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  1. Date: December 23, 2017 Location: Allen County Memorial Coliseum 4000 Parnell Ave Fort Wayne, IN 46805 TrackWrestling Link(Live Video included) http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/teamtournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=262578009 Schedule 9:00 AM – Rounds 1 through 3 (4 mats) Pool Play – 4 pools with 3 teams in each pool – seeded Rd 1 Bye – Lower seeded team in each pool Rd 2 Bye – Higher seeded team in each pool Rd 3 Bye – Unseeded team in each pool 2:00 PM(approx) – Round 4 Bracketed event begins based on how teams finished in their pool (4 mats) Consolation Matches (2 mats – 2nd – 8th Place teams) -Pool A 2nd Place vs Pool D 2nd Place -Pool B 2nd Place vs Pool C 2nd Place Consolation Matches (2 mats – 3rd Place teams) -Pool A 3rd Place vs Pool D 3rd Place (winner ties for 9th place/loser ties for 11th place) -Pool B 3rd Place vs Pool C 3rd Place (winner ties for 9th place/loser ties for 11th place) 4:00 PM(approx) – Round 5 Bracketed Consolation Matches (4 mats) Championship Bracket Semi-Finals (2 mats – 1st Place teams) -Pool A Winner vs Pool D Winner -Pool B Winner vs Pool C Winner 5th/6th Place Dual and 7th/8th Place Dual (2 mats) 6:00 PM(approx)– Round 6 Finals for Places 1st – 4th (2 mats per class – 6 mats total for Event) Teams 3A Teams Avon Brownsburg Carroll Castle Center Grove Columbus East Evansville Mater Dei Harrison (WL) Penn Perry Merdian Portage Roncalli 2A Teams Bellmont Edgewood Franklin County Garrett Indian Creek Jimtown Lawrenceburg New Haven New Prairie North Montgomery Wawasee Yorktown 1A Teams Adams Central Attica Cass Central Noble Eastern (Greentown) Frankton Knightstown Milan North Posey Prairie Heights Shenandoah South Adams Team State Documents TeamStateInfo.pdf Team State Agenda.pdf
  2. Date: December 23, 2017 Location: Allen County Memorial Coliseum 4000 Parnell Ave Fort Wayne, IN 46805 TrackWrestling Link(Live Video included) http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/teamtournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=262578009 Schedule 9:00 AM – Rounds 1 through 3 (4 mats) Pool Play – 4 pools with 3 teams in each pool – seeded Rd 1 Bye – Lower seeded team in each pool Rd 2 Bye – Higher seeded team in each pool Rd 3 Bye – Unseeded team in each pool 2:00 PM(approx) – Round 4 Bracketed event begins based on how teams finished in their pool (4 mats) Consolation Matches (2 mats – 2nd – 8th Place teams) -Pool A 2nd Place vs Pool D 2nd Place -Pool B 2nd Place vs Pool C 2nd Place Consolation Matches (2 mats – 3rd Place teams) -Pool A 3rd Place vs Pool D 3rd Place (winner ties for 9th place/loser ties for 11th place) -Pool B 3rd Place vs Pool C 3rd Place (winner ties for 9th place/loser ties for 11th place) 4:00 PM(approx) – Round 5 Bracketed Consolation Matches (4 mats) Championship Bracket Semi-Finals (2 mats – 1st Place teams) -Pool A Winner vs Pool D Winner -Pool B Winner vs Pool C Winner 5th/6th Place Dual and 7th/8th Place Dual (2 mats) 6:00 PM(approx)– Round 6 Finals for Places 1st – 4th (2 mats per class – 6 mats total for Event) Teams 3A Teams Avon Brownsburg Carroll Castle Center Grove Columbus East Evansville Mater Dei Harrison (WL) Penn Perry Merdian Portage Roncalli 2A Teams Bellmont Edgewood Franklin County Garrett Indian Creek Jimtown Lawrenceburg New Haven New Prairie North Montgomery Wawasee Yorktown 1A Teams Adams Central Attica Cass Central Noble Eastern (Greentown) Frankton Knightstown Milan North Posey Prairie Heights Shenandoah South Adams Team State Documents TeamStateInfo.pdf Team State Agenda.pdf View full article
  3. IHSWCA CLASS AA POLL Jan. 7, 2015 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Bellmont (7) 70 2, Jimtown 63 3, Yorktown 56 4, North Montgomery 42 5, Delta 37 6, Evansville Memorial 34 7, Lebanon 26 8, Leo 24 9, South Dearborn 18 10, Culver Academies 5 Also receiving votes: West Lafayette 4, Edgewood 2, Franklin County 2, Columbia City 1, Mt. Vernon (Posey) 1. IHSWCA CLASS A POLL Jan. 7, 2015 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Prairie Heights (5) 50 2, Southmont 45 3, Monrovia 40 4, Adams Central 33 5, Oak Hill 32 6, Knightstown 25 7, Bremen 16 8, Shenandoah 9 9 (tie), Delphi 7 9 (tie), LaVille 7 Also receiving votes: Central Noble 6, Triton 3, Attica 2.
