St. Pius X Wrestling

Yesterday we escorted our Lady Sartan, Claudia Aragon who won La Reina, Fiesta Queen, in the State Fair parade! We are very proud of you Queen and congratulations!!!!

Rise and grind!!!! 6AM morning Stedfast session!!!!! It’s almost go time for us!!!!

The Sartan Wrestling Support store is now taking pre-orders on the Savage Apparel website!!! Help support our Sartans this upcoming season as a portion of proceeds will be donated back to our program to help w/ our new wrestling room!!! We thank everyone in advance for supporting our Sartan Wrestling program!!!

https://www.savapparel.com/st-pius-x-wrestling

Now that we have an 8th grade academy we have 2 middle schoolers who made the World of Wrestling rankings among the countries top youth wrestlers! Andre Martinez #1 12U HWT & Azeah Ayala #4 12U 145!!! Congratulations gentlemen, looking forward to seeing you guys compete w/ the Sartans this year!!!

Great to see everyone back!

Preseason practice starts 8/21!

We welcome any Sartans who are interested in giving wrestling a try! DM us for details. 🖤💛🖤💛

Will the X-Men be making a return to NMJW New Mexico Junior Wrestling???…..details coming soon!!!!!

Congratulations to Valentine Popadiuc on becoming a Fargo All-American and being THE 1ST to achieve this for the St. Pius X Wrestling program!!! Way to make New Mexico & St. Pius X proud!!! This is only the beginning and we couldn’t be anymore proud of this young Sartan! Congratulations to the Popadiuc Family, this is well deserved!!!!

The Jennesis Martinez All Girls Camp is this weekend!!! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of New Mexico’s best!!!! Still time to register!!!

https://www.saintpiusx.com/apps/pages/athleticcamps

Valentine Popadiuc just punched his ticket to the championship semi finals @ FARGO w a tech fall 9-0 over California!!!! With that win he’s made the All-American rounds making him the 1st ever St. Pius X Sartan to All-American at FARGO!!!! Way to go young Sartan!!!! Your Sartan family is proud of you and we’re all cheering you on!!!!

Team New Mexico you guys went out and left everything you had on the mat and that’s all we can ask for! Thank you all for representing our great state!

To our captain, Valentine Popadiuc. You went out there and went into deep waters. You were one win away from reaching All-American status and we are all so proud of you! Your hard work, grit and sacrifice doesn’t go unnoticed, keep striving and great things will come young Sartan. Now onto Greco!!! You got this champ!!!

Valentine Popadiuc 3-2 (wins against Idaho, Pennsylvania & Washington)

Savage Apparel with the custom SPX Wrestling wrestling shoe 🔥🔥🔥!!!! We love it!!!

The Sartan Wrestling Varsity Boy/Girls have been accepted into the Flowing Wells Invitational 2024 this year in Tucson, AZ!!! Looking forward to a great opportunity to get some wrestling in outside of New Mexico!!!

Good luck Team New Mexico!

Good Luck 16U & Junior Boys Freestyle!

Shout out to Savage Apparel for coming through with the 🔥🔥🔥for our squad this coming season!!!!

Last night some of our Sartans competed in the Under The Light Dual tournament as SPX/Jag Way (St.Pius/Atrisco) w/ Coach Dom Casuas and they all did phenomenal!!! We were crowned champions taking home the cowboy hats!!! Great job last night everyone!!!!

SPX/JagWay 40
Roswell Regulators 9

SPX/JagWay 48
Valley 3

SPX/JagWay 39
NXT Level (TX) 8

As Fargo approaches we would like to wish one our of captains, Valentine Popadiuc, the best of luck as he’s going to test his skills against some of the very best this country has to offer! We are all behind you and excited to watch you represent New Mexico and St. Pius!!! Good luck to all of the New Mexico wrestlers this upcoming week!

