Jonathan Kowalchuk and Antonio Toledo are performing a new function for the La Jolla High wrestling team this season. They are "team managers", which in this reporter's 14 years covering the squad, has never happened before.
"I'm the one returning," said Toledo when asked who was the wrestler last year before the La Jolla-Lincoln dual meet Thursday, Dec. 11. He toiled in 2024-2025, then this season decided to take the manager's role as new head coach Joey Stofko takes over. (Stofko was an assistant the three years previous.)
The two, Kowalchuk and Toledo, were busy keeping their own scorebooks at the Viking-Hornet meet in the LHS old gym. This reporter took a photo of each book, thinking they were the official scorebooks.
"Mine is the official scorebook," volunteered Maddie Quach, a 110-pound wrestler and de facto captain of the team. "I'm teaching them how to keep score."
The books are big, with ring-type binders holding them so that you can turn pages. The information recorded on them is extremely valuable for a reporter covering the meet, when nothing will be posted on flowrestling or trackwrestling.com (used in tournaments).
I asked on another occasion what the managers do. They said set up the mats and help out in other ways.
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