- • 2020 CIF 152 LB State Champion
- • Finished HS Ranked #1 in the Nation
- • Gilroy High School / Class of 2020
- • 3X Central Coast Champion
- • 3X CIF State Qualifier
- • 2019 CIF State Runner-up
- • 2019 CCS 138 LB Champion
- • 2018 CCS 126 LB Champion
- • Signed with Michigan State
- • Senior Season 53-0 UNDEFEATED
Senior Season (2019-2020)
Nationally ranked #1 Chase Saldate of Gilroy High dominated his way to the finals and ended it with a BANG. The future MSU Spartan kicked off the 2020 CIF Wrestling Finals against #3 seeded Rancho Bernardo’s Tyler Badgett and lit the fire for an unforgettable championship round filled with multiple memorable moments in both the girls and boys finals matches.
Saldate’s second-year coach, MMA legend Daniel Cormier had two Mustangs in the finals, one less than his first year coaching the NorCal’s best program of all time.
Chase catapulted his way to the top of all rankings after a runner-up finishes in 2019 against now 4X CIF State Champion Jesse Vasquez in the 132lb weight class. Vasquez won his fourth title in the 145lb this year and Saldate’s first-period pin places him on Gilroy High’s growing list of state champions.
“He went out there and he just owned it,” Cormier commented after Saldate’s win. “Chase started to do that last year, and this year he put an exclamation point on the fact that he’s the best wrestler in the country at 152lb. I’m so excited for him, it really fills my heart to see him get a state championship and get his board up in our wrestling room.”
02/29/2020 CIF Boys State Championships 152 1st
02/22/2020 2020 CCS Champion 152 1st
02/15/2020 2020 PCAL-Gabilan Boys wrestling 154var 1st
01/18/2020 2020 MidCals Boys 152 Champion
01/04/2020 2020 Doc Buchanan Invitational 152
11/23/2019 Clovis West Shootout 152 1st
10/05/2019 2019 Grappler Fall Classic Elite 160 2nd
08/31/2019 High School Boys Season 145
04/28/2019 2019 Marines Western Regional-Fr Junior 152 3rd
2/1/2019 – Chase Saldate – 138lb MidCals Champion | Gilroy Mustangs Wrestling Class of 2019 • Michigan State Commit 2019 MidCals 138lb
Finals/Results 1st Chase Saldate (Gilroy) DEC Tyler Dean (Buchanan), 6-4 3rd Andrew Bloemhof (Bakersfield) TF George Ruiz (Buchanan), 17-1 3:39 5th Bryce Dauphin (Tuttle) M FOR Ryan Morphis (Frontier) 7th George a Zuniga (Central) MD Colten Stone (Foothill, Palo Cedro), 10-2
Junior Season (2018-2019)
03/23/2019 2019 CIF State 138 2nd
02/16/2019 2019 CCSChampionship 138 1st
02/09/2019 PCAL Championships 2019 138 1st
01/26/2019 2019 MidCals 138 1st
01/05/2019 2019 Doc Buchanan Invitational 138 1st
Sophomore Season (2018-2019)
02/24/2018 2018 CCS Championship 126 1st
02/10/2018 Monterey Bay League Finals (MBL) 126 1st
01/27/2018 2018 MidCals 126 2nd
01/20/2018 54th Overfelt Classic 128 1st
01/13/2018 10th Annual Battle for the Belt 126 2nd
01/06/2018 2018 Doc Buchanan Invitational 126 3rd