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  1. Heldt also received NCAA Div. III Most Dominant Wrestler award by averaging 5.56 team points per match on the season!

    https://sports.wabash.edu/news/2023/3/11/heldt-wins-wrestling-national-title.aspx

     

    Heldt is a pretty special story if you don't know much about him.  As a junior in high school he was still JV 170 and believe his JV record that year was 12-5.  He grew 3 or 4 inches and spent the summer in the weight room/wrestling room with Nate Warman and everything was different after that!

     

    Heldt also won the NCAA Elite 90 award last year when he finished NCAA Runner Up and having a 4.0 GPA.

    https://www.wabash.edu/news/story/11886

     

     

     

     

  2. Just for nostalgia...I'll start my two favorite Kevin Whitehead names of IHSAA State Finals of the past.

     

    TEEEEEEE. JAYYYYYY HAYES!!!!!!!!

    It was a couple years of that and it got louder every year.  When I moved to Indy I remember meeting the Wagners in Zionsville's room.  My first thought was "that's the guy that ruined Mr. Whitehead saying TJ Hayes"

     

    Mr. Whitehead was also spectacular announcing Anton Talamantez.  

  3. On 4/18/2022 at 3:39 PM, ReformedPoster said:

    I would vote for Portage:

    • Unsure on total dual meet wins
    • 19 conference titles
    • 33 sectionals
    • 19 regionals
    • 12 semi state titles
    • 2x state runners up
    • 16 times finished in the top 10
    • 12 times finished in the top 5
    • 8x participant at the old team state finals
    • 17 individual state champs
    • Some of the greats like Vega, McMurray, Eric Keith, Fred Joseph, Steven Lawrence, Darren Elkins, etc.

    They would get my vote over NC any day of the week.  I think they have been the better program historically and currently.

    Who won the Individual State Finals in 2005? 

     

    I remember well that LN won duals the next week.

  4. The world lost a great one today.  I was thankful to know Coach Balash as a mentor, and a friend.  

     

    "All my life, I wanna be a Brickie....work, work, work." 

     

    I can't think of anyone that lived that way more than Coach Balash.  RIP friend

     

    Thoughts and prayers for the family and the entire town of Hobart.  I can't imagine the number of lives that Coach Balash left a footprint on.

  5. I've been pretty fortunate to be close to a few great rivalries.  

     

    In order of when they happened:

     

    1. Vega vs Schaefer

    Schaefer beats Vega in the semis and wins in 1995.  Vega with thrilling last second win in 1996.  Vega wins in the finals in 1997.  The one thing that really impacted me as a young coach and I will never forget this.  Vega wins in the battle of two top 10 guys in the country.  10,000 fans cheering and as a young coach, I'm crazy ecstatic for his win.....Schaefer comes over to shake my hand.  He looks me in the eye and says with the utmost sincerity, "Congratulations coach, Leroy is a great competitor".  I will always be a fan of Greg Schaefer because of that.

     

    2. Bradbury vs Ramos

    Not sure the Hobart faithful would call this one a rivalry because Ramos was 13-0 verse Bradbury.  If anyone knows the Hobart faithful of that time, you would understand why I would hesitate to say that Bradbury was winning in the third period 6 or 7 times.  (the Hobart faithful were quick to correct any error and let me know if it was only 5 or maybe 9.....and my corrections from the Hobart faithful usually ended with a "come on Eddie" and a very region insult.  The 13th time they wrestled was in the state finals.  Bradbury was up 4 with choice going into the third.  We thought for sure this was the match he would win.  Ramos was a great competitor and once again, found a way to win.

     

    3.  Eppert vs Wright

    I believe these two wrestled in the finals of Regional, Semi State, and State three years in a row.  Eppert was a workhorse and Wright was the ultimate athlete.  Every time Eppert made an adjustment to what Wright was doing, Wright would add a new skill.  It was a great chess match.  Wright and his dad were brilliant, and Camden just kept adjusting.  

     

    All six of these guys are great people and it was great for Indiana wrestling to have been able to watch!

  6. Carmel and Zionsville are combining to host the Indy Northside RTC on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:00.  

     

    We will alternate between Carmel and Zionsville HS every Wednesday with March 10th being at Carmel!

     

    Looking forward to seeing a great group in the room tonight.

     

    @ CHS please enter door 21.  Masks must be worn inside the high school.  Wrestling room is upstairs behind the Freshman Gym.