  4. BROWNSBURG ASSUMES TOP SPOT IN IHSWCA STATE WRESTLING POLL Jan. 7, 2016 Brownsburg, fresh from a victory at last weekend’s team state dual meet tournament, has assumed the top spot in this week’s state wrestling poll, released by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA). Brownsburg received all six first-place votes in this week’s poll. Warren Central slides to the No. 2 spot. The poll: IHSWCA TOP 20 STATE WRESTLING POLL Jan. 7, 2016 (First place votes in parenthesis) 1, Brownsburg (6) 120 2, Warren Central 114 3, Perry Meridian 106 4, Evansville Mater Dei 104 5, Penn 96 6, Portage 88 7, Bellmont 81 8, Crown Point 73 9, Carmel 70 10, (tie) Avon 56 10, (tie) Prairie Heights 56 12, Lawrence North 50 13, Columbus East 38 14, Indianapolis Cathedral 35 15, Jimtown 24 16, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 23 17, (tie) Hamilton Southeastern 21 17, (tie) Yorktown 21 19, Center Grove 20 20, Castle 17 Also receiving votes: Bloomington South 15, New Palestine 9, Hobart 8, Merrillville 6, Jennings County 4, Franklin Community 3, Delta 1, Lafayette Jeff 1.
  5. IHSWCA CLASS 2A POLL Dec. 17, 2015 (First place votes in parentheses) 1, Bellmont (6) 69 2, Yorktown (1) 63 3, Delta 53 4, South Dearborn 42 5, Leo 30 6, North Montgomery 27 7, Peru 24 8, Lebanon 22 9, Jimtown 20 10, Evansville Memorial 17 Also receiving votes: Mount Vernon 15, Franklin County 3 IHSWCA CLASS A POLL Dec. 17, 2015 (First place votes in parentheses) 1, Prairie Heights (6) 60 2, Oak Hill 49 3, Southmont 39 4, Knightstown 38 5, Adams Central 32 6, Monrovia 30 7, (tie) Delphi 20 7, (tie) Bremen 20 9, Central Noble 12 10, Eastern (Greentown) 10 Also receiving votes: Elwood 6, Centerville 3, Woodlan 3, Eastern Hancock 2, Garrett 2, Monroe Central 2, Shenandoah 2.
  6. WARREN CENTRAL MAINTAIN LEAD IN STATE WRESTLING POLL Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015 Warren Central and Evansville Mater Dei maintain the 1-2 positions in this week’s state poll conducted by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA). Warren Central received five first place votes, while Mater Dei collected two. Teams will soon begin gearing up for the annual IHSWCA state dual meet tournament, scheduled Saturday, Jan. 2, at Fort Wayne’s Memorial Coliseum. The poll: IHSWCA TOP 20 STATE WRESTLING POLL Dec. 17, 2015 (First place votes in parenthesis) 1, Warren Central (5) 137 2, Evansville Mater Dei (2) 131 3, Brownsburg 123 4, Perry Meridian 120 5, Penn 103 6, Portage 101 7, Bellmont 93 8, (tie) Avon 80 8, (tie) Crown Point 80 10, Carmel 61 11, Yorktown 54 12, (tie) Carroll (Fort Wayne) 53 12, (tie) New Palestine 53 14, Lawrence North 52 15, Indianapolis Cathedral 51 16, Jennings County 49 17, Hamilton Southeastern 36 18, Valparaiso 19 19, Prairie Heights 18 20, (tie) Merrillville 14 20, (tie) Delta 14 Also receiving votes: Franklin Community 10, Columbus East 6, Zionsville 5, New Castle 2, Westfield 2, Lowell 1, North Montgomery 1, South Dearborn 1.
