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For the week of March 5 - 11, 2003
Rushton heads to
NCAA finalsBSU senior wrestler
Bellevue’s Boe Rushton is one of nine Boise State University seniors who have qualified for the NCAA National Wrestling Championships March 20-22 in Kansas City, Mo.
The nine Bronco wrestlers is the highest total to qualify for the national tournament since Boise State joined the Pac-10 Conference in 1987.
Rushton, 23, a senior who is ranked fifth in the nation, qualified in the heavyweight class by finishing second in the Pac-10 Conference finals. He will be making his second trip to the NCAA finals.
In the Pac-10 Conference Wrestling Championships that wrapped up Monday in Boise, Arizona State’s team captured a seven-point win over the BSU Broncos 134-127.
Arizona State and Boise State wrestlers clashed in five of the championship finals—and ASU won four of them, including Kellan Fluckiger’s 2-0 win over Rushton (22-5 season, 53-24 career) in the heavyweight title match.
Earlier in the tournament 6-2, 280-pound Rushton—a three-time district champion wrestler for Hailey’s Wood River High School from 1996-98—logged a second-round pin and captured a 5-0 decision to make the final.
Rushton, the son of Boyd and Barbara Rushton, credits much of his success to family support. But Rushton has done much himself, including a determination to fight back from a series of knee injuries.
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