Sunday night Panorama head wrestling coach Jason Kirtley and his coaching staff held their annual awards night banquet to honor the 2016-17 Panther wrestling team.

The festivities were initiated by recognizing all wrestlers involved this year and by honoring Panorama’s three state place winners in Tyler Van Houten-7th at 152 lbs, Gunnar Grunsted-5th at 170 lbs, and George Appleseth-6th place at 132 lbs.

The honors and awards kept on with the Most Valuable Wrestler award which went to the senior phenom Tyler Van Houten who wrestled his way into setting four school records including most wins in a season with 53, most reversals in a season with 39, most reversals in a career with 111, all wrapped up with most near fall wins in a career with 51.

Wrestler Of The Year Award went to fellow senior and state place winner George Appleseth who’s senior campaign ended with a record of 44-11. The Excellence Award was taken home by Brady Howard as he ended his 2016-17 campaign with a 34-22 record. Gunnar Grunsted was a very deserving recipient of the Most Heart Award as the state place winner took home an overall record of 45-12. Dan Jensen had to deal with a couple of injury/illness set backs this season but still pushed on strong and earning himself a state qualifying bid in rout to a season record of 27-20.

Danny Nordquist earned himself the Team Leader Award while enduring a solid season which ended with a 40-15 record. Strength was very much shown at the underclassmen level as Emry Colby’s solid season was awarded with the Freshman Of The Year Award.

Noah Kirtley earned a double dosage of awards on the night taking home the Most Dedicated and Best Weight Cutter Awards. He ended his 2016-17 campaign with a mark of 34-20. Ondrej Komora wound up with the Most Coachable Award while future phenom Trevor Carey was awarded both the Most Improved Award and the Future Star Award.

The individual award were finished off with Dan Jensen selected as the Coaches Choice Award winner.

As a team the Panther wrestling squad was recognized for winning three tournaments this year including being crowned sectional 13 champions. Records were set all over the place for Panorama sending a school record 5 wrestlers on to state and three state place winners.