EXECUTIVE BOARD TABLE OF CONTENTS District 1: Harlan Kredit, Lynden Christian Page Content 1 Tournament Schedule District 2: Pat McCarthy, Seattle 1-2 Welcome Letters District 3: Tim Thomsen, Sumner 3 Tournament Staff District 4: Mick Hoffman, Vancouver 5 Coaches Hall of Fame District 5: Rich Rouleau, Naches Valley 6 Academic Champions District 6: Miles Caples, Entiat 10 2017 Regional Team Results District 7: Greg Whitmore, Lind-Ritzville 11-19 Mat Classic XXIX Participants District 8: Lori Wyborney, Rogers, VP 20-33 Girls Brackets District 9: Ken Lindgren, Oakesdale 34-47 1B/2B Brackets Region A: Eric McCurdy, Seattle, Pres. 48-61 1A Brackets Region B: Wendy Malich, Franklin Pierce 62-75 2A Brackets Region C: Dr. Pam Veltri, Mead 76-89 3A Brackets 90-103 4A Brackets At Large: John Wallwork, Chiawana 104-114 Past Individual Champions 115 Past Team Champions WIAA STAFF Schedule of Events Executive Director: Mike Colbrese Asst. Executive Director: Cindy Adsit Friday, February 17 Asst. Executive Director: Andy Barnes 7:00am Doors Open for Participants Asst. Executive Director: Brian Smith 8:00am Weigh-in Asst. Executive Director: John Miller 8:45am Doors Open to Public Dir. of Finance & Operations: Leah Francis 9:15am Scorers and Timers Meetings Andy Knapp 10:00am-2:00pm FIRST SESSION Dir. of Marketing: 3:30, 4:00pm-9:30pm SECOND SESSION Sports & Activities Info. Dir.: Casey Johnson Asst. to the Exec. Director: Katie Davis Project Coordinator: Alli Krous Saturday, February 18 Eligibility Coordinator: Rita Roach 7:00am Doors Open for Participants Production Coordinator: Aaron Roetcisoender 8:00am Weigh-in Project Coordinator: Cam Taylor 8:45am Doors Open to Public Intern: Sam Brown 9:40am WIAA Team Academic and State Coaches Awards 10:00am-1:00pm THIRD SESSION DISTRICT DIRECTORS 2:00pm Parade of Athletes District 1: Jim Piccolo 2:30pm-8:00pm FOURTH SESSION: District 2: Tom & Marilyn Doyle Consolation and District 3: Joe Keller Championship Finals Team Awards District 4: Tim Graham/Tim Trimble District 5: Kent Andersen District 6: BJ Kuntz District 7: Russ Brown District 8: Herb Rotchford District 9: Bob Kirk Welcome to the WIAA/Dairy Farmers of Washington/Les Schwab Tires 2016-17 State Championships. The WIAA Executive Board, staff and member schools share a common goal of providing interscholastic activities that enrich the lives of our students and foster lifelong learning experiences. That goal ties in well with the message of the WIAA -- “Preparing youth for life, from one generation to the next.” Core values such as integrity, pride and fairness have guided the Association over the past century and will continue to shape student-athletes each year. This event is the result of determination, commitment and hard work by many people throughout the course of a season. The message we can all take from these events is the pride, teamwork and sportsmanship that these students and coaches have demonstrated along the way. Please remember that sportsmanship and citizenship are the ultimate goals of our interscholastic activities programs, whether it is at practice or during competition. The WIAA’s resolve to establishing and nurturing a healthy culture in each member school has become the standard for ensuring that these tenants are upheld. I encourage you to do your part by cheering on all participants at this State Championship event. By doing so, you are contributing to a wholesome event that is fun for everyone involved - student participants, officials, coaches and fans. Join the crowd. “Just Play Fair!”, enjoy the event and cheer your team on! Sincerely, Mike A. Colbrese, Executive Director of the WIAA MAT CLASSIC XXIX | 1 COACHES HALL OF FAME | 2017 INDUCTEES Doug Cowan a league record of 107-21 including a 61 conference dual meet streak Curtis High School Head Coach, 2000-2012 from 1996-2005. The boys team won the state championship in 2000, Curtis High School Asst. Coach, 1992-2000 were runner-ups three times, third place three times, and three other Clover Park HS Asst. Coach, 1977-1992 top-ten finishes. The boys teams also won 10 regional championships and 11 league titles. Lepper helped spearhead the rise of girls wrestling in the northwest section of our state. He coached the Mount Baker girls Doug Cowan is a 1967 graduate of Curtis HS and charter member of team to four top-ten finishes including a state championship in 2008 the CHS Athletic Hall of fame, where he was a four-sport letterman in and trophies in 2007 and 2010. The girls won the first Girls Dream Dual football, wrestling, baseball and track, and awarded CHS Outstanding Tournament title, as well as the first girls dual meet in Whatcom County. Senior Athlete. Cowan matriculated to the University of Washington, Over the course of his career at MBHS, Lepper coached exactly 100 state receiving an academic/athletic scholarship for football