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Hey guys: I hope your as excited for the start of school as I am!!! You should be, you get to help kids!!! You are an "impactor", how can you not be excited!! One of the best ways to stay fired up is to always continue your coaching education. This fall, October 17-18 we have an awesome lineup we are very excited about! Thursday we have Mark Manning (head coach of Nebraska, head coach to Jordan Burroughs, James Green and Chad Red Jr.), Thursday we also have the IHSAA Rules interpretation meeting with Robert Faulkens, and we will give you a chance to have your voice heard! We will be having break out sessions to get ideas and help on "hot topics" in wrestling. Friday we have something new to the Fall clinic. The NWCA Leadership academy. This teaches the head coach of a team, to act more like the CEO of a program! We will be having leaders from the NWCA come in and teach this awesome course. Being that it is new, and we want big attendance. We are offering some scholarships to those that email me. These scholarships are for coaches that have not been to the fall clinic before, and will be coming with another paid coach, or veteran coach. Email me to see if your eligible. This is really going to be a motivating two days! Take a look at the flier, in the link below. The registration is in the link as well. You can mail in your registration if needed, however we prefer signing up online, and mailing your check. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quk9-_nte98dB7AGDEax6u-nL6MJmFhhBtFehAFsi_E/edit?usp=sharing One more thing.....take a look at the attached video and see what Wisconsin Head Coach, Chris Bono, says about the Leadership academy! Danny Struck IMG_7246_(1).mov

I was around him a lot of times from the early 90s to late 2000s, but I won't forget the first. In my 8th grade mind in 1992, undefeated Aaron Wilson of Warsaw was unbeatable at 119 pounds and destined to win state. But senior Mike Ester had other ideas. After getting beat by Denny Schwartz of Adams Central at regional, Mike out-gutted the favored Wilson for an incredible upset win in a semi-state ticket round death draw. He went on to win semi-state and then take 3rd at state, beating Schwartz in the consolation final in his last high school match in a rematch of their regional championship. I distinctly remember my first glimpse of Ester's passion in that upset over Wilson and I saw it many more times in his coaching over the years. RIP

I don't even know where to start. This breaks me. Mike was brash. Mike was tough. Mike might have ticked some people off. But he was a dear friend and most of all he would do anything, anything humanly possible for kids. And especially kids who needed more guidance, more support and more love. Miss you coach.

This!!! I told Ester on a few occasions that match was a game changer for me. I thought Aaron was untouchable and on that day I learned there are no immortals. I was also younger and it left an impression.

Can someone who cares about CP wrestling please organize a group of influencers to convince their program to come show their talents at Team State once or twice during this upcoming run? It would be a real shame not to see fully where they stack up as a duals team while they have all this talent over the next number of years.

RIP Coach

Well I usually don’t get on this site to look at the forums but this was brought to my attention. This was not the case of who he couldn’t or could beat. There where many issues last year and we are glad that’s behind him. Castle is a great school and we wish them well. We also appreciate everything thing they did and all the time they spent with him. For somebody to say who he couldn’t beat means you probably don’t actually know what was going on. Mater Dei is a great opportunity for him not just for the wrestling aspects but for many other reasons. “Well over his allowance” he was .1 over not sure if that classifies as well over. That’s on him and hopefully he is at a different stage in his career where he won’t have to worry about that anymore.