Seven Local Wrestlers Made the Championship Round Last Week at State, and All Seven Won; PHS First-Year Wrestling Coach Jeb Clark Named 3A Coach of the Year

Pictured: PHS Head Wrestling Coach and 3A Coach of the Year Jeb Clark

Payson High School wrestler Jed Mellen (named Outstanding Wrestler in the Lower Weights for 3A) won his third state championship, and six other local wrestlers won their first.  Four of them are Payson Lions: Josh Jensen, Riley Loveless, and Kaelen Loveless.  One is a Salem Hills High Skyhawk, Jacob Armstrong, and another is an American Leadership Academy Eagle, Oaks Morley.  In addition, Payson High School first-year coach Jeb Clark was named 3A Coach of the year.  See the wrestlers' photographs in this week's paper.  Subscribe to The Payson Chronicle by mail, at our office, or online, at paysonads.com.