KEY WEST GRAPPLER ALFREDO CORRALES EARNS FOURTH PLACE IN KISSIMMEE

Alfredo Corrales dons his FHSAA 1A State Championships fourth-place medal. CONTRIBUTED

Top Florida wrestlers gathered in Kissimmee’s Silver Spurs Arena March 6-8 to grapple their way through the brackets at the FHSAA State Championships. Eight Keys wrestlers qualified for the event, including Coral Shores’ Costa Tuttle, Sebastian McCoy and David Beltran plus Key West’s Abram Canet, Jake Ferguson, James Searcy, Maria Halushka and Alfredo Corrales. 

Corrales, FHSAA’s 1A Region 4 champ, battled his way to a fourth-place state medal to cap off a stellar career with the Conchs, setting a high bar for future Key West grapplers. Corrales, who competed in this year’s 175-pound classification, holds the school record for most career wins with 150 and most pins with 94.

Tracy McDonald
Tracy McDonald fled to the Keys from the frozen mountains of Pennsylvania hours after graduating from college and never looked back. She is a second generation coach and educator, and has taught in the public school system for over 25 years. She and her husband met at a beginning teacher meeting in 1997 and have three children born and raised in Monroe County. In her free time, McDonald loves flea markets, historical fiction and long runs in the heat.