang, Tnv!s GObert,  Tim Thrift, AI Nelson, Trainer, Jeff LeRoux.   '   win in the finals match.
















               Mike Carrao                   Matt Gray                  Daniel Hicks                  Jason Lang
                    15-7                         19-9                        27-1                         25-6
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