With four years to hone their skills, some Moffat County High School wrestlers may find success immediately, and some find it rising through the ranks little by little.
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Though there are many deserving young men and women who have made a name for themselves in Moffat County High School’s sports venues and classrooms, there can be only two seniors who end their four years by picking up the top honors as part of the annual Lewis “Dude” Dent Memorial Award ceremony.
The yearly celebration of high school students excelling in academics and athletics alike took place Monday evening at the Center of Craig, with a full banquet, speeches, trophies and more to acknowledge multi-talented teens.
The namesake of the Dude Dent award was a storied football, basketball and track athlete at Craig High School who graduated in 1939 and promptly went to the next level of sports success by achieving All-Conference honors in the Big 7 at Colorado A&M now Colorado State University and later named the best all-around athlete in the Mountain States Conference.
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On May 17, Moffat County High School acknowledged some of its best and brightest student-athletes for the Class of 2021 with the Lewis “Dude” Dent Memorial Award ceremony.
The namesake of the top accolade for athletic students is Lewis Dent, a 1939 Craig High School graduate well known for his proficiency in multiple sports, including football, basketball and track. An athlete at Colorado State University then Colorado A&M he went on to enlist in the United States’ military effort in World War II and was killed in action in 1944.
An award bearing Dent’s name has been part of MCHS sports since 1957, later followed by Outstanding Female Athlete in 1977, both celebrating well-rounded pupils who have demonstrated excellence in the classroom and in athletic competition.
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While not every element of the 2020-21 school year at Moffat County High School has been easygoing, the theme of the annual prom got students back to a soft and soothing good time.
The annual spring formal, held Saturday night at the Moffat County Fairgrounds Pavilion, was a welcome return to normalcy with the theme “On Cloud 9.”
Dreamy clouds and glowing stars were among the décor as students and faculty put on their best duds to cut back and have fun after a year full of uncertainty.
While 2020 saw multiple school events cancelled, organizers got the go-ahead earlier this year to bring prom back in full force, with school district staff members Amber Beaver and Teesha Reidhead putting things together.
PUEBLO Kaden Hixson was bleeding all day.
The Moffat County sophomore fell in his CHSAA State Championships quarterfinal match via 15-7 major decision and adding injury to insult, he smashed his face off the mat, breaking his nose.
The pain was one thing, but the bleeding was a disruption in the remainder of his matches, sometimes halting the contest as Hixson was gaining momentum.
“My nose hurts pretty bad and throughout the match blood just keeps coming out and stopping the match. It’s a little hard to breathe,” Hixson said. “Wrestling, you’re going to get your nose bumped. After breaking it, getting it hit again and again, it just hurts.”