  7. WARREN CENTRAL LEADS FIRST STATE WRESTLING POLL Dec. 10, 2015 Warren Central holds down the No. 1 spot in the season’s first poll released by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA). Defending state champion Penn is ranked No. 6. Warren Central received seven first place votes, while Portage and Penn each got one. The Top 20 poll: IHSWCA TOP 20 STATE WRESTLING POLL Dec. 10, 2015 (First place votes in parenthesis) 1, Warren Central (7) 173 2, Evansville Mater Dei 162 3, Brownsburg 147 4, Perry Meridian 143 5, Portage (1) 139 6, Penn (1) 137 7, Bellmont 112 8, Avon 106 9, Indianapolis Cathedral 100 10, Jennings County 86 11, Lawrence North 75 12, New Palestine 70 13, Carmel 68 14, Crown Point 57 15, Hamilton Southeastern 52 16, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 46 17, Yorktown 37 18, Delta 36 19, Valparaiso 30 20, Merrillville 27 Also receiving votes: Prairie Heights 20, Franklin Community 14, South Dearborn 12, Columbus East 10, Zionsville 9, Center Grove 8, Plainfield 5, Bloomington South 3, Lowell 2, North Montgomery 2, Hobart 1, Leo 1.
  8. IHSWCA CLASS 2A POLL Dec. 10, 2015 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Bellmont (8) 98 2, Yorktown (2) 97 3, Delta 76 4, South Dearborn (1) 66 5, Lebanon 51 6, Mt. Vernon (Posey) 41 7, Leo 29 8, Peru 27 9, Evansville Memorial 23 10, North Montgomery 21 Also receiving votes: Jimtown 19, Franklin County 9, Columbia City 7, Lawrenceburg 6, West Lafayette 6, Heritage Hills 5, Rochester 5, Frankfort 4, Culver Academies 2, Vincennes Lincoln 2, Edgewood 1, Gibson Southern 1. IHSWCA CLASS 1A POLL Dec. 10, 2015 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Prairie Heights (8) 79 2, Oak Hill 59 3, Southmont 53 4, Knightstown 49 5, Monrovia 44 6, Adams Central 38 7, Delphi 26 8, Bremen 16 9, Centerville 14 10, (Tie) Eastern (Greentown), Central Noble, Shenandoah 10 Also receiving votes: South Adams 6, Lewis Cass 5, North White 5, Churubusco 4, Eastern Hancock 3, Milan 3, Elwood 2, Frankton 2, Woodlan 2.
  9. 1. Tell us what your background in wrestling is as a coach and as a competitor. HS: Columbia City Collegiate: Anderson (Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference Champion/NAIA qualifier) University of Indianapolis Coaching: Craig MS (Lawrence Twp. 3 yrs) Knox HS/MS (1 yr) North Newton HS (3 yrs as volunteer) Boone Grove HS (2 yrs) Ben Franklin MS/Valparaiso HS (2 yrs volunteer) Valparaiso HS (2 yrs) 20 year IHSWCA Member and current Crown Point Regional Rep 2. Why did you decide to run for office in the coaches association? To work with the Coaches throughout the state to help improve and advance wrestling in Indiana 3. What does the IHSWCA do well? Clinics/Team State/Attempts to communicate desires to the IHSAA 4. What can the IHSWCA improve on? Continue to grow membership 5. What do you think you can bring to the association as the VP and eventually president? Desire to grow the Association and to try to communicate our desires to and work with the IHSAA to incorporate them 6. Who was most influential in your life both as an athlete and coach? My Father and Coach Don Armstrong (Columbia City) 7. How would you go about recruiting more coaches to be members of the association? Email AD's, so they can pass it to their coach and then follow up with them, to encourage Coaches to include their MS Coaches as well 8. What makes Indiana high school wrestling so great? The State Tournament Series, the number of schools represented throughout and schools of all sizes 9. What other experiences outside of wrestling do you believe would help you in this position? I believe in negotiating in the business world will help prepare me in trying to negotiate and work with the IHSAA on our proposals 10. What issue(s) do you feel the coaches association should address? Wrestle-backs/ possibly modification of the scoring in the tournament 11. How would you improve communication between the IHSWCA and wrestling coaches? Mass email and/or postings on IndianaMat.com 12. How does the IHSWCA become an association that is well respected by the IHSAA? By continued growth (membership); open forum with members and the IHSAA 13. In what direction do you see the IHSWCA Team State going? I would like to see it remain
  10. 1. Tell us what your background in wrestling is as a coach and as a competitor. HS: Columbia City Collegiate: Anderson (Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference Champion/NAIA qualifier) University of Indianapolis Coaching: Craig MS (Lawrence Twp. 3 yrs) Knox HS/MS (1 yr) North Newton HS (3 yrs as volunteer) Boone Grove HS (2 yrs) Ben Franklin MS/Valparaiso HS (2 yrs volunteer) Valparaiso HS (2 yrs) 20 year IHSWCA Member and current Crown Point Regional Rep 2. Why did you decide to run for office in the coaches association? To work with the Coaches throughout the state to help improve and advance wrestling in Indiana 3. What does the IHSWCA do well? Clinics/Team State/Attempts to communicate desires to the IHSAA 4. What can the IHSWCA improve on? Continue to grow membership 5. What do you think you can bring to