  7. 3 hours ago, Indysportsfan said:

     

    I recall Bradbury vs Ramos having 6 battles in the same year, Ramos won them all, including the Finals.

    Bradbury vs Ramos happened 13 times in a two year period with the last one being in the state finals.

     

    Bradbury was 0-13 vs Ramos....and we thought we were going to beat him every time.  I think Bradbury was winning in the third period 5 or 6 times in their 13 match rivalry.  

  8. 3 minutes ago, Jcjcjc said:

    I think we are all forgetting how cramped and crowded weigh ins for the state meet are. Disney on ice is probably 20 performers. Our state meet is 224. 

    That's true of weigh ins in the past. 

     

    With new weigh in procedures put in place by NFHS, we can social distance by weighing in on the event floor and still comply with NFHS rule of weigh in within 2 hours of competition quite easily.

  9. 9 hours ago, Mattyb said:

    One point for D1 is that a school can’t drop below 16 sports and still be considered a D1 eligible school by the NCAA.

    I agree 100% and hope this holds though the winter.....

     

    But will the NCAA start kicking Big 10 (or any other D1 athletic department) if they just can't afford 16 sports?  This could get tricky.

     

    Just using Iowa as an example and totally making up my own numbers here.  

     

    Iowa needs $100 million to run the athletic department with 16 sports.  They only have $60 million.  

     

    NCAA says you must have 16 sports to stay D1.  

     

    Again, just guessing that something has to give here.  Either NCAA starts kicking schools out that can't afford 16 sports or lower the 16 sports requirement. 

     

     

     

     

  10. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29711237/iowa-cuts-men-gymnastics-men-tennis-men-women-swimming-diving

     

    Is this the first domino to fall?  

     

    I was told by a big ten coach that without football this season that it took $50 million out of their athletic budget.  Big football schools like Michigan, that school in Ohio, and Penn St will be over $100 milliion in lost revenue this year.  We. haven't even begun to think about what happens if NCAA Basketball isn't allowed to play this winter.

     

    Iowa drops mens and women's swimming, men's gymnastics and men's tennis.  Can we all agree why Iowa didn't cut wrestling and that they are an outlier when it comes to revenue from wrestling?

     

    What happens to Purdue, IU, Michigan St, Northwestern, Illinois, Maryland, etc when they have to look at this massive drop in revenue in the athletic department?

     

    I was told that a group of Stanford alumni met and they were told they need to raise $30 million to keep wrestling.  If that's the case, I'm assuming there isn't much we can do now to help NCAA wrestling in the short term if there is massive cuts and athletic departments around the country begin to drop sports similar to what Iowa did yesterday.

     

    It does raise the question to me of what are we doing now to better Indiana wrestling at the high school and youth level?  What are things we can do (or stop doing) to help grow all of wrestling?  

     

    In the article posted, the Iowa administration said, ""A loss of this magnitude will take years to overcome," the letter said. "We have a plan to recover, but the journey will be challenging."

     

    While I hope I'm way off base and totally looking at worst case scenario, but the future of NCAA Wrestling doesn't look great.  If Iowa is the first of many athletic departments that have to drop sports....I think we are naive if we don't realize that wrestling will be the first cut in most places.  

     

    My question is what are we doing to grow the sport more than ever?  If pandemic ever ends, which we're all sure it will.  It will take years to build back athletic department revenue. 

     

    I'm under the opinion that we need to grow the sport of wrestling now more than ever.  

  11. Joe,

     

    I completely agree, but what you may not know in the Indiana General Assembly 2020, Senate bill 398 was passed which allows for US Title 36 youth serving organizations with patriotic intent, which covers organizations like Girl Scouts, in their ability to still access school meeting spaces.  

     

    http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/398#document-cfbcd145

     

    Maybe we need to link youth wrestling in title 36.  Probably need to do a better job of being patriotic in our sport.  My vote is we eliminate hand shaking and add saluting before we compete.

     

    (ps....Just being silly here.  I kinda have inside info on girl scout stuff.  Hit me up if you need cookies btw)

  12.  

    I was talking about format of workouts now that we are starting to get back into wrestling rooms.

     

    An example is what we have implemented in our room now.  

     

    When kids come to workouts we have them in groups of no larger than 6.  No one is allowed to have contact with anyone in a different group and the groups will not change daily.  If someone misses practice one day, they will have a group of 5 that day...instead of moving someone from a different group into their workout.  

     

    Does anyone else have a 'practice format' that they are introducing to their room so they can to limit contact as much as possible?  I'd like to learn what others are doing.

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