By Blake Chadwick
Newton senior wrestler Lucas Kaufman has been a force throughout his whole high school career compiling a 131-21 record. The senior has two second-place finishes at state and one state championship, which he won in 2023.
“Lucas is a hard-working kid that looks to improve every day,” head coach Tommy Edgmon said. “He works great with other kids in the room to help get them better. He is a very positive and polite young man who has a bright future ahead of him.”
The senior wrestles in the 126-pound weight class and has been putting in work all offseason, wrestling on the Kansas Freestyle and Greco Dual Teams and National Tournaments where he placed in the top 16 of Greco Fargo Nationals this last summer.
“I have wrestled for 12 years, and I continually work from the beginning of the season until the end of July putting in countless hours of hard work to improve myself,” Kaufman said. “My goals for the season are to win a state championship and for our team to finish top five at state.”
Kaufman is the team’s emotional leader and leads by example leader who a lot of his teammates look up to.
“My biggest strength within wrestling is my work ethic, grit, and discipline,” Kaufman said. “I lead our team in practices and stay after practice to help individual teammates that I watched over the weekend during the wrestling tournaments.”
