The cover of the 2024-25 state high school wrestling record book.
The 19th edition of the Connecticut High School Wrestling Record Book is available and posted at Connecticut Wrestling Online, the state’s oldest wrestling website.
The record book, first written and published in 2002, provides perspective and recognizes the notable achievements of high school athletes and coaches on the wrestling mat in Connecticut.
The focus of this record book is primarily public school athletes although there is recognition of some prep school athletes competing in regional and national events.
Since the last edition was released in 2022, there have been some record-setting performances.
- In 2023, Newtown’s Fisher Stites (170) set a new single season record for most wins by going 57-2 on the year. Single season records are comprised of competition through the New England tournament.
- In 2023, Norwalk’s Brendan Gilchrist (195, 39-0) and Killingly’s Jack Richardson (152, 45-0) each went undefeated.
- In 2023, Newtown’s Fisher Stites (170) set a new state record with 45 pins in a single season.
- Killingly is climbing the ladder for most consecutive dual meet victories. Killingly enters the season on a 60-match winning streak, dating back to the final weekend of the 2021-22 season. The state record is 96 in a row by Danbury from 1996 through 2001.
- In 2024, Danbury extended their record for the most undefeated, untied seasons to 13 after going 14-0.
- In 2024, Trumbull became the first team in state history with 14 pins in 14 matches in an 84-0 win over E.O. Smith on January 3, 2024. The previous record was 13 pins.
- Ledyard has the most dual meet victories of any team in state history with 922 wins. The Colonial program began in 1966. Windham surpassed the 900 win mark last season and the Whippets have won 903 dual meets.
- Danbury (894) begins this season six wins shy of the 900-win mark.
- In 2024, Killingly coach Rich Bowen became the first Connecticut wrestling coach with more than 700 career wins. Bowen has a career record of 701-183-2.
- Derby’s Buster Jadach is second with 629 wins and is the only other state coach with more than 600 career wins along with Bowen.
- In 2024, Newtown set a new team record with 361 pins, erasing the record of 333 that they set a year earlier in 2023.
- This season, there are 13 schools hosting co-op programs in wrestling with wrestlers from 20 other schools getting the opportunity to join a team and wrestle as a team. The oldest current co-op program is New Haven, which began in 2006 with host Wilbur Cross along with Hillhouse and Career.
- In 2024, Xavier won their third straight State Open championship with a record 243½ points. A week earlier, the Falcons set a Class L record with 343 points as they won their fourth straight Class L championship.
- Xavier set a record 14 wrestlers to the State Open last winter and tied their own record of nine wrestlers qualifying to compete in the New England championships.
- In 2023, Ledyard’s Tatianna Irizarry became the first girl to win an individual match in the boys State Open tournament.
- In 2024, Xavier scored 149 points at the New England championships. That would have been a tournament record except that Rhode Island’s Ponaganset scored a record 209 points to win their second straight New England title.
- In 2024, Norwalk’s Calli Gilchrist, who wrestles at Choate Rosemary Hall, became the third wrestler in state history to win two National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) national championship tournaments.
2025 Connecticut High School Wrestling Record Book
If you have information for the record book, please send it to Gerry deSimas, Jr., editor at [email protected].
