The W.J. Mouat Hawks cleaned up at the 2025 British Columbia School Sports wrestling championships event, which occurred in Vancouver's PNE Forum on Friday (Feb. 21) and Saturday (Feb. 22).
The Hawks senior boys team earned the provincial banner by collecting the most points of any boys team at the event and were highlighted by a number of fantastic performances from local wrestlers.
The weekend's most outstanding male wrestler went to Grade 12 student Michaeljeet Grewal, who also won the male 110 kilograms division. Grewal is a repeat winner in the division at the event and he's coming off a 2024 season that saw him compete all over the world and get nominated for a SportBC award for high school male athlete of the year.
The most outstanding boys match at the event was awarded to the bout featuring Mouat's Nathan Thiel and Marcus Lee from Heritage Woods in the 80 kilograms division. Thiel ended up winning that match and also took home the top spot in the 60 kg division.
Other Hawks wrestlers with top-three finishes included: Jagroop Dhinsa (first, boys 130 kg), Manjot Dhaliwal (second, boys 84 kg), Manraj Randhawa (second, boys 130 kg) and Gurshaan Kahlon (third, boys 74 kg).
Mouat also won the championship banner at the event last year.
Rick Hansen Secondary's Gurshar Johjal was the only other local wrestler to win a divsion, as he took home first in the boys 57 kg division. Other locals in the top-three included: Robert Bateman's Jovanpreet Johal (second, boys 78 kg), Abotsford Virtual School's Jaiden Sharma (third, boys 78 kg), Abbotsford Traditional's Mehar Deol (second, boys 90 kg), Hansen's Gurkaran Gill (third, boys 110 kg) and Hansen's Inder Lidder (third, boys 130 kg).
For full results from the event, visit trackwrestling.com.
