Fallert wins Missouri wrestling girls’ championship

SGHS sees 2nd girls’ champion in 3 years

BY MICHAEL BOYD JR.

HERALD SPORTS EDITOR

Keely Fallert, a sophomore at Ste. Genevieve (Mo.) High, won the MSHSAA 140-pound state championship Thursday at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia. (Tony Capobianco photo / Southeast Missourian)

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Keely Fallert just won the state championship for the 140-pound division at the MSHSAA Class 1 girls’ championships at the Mizzou Arena.

The sophomore, who returned to her hometown of Ste. Genevieve just over a month ago, avenged last year’s state-finals loss as an Oak Grove High wrestler only to claim the top prize this year for SGHS, the second girls’ champion for the Lady Dragons in three years.

Fallert was the only local female out of nine to reach all-state status by finishing in the top six and made sure she won the crown this time. It is believed that she is the only SGHS athlete to earn an all-state medal in the same sport at two different schools.

Addison Geiler won a state title her junior year in 2023. The two are the only girls’ champions for head coach Jared Bonnell, who finished with two champions this season as heavyweight Jacob Schweigert claimed that title a short while later as the Dragons claimed third place as a team.

In all, SGHS had six total all-state wrestlers between the boys and girls.

Check out the Herald’s March 5 edition for more.

Ste. Genevieve Dragons
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