St. John, Derek

Two year letter winner…Junior Year: starts the season ranked #5 nationally by WIN Magazine and #9 nationally by Amateur Wrestling News...Sophomore Year: finished the season with a 42-3 record winning his first state championship...placed 1st at the Urbandale Invitational, MVC tournament, and district tournament...placed 2nd at the Geneseo Invitational...placed 4th at the Dvorak Invitational...named to the 1st team All MVC...finished the season ranked #1 in the Sophomore class rankings by Intermat...finished the season ranked #5 in the 9/10 class rankings and #27 overall in Wrestling USA Magazine...Freshman Year: finished with a 42-5 record placing 3rd in state…placed 1st at the Southeast Polk Invitational, Urbandale Invitational, MVC tournament and district tournament…finished the season ranked #7 in the freshman/sophomore class in Wrestling USA Magazine…Other: placed 6th at the FILA Cadet National Tournament in Freestyle...placed 1st in the Northern Plains Junior Regional Freestyle tournament...placed 1st at the 2007 Junior State Freestyle Tournament and 2nd at the 2007 Junior State Greco Roman tournament...member of the 2007 Junior National Dual and Junior National team...placed 3rd at the 2006 USAW Cadet National tournament in freestyle…placed 5that the 2006 USAW Cadet National Folkstyle tournament…placed 1st in the 2006 USAW Cadet Northern Plains Regional in both freestyle and Greco Roman…placed 1st at the 2005 and 2006 Cadet State tournament in both freestyle and Greco Roman…placed 1st at the 2006 Junior State tournament in freestyle…member of the 2005 and 2006 Cadet National Dual and Cadet National teams.