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DENVER — Monte Trusty made a smooth transition from wrestling coach to mathematician early Saturday night.
With the assistance of assistant coach Dick Thomas, Trusty, the head wrestling coach at Windsor, put numbers to paper and started pushing his pencil.
It added up.
Check it again. It still added up.
The Wizards left no doubt that they were the Class 4A state champions — again — successfully defending their title from a year ago at the Pepsi Center. They finished with 121.5 points, well ahead of Pueblo South (111), Broomfield (103) and Discovery Canyon (101).
“We figured out the maximum amount of points we could get in the finals, then the maximum amount of points of about three other teams,” Trusty said. “I let Dick (Thomas) do most of the figuring.”
Trusty announced the title to his Wizards on the team bus back to the Marriott Residence Inn hotel, where they would rest up and take in championship matches from 106-pound sopbnomore Jonathan Lewis and 220-pound senior Jack Kuck.
Ironically, neither would win, but the team title was already in their back pockets.
The bus was rockin’ and rollin’ after Trusty made his announcement.
“It’s a little bittersweet,” said Kuck, who lost his title match 1-0 to Air Academy’s Rip Price. Lewis absorbed a 16-2 loss to Broomfield’s Drew Romero, a defending state champion who previously wrestled for La Junta.
Windsor’s back-to-back titles marks only the second time a Weld wrestling team has acheieved the feat. Fort Lupton won Class 2A back-to-back titles in 1986 and 1987.
Lewis’ title loss was also a little easier to overcome when Trusty reminded him in the dark corridor of the Pepsi Center how important his state-tournament points were in helping the team to the title.
“These kids came down here and did what they had to do,” said Trusty, who isn’t shy about stating that winning 10 state individual titles was what he would have wanted, outside of the team title.
“This feels great, really,” Lewis said in reference to the team title. “I’m just a sophomore, and this is my first year at varsity.”
The Wizards entered 10 in the three-day tournament, and placed six, led by Lewis and Kuck’s runner-up finishes.
Kuck explained that the team’s top goal from early November has been “One mission, one team,” focusing on the team title first and foremost.
So, is it fair to say that Trusty is building a dynasty in Windsor?
“Not really,” Trusty said. “Maybe if we win about 10. Not now though.”
With the assistance of assistant coach Dick Thomas, Trusty, the head wrestling coach at Windsor, put numbers to paper and started pushing his pencil.
It added up.
Check it again. It still added up.
The Wizards left no doubt that they were the Class 4A state champions — again — successfully defending their title from a year ago at the Pepsi Center. They finished with 121.5 points, well ahead of Pueblo South (111), Broomfield (103) and Discovery Canyon (101).
“We figured out the maximum amount of points we could get in the finals, then the maximum amount of points of about three other teams,” Trusty said. “I let Dick (Thomas) do most of the figuring.”
Trusty announced the title to his Wizards on the team bus back to the Marriott Residence Inn hotel, where they would rest up and take in championship matches from 106-pound sopbnomore Jonathan Lewis and 220-pound senior Jack Kuck.
Ironically, neither would win, but the team title was already in their back pockets.
The bus was rockin’ and rollin’ after Trusty made his announcement.
“It’s a little bittersweet,” said Kuck, who lost his title match 1-0 to Air Academy’s Rip Price. Lewis absorbed a 16-2 loss to Broomfield’s Drew Romero, a defending state champion who previously wrestled for La Junta.
Windsor’s back-to-back titles marks only the second time a Weld wrestling team has acheieved the feat. Fort Lupton won Class 2A back-to-back titles in 1986 and 1987.
Lewis’ title loss was also a little easier to overcome when Trusty reminded him in the dark corridor of the Pepsi Center how important his state-tournament points were in helping the team to the title.
“These kids came down here and did what they had to do,” said Trusty, who isn’t shy about stating that winning 10 state individual titles was what he would have wanted, outside of the team title.
“This feels great, really,” Lewis said in reference to the team title. “I’m just a sophomore, and this is my first year at varsity.”
The Wizards entered 10 in the three-day tournament, and placed six, led by Lewis and Kuck’s runner-up finishes.
Kuck explained that the team’s top goal from early November has been “One mission, one team,” focusing on the team title first and foremost.
So, is it fair to say that Trusty is building a dynasty in Windsor?
“Not really,” Trusty said. “Maybe if we win about 10. Not now though.”
