- March 10, 2025
FPC's Kendall Bibla and Christina Borgmann hold up two fingers to signify the second state championship they each won during their illustrious wrestling careers. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
State champs Christina Borgmann and Kendall Bibla hold up Flagler Palm Coast's team championship trophy as the Bulldogs pose for a photo after winning their first state girls wrestling title. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Christina Borgmann wins the 130-pound championship match on March 8, 2025, to successfully defend her 2024 state championship. Borgmann has not lost a match in her two seasons wrestling for FPC. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Kendall Bibla holds up two fingers on each hand after winning her second state wrestling title on March 8. The senior also won when she was a sophomore. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Alexa Calidonio of Flagler Palm Coast wrestled to a fith-place finish in the 155-pound weight class at the girls state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Sofia James of Seabreeze High School raises her hand after a victory in the 170-pound weight class at the girls state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC freshman Kevin McLean placed third in the Class 3A 113-pound weight class at the state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC's Kendall Bibla pinned won the 170-pound championship at the girls state wrestling tournament. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC coach David Bossardet helps Trey Twilley with his head gear at the state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Trey Twilley of FPC took fourth place in the Class 3A 126-pound weight class at the state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC's Tiana Fries wrestled to a third-place finish in the 145-pound weight class at the girls state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Mason Obama (top) placed seventh in the Class 2A 157-pound weight class. He was the only Matanzas wrestler to win a medal at the state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC'S Carson Baert placed fifth in the Class 3A 157-pound weight class at the state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC's Mariah Mills placed third in the 110-pound weight class at the girls state wrestling championships. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
Kendall Bibla celebrates after winning the state championship at 170 pounds. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
FPC's 2025 state girls wrestling champions Kendall Bibla and Christina Borgmann. Courtesy photo
Two-time state champ Christina Borgmann with FPC coaches T.J. Gillin, Steve DeAugustino, David Bossardet, Principal Bobby Bossardet and athletic director Scott Drabczyk. Courtesy photo
Joslyn Johnson of Flagler Palm Coast High School wrestled to a third-place finish in the 105-pound weight class at the girls state wrestling tournament. Photos by Rachel and Abe Mills
A day after they each won their second state wrestling championship, helping Flagler Palm Coast win girls team title, Christina Borgmann and Kendall Bibla reflected on how their second championships compared to their first.
The two seniors helped propel FPC to its first state girls championship to go along with three state boys titles. Seven FPC wrestlers won individual medals on Saturday, March 8, at Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee. And the Bulldogs set a girls state-tournament record with 150 points, easily topping second-place Hernando and South Dade with 106 points apiece.
As a team, FPC finished the season with a perfect record, winning every tournament on its schedule. Eight of their nine wrestlers advanced to state.
“All season, we talk about the girls meeting their individual goals, but down the road we’ll be able to reflect (on the team championship) and say that was pretty special,” FPC coach David Bossardet said.
In addition to the Bulldogs’ two individual titles, Ana Vilar closed out her high school career with a runner-up finish at 135 pounds; Joslyn Johnson (105), Mariah Mills (110) and Tiana Fries (145) all placed third; and Alexa Calidonio (155) placed fifth.
Borgmann won the 130-pound title for her second consecutive state championship, finishing the season with an undefeated record for the second year in a row.
“Since she has been at FPC, she has not lost a match,” Bossardet said. “I don’t think anyone else has gone two seasons here undefeated.”
Bibla won the 170-pound championship, two years after winning the 145-pound title as a sophomore with Matanzas.
“When I won my first state title, it was such a new feeling for me,” Bibla said. “The second state title reminded me how hard I’ve worked and how I’ve progressed over time. I’ve put in so much work.”
Borgmann, who always seems so calm on the mat, said she got emotional before and after her final match.
“Coach Boss tells us to just treat state like a normal tournament, treat each match like any other, and that settles me down,” she said. “But I got emotional yesterday before and after (the title match). I said I wasn’t going to cry but I ended up crying. It was happy and sad tears. It was happy because I know how far I’ve come, how much work I’ve put into it. It was sad because it’s all over.”
Borgmann finished her high school career with four individual state medals and two team championships (Borgmann, Bibla, Mills and Fries were all members of Matanzas’ state championship team in 2023). Borgmann placed eighth at state as a freshman and was a runner-up her sophomore year at Matanzas before closing out her career at FPC with two state championships.
“My first year, I just wanted to place at state,” she said. “I went into the state tournament with just three or four months wrestling. I used to go on runs with my dad, and I remember saying, ‘I just want to place at state.’”
Borgmann defended her 2024 championship with a 6-1 decision over Isis Severe of North Miami. She won her first three matches by pin, technical fall and pin.
Bibla ended her season with just one loss in a match early in the season when she was sick. Like Borgmann, she dominated in her state tournament matches winning by pin, technical fall, major decision and a pin in the final 30 seconds of the second period in the championship match against Megan Preston of Wiregrass Ranch.
The title was all the more meaningful for Bibla after she tore the ulnar collateral ligament in her elbow during her quarterfinal match last season, ending her state tournament.
“That really put me in a bad place,” she said. “It was just a huge setback. “Coming back my last year and winning the state title is a really great feeling.”
After winning her semifinal match on Friday night, March 7, Bibla signed a letter of intent to wrestle at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, where she will be reunited with her sister, Brielle, a sophomore at Lindsey Wilson.
“Coach (Devane) Dodgens came down and I signed right outside in the south lobby. It sealed the deal,” Bibla said. “I’m so happy with how everything ended. I’ll be going to Lindsey Wilson on scholarship and majoring in nursing. I’m really excited for college. It’s going to be a new chapter in my life.”
Borgmann also plans to wrestle in college and major in nursing. She said she planned to visit Felician University in Rutherford, New Jersey, on March 10, and she still has three to five schools on her list.
“I’m so happy for her,” Bibla said of Borgmann. “I’m so glad we won individual titles together. We’ve grown so close this season.”
Mills and Fries also finished their high school careers with a state championship and four state tournament medals. Mills won a state title as a junior last year and has now placed third at state three times. She will wrestle next season at West Liberty University in West Virginia.
Fries won a state championship as a freshman, placed fifth as a sophomore, second as a junior and third this season.
Johnson, a junior, won the 100-pound state title last season. She lost to Ponte Vedra’s Erin Rizzuto for the second week in a row, in the semifinals.
“Joslyn, Mariah and Tiana all had tough matches in the semis Friday and came back in the morning for wrestlebacks,” Bossardet said. “It’s tough to wrestle back for third place, and those girls did that. Alexa Calidonio lost her quarterfinal match and wrestled back to win fifth place. They were probably wrestling more for the team than themselves. Falling short of their goal, at the time their world is crushed. In that regard I couldn’t be more proud of them.”
The Bulldogs' season is over, but their offseason is just beginning. They will wrestle at High School Nationals in Virginia Beach on March 28-30. Borgmann and Mills are defending champs at the National High School Coaches Association event.
