We ask the WCUSD #15 community to come together on Thursday, March 7 to help send the Bee Bees Wrestling Team off to Dekalb for the 2024 IESA State Finals. Competing this weekend are SJ Casson (70 lbs), Rhett Wilson (85 lbs), Cael Taylor (105 lbs), and Owen Alderson (155 lbs).

The team will leave from the back of Williamsville Junior High School at approximately 12:30 pm before heading through Williamsville to get on the interstate.

Seventh grader Owen Alderson qualified for the IESA State Meet on Saturday, March 2, 2024 after finishing in first place in the 155 pound weight class in the IESA Sectional at Vandalia.

Owen will now compete on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at the Convocation Center in Dekalb on the campus of Northern Illinois University.

Seventh grader Cael Taylor qualified for the IESA State Meet on Saturday, March 2, 2024 after finishing in fourth place in the 105 pound weight class in the IESA Sectional at Vandalia.

Cael will now compete on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at the Convocation Center in Dekalb on the campus of Northern Illinois University. 

Seventh grader Rhett Wilson qualified for the IESA State Meet on Saturday, March 2, 2024 after finishing in fourth place in the eighty-five pound weight class in the IESA Sectional at Vandalia.

Rhett will now compete on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at the Convocation Center in Dekalb on the campus of Northern Illinois University. 

Sixth grader SJ Casson qualified for the IESA State Meet on Saturday, March 2, 2024 after finishing in fourth place in the seventy pound weight class in the IESA Sectional at Vandalia.

SJ will now compete on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 at the Convocation Center in Dekalb on the campus of Northern Illinois University. 

In the first year of the program, the Bee Bees Wrestling Team captured the 1A IESA Regional Championship with a team score of 182. The was thirteen points more than the second place team of Warrensburg-Latham. Besides the team championship, the following wrestlers won individual regional championships:

• SJ Casson: 70 lbs
• Rhett Wilson: 85 lbs
• Eli Wilson: 90 lbs
• Cael Taylor: 105 lbs
• Brayden Silvery: 119 lbs
• Bo Mattox: 126 lbs
• Owen Alderson: 155 lbs
• Trey Harris: 275 lbs

The Williamsville Community Unit School District #15 Athletic Department along with Williamsville Junior High School is excited to announce Alec Daykin as the first head coach in the history of the Bees Bees Wrestling Program.

“Coach Daykin brings a unique perspective to this new position in the district, having not only grown up in the community, but also participated in the athletic program as well. He knows the tradition that comes within being part of the athletic department, and his love and passion for Bullet Athletics will help him establish a solid foundation so wrestling can see a similar tradition of excellence that has become synonymous with the athletic programs at WCUSD #15.”– Adam Eucker

Coach Daykin is very familiar with Tradition of Excellence that is WCUSD #15 Athletics, having grown up in Sherman and attended both Williamsville Junior High and Williamsville High School. While in high school, he played football for Williamsville and wrestled for the Riverton/Williamsville Wrestling CO-OP. He lettered three years in both sports, earned all-state honors in football, and was a three-time IHSA sectional qualifier in wrestling. Following graduation from WHS in 2015, Coach Daykin went onto Milliken University earning a degree in sociology and criminal justice, while also playing football for the Big Blue.

Coach Daykin began his coaching career while still in high school, when he began helping with the kids club wrestling program in Williamsville. While in college at Millikin, he was also a member of the football coaching staff at Decatur St. Teresa. He began coaching for the Bullets Football Program and Coach Kunz during the 2020 season, and is now entering his fourth season on the sideline for the Bullets. Coach Daykin also just completed his first year as seventh grade history teacher at WJHS.

“I am looking forward to starting the wrestling program at Williamsville Junior High and will do my best to set a set a solid foundation in the program for years to come!” – Alec Daykin

We are extremely excited for Coach Daykin to begin working with Coach Ripperda to continue to take what has been established with the wrestling CO-OP in the past, and meld wrestling into the Tradition of Excellence that