For Amy Foster, attending the Dick Pruett Memorial Wrestling Tournament is a nice way to keep her father’s memory alive.
Kent-Meridian High School last Saturday hosted the fifth annual tournament, which is named in honor of Pruett, who coached Kent-Meridian wrestling for 26 years, from 1966-1992, produced 63 state placers, 16 champions and three team titles. Pruett died at the age of 69 in 2009.
“It has been something our family looks forward to every January,” Foster said of the tournament she has attended since it began in 2012. “It is just nice to see up and coming wrestlers just because the sport was such a big part of our family when we were growing up.”
Foster’s brother, Joe Pruett, lives in Texas and was unable to attend the tournament.
“We always send him pictures,” she said.
Foster said her children, Josephine, who attends Kentlake High School, and Owen, who is an eighth-grader at Cedar Heights Middle School, get a hooded sweatshirt every year to commemorate their event. Owen, a wrestler at Cedar Heights, is following in his grandfather’s footsteps.
Sunnyside High School, in Eastern Washington, took first place in the tournament, followed by Auburn and Tahoma. Kent-Meridian finished in sixth place. Other local schools included Renton in 10th place and Hazen finished 12th.
Kent-Meridian’s Emmanuel Daigbe pinned Tahoma’s Dagen Kramer in 45 seconds to capture the 195-pound weight class. Marquise Card of Kent-Meridian won the 285-pound division.
Other local results:
113
• Kendrick Untalon, Renton, second place
120
• Tyson Mowrey, Hazen, second place
• Noah Miller, Tahoma, third place
• Makynoyt Sittideth, Kent-Meridian, third place
132
• Nic Whitehead, Tahoma, first place
• Drew Aplin, Auburn, third place
138
• Justin Sipila, Tahoma, first place
• Dylan Weiding, Tahoma, second place
• Jamison Glenn, Auburn, third place
145
•Sjon Snitily, Auburn, third place
152
• Michael Yadon, Auburn, second place
• Steve Rieve, Tahoma, third place
170
• Cole Washbrun, Auburn, first place
182
• Leroy Rowe, Renton, second place
• Phu Ly, Kent-Meridian, third place
• Deshawnre Appleton, Auburn, third place
220
• Kyle Guthrie, Auburn, first place
• Nic Carbone, Tahoma, second place
Note: Wrestlers were presented co-third-place medals. No third-place matches were held to keep wrestlers under the five matches per day maximum.
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