Ed Pendoski

Couple year's ago I brought up the idea of combining the Sectional and Regional Tourney into one tournament.

I don't have the numbers in front of me, so don't nail me to exact details.....

We have one of the largest regionals (most number of teams) and I'm thinking it's like 24ish teams.

You'd have to have a round of 32 in theory....most weights have more than 8 ffts if you combine sectionals.  That would be a quick round.

Seed top 12

Friday night: Rat tail matches (I believe the number was around 10 matches total).  Then have the round of 16 right after.  If you lose any of those, you're done.  

Saturday morning run an 8 man tourney with wrestlebacks.

When I looked at it I thought it would help with the ref shortage and make the state more money with less work.  It would also shorten the season a week, which might get us in the conversation of semi state wrestle backs down the road.

Carmel got all 13 through

113 at Frankfort has some depth.

1. Elijah Anthony 31-0 (Frankfort) State ranked 3rd

5. Dylan Driver 23-7 (Westfield) SS ranked 8

4. Griffen Ingalls 27-3 (Fishers) SS ranked 7

3. Brac Hooper 18-3 (Carmel) State ranked 13

2. Bryce Longnecker 30-3 (Rossville)

285 Jon Williiams over #5 Crider 4-2

Maybe your thinking of CP vs Westfield:

220 - Haakon Van Beynen (Carmel) over Jake Woods (Crown Point) Dec 2-1

220 - Dakota Arvin (Westfield) over Jake Woods (Crown Point) TB-1 2-1

22 hours ago, Cosgrove said:

Our 220 took carmel 220 into overtime

Not sure about the OT part of this comment (and he was also wearing a football helmet in Lucas Oil 7 days earlier)

I asked our AD about this.  He said this rule is in place because at some schools they might have kids who would run cross country and after they didn't qualify for the regional, they would join their schools soccer team.

I was told if a wrestler is on our roster from day one, it is not an issue.

I noticed this also and asked my AD

This was brought up because of soccer player joining cross country team after they were eliminated from state tourney series (or vise versa).  

I was told that it is not about competing but more about being on the roster from day 1.

Here's an example of numbers from a junior wrestler that lifted with us all summer:

Body Weight: 150lbs

Squat: 315lbs

Bench: 195lbs

Deadlift: 365lbs

Pullups: 25

Box Jump: 54"

We have just finished Coach Warman's summer sessions of Strength and Conditioning, and the numbers are impressive of guys getting faster and stronger.  

The next program will train on Tues/Thurs from 5:30-6:30 in the weight room at CHS beginning August 27th.  This workout is made for wrestlers in pre-season training mode and it's open to any wrestler middle school or older!

More info can be found here:  https://www.carmelusawrestling.org/strength-and-conditioning

Contact us if you have questions.

Ed Pendoski 

317.701.1512

Nate Warman

nathan.warman@carmelusawrestling.org

Please notice the schedule change for the Summer Strength Training

Next week we will begin Coach Warman's next Strength and Condition Session at CHS and this program is open to anyone with a current USA card.

Coach Warman just finished his first year with CUSAWC after earning his BA in Exercise Science while his program has been tremendous asset for the guys in our club.  Coach Warman's bio can be found here: https://www.carmelusawrestling.org/staff

Speed and Strength workouts will be held at Carmen High School weight room:

Tuesdays/Thursdays 5:00-6:30PM

Fridays  8:00-10:00AM

These workouts will be tailored  with speed/power/agility that is needed in our sport.  Fee for these Strength and Conditioning workouts is under $4 a session! More information and registration can be found here: https://www.carmelusawrestling.org/strength-and-conditioning

Besides our normal club workouts on Tues/Thurs from 6:45-8:15 we are also running Middle School and Elementary camps Monday-Thursday of June 3-6 and June 10-13.  Info on our summer camps can be found here: https://www.carmelusawrestling.org/summercamps

Starting today, Sunday May 19th we will host a girls only workout from 5:00-6:30.

The goal of our workout it to create a place to help grow the sport of girls wrestling.  With the IHSAA starting to have discussions about adding girls wrestling we believe that we need to help start grow the sport now!

Any girl with a current USA Wrestling card is encouraged to attend (and bring a friend!).  There is no cost for this workout so please feel free to come train with other from across the city!

Please enter door 21 in the back of the school and follow the signs up to the wrestling room!

Any questions, please contact us

Ed Pendoski

ed.pendoski@carmelusawrestling.org

317.701.1512

46 minutes ago, Kyle Ayersman said:

All I know is that Brownsburg was first in the state in ISTEP testing (Standarized tests). They also had all schools in the corporation be rated an A, for like the 6th year in a row. Top notch schools.

10th grade ISTEP Info copy/paste from Indiana Dept. of Education.  This is sophomore ISTEP results.  Not saying either is bad.  Just a bad stat coach.  