the association as the VP and eventually president? Desire to grow the Association and to try to communicate our desires to and work with the IHSAA to incorporate them 6. Who was most influential in your life both as an athlete and coach? My Father and Coach Don Armstrong (Columbia City) 7. How would you go about recruiting more coaches to be members of the association? Email AD's, so they can pass it to their coach and then follow up with them, to encourage Coaches to include their MS Coaches as well 8. What makes Indiana high school wrestling so great? The State Tournament Series, the number of schools represented throughout and schools of all sizes 9. What other experiences outside of wrestling do you believe would help you in this position? I believe in negotiating in the business world will help prepare me in trying to negotiate and work with the IHSAA on our proposals 10. What issue(s) do you feel the coaches association should address? Wrestle-backs/ possibly modification of the scoring in the tournament 11. How would you improve communication between the IHSWCA and wrestling coaches? Mass email and/or postings on IndianaMat.com 12. How does the IHSWCA become an association that is well respected by the IHSAA? By continued growth (membership); open forum with members and the IHSAA 13. In what direction do you see the IHSWCA Team State going? I would like to see it remain Click here to view the article
  11. 1. Tell us what your background in wrestling is as a coach and as a competitor. I have been wrestling since the 6th grade. I got cut from the basketball team and my PE teacher/ wrestling coach Rod Dorsey made sure I got involved with wrestling. I wrestled for 4 years at Franklin Community High School and graduated in 2001. During my last two years of college at IU, I got involved in coaching at the school I student taught at, Mooresville High School. I have coached 2 years at Mooresville (assistant), 1 year at Franklin Community (assistant), 1 year at Benjamin Rush Middle School (head), and 7 years at Edgewood High School (3 assistant and 4 head) 2. Why did you decide to run for office in the coaches association? I want to be involved with the association because it is an opportunity for me to help improve our sport. Wrestling fans are passionate and often very giving of time, energy and support to help improve the sport. I would like to help be an extension of that for our sport. 3. What does the IHSWCA do well? The IHSWCA always has our sport’s best interest in mind. I know they have many good ideas and there are many people that give tons of time to make the association work. I like the way they have focused on bringing back the old team state and improving it. 4. What can the IHSWCA improve on? I believe that we can probably work more on communicating with our members and the voices of our sport. It sounds like there has also already been a movement to start to incorporate a little more technology like virtual meetings. 5. What do you think you can bring to the association as the VP and eventually president? I am always open minded and trying to find ways to improve things. I am not a guy that is stuck in his ways. I am all for incorporating technology to our process of doing things. I do a good job of promotion and building enthusiasm. I also feel that one of strong suits is to pay attention to small details and do some gritty and detailed work. 6. Who was most influential in your life both as an athlete and coach? I have had many influential people in my life and try to take little pieces of information from every coaching person I have been involved with. There is no doubt in my mind though, that I would have never got involved with wrestling from a professional stand point had it not been for my high school coach Bob Hasseman. I loved being around the sport. I couldn’t get enough of it. I always thought that Hasseman had the best job in the world. He got to watch kids play sports all day, hang out in a weight-room, and then be around wrestling. That sounded like nothing but fun. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t know reality beforehand. I always felt that I wanted to help people reach their potential like Coach Hassemen was doing on a daily basis. 7. How would you go about recruiting more coaches to be members of the association? I think that coaches need to know why they should join. What is in it for them? I think there needs to be more email communication with the coaches on how to register. 8. What makes Indiana high school wrestling so great? Wrestling is the greatest sport for many of those reasons that we often use to sell kids to join our sport; discipline, hard work and all of the other life lessons. Indiana is so great in particular because of the state tournament itself. It really is the best state finals of any sport in our state. I have had many people who attended their first wrestling event at the state finals and were absolutely impressed with the whole presentation. 