The Mingus Mountain Wrestling Club had eight young wrestlers bring home state titles from 2013 state tournament.
The team placed eight of 10 wrestlers at the Arizona State Folkstyle Championships in February. The tournament was held in Casa Grande with 500 youth wrestlers competing.
Spending the day at the tournament from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 p.m., the Mingus Moun-tain Wrestling Club ended with two state champions, two state runners-up, one fifth-placer and three sixth-placers in their respective weight classes.
For the full story, please see the Wednesday, March 6, issue of the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
