{"id":176621,"date":"2010-01-11T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T04:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goforward.harpercollege.edu\/page.cfm?p=5654&newsid=923"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T04:54:53","slug":"mid-season-report-on-the-wrestling-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/176621","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Season Report on the Wrestling Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Wrestling 2010 Mid-Season Report<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Head Coach Dan Loprieno, the 2009-2010 Harper College wrestling team has the possibility of being anywhere from a good team to one of the best teams in the country. &#8220;We have a lot of potential and talent on this year&#8217;s team,&#8221; says Loprieno, &#8220;but that only takes you so far. We need to put in the effort to reach our potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we enter 2010, the team has several meets wrapped up and Coach Loprieno is looking to key wrestlers to power his squad into Districts and Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>At 125 pounds, Eduardo Dominguez (Freshman &#8211; <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Mundelein<\/st1:place>) has already placed.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Stadeker (Sophomore &#8211; Rich East) at 147 pounds won the Triton tournament and was a national qualifier in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>PJ Starnes (Sophomore &#8211; <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Schaumburg<\/st1:place>) will be at 157 pounds and was an All-American in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>Another All-American (&#8217;07) is Mike Dace (Sophomore &#8211; Grant) will be at 165 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Bakley (Sophomore &#8211; Huntley) is at 174 pounds and has won the Missouri Open and was also a national qualifier in &#8217;08.<\/p>\n<p>Arber Bebo (Freshman &#8211; Addison Trail) is one of two wrestlers competing for the 184 pound slot. Bebo has won at Triton.<\/p>\n<p>Shae Geradot (Sophomore &#8211; <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Columbia<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">City<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>) is the second wrestler competing for the 184 pound slot and he was an All-American in &#8217;07.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Triton meet is a good indicator of the wrestlers in the area,&#8221; says Loprieno. &#8220;The majority of schools in the region participate in the Triton meet, so we can get a good feel for how things will shake out during the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had 4 or 5 kids hurt, but if we can get them healthy and back on the team, we have the potential to have a very successful season,&#8221; concludes Loprieno. Among the injured wrestlers attempting to return are John Grubisich (Freshman &#8211; Argo), Mike Lukowski (Sophomore &#8211; Dundee Crown), Matt Boggess (Freshman &#8211; Prospect) and Josh Kratovil (<st1:street w:st=\"on\"><st1:address w:st=\"on\">Lincoln Way<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>).<\/p>\n<p>With a full roster that is healthy, Coach Loprieno believes his team can make a strong run for a national title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling 2010 Mid-Season Report According to Head Coach Dan Loprieno, the 2009-2010 Harper College wrestling team has the possibility of being anywhere from a good team to one of the best teams in the country. &#8220;We have a lot of potential and talent on this year&#8217;s team,&#8221; says Loprieno, &#8220;but that only takes you so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}