About Us
2024-2025 Pikes Peak Warriors Wrestling Club starts NOW!!!
We are a club that started 18 years ago with just 24 kids and has grown to over 140 competitors. Our goal is to build a love for the sport through training, competition, while keeping an emphasis on character, integrity, and sportsmanship.
Why Wrestling?
"Looking for a great sports program for the kiddos?
Pikes Peak Warriors is A youth wrestling club (age 4 through 8th grade) right here in Colorado Springs!
Our son tried Soccer, T-Ball, and Basketball before wrestling, and loves the new sport!
FUN FACT: Girls wrestling is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the country! You already know our daughter wants to wrestle now after watching big brother!
What Could be More Fun?
Two of our 2023 Pikes Peak Warriors Wrestling STATE CHAMPS……Zoe Gabel and Blake Maestas!!! And Congrats to Edmund Bray who is our third State Champ.
Our Coaches
Warrior Elite: Billy Gabel
4x High School (HS) State Champion (3-2-1A Kansas, 1st in history)
125-5 HS record
2 x National HS All-American
Ranked 2nd Nationally as a Senior
College: 3 x year University of Nebraska- Lincoln, 1 x Oklahoma State University
Inducted in Kansas Wrestling Hall of Fame (2014)
Billy has been the head wrestling coach at Pine Creek High School since 2007. In his 16 years as head coach, Billy’s teams have gone 218-48 in duals, won 8 city titles, 12 regionals titles, finished in the top ten in state 13 times, top five 7 times, and have won a team state title. He has sent 22 wrestlers to college to compete in the sport, 12 of those attending the Air Force Academy, 2 x West Point, and 2 x Merchant Marines. He has had 67 state placers and 14 individual state champions.
In 2006, he started the Little Eagles wrestling club that has evolved into the Pikes Peak Warriors. He is now going on his third year as the head coach of the Warrior Elite level, overseeing all coaches in all three levels of the club. Billy has four of his own kids who are currently wrestling for the club.
Blue Head Coach: Erik Talmich
I have been involved in wrestling since age 5. I was always taught to train and compete at the highest level. I have experience coaching in multiple levels . I have always loved and enjoyed the sport. It has guided me in my everyday life to be a good person.
I like the mental toughness the sport builds and the tough skin we need to succeed in life. Wrestling brings out good character through hard work, dedication and forces our youth to enjoy winning while learning to pick ourselves up in defeat.
I am excited to share my knowledge with anyone who wants to learn and look forward to guiding our young Warriors to be top level wrestlers and most importantly good people to society.
I look forward to watching our wrestlers grow into the people they will become in the future.
