Thursday, January 26, 2023

LJ wrestling: 2011-12 was supreme

Viking wrestler Timmy Cundiff (top) competes
at the Masters tournament Feb. 24, 2012. Timmy
was a league champion that year for La Jolla.
(Photos by Ed Piper)


By Ed Piper

I'm just beginning to explore my photos from La Jolla wrestling's "glory days" of the league champions in 2011-12. I didn't start my blog until October 2013, over a year and a half after Masters competition in February 2012 for Timmy Cundiff and Harry Wilson and others.

Boy, Coach Kellen Delaney looks young. So does fellow coach Ryan Lindenblatt (away from the team this year).

The present Viking wrestling team, Eastern League champions crowned just last week (Jan. 18), are the first conference wrestling champs in La Jolla land since that 2011-12 team.

Others from the 2011-12 champions included Erick Gomez, Matt Vasquez, Peter Donchev, Stephen Lemus, Benjamin Abramowitz, Jose Dorantes, Everett Roach, Stephen Andrews, and Aaron Creswell.

Present LJHS assistant
coach Harry Wilson as
a student competing
 at the Feb. 2012 Masters
tournament.

Coaches Kellen Delaney and Rosenblatt
(background right) looking much younger
11 years ago.

Another view of Wilson, getting
some pointers from Coach Delaney
back in the day.

Harry Wilson vies in City Conference bout
Feb. 11, 2012.

Cundiff, a senior like Wilson,
records a win at 152 pounds
at the City Conference meet.





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