9. What other experiences outside of wrestling do you believe would help you in this position? My experiences as a Physical Education and Health teacher have helped me become a better leader and to manage situations and people effectively. 10. What issue(s) do you feel the coaches association should address? I think we need to continue to address the team state tournament and making it an actual portion of the state tournament series. I like the idea of coaches having a singular stat/ match reporting such as trackwrestling. Football and basketball games are all reported in some capacity. It would be nice if wrestling matches weren’t so secretive. I like the idea of wrestle- back to determine a true top 4 at semi-state so we are less concerned with someone getting a bad draw. I also would like to see wrestle-backs to 3rd at the state tournament. I also think we need to look at the number of Saturday matches that we are currently participating in. As a coach I’m not going to get rid of those currently because I want my wrestlers to get as many opportunities as everyone else. That being said, Saturday 5 way dual meets make it hard for the casual observer to come watch. We want our sport to grow, but I have a hard time asking students to come sit in a gym for 8 hours. 11. How would you improve communication between the IHSWCA and wrestling coaches? Communication doesn’t have to be anything crazy. It appears that there has already been a message board created to allow for communication on Indianamat. I think that we need to have an email database with all wrestling coaches that allows to communicate issues to them and hear their thoughts. Using technology such as surveymonkey is a great way to help find out pressing issues to our coaches as well. 12. How does the IHSWCA become an association that is well respected by the IHSAA? I cannot speak on the current standing with the IHSAA, but being well respected is all about creating relationships with people. We need to take a civil approach to dealing with them and make sure they understand we are not just attacking them. 13. In what direction do you see the IHSWCA Team State going? I believe the IHSWCA is currently doing the best they can within the parameters they are given. It obviously would be best if they qualifiers were based on the current year, but I also understand that we are currently not able to do that. Out of the whole mess of losing team state, a much improved team state was created. I like that team state is classed into the right amount of groups. Other positives are that it is in one singular venue on one day and all teams get at least 3 matches so that each place is determined 1-12. I think the future has to have some sort of in-season qualifier or something based on in-season rankings. That means that it can’t take up points on the schedule though.
  12. 1. Tell us what your background in wrestling is as a coach and as a competitor. I have been wrestling since the 6th grade. I got cut from the basketball team and my PE teacher/ wrestling coach Rod Dorsey made sure I got involved with wrestling. I wrestled for 4 years at Franklin Community High School and graduated in 2001. During my last two years of college at IU, I got involved in coaching at the school I student taught at, Mooresville High School. I have coached 2 years at Mooresville (assistant), 1 year at Franklin Community (assistant), 1 year at Benjamin Rush Middle School (head), and 7 years at Edgewood High School (3 assistant and 4 head) 2. Why did you decide to run for office in the coaches association? I want to be involved with the association because it is an opportunity for me to help improve our sport. Wrestling fans are passionate and often very giving of time, energy and support to help improve the sport. I would like to help be an extension of that for our sport. 3. What does the IHSWCA do well? The IHSWCA always has our sport’s best interest in mind. I know they have many good ideas and there are many people that give tons of time to make the association work. I like the way they have focused on bringing back the old team state and improving it. 4. What can the IHSWCA improve on? I believe that we can probably work more on communicating with our members and the voices of our sport. It sounds like there has also already been a movement to start to incorporate a little more technology like virtual meetings. 5. What do you think you can bring to the association as the VP and eventually president? I am always open minded and trying to find ways to improve things. I am not a guy that is stuck in his ways. I am all for incorporating technology to our process of doing things. I do a good job of promotion and building enthusiasm. I also feel that one of strong suits is to pay attention to small details and do some gritty and detailed work. 6. Who was most influential in your life both as an athlete and coach? I have had many influential people in my life and try to take little pieces of information from every coaching person I have been involved with. There is no doubt in my mind though, that I would have never got involved with wrestling from a professional stand point had it not been for my high school coach Bob Hasseman. I loved being around the sport. I couldn’t get enough of it. I always thought that Hasseman had the best job in the world. He got to watch kids play sports all day, hang out in a weight-room, and then be around wrestling. That sounded like nothing but fun. