Analy brothers Trevor and Preston Bagan rewrote the Analy High School athletic history books on March 2-3 at Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, becoming the first brothers to compete at the California Interscholastic Federation State Wrestling Championships in the same season.
The two-day pressure cooker began with preliminary rounds on Friday, with the championship rounds taking place on Saturday. The top eight in each weight class earned a medal.Â
Senior 113-pound Trevor Bagan, joined an elite group in making his second straight state appearance, advancing to the second day of competition to finish just out of the medals with a 3-2 record.
Sophomore Preston Bagan, a third-place North Coast Section medalist, made his first state appearance was eliminated on Friday with an 0-2 record.Â
The road to the CIF State Championships is perhaps the most demanding in high school sports, considering that California is the most populous state in the nation and has just one open division for all athletes in 14 weight classes, with no distinction made for size of school.Â
Consider the fact that there were more than 27,000 participating athletes on 900 high school teams in California this year, but only one tenth of one percent of all athletes qualified for state. The Windsor High School wrestling team has had at least two state qualifiers each year for the past 12 seasons.
