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3 Jr. Sergio Lemley Mt. Carmel 6 Sr. Zeke Seltzer Cathedral 2 Sr. Jesse Mendez Crown Point 21 Sr. J Conway Floyd C.IN 16 Sr. Brody Baumann Mater Dei 17 Sr. Codei Khawaja Floyd C 1 Jr. Christian Carroll New Prairie 13 Jr. Leighton Jones Brownsburg 17 Sr. Mariere Omonode W. Lafayette IN Couple of side notes. Is Lemely back in Illinois now? Looks like Carroll has jumped up to #2 in the p4p rankings and Mendez is at 4.

Great points that you bring up. These are perfect examples of issues as we as coaches and / or parents should pay attention to and make adjustments accordingly. I’m thinking communication is the key. I believe that we all do a better job of that. Definitely going to ask my guys to come to me with any of these feelings. Hopefully… if these or similar issues arise, we can adjust before it gets too bad. I really appreciate your insight. I used to coach a faith based youth football team. One a week we had a 30 min fellowship where we talked about faith and feelings. I know in most schools we would have the leave the faith part out… but… I think a fellowship talk for a team would be an awesome tool to prevent some of the adverse feelings that you have brought up. Make sure that everyone knows that they are not the only ones having these negative feelings and help guys work through adversity. Maybe Andy can do something like this at The Fort. I’m sure the kids would love it.

Elijah is one of the hardest working kids I know. Wrestled for me in Disney a couple years ago and it’s been awesome to see his improvement. Hope his win over Frazier propels him into the high school season.

I know Prairie Heights is getting hosed in these rankings,

I have the answer as to why Cael felt burn out and it was because of the pressure to be perfect and it being more like a job than a sport, but what got him going again was competing in the trials to represent the United States. You can watch his gold medal match from 2004 on youtube.

Elijah Anthony was really impressive and has the look of a solid collegiate wrestler.

He'll win his share of HS state titles!