Coach optimistic for veteran wrestling team

The Saratoga Wrestling team saw a solid season in 2014–15, and wrestling head coach Jared Mason is looking forward to an even more improved year. With five wrestlers as state placers last year and four of them returning, Mason expects an exciting season with the team of seven.

“We haven’t had an individual state champ in a while and hopefully we’ll get one this year, and I think it could happen,” Mason said.

Right now, the team is working on basics and conditioning, drilling to get back up to competitive shape. The upperclassmen are helping the younger wrestlers, and Mason says the whole team...