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Wawasee is open per their facebook message. https://wawaseewrestling.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Great job coach Bumgardner.

Attached are the Vice Presidential Platforms of the three nominated candidates- Ed Pendowski of Carmel, Hunter Hickman of Rensselaer Central, and Jacob Bough of Kokomo. The position of VP will serve a two-year term, following that two year period they will become president of the association. Our current president Danny Struck will leave office at the spring clinic, and our current VP Jason Cook will step into the position of president. The newly elected VP will take their position at the clinic. Our voting for Vice President will run online next week, 5-1 through 5-5. In order to vote in this election, you need to be a member of the IHSWCA. There is still time to join for this season. To join the IHSWCA following the link provided. https://ihswca.org/membership/signup/ For clinic info follow the link below https://ihswca.org/camps-and-clinics/ Ed Pendowski VP Nomination 2.docx Hunter Hickman VP Nomination.pdf Jacob Bough VP Nomination.docx

For fun I posted an idea about a 3 point offensive takedown if the attacking wrestler scores, and a 2 point defensive takedown if the defensive wrestler scores. It was not recieved very well, and I will probably get made fun of again for posting this, but in reading some social media posts about the possible 3 point takedown it seems that a few others have this same idea. I think it would reward the attacking wrestler, but would add more to the officals plate.

Here is a story that I felt was worth sharing with the community that involved Bryce, I don't generally like sharing stuff involving my kids, but felt he deserved credit for this. My middle son (8 years old) had lost in the state semi-finals, and was not handling it very well. We were in the cafeteria wrestling area, and he was having a "freak-out" (he needs to work on this) in the area behind the mats. I was trying to talk to him to calm down, but he was not registering what dad/coach was saying. While this was going on a high school kid was passing through and asked me if he could talk to him. The high schooler sat down with my son, and told him about how he had never placed at ISWA until this weekend, and he had won it today. He discussed how wrestling isn't just about wins and losses, but about progress. This discussion caused my son to calm down, stop crying, and go on to wrestle the rest of his matches and place third. As he left I asked the high school kid his name, he said Bryce Denton. I told him I had heard of him lol. Anyhow I was really impressed with the maturity and kindness that Bryce showed this weekend. I had never met him. As a dad I was worrying what people thought of me/my son with the way he was acting, and Bryce was awesome in helping to calm him down and put things in perspective. Also in my opinion it took a lot of bravery to ask a dad that you had never met to talk with his son in a situation like that. Just wanted to share this and publicly say thanks to Bryce. I was blown away with how impressive he was in this situation.

Ok so I rememebered where I had "heard" this from lol. It was an email for our section newsletter, it stated that only USA/ISWA events would be used for the rankings. So I guess any USA/ISWA event, but things like Nuway, Hyway, etc would not count toward the rankings.

The only thing that I have heard is that only USA events will count toward the seeding, and that it is taking into account several years of information. I would consider myself far from an expert on how this seeding will look though.

It shows him getting beat by Carroll. Just mentions that he was second at Fargo.

Congrats to Joe Litherland- Tell City on being named State COTY and Zackary Johansen- Hobart on being named assistant COTY. IHSWCA Regional COTY 2023 Regional Coach School Hobart David Maldonado Merrillville Crown Point Bobby Whitnack New Prairie Penn Steven Sandefer Mishawaka Logansport Hunter Hickman Rensselaer Central Goshen Tanner Boman Dekalb Carrol (Fort Wayne) Nick Kraus Garrett Peru Clint Gard/ Bill Hoover Rochester/North Miami Jay County Eric Myers Jay County Frankfort Wes Mikesell Western Boone Pendleton Heights Gary Myers Hamilton Heights Perry Meridian Jake O’neill Warren Central Richmond Gary Black Sr. New Castle Mooresville Maurice Swain/Anthony Meister Center Grove/Whiteland Bloomington South Joe Litherland Tell City Jeffersonville Matt Joyce Columbus North Castle Adam Zollman Heritage Hills

I came across this yesterday. Worth a watch if you have 30 minutes. It doesn't look like it will work, if you search Ben Kueter on youtube it comes up.

I believe it is being seeded this year off of past USA Wrestling Results.

Curious, why is there not a tournament or an invitation to pick the team? Being on team Indiana is a big honor, so I would assume this event would be very well attended. Also if the team is being based off of a committee, could you provide any insight to which events the group took into account when picking the teams? Are there any events that are more significant in picking team members or is it an overall body of work concept? I am mainly asking for elementary, but I would assume others would wonder the same information for the middle school team as well.

If anyone has the contact info for Connorsville's Head Coach please send it my way.

I was going to post this last night, but the thread kind of took off on it's own. Anyhow here is the voting comittee and the teams selected/ alternates. Attendance Greg Ratliff (Bloomington South, Former IHSWCA President), Dane Fueling (Indianamat Team Rankings Coordinator/Vote Before hand) Sam Riesen (East Noble, IHSWCA Secretary) Jason Cook (Hobart, IHSWCA Vice President) Mike Reiser (Indianamat Rankings Coordinator) Alex Johns (Avon) Eric Myers (Jay County) Josh Holden (Greenfield Central/Abstained from the 3A vote and discussion) Vote-in spots 4A Perry Meridian Alternate Warren Central 3A Greenfield Central Alternate Columbus East 2A Owen Valley Alternate John Glenn 1A South Adams Alternate Central Noble

Januaary 4th Columbia City vs East Noble needs removed. Our dual with West Noble was moved to the 11th, not sure if that needs to be removed and put in or not.