April 25, 2024

Mitchel Swank – 2018 South Central Iowa Male Athlete of the Year finalist

Creston

Football

•978 yards rushing his senior season, averaging 5 yards per carry. Fourth most in Class 3A District 7.

•Scored 7 rushing touchdowns his senior year.

•1,040 all purpose yards (rushing and receiving) his senior year, third most in Class 3A District 7.

•Team captain his senior season.

•2nd team all district (3A district 7) his senior season.

•Co-offensive player of the year as voted on by his teammates.

•Finishes his football career with 302 carries for 1,620 yards and 11 touchdowns rushing.

•Played all four years at the varsity level.

Wrestling

•Career win/loss record of 173-48.

•Three-time state qualifier at 145 pounds.

•Finished in fifth place at state his junior year before taking seventh his senior season.

•Posted a 44-9 record his senior season and 53-10 record his junior campaign.

•34 of his wins his senior season came by pin. Had 114 career pins.

•Defeated top 10 (by The Predicament) wrestler Colton Vest twice at the state tournament his senior season.

•Won a Class 2A sectional and district title his senior year.

•Won a John J. Harris Invitational title his senior season.