and wrestling. placers, 14 state champions including his daughter, Rainey Lepper. He Following an injury, Cowan transferred to the University of Puget was named league Coach of the Year 11 times, Regional Coach of the Sound in 1971, participating in football and track, earning All-American Year 8 times, and in 1998 Lepper was named Sate Coach of the Year for honors in football. UPS honored him with the Ben Cheney Award for the the 1A classification. Outstanding Senior Athlete. He spent most of those years coaching three sport seasons. Lepper has been the head football coach since 1996, has recorded over 150 wins, He began teaching in 1974 with the Clover Park SD, teaching science, and was named league Coach of the Year seven times. In his time at coaching football and track. In 1977 Joe Reasons asked him to assist Mount Baker, Lepper was a head coach or assistant coach for softball, with wrestling at Clover Park HS. In their first season together, the baseball, and even basketball this past year. He continues to teach at Warriors won the first of two state championships among five top-ten Mount Baker and coach football. His nominator says this of his friend; finishes. In 1992 Cowan and Reasons independently moved to Curtis HS “Coach Lepper’s loud ‘Old School’ exterior hides his huge heart for kids. where he continued to coach wrestling and football. During their time He loves impacting the lives of kids through sports.” together, Reasons and Cowan accumulated a dual meet record of 227 wins and 88 losses. Cowan became the head coach in 2000 and guided the Vikings to 93 wins until his retirement in 2012. Cowan has coached Mike Williams eleven state finalists and six state champions. One of those state Othello HS Asst. Coach, 1965-1995 champions, Kirk White, went on to win a national title for Boise State Othello MS 1966-1973 and later coached the Broncos. His Curtis teams won two Academic State Championships, including numerous individual Academic State Champion wrestlers. Cowan was selected by his peers as league and regional assistant coach of the year, and league and regional head coach Mike Williams was instrumental in the accomplishments of the Othello of the year. He also received the inaugural Sportsman of the Year at High School wrestling program as an assistant coach for thirty years, the 50th anniversary Washington State wrestling tournament. Cowan’s and helped four different head coaches develop and mold young kids philosophy, a theme throughout his career, is to: compete, especially into young successful men. His role as an assistant coach was valuable against one’s best self; commit to excellence in all endeavors; and lead to the athletes and coaches that he worked with. The Othello teams with impeccable integrity. He has garnered the respect of students, that Williams helped coach won three state championships (1968, athletes, opposing coaches and officials as a true gentleman of the 1969, 1974) along with five runner-up finishes (1975, 1977, 1978, 1986, sport who held his athletes to high standards. He taught science for 1995). There were 22 individual state champions for Othello as well as 38 years, and was selected as Regional Science Teacher of the Year in 14 runner-ups. He taught science and math for 30 years at Othello High 1998. Cowan was selected by the Curtis HS students to be the faculty School and coached at Othello MS for seven seasons. commencement speaker eight times, including seven of the last nine years of teaching. He continues to coach football and substitute teach. Coach Williams took the responsibility of travelling all over the country taking wrestlers from Othello, and at times from other programs, to tournaments. He started the little guy program in Othello in the late Ron Lepper 1960’s. He coordinated freestyle tournaments, with a highlight being Mount Baker HS 1994-2014 the 1976 Olympic Qualifier in Othello where he was the assistant Palo Verde HS (CA) 1989-1994 tournament director. Williams also coached the 1982 Cultural Exchange Vista MS (Ferndale) 1989 Team to Australia and twice coached Team Washington at the Junior Ferndale HS Asst. Coach, 1988-1989 Nationals in Iowa. Simon Fraser University Asst. Coach, 1986-1987 During his years at Othello, Williams taught many athletes the Ron Lepper wrestled for Cashmere HS under Hall of Fame coaches Bill commitment and dedication that it takes to be successful. Many of the Elliot and John Durheim as part of three state championship teams, and athletes that he helped coach became successful in their own right, played football for HOF coach Jack Collins. At Simon Fraser University including WSWCA Hall of Fame members Wayne Schutte (Othello), Mark Lepper wrestled and played football from 1983-86, and served as an Kondo, (Othello), Ruben Martinez (Othello), and Scott Bliss (Auburn and assistant coach for both programs.