Team of the Year: Malad repeats as state champion and could add to that legacy next year (updated)

Note: Story has been updated with 2025 results.

MALAD – It’s never too early to talk about a 3-peat.

The Malad boys wrestling team won its second straight state title this past season, holding off perennial power Ririe with 211.5 points to 194.

Last season the Dragons won the title with 183.5 points, but coach Devin Morrison said he knew there was more in the tank because last year’s lineup was relatively young.

“We had a lot of state scorers coming back,” he said.

Of course, the team has to prove it on the mat at the state tournament.

Malad did just that with 11 wrestlers earning state medals on the way to another blue trophy and EastIdahoSports.com Boys Wrestling Team of the Year honors.

The team had three state champions in Jack Willie at 106, Drake Morrison at 150 and Orrin Miller at 285.

It’s hard not to look to the future and the expectations of challenging for another title due to another stacked returning class. Of the the three champions, only Miller is a senior.

Of the team’s 11 medalists, eight will be returning, including Jaxon Mills, who was fifth at 98; Willie the champion at 106; Ayden Potter who was fifth at 113; Wade Clark, fifth at 120; Porter Mills, sixth at 132; Drake Morrison, champion at 150; Oakely Maddox, third at 157; and Rydon Montgomery who finished fifth at 190.

“It’s something that’s been building for a long time,” Devin Morrison said of the program’s success.

And in 2026?

“We have a good class of freshmen coming in,” he said.

Malad might need to make room for more than one more state banner.