Keanna Conrad becomes 3-time Tiger Grizz Champion, named outstanding wrestler in middle weights
Shoshone-Bannock tribal member and BHS wrestler Keanna Conrad wins the Tiger Grizz Invitational championship title on January 17.
By LIZZIE BOYD
Sho-Ban News
IDAHO FALLS — Blackfoot High School wrestler Keanna Conrad, Shoshone-Bannock, was named outstanding wrestler in the middle weights at the Tiger Grizz wrestling tournament Championships on January 17.
The Tiger Grizz wrestling tournament is a long running high school wrestling event that started around 1981 put on by Skyline High School in Idaho Falls.
Conrad at the Tiger Grizz match-up announcements.
Conrad, a junior, wrestled in the 135-pound Varsity Girls bracket and is a member of the Blackfoot High School girls wrestling team.
The tournament had a total of 270 girls with a total of 21 girls in Keanna’s bracket. She was ranked number one going into the tournament, wrestled a total of five matches staying in the winner’s bracket and went undefeated for the weekend.
Conrad wrestled opponent Amelia Ronnebeck from Syracuse, Utah in the Championship match. She said, “I have never wrestled her before, so it was fun.” Conrad pinned her opponent in the second period of the Championship match. With the win, Conrad became a three-time Tiger Grizz Champion and was named the Outstanding wrestler for the tournament, which is her third time receiving the prestigious award for the tournament. Conrad said, “I wrestle because it’s fun.”
Conrad has big goals, a short-term goal is working towards winning her third consecutive State Title, a big goal is to win a Fargo National title, and a long-term goal is to work towards receiving a wrestling scholarship to college.
“My life goal is to wrestle in the Olympics, and I don’t know where I plan to go to college just yet, I am not looking that far ahead, and I want to win state first. I want to focus on this season,” she said.
Keanna Conrad wrestles in the championship match.
This season Keanna has won several wrestling championships, to name a few, she is a Two-time Idaho State wrestling Champion, Folkstyle Junior National Champion and All American wrestler, Western States Champion in three styles (Folkstyle, Freestyle and Greco), Cooper Lish Champion, RTC Reno Tournament of Champions third place finisher and All American, Rollie Lane 3x Champion, Jay Bird Tournament Champion, Tiger Grizz 3x Champion and Middle Weight 3x Outstanding Wrestler and has a current record of 112 wins 1 loss. She also has many All-American wrestler titles.
Keanna Conrad wins the championship match at the Tiger Grizz Invitational.
Conrad would like to encourage the community youth, she said, “Join different sports, something that interests you and work towards a goal. I just want to be a good mentor for the youth to look up too.”
Keanna would also like to give thanks to her coaches, her partners who push her every day at practice, her mother who makes her go to the gym when she doesn’t want to and all her friends and family who always support her.