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t know reality beforehand. I always felt that I wanted to help people reach their potential like Coach Hassemen was doing on a daily basis. 7. How would you go about recruiting more coaches to be members of the association? I think that coaches need to know why they should join. What is in it for them? I think there needs to be more email communication with the coaches on how to register. 8. What makes Indiana high school wrestling so great? Wrestling is the greatest sport for many of those reasons that we often use to sell kids to join our sport; discipline, hard work and all of the other life lessons. Indiana is so great in particular because of the state tournament itself. It really is the best state finals of any sport in our state. I have had many people who attended their first wrestling event at the state finals and were absolutely impressed with the whole presentation. 9. What other experiences outside of wrestling do you believe would help you in this position? My experiences as a Physical Education and Health teacher have helped me become a better leader and to manage situations and people effectively. 10. What issue(s) do you feel the coaches association should address? I think we need to continue to address the team state tournament and making it an actual portion of the state tournament series. I like the idea of coaches having a singular stat/ match reporting such as trackwrestling. Football and basketball games are all reported in some capacity. It would be nice if wrestling matches weren’t so secretive. I like the idea of wrestle- back to determine a true top 4 at semi-state so we are less concerned with someone getting a bad draw. I also would like to see wrestle-backs to 3rd at the state tournament. I also think we need to look at the number of Saturday matches that we are currently participating in. As a coach I’m not going to get rid of those currently because I want my wrestlers to get as many opportunities as everyone else. That being said, Saturday 5 way dual meets make it hard for the casual observer to come watch. We want our sport to grow, but I have a hard time asking students to come sit in a gym for 8 hours. 11. How would you improve communication between the IHSWCA and wrestling coaches? Communication doesn’t have to be anything crazy. It appears that there has already been a message board created to allow for communication on Indianamat. I think that we need to have an email database with all wrestling coaches that allows to communicate issues to them and hear their thoughts. Using technology such as surveymonkey is a great way to help find out pressing issues to our coaches as well. 12. How does the IHSWCA become an association that is well respected by the IHSAA? I cannot speak on the current standing with the IHSAA, but being well respected is all about creating relationships with people. We need to take a civil approach to dealing with them and make sure they understand we are not just attacking them. 13. In what direction do you see the IHSWCA Team State going? I believe the IHSWCA is currently doing the best they can within the parameters they are given. It obviously would be best if they qualifiers were based on the current year, but I also understand that we are currently not able to do that. Out of the whole mess of losing team state, a much improved team state was created. I like that team state is classed into the right amount of groups. Other positives are that it is in one singular venue on one day and all teams get at least 3 matches so that each place is determined 1-12. I think the future has to have some sort of in-season qualifier or something based on in-season rankings. That means that it can’t take up points on the schedule though. Click here to view the article
  13. MATER DEI, PERRY MERIDIAN 1-2 in STATE TOP 20 POLL Evansville Mater Dei, fresh from a victory in Class AAA at last weekend's team state wrestling duals, is the No. 1 ranked team in the Indiana wrestling poll. The rankings were released today by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA). Perry Meridian is ranked No. 2, while Penn moves up to the No. 3 spot. IHSWCA WRESTLING POLL OF 1-8-2015 (First-place votes in parentheses) School Votes 1, Evansville Mater Dei (7) 140 2, Perry Meridian 133 3, Penn 126 4, Portage 114 5, Warren Central 109 6, Merrillville 103 7, Crown Point 100 8, Yorktown 84 9, Avon 75 10, Hamilton Southeastern 64 11, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 63 12, Lawrence North 59 13, Franklin Community 49 14, New Palestine 48 15, Bellmont 47 16, Indianapolis Cathedral 45 17, Brownsburg 44 18, Castle 25 19, Bloomington South 15 20, Jennings County 9 Also receiving votes: Center Grove 8, Elkhart Memorial 4, Carmel 3, Ben Davis 3, Valparaiso 1, Zionsville 1.
