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In a dark arena with music blasting, fans cheering, and spotlights shining toward the mat, Highland High School junior Aleks Bastaic powered her way to an incredible 2nd-place finish at the 2024 Fargo Junior Women’s Freestyle National Wrestling Championship, her second in two years.

This is not the only tournament that Bastaic has enjoyed success in throughout the year. In March, she won the 2024 USA Folkstyle National Championship in Iowa. Additionally, she achieved the coveted triple-crown this year, winning the Indiana State Wrestling Association (ISWA) Folkstyle, Greco, and Freestyle tournaments. These three wins helped her qualify for the recent Fargo tournament.

To read more about Aleks Bastaic’s recent accomplishments and to learn about how she started wrestling, please visit our website linked below.

https://www.highland.k12.in.us/article/1693672

The photo is provided by Lauren Bastaic, Aleks’ mother and the school librarian at Johnston Elementary School.

FYI: Still on for tonight!

Please consider donating to our Highland High School Athletics Fundraiser! Our Athletic Department is looking to make much needed improvements for our school. Please spread the word!

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Girls wrestling is officially an IHSAA sanctioned sport! We are excited to see other schools fill girls teams and see girls wrestling continue to grow.

Over the past decade, the number of high school girls' teams quadrupled nationally and the number of girls wrestling in high school quintupled to over 50,000 through last year, according to figures from the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Big news out of Indianapolis as the IHSAA has officially sanctioned girls wrestling for the 2024-2025 school year! Congratulations to all the girls who will now be wrestling for an IHSAA state title next year.

Great season guys!! We’re so incredibly proud of you all!

Reminder -
ISWA Freestyle State tournament on May 3rd.

HWC girls are both coming home with All-American status from Freestyle Nationals!!
Melody- 2nd at U14
Aleks- 7th at U17

Great job ladies!

Great job ladies on an incredible season!

Don’t miss the freestyle events coming soon.

1.) Wheeler Duel (Wed) 4/17

2.) Wheeler Duel Wed 4/24

3.) King of the Ring at Lowell HS - Freestyle on Sunday 4/28

ISWA Freestyle and Greco State! (Boys must wrestle 2 freestyle events to be able to participate)

Great job to Hunter Vanek on receiving Most Valuable Athlete for the boys team this season with an awesome winning record! Great job Hunter!

Congratulations to Hunter Sopkowski on receiving Most Improved for the 2023-2024 season! Great job Hunter!

Congratulations to Victor Bassett for winning Best Mental Attitude during the 2023-2024 wrestling season! Way to go!

Congratulations to Aleksandra Bastaic on winning the Most Valuable Award for the 2023-2024 season.

She won 1st Place at Nationals and a 2 time Girls State Champion 👏🏼 Great job Aleks!

Congratulations to Isabella Robledo on winning Best Mental Attitude this season! Great job Isabella!

If anyone hasn’t received their sponsor shirt please reach out to us. Thank you.

Congratulations to Kate Robinson for winning the girls Most Improved Award, great job Kate!

Happy Easter 🐰🥕

Thank you to Randy Walker for the pictures in the upcoming days! So appreciative you dedicate your time to capturing these memories. And as always thank you to our coaches!

Thank you so much to Boss Man Tacos for the incredibly generous contribution to our end of season banquet party and the best tacos 🤤🤤

We truly appreciate you. Eat local.

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Thank you to Shelley Sopkowski and all of the parents that helped put this together, that donated to the coaches gifts or brought food to pass! We couldn’t have done it without you.

First, a huge thank you to Pastor Jeremy for letting us use the church, Randy and Jan Walker and everyone at Mission Bible Church who made it possible. They not only took the time to set up, bake desserts but they also served, washed dishes and helped clean up. We are so incredibly appreciative of you all. Thank you for making it such a wonderful night for all the families and athletes of our 2023-2024 Wrestling program.

We want to congratulate our HS Folkstyle National Champ! She put on a dominant performance.

Round of 32: Bye
Round of 16: Pin over Utah 4A State Runner-Up
Quarterfinals: Dec 2-0 over Louisiana State Champ
Semifinals: Pin over Utah 6A State Champ
Finals: Dec 8-1 over Illinois State Champ

Aleksandra Bastaic, Junior Girls Folkstyle Nationals Champion at 140 lbs. Aleksandra Bastaic (Highland Wrestling Club) after defeating Mackenzie Pratt (Illinois) 6-1 in the 140-pound finals of the Junior girls division at the 2024 ...

Randy Walker did an amazing job capturing energy of yesterday’s event. Check out his photos they are all free to download. Thank you Randy!

R.H. Walker Photography Photographer who likes to capture images that reflect life and the beauty of God's creation.

Successful day at the Highland FolkStyle Tournament for the Highland Wrestling Club.

A huge thank you to all the coaches, volunteers, parents and mostly the athletes for making this a great day.

We are HIGHLAND PROUD.