Logan Paradice, a three-time state champion wrestler, is ITG Next’s 2025 Colquitt County High School Male Athlete of the Year, presented by Vereen Sports Medicine.
Paradice has wrapped up his high school wrestling career with an outstanding 114-2 record, with those two losses coming in his first season wrestling as a freshman. He has not been scored on since then.
His first of three state championships came in his freshman season, when he captured the GHSA Class 7A state title in the 132-pound weight class. He won his second Class 7A state title as a junior, wrestling in the 150-pound weight class. His third championship came this past season, when he won the Class 6A state title in the 150-pound weight class. Paradice was 45-0 this past season, his final year as a high school wrestler.
Paradice did not wrestle as a sophomore due to moving out of state for a year with his family, but he returned to Colquitt County and picked right up where he left off.
“I have been around Logan since he started wrestling in the sixth grade, and you could always tell that he was a special wrestler,” Colquitt County wrestling head coach Benjy Scarbor said. “He’s always been relentless and has always had the right technique, even when he was younger.
“He can do anything he wants when he’s on the wrestling mat.”
You could say that wrestling is in Paradice’s blood. It’s certainly in his DNA, according to Scarbor.
“He comes from a wrestling family,” Scarbor said. “His father, Jeremy, wrestled, and his brother, Austin, was a two-time state champion.”
While Paradice’s high school wrestling career may be coming to an end, he is far from finished. He will continue wrestling at the collegiate level after receiving a scholarship to Northern Iowa University, known for its premier college wrestling program.
The Big-12 program finished ninth nationally in the NCAA Championship team standings, but finished as the top ranked team in the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division I Men’s Wrestling Mid-Major Coaches Poll.
“Logan visited there earlier in his high school career and really liked the school and the coaches there,” Scarbor said.
Scarbor said he has no doubt Paradice will continue to be successful as he enters collegiate wrestling.
Throughout the many matches and tournaments Scarbor has attended with Paradice as a participant, Paradice has always been considered one of the best, and Scarbor doesn’t expect that to change anytime soon.
“He’s the baddest guy in the gym,” Scarbor said.
Congratulations to Logan Paradice, ITG Next’s 2025 Colquitt County High School Male Athlete of the Year, presented by Vereen Sports Medicine.