  14. EVANSVILLE MATER DEI TOPS STATE WRESTLING POLL Evansville Mater Dei has taken sole possession of the No. 1 spot in the bi-weekly state wrestling poll released by the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA). IHSWCA WRESTLING POLL OF 12-18-2014 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Evansville Mater Dei (5) 118 2, Perry Meridian 114 3, Warren Central 99 4, Portage 98 5, Penn (1) 96 6, Merrillville 87 7, Yorktown 85 8, Crown Point 77 9, Franklin Community 64 10, Hamilton Southeastern 57 11, New Palestine 54 12, Avon 52 13, Indianapolis Cathedral 51 14, Bellmont 42 15, Lawrence North 40 16, Brownsburg 35 17, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 29 18, Bloomington South 18 19, Castle 9 20, Elkhart Memorial 8 Also receiving votes: Valparaiso 7, East Noble 6, Hobart 6, Lake Central 3, Harrison (West Lafayette) 2, Pendleton Heights 1, Indianapolis Roncalli 1, Westfield 1.
  15. IHSWCA CLASSED WRESTLING POLL OF 11-20-2014 (First-place votes in parentheses) CLASS 3A (Large Schools) 1, Penn (3) 74 2, Evansville Mater Dei (5) 73 3, Perry Meridian 57 4, Indianapolis Cathedral 50 5, Merrillville 39 6, Warren Central 38 7, Avon 28 8, Crown Point 27 9, Franklin Community 20 10, New Palestine 14 Also receiving votes: Portage 7, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 4, Hamilton Southeastern 3, Harrison (West Lafayette) 3, Westfield 2, Bloomington South 1. CLASS 2A (Medium-Size Schools) 1, Yorktown (9) 90 2, Bellmont 66 3, Evansville Memorial 39 4, Gibson Southern 35 5, Danville 30 6, Leo 29 7, (Tie) Lebanon 28 7, (Tie) Mt. Vernon-Posey 28 9, North Montgomery 27 10, Southmont 23 Also receiving votes: Delta 20, Franklin County 10, Peru 8, New Prairie 7, Jimtown 6, Northview 6, Rochester 6, Culver Academies 5, Delphi 5, Madison 5, Columbia City 4, Edgewood 4, Western 3, Whitko 3, John Glenn 2, Lawrenceburg 2, South Bend St. Joseph 2, South Dearborn 2. CLASS 1A (Small Schools) 1, Churubusco (2) 59 2, West Central 54 3, Adams Central (4) 51 4, Union County 38 5, Tecumseh 33 6, Bremen 30 7, Winchester 29 8, Monrovia 24 9, Milan 20 10, Westview 19 Also receiving votes: Central Noble 18, South Adams 16, Prairie Heights-1 11, Alexandria-1 10, Triton Central 9, Eastern (Greentown) 8, Southwood 6, Cascade 3, Taylor 2, Fremont 1, Seeger 1.
  16. PENN TOPS SEASON'S FIRST STATE WRESTLING POLL Penn has been voted Indiana's No. 1 high school wrestling team in the season's first Top 20 poll. The Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association (IHSWCA) has released its first rankings of the new season. Coach Brad Harper's Kingsmen edged perennial power Evansville Mater Dei by one vote, 153-152, even though the Wildcats received more first-place votes. Defending state champion Indianapolis Cathedral is ranked fifth. IHSWCA WRESTLING POLL OF 11-20-2014 (First-place votes in parentheses) 1, Penn (3) 153 2, Evansville Mater Dei (5) 152 3, Perry Meridian 134 4, Yorktown 121 5, Indianapolis Cathedral 118 6, Warren Central 113 7, (tie) Avon 112 7, (tie) Merrillville 112 9, Crown Point 92 10, Franklin Community 87 11, New Palestine 82 12, Portage 60 13, Carroll (Fort Wayne) 52 14, Bloomington South 32 15, Hamilton Southeastern 31 16, Bellmont 30 17, Elkhart Memorial 25 18, Westfield 21 19, East Noble 20 20, Lawrence North 19 Also receiving votes: Carmel 15, Harrison (West Lafayette) 15, Evansville Memorial 13, Lowell 13, Brownsburg 11, Mishawaka 11, Ben Davis 8, South Bend St. Joseph 7, Castle 6, Center Grove 5, Southmont 4, Fishers 3, Franklin Central 2, Lawrence Central 1.
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