Vikings celebrate their first state wrestling title

The Vikings have seen many great wrestlers over the years but the state title has been out of reach until last week in Pocatello.

Coeur d’Alene Vikings had a tremendous run at the regional tournament but Highland high school dominated the southern Idaho headlines with perditions of them winning the state championship.  2010 5A coach of the year, Jeff Moffat commented, “We not only beat Highland high school, we dominated them.”

The long 9-hour bus ride was much better driving back from Pocatello with the state championship trophy riding along side the team. “We set a goal from day one to win a state championship,” Of the seventeen wrestlers that qualified for state, thirteen of them placed, “which is unheard of,” said Moffat.

The Vikings plan to continue to build their wrestling program and are looking for a repeat next year.

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