Two Aurora area girls wrestlers won championships at the 2025 Class 5A state tournament and those same two — Regis Jesuit’s Remington Zimmerer and Vista PEAK Prep’s Amelia Bacon — won again, but were joined by another at the top of the medal podium.
Coach Ashley Jaramillo’s Bison had two state champions in a season for the first time in program history when junior Khloe Yizar captured the 235-pound crown to join Bacon the 2025-26 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team, which also includes Zimmerer, an individual from Aurora Central’s first-year program and a whole host of representatives from the Eaglecrest co-op team.
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Bacon had the most outstanding season around, as she finished with a 47-0 final record (after a 7-3 win by decision over Colorado’s Bella Arellano-Gandy) and didn’t allow an offensive point all season. Only 16 points were scored against the Colorado Mesa University recruit and she allowed all of them after getting takedowns.
Bacon earned All-Aurora honors in all four of her varsity seasons.
While Bacon cemented herself in history as the program’s first state winner and first two-time winner, Yizar started on path that could match her by the end of her prep career. Yizar became Vista PEAK Prep’s second all-time state champion with a win by fall over Central G.J.’s Polutu Savea in the 235-pound final to cap a 29-8 season.
It was Yizar’s second career state place in as many season and her second All-Aurora honor.
Rounding out Vista PEAK Prep’s contingent is senior Idaly Garcia, who qualified to make her second trip to the 5A state tournament, but was unable to compete in the 130 pound bracket due to injury. Garcia (36-9 on the season) placed a city-best fourth at the Region 2 tournament before she had to pull out. Garcia defeated both of the Aurora area wrestlers who ended up at state due to injury in Eaglecrest’s Tatum Deblak and Overland’s Vera Welte at regionals, while she also defeated Debelak in the regular season.
Zimmerer was charged with only two losses in a 47-2 season and only one took place on the mat, as she lost a two-point decision to Noelani Lutz of SLAM! Nevada (the runner-up in Nevada). The other was a medical forfeit loss to Widefield’s Amaya Hinojosa, who she defeated multiple times during the season, including a 7-0 decision in the 120 pound state title match, which was a rematch of the same match in 2025.
At the state meet, Zimmerer — a three-time All-Aurora performer in as many seasons — absolutely rolled at the state tournament with two wins by fall and another by technical fall before her commanding decision over Hinojosa in the title bout.
Coach Horacio Vialpando’s Eaglecrest squad — the area’s largest team, which also has athletes from Cherokee Trail and Grandview — secured a whopping nine All-Aurora spots, led by placers in senior Parice Jones (third at 170 pounds) and sophomore Maxime Lantz (fifth at 140).
Jones was a state placer with Vista PEAK Prep as a junior, but made the move over to Eaglecrest and earned third place with a 38-5 season. Three of her losses during the season came to undefeated Shylee Tuzon of Grand Junction Central and her only loss at state came to Mountain Vista’s Emma Bielak, who lost to Tuzon in the championship match.
For the second straight season, Lantz dropped her first match of the state tournament and again she worked her way onto the medal podium. A 4-2 state tournament ended with her in fifth place (one spot lower than last season) and capped a 37-8 season in which she spent half the season at 140 and 145.
Eaglecrest’s other All-Aurora performers who did not place were senior Sofie Ghasabyan (100), freshman Sailor Matejovsky (105), sophomore Jayden Schwabauer (110), sophomores Paula Esmeral Ulles (135) and Olivia Fabbricatore (145) plus juniors Audrey Braun (155) and Alyssa Apolinar (190).
Aurora Central was the Aurora area’s new girls program this season and two wrestlers qualified for the state tournament. Junior Tremoni Scaggs (17-11) earned All-Aurora honors at 115 pounds.
Courtney Oakes is Aurora Sentinel Sports Editor. Reach him at sports@sentinelcolorado.com. Twitter/X: @aurorasports. IG: Sentinel Prep Sports
