Westminster High School
Saturday May 16th, 2009       

14325 Goldenwest St.
Westminster, 92683

Cal hosted a free wreslting clinic this past Saturday.   It was a four-hour clinic conducted by Fernando Serratos.  Wrestlers from other high schools like Millikan, Monrovia, Trabucco Hills,  Santa Margarita, etc. were in attendance.   It was a great morning of techinque and some live matches.

Big thanks to Fernando for taking his saturday morning to do this.  Check out his Bio under comments. 

Also, visit his Rat Pack Wrestling Website and Wrestlingmart for wrestling gear.

Cal High’s Coaching Staff is excited about Matt wrestling at Clackamas next year and wish him the best as he embarks on a different phase of his wrestling career.

Cougars Sign High School All-American Melendrez

Also Add Mestrovich and Root

Oregon City, OR- California High School standout Matt Melendrez has signed a letter of intent to continue his wrestling career at Clackamas Community College next season.  The Whittier, California native finished 4^th at the California State Championships and was capped off with an 8^th place finish at the NHSCA Senior National Championships.  Matt compiled a 48-9 win-loss record this year finishing with an incredible 38 falls.

“We are extremely excited about Matthew choosing Clackamas,” said Head Coach Josh Rhoden.  “He is an incredible wrestler with a huge upside and we can’t wait to work with him,” added Rhoden.  Melendrez is ranked as one of the top wrestlers in his respective weight class in the nation, coming in at 24^th among 145 lbers.  “We definitely look forward to having Matt in the room and helping him win a National Championship,” said Rhoden.

The Cougars also added Levi Root of Burns, Oregon and Derek Mestrovich of Nampa, Idaho to their list of recruits for this season.  Both Mestrovich and Root will be transferring from Southern Oregon and Boise State this year.  “Both these guys fill some gaps for us and both of these guys are tough wrestlers,” said Coach Rhoden.  Each of these young men were finalists in their respective weight classes at the Cliff Keen Reno Worlds, with Mestrovich winning the tournament crown.

“We are excited about the kids we have coming in so far and look forward to hearing from a number of other top kids in and around the Northwest.”  “We have been blessed with a great group and we are building something that top kids want to be a part of which is exciting,” finished Coach Rhoden.

http://depts.clackamas.edu/athletics/CougarNews/Wrestling.htm

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We have upgraded our website’s server and host services and are happy to be back on.   We do have some updated information to share and will be posting soon.

Some housekeeping stuff:  calhiwrestling.com is also calhiwrestling.net and for those who have restrictions at work because of the domain name you can also now log on under californiacondors.org   

Thanks to our webmaster, Moe,  for the upgrade and on the work on transferring all the old data (almost complete).