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Jennesis Martinez is hosting the All Girls camp at St. Pius X High School July 28 & July 29!!! This is going to be a great event hosted by the New Mexico native, 3x All-American!!! Come learn from one of the very best!!! Register at the following link!!!

https://www.saintpiusx.com/apps/pages/athleticcamps

We’re out here today and tomorrow for your last minute 4th of July firework needs!!!! Come support the St. Pius X Wrestling program!!!! We thank everyone who’s already came by and supported us!!!!

The 2023 Sundevil Wrestling Camp is a wrap and we finished up in 3rd in the team competition camp out of 27 schools!!!! Great job Sartans!!!! Way to represent for New Mexico!!!!!!

Some of our lady Sartans at ASU!!!!! The women’s camp is going great and they are all having blast!!!

We’re open from 10am-10pm this week!!!! Come support our the Saint Pius X Wrestling program and get your fireworks for the 4th of July holiday!!!!

Day 2 of the Sundevil Wrestling Camp!!! Our Sartans are having a great time learning from the best D1 NCAA wrestling progam in this part of the country!!!!

Next stop for the Sartans, Arizona State University for the Zeke Jones Sun Devil Wrestling Camp!!! See you next week Tempe, AZ!!!

Come support our Pius Wrestling firework stand June 21-July 6!!!!

Tomorrows the Camp!!! Get registered for Quincy Monday camp!!! This is a great opportunity to learn from one of the best!!!

savapparel.com/savage-camps

Our Sartan Wrestlers competed this weekend the Cleveland Storm Summer Duals and they did excellent going 4-3 on the weekend as a team!!! Great job done by everyone this weekend!!!

Dual Results-

St. Pius X - 54
La Cueva - 24

St. Pius X - 46
John Mall (CO) - 30

St. Pius X - 45
Hobbs - 26

St. Pius X - 36
Rio Rancho - 28

St. Pius X - 30
Volcano Vista - 33

St. Pius X - 21
Cleveland - 60

St. Pius X - 36
Mancos (CO) - 42

1st day of Sartan X Summer training and we had a great turnout!!!! We had some guest come in from other programs as well!!!!

Sartan Summer wrestling begins next week!!! If your team isn’t practicing or your just looking to get some extra work in ALL are welcomed!!!

Some of our incoming 8th graders joined us today!!! Our official summer workouts start next week!!!!

2 new photos have been added to the Sartan Wall of Honor for wrestling!!!! Congratulations gentlemen!!! Now let’s go add some more!!!!

Some of our Sartans are heading to the US Open this week in Las Vegas, NV to help represent New Mexico!!!! Shout out to Savage Apparel for once again coming through with the 🔥 singlets!!! Good luck this week Sartans!!!

Great turnout last night, 50 high school kids from all over got together to grow together! We had kids from St. Pius, Miyamura, Cleveland, Atrisco, Eldorado, Los Alamos & West Mesa! Coach Art Simoni thank you for hosting!

Shout out to Savage Apparel for hooking us up with some freestyle & greco gear for the off season!!! We love them!!!! Next up for us is the US Open in Las Vegas, NV!!!!

The Ivy League is coming to St. Pius X High School this summer!!! Princeton Universities Quincy Monday will be in town to host a camp at SPX!!! Come learn from NCAA All-American and one the all time greats of Princeton!!! This is a chance to grow and get better!!!! Limited spots available, registration closes June 12!!!

Register at - https://www.savapparel.com/savage-camps

Some of our Sartans at the New Mexico USA Wrestling Freestyle & Greco camp today @ West Mesa High School. Great turnout NM!!!

Our Sartans had one amazing weekend at the NMAA State Championships!!! One of the youngest teams out there and we ended up with 4 Sartans in the made the podium and 2 of them made the championship finals!!! St. Pius X finished in the top 10 teams when it was said and done!!!! Congratulations to all of our Sartans, you all had a phenomenal year and this is only the beginning!!!! Great way to finish our season off everyone!!!

Valentine Popaduic (45-2) - State Runner Up 121 lbs
Mycah Gachupin (34-5) - State Runner Up 127 lbs
Abigail Rael (28-11) - 4th place 132lbs
Zia Budhager (26-11) - 5th place 145lbs