ORANGE PARK - St. Johns Country Day School is known for their sports and state titles and one guy on track to fulfill that prophecy, at an age that could be considered astounding, is seventh grade wrestler Bryce Fiore.

Fiore, an undefeated 113-pound wrestler with a 30-0 record thus far, is a leading candidate, along with six Spartan teammates, that have earned their region championship tickets this week with top four finishes at the region championships (Feb. 28 at Bay High) propelling the newly emerging second year program into a realm of state championship chit-chat among the hallways on the St. Johns campus.

Fiore's undefeated slate which includes a win at the prestigious Knockout Christmas Classic in December at Osceola High, is the lone undefeated record in Clay County wrestling to be going to state.

"The season has been going great," said Fiore, who transferred from Lake Highland Prep. "The only real challenge up to this point was at the Knockout tournament against a kid from Georgia."

Fiore was asked what Troup High freshman Javen Russo (who was 31-1 at the time) did that caused the match to be as close as the 14-12 win for Fiore.

"He threw me," said Fiore, who matched his 18-0 record at the time against Russo. "My coach, Fox Baldwin (five-time high school state champion while at Osceola High) has been coaching me for a while and when we have matches like that, we learn from them and develop more weapons from it."

At last week's district 4-1A championships, held ironically for the first time at St. Johns Country Day School, Fiore won his first district title with back-to-back first period pins. Fiore's confidence is pretty simple.

"I just try to do what I can do the best and work to be one percent better each day," Fiore said. "I hope we are building a good foundation here with wrestling like the other sports."

The Spartans had just seven wrestlers, finished fourth overall, had two more champions (Wyatt Martin at 144 and Howard Hill at 150) and advanced all seven to the region championships.

"The great thing about being at a small school like this is the coaches can get very close, look real close at what we are doing and can work one on one more," Fiore said. "I have great workout partners in Roman Ortez and Howard Hill at times and we push each other. The whole team is getting better."