Valley View Cougar Wrestling Boosters

04/13/2026

The Valley View Cougar Wrestling Boosters would like to thank Brushstrokes & Balloons, Quinn's Shursave Market & Benny's Peckville for helping make our end of year awards ceremony a success for our student athletes, coaches and families. Our community loves VV kids and it shows!

04/11/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating our Valley View Wrestling End of Year Awards Ceremony for the 2025–2026 season! Your support, energy, and commitment to our athletes made it a truly special afternoon. We are proud of everything this team has accomplished both on and off the mat.

👏 Congratulations to all of our award winners:

🔴 Varsity
• Randy Kordish Memorial Award: James Scagliotti
• Outstanding Wrestler: Tywone Giles
• Most Improved Wrestler: Jackson Healey
• Rookie of the Year: Dominic Klem
• Michael “Chippi” Cawley Scholarship Award: Apollo Kazmierski

⚫ Junior High
• Randy Kordish Memorial Award: Dylan Ramos
• Outstanding Wrestler: Taysean Giles
• Most Improved Wrestler: Tristan Esbrandt
• Rookie of the Year: Rocco Zurn

🔵 Girls Wrestling
• Randy Kordish Memorial Award: Kerrigan Sprague
• Outstanding Wrestler: Taylor Shaheen
• Most Improved Wrestler: Amsi Garriga-Diaz
• Rookie of the Year: Lucy Ritzco
• Girls JH Wrestler of the Year: Layla Silva

🎓 Honoring Our Seniors
We also recognized three athletes who have dedicated years to our program and helped build the culture of Valley View Wrestling:

Apollo Kazmierski has wrestled for Valley View for five years and will be attending Lackawanna College, studying Petroleum and Natural Gas Technology.
Cooper Rawlings began in our feeder program and has wrestled four years with the high school program. He will be attending Misericordia University to study Physical Therapy.
Emily Claps has wrestled for three years and will be attending the University of Scranton, studying Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry.

Your dedication, resilience, and leadership have left a lasting mark on this program. We are proud of you and excited for what’s next.

🙏 Thank you again to all of our families, coaches, and supporters who make Valley View Wrestling what it is. The future is bright!

04/07/2026

🤼🤼🤼 Congratulations to our Cougars! 🤼🤼🤼
Lackawanna League Division II Wrestling All-Stars:
1st Team Middleweight: Tywone Giles
2nd Team Lightweight: James Scagliotti; Jackson Healey
2nd Team Upperweight: Apollo Kazmierski

Congratulations to the Cougars name Lackawanna League Division II Wrestling All-Stars:
1st Team Middleweight: Tywone Giles
2nd Team Lightweight: James Scagliotti; Jackson Healey
2nd Team Upperweight: Apollo Kazmierski

03/27/2026

BUILD A LEGACY WITH VALLEY VIEW WRESTLING
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Cougar Youth Wrestling is BACK — and we’re looking for the right leader to take our feeder program to the next level!

We are currently seeking a Head Wrestling Coach for the Valley View Wrestling Club feeder program.

This is more than a coaching position — it’s an opportunity to:
✅ Lead, inspire, and mentor young athletes
✅ Build a strong, championship-level culture from the ground up
✅ Shape the future of Valley View wrestling

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about developing youth athletes, committed to building fundamentals, and ready to make a lasting impact on our program and community.

📣 Are you ready to create something great?

If you’re interested or would like more information, please reach out:
📧 [email protected]
📞 Cherokee Sprague
📞 Coach Bryan Smith

Let’s build something special — together. 💙💛

02/28/2026

Very proud of our Taylor Shaheen!

Girls Wrestling
Individual Regionals

Another first in Valley View girls wrestling as Taylor Shaheen gets the victory at 124 pounds over Wilmoth of DuBois by a 6-0 decision in her opening match.

We will keep you up to date.

02/28/2026

Parents of current wrestlers 2025-2025 season, please see the wrestling remind for the link to individual wrestlers pictures! 💛💙

02/27/2026

Shout out to Blakely Police Department for es**rting our Valley View Cougars as they leave it all on the mat for Regionals! 💙💛💙💛 Parents Of Valley View Wrestling

Today, the Blakely Police Department is proud to es**rt the Valley View Cougars Wrestling Team to the highway as they head to the Regional competition.

This group of young men and women has put in the work all season. Early mornings, long practices, tough matches. They earned this opportunity.

We are honored to send them off the right way and show them that their community stands behind them.

Good luck to the Valley View Cougars. Travel safe, wrestle hard, and make us proud. Go Cougars.

02/22/2026

02/22/2026

The Valley View Boys and Girls Wrestling Team compete in the PIAA District 2 individual championship this weekend at Wilkes-Barre High School. The boys had 3 place winners. Two of the boys finished 5th and 1 won the 152 weight class and will move on to the regional championship next weekend. The girls had 4 place winners with two 6th places and 2 fourth places. Two of the girls will move on to the regional championships next weekend. These two girls became Valley View's first-ever regional qualifiers in school history. Ty Giles won the 152 weight class to become a District Champion and regional qualifier. Jackson Healey placed 5th. James Scagsliotti placed 5th. Taylor Shaheen placed 4th and is a regional qualifier. Amsi Garriga-Diaz placed 4th and is a regional qualifier. Alexis Lamolly placed 6th and Kerrigan Sprague placed 6th. All the boys and girls wrestled with heart and pride.

02/21/2026

Day 1 recap boys

PLAINS TWP. — Wrestlers always enter the district tournament with the mentality that seeds don’t matter. Four No. 6 seeds in the District 2 Class 2A boys tournament took that to heart Friday …

02/21/2026

Day 1 recap girls

PLAINS TWP. — If anyone could understand what Cidney Schaffer was going through, it was the girl right behind her scorer’s table. As the Lackawanna Trail freshman prepared to take the mat in …