Carmel had 9 Academic All State this season.

8 of them were Semi State Qualifiers.

182 Cameron Bacon, GPA 3.87, SAT 1420

195 Jackk Heldt, GPA 4.31, SAT 1440

106 Suhas Chundi  GPA 4.41, 1590 SAT (Yep, he missed one.  We remind him often of it!)

152 Gabe Davin  GPA 3.42

126 Joey Langeman, GPA 3.65

160 Garrett Sharp GPA 4.13

220 Haakon VanBeynen GPA 3.60

285 Jon Williams GPA 3.35

Brendan Mattingly GPA 3.85

It's quite impressive what they Greyhounds do in the classroom.  

I had to share this.

We have a young guy in our club who is deaf.  I remind our guys often that RJ probably is the toughest guy in our room.  Last year was his first practice ever. First time in a wrestling room.  He was in first grade and cannot hear or speak.  I could only imagine how difficult that had to be for him as we watched him go through his first couple of practices.

One year later, RJ is always the first guy in the room at practice.  He is usually the last guy to leave.  You can see that wrestling is something that RJ and his dad truly enjoy.  

Yesterday dad was sending us pictures of him and RJ watching the finals on TV.  This morning he sent the collage of RJ in front of the TV with guys that have been in our room this past year.  At some of our camps, we let dad know which guys have great resumes and should do quite well in the upcoming HS Season.  RJ and his dad were excited to get pictures with the, and all the guys were great with RJ, even though it's not the easiest to communicate with him.

After I saw the picture it made me think of Spiderman's phrase.  With great power comes great responsibilities.  

Congrats to all of this year's state champs.  I do want to thank the guys that were in our room and took just a few minutes to interact with RJ.  To be honest, I had forgot all about those champs that were around in the past year.......but RJ and his father didn't!  They will remember forever!

North Mont Regional 170. 

Saez had a great day. Beat undefeated Lowe in semis and avenged a loss to Hart in the finals.

220 Webster over Vanbeynen in semis and avenges a loss to Irick in the finals

Carmel advanced 13 of 14 to semi state

6 champs

2 runner up

4 thirds

1 fourth

On 1/1/2019 at 2:14 PM, Wrestling Scholar said:

Looks like some good bulletin board material to motivate the team.   Use it Ed.  No Respect!!!!

Ha!  I've given both sides of this equation for this pre-meet talk.  

17 hours ago, Indysportsfan said:

• #7 Carmel: State ranking --  1 wrestler in top 4 (106), and 4 more ranked between 5th -15th (132, 170, 182, 195); 1 ranked in Semi-State only (285) -- 6 TOTAL

Individual State Finals experience:   None //  The 'Rodney Dangerfield' of Team State.  Personally I believe Carmel to be very dangerous with enough athletes to make it difficult for any team to beat them.  Outside of their only loss this season (29-27), they have decimated their competition with the closest dual being a 25 point victory.  Extremely well coached and intelligent wrestlers, they typically will not 'beat themselves'.  They are better than the individual rankings indicate, look for them to pull off an upset along the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phagxOal7_A

The Rodney Dangerfield of Team State?  

Carmel is in the Mooresville Holiday Classic this year

The Stone Quarry is now going to be packed tonight for a "We hate Carmel" meeting.  Thank Mike.

I'm glad I don't have to seed this.  Dual results vs tourney results, guys missing/replaced/backups/lineup changes/etc.  This one would be tough.  

Lots of broken hearts and crushed dreams in the past World Championships of the World!  haha

We were impressed with all 4 heavys at McCutcheon this past weekend.  6 heavy matches in a triple dual...and all 6 were fun to watch.  

Carmel Notable matches:

106: Chundi WBF Stall (McCutcheon)

113 Chundi WBF Hein (Harrison), Simone (HSE) dec Hooper 5-3

120 Gunn dec Brubaker (McCutcheon) 15-3

132 Holman over Betourne (Harrison), but Betourne inj def very, very early in match.  Debated on posting this or not.

160 Hiner (HSE) over Sharp 8-6

285 Williams over Kunkleman (HSE) 2-1ot, Crider (Harrison) dec Williams 2-0, 

Carmel notable matches last week.  We will get one of our footballers back this week and hopefully have all 4 back in in two weeks.  

vs LN

106 Hooper over Carrender 7-5

132 Holman over Pettiford 9-0

220 Helt over Pettiford 5-4

vs Crown Point

106 Chundi over #7 Robertson 5-1

vs Roncalli

113 Githrow (ss #6) over Hooper 4-0

152 Davin over Page 14-8

160 Johnson over Smith 4-0

182 Hart over #1 Mahan 11-4

220 Heldt over Spears 3-0

285 Harris (ss #6) over Williams 5-3