{"id":476894,"date":"2025-12-28T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:29:22","slug":"uhs-wrestlers-place-third-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476894\/","title":{"rendered":"UHS wrestlers place third in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47204\" class=\"wp-image-47204 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Wrestling-pic-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-47204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Childs<br \/>Uvalde High School wrestlers (left to right) Emily Gonzalez, Carlos Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez, Rogelio Perez, Rafael Perez, Daniel Mendoza, and Kenzie Cantu were among those who placed in Dec. 20 meet meet competition at San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Uvalde High School placed third in the men\u2019s team standings of the Reindeer Roundup wrestling meet on Dec. 20 at San Antonio\u2019s MacArthur High School.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Coach Kenneth Childs\u2019 Coyotes totaled 104.5 points to place behind first-place Killeen Harker Heights with 165.5 points and runner-up San Antonio Churchill with 120 points. Smithson Valley took fourth place behind UHS.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Twenty high school teams participated in the wrestling meet. UHS was the only Class 4A high school vying in a field of Class 6A and 5A high schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Three UHS wrestlers captured first-place honors, including Alex Rodriguez in the men\u2019s 120-pound class, Carlos Rodriguez in the men\u2019s 144-pound class, and Rogelio Perez in the men\u2019s 157-pound class.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Daniel Mendoza, vying in the men\u2019s 106-pound class, and Rafael Perez, vying in the men\u2019s 215-pound class, each claimed third-place honors.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cAs a team, we did an awesome job,\u201d said Coach Kenneth Childs. \u201cThe two schools that placed ahead of us were larger schools and they had a full roster of athletes competing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">UHS had four wrestlers competing in the women\u2019s division of the meet. The Lobos finished 10th in the women\u2019s team standings.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Emily Gonzalez took second place in he women\u2019s 120-pound division and Kenzie Cantu finished second in the women\u2019s 190-pound class.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThat\u2019s not bad for a couple of scrappy athletes from little ol\u2019 Class 4A Uvalde High School,\u201d Childs said. Next action for the UHS wrestlers is scheduled for Jan. 2-3 when they will participate in the Converse Judson Invitational meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth ChildsUvalde High School wrestlers (left to right) Emily Gonzalez, Carlos Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez, Rogelio Perez, Rafael Perez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115796729831745009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}