It’s not every day four collegiate wrestlers, a current state champion and a state runner-up enter your wrestling room, but that is what those who participated in Connellsville’s Youth Wrestling Camp over a four-day period experienced at the TC Shallenberger Wrestling Center from July ...
John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is played following every home victory at West Virginia University. The country folk song that was penned in 1971 is a symbol of the Mountain State and an official state anthem. The tune’s title has been condensed to “Country Roads,” ...
Kai Vielma will never stop working, and his goals remain intact, but the Connellsville junior feels like a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders after winning a state wrestling championship on March 7 at the Giant Center in Hershey. The Stanford commit is wrestling without trepidation, ...
Elijah Brown and Kai Vielma competed against each other when they wrestled in the youth leagues, but those matches were a long time ago. That may seem hard to believe, as Brown now has about 70 pounds on Vielma, but despite the change in weight classes, the duo can share one distinction: ...
HERSHEY — Connellsville’s Kai Vielma entered his semifinal bout in the state tournament as the favorite, while teammate Tommy Gretz was most likely viewed as the underdog. Vielma’s performance didn’t pay out a whole lot on the tote board, as the No. 1 seed at 145 pounds used three ...
HERSHEY — Kai Vielma was literally hungry. Not only is the Connellsville junior craving a state championship, but on Thursday evening in the first round of the PIAA Class 3A Individual Wrestling Championships at the Giant Center in Hershey, the Stanford commit wanted to find something to ...
