High school athletes help drivers stranded in snow on their way to OSAA wrestling state championship

Illinois Valley High School boys wrestling team helped a lot of stranded drivers get home Wednesday, and they took home the OSAA 2A/1A State Championship Friday.

PORTLAND, Oregon — The road to a high school state wrestling championship is long. It’s a road marked by discipline, dedication and determination. For the boys wrestling team from Illinois Valley High School in Southern Oregon, that road was also marked by blizzard conditions on Wednesday. 

It took the boys wrestling team more than nine hours to reach downtown Portland Wednesday night. The roads were covered in so much snow and spun-out cars that their bus driver couldn’t even park.

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