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At the bottom it says Note: State qualifiers are all wrestlers who qualified for state including placers and champions. State placers are all wrestlers who placed 1st-8th at state.

That does me no good, I need a year by year breakdown.

For the 12th time, I'm not guessing on this. I need year by year data or it's worthless. Sorry that I can't read minds and some people have taken time to submit information and others have not.

Added total state qualifiers, placers, and champs. https://indianamat.com/index.php?/history/coachingstate.html/ When we get more data it will be updated accordingly. Send me the coach's year by year breakdown of wins and losses along with the school they were at. The state statistics will get updated automagically as we get the year by year information.

I need a year by year breakdown. I don't like to make stuff up and just put it on the site.

I need a year by year with school, wins, losses, ties breakdown for the coach and I will add him. Send it to me via email joe (at) Indianamat.com and it will get updated.

Not sure why I never had this page public...but here it is. https://indianamat.com/index.php?/history/coachingwins.html/ If there are discrepancies send me the information so that we can update team history.

By JEREMY HINES Thehines7@gmail.com For as long as Sullivan freshman Lane Gilbert can remember he has dreamed about having his hand raised at the Indiana High School wrestling state championships. He’s done more than dream about it. As a young kid he would go into the wrestling room at Sullivan High School and act out having his hand raised. It didn’t matter that nobody else was around him. In his imaginary scenario he always emerged victorious. No obstacle stood in his way. No opponent could beat him. He was the champ. That dream would never be taken away. The dream was much different than real life for Gilbert. In real life, he has had far more hardships than one kid should experience. He’s overcome situations that would break others. Through it all, he’s come out stronger. To get a clear picture of just how tough Lane Gilbert is, it is important to dive into his uncomfortable past. Gilbert’s mother, Rachel, became Indiana’s first female sectional champion in wrestling. She won the 103-pound class in the North Knox sectional in 2002. Rachel was going places in life. News agencies had reported on her wrestling journey, because at the time, female wrestlers were still very new in the state. She had some colleges showing interest in her. But Rachel began facing a more formidable opponent than anyone she went up against on the mat. She started battling an addiction with drugs. Lane’s father had his own battles with drug addiction. For Lane’s father, that addiction would eventually lead to a prison sentence. Young Lane didn’t want to miss an opportunity to visit his dad, even if that meant going to the prison any time he could. “Lane worshipped his dad,” Lane’s wrestling coach and grandfather Roy Monroe said. “Lane never failed to go see him. He always wanted to see him.” Tragically, Lane’s father developed cancer while in prison and ultimately died due to the disease. “That was really rough on Lane for a while,” Rachel said. “His dad was a drug addict for a long time and Lane always held out hope that one day he would get better. Once he got sick, that was probably the hardest thing. Lane stayed strong through the whole thing.” At nine-years-old Lane did something no kid his age should ever have to do. He stood up in front during his dad’s funeral and sang a special song. “I don’t know how he did it,” Monroe said. “That’s almost an impossible thing to get through, and he did it. He toughed it out.” That’s what Lane always does. He toughs things out. He toughed it out when his mom was having her struggles. He toughed it out seeing his dad in prison, and then watching as cancer slowly took its toll. He toughed it out when his uncle Jordan, who had taught Lane quite a bit about wrestling, died in a fiery car crash. No matter what life threw at Lane, he toughs it out. Perhaps he gets his fighting spirit from his grandfather. Roy has been a major part of Sullivan wrestling for over 30 years. He’s watched his daughter struggle with drug addiction. He lost his son in that tragic car accident. He’s experienced heartache and he remained the rock Lane needed in his life. Lane could always stay the night at Roy’s house. He could always get the right words from his grandpa. And, on the wrestling mat, he could look to Grandpa Roy for direction as well. “He’s my role model,” Lane said. “He’s nice to everyone. He’s a good coach. He’s all the things you can think of if you were to make the perfect person – that would be how I describe him.” But Lane’s toughness also comes from his mom. In a time when people frowned on girls wrestling against boys, she held her ground. In fact, she and Roy had to go to the Sullivan school board to even get approved to wrestle back in her high school days. Later, as has already been alluded to, Rachel battled a fierce drug addiction. But, for Lane’s sake – and for her sake, she fought through and emerged victorious. She is currently a Dean’s List student working to become a nurse. “I am so proud of her,” Roy said. “I’ve been a counselor. I’ve went into the jails and counselled drug addicts. I’ve seen them come in and out of addiction. The real truth is, only about one percent of drug addicts make it to where she is now. It’s so hard to overcome, but she’s done it. And she’s a great mom.” She is also very, very protective of Lane and worries almost to a fault about the decisions he makes in his own life. “After having made the decisions at a young age that I made, I saw first-hand what can happen and how quickly everything can just spiral out of control,” Rachel said. “One mistake and everything can be gone. I have that fear in the back of my mind that he’s of the age and he could make the wrong choices. I’m almost too hard on him, but I am terrified because I know what can happen and I keep my eye on him. I do trust him. He’s seen what can happen and how bad things can get.” Lane knows when his mom tells him to keep on the straight and narrow, it’s because she cares. “I have so much respect for my mom,” he said. “I’ve learned a lot from her.” One thing Lane has learned is to never doubt himself. This summer when he was a third alternate for the Pan-American games, he let doubt creep into his psyche. After the first two qualifiers couldn’t attend the games, Lane got the call to participate. But, going into the event, he felt like he really didn’t belong. Boy was he wrong. Lane went undefeated in both freestyle and Greco-Roman. News of his success quickly spread throughout the town of 6,500 people. When he arrived home, he was given a police escort through the streets. “Oh my gosh,” Rachel said. “The town put on this whole show when he returned. The police and emergency vehicles all met up on the north end of town. He had no idea it was going to happen. There were fans from all over our town and they all followed him to the high school. It was so cool. He was so surprised.” Currently Gilbert is 28-1 on the season and ranked No. 5 at 113 pounds. He has carried the confidence he developed during the Pan-American games over to the season. Now he knows he belongs. Now he knows that dream he played through his head so many times growing up isn’t just a dream – it’s an attainable goal. “I’ve been coaching at Sullivan for 13 years as head coach and I’ve been there 30 years as an assistant,” Monroe said. “I’ve never seen anything like him. I look at Lane, with his skills and what he’s been through, and I just know that adversity isn’t a problem anymore. He can do whatever he sets his mind to do.” As for Rachel, well, she says nowadays she’s just like any other wrestler’s mom. “I’m still up in the stands screaming my head off,” she said. “But when I’m shouting, at least I know which moves to shout. The other moms look at me and ask what they should be yelling.” View full article

If there are bracket issues a coach will need to contact the tournament administrator to have them corrected.

No referee-backs either!

We need to have better ways of aligning kids into their weight classes without having them make weight multiple times a week. I personally like the "lunch" time weigh-in as it lets the kids eat and not worry about drinking too much water. Even something like weighing in one time per week is better. We want kids to enjoy the sport at the elementary and middle school levels. Making weight, even if you aren't cutting, can be a huge burden on new kids/parents in the sport.

Personally, with as many middle school events as there are I would hate for kids to be forced to monitor their weights multiple times per week. As a high school coach we try to limit the number of weeks with two weigh-ins just to ease the strain on the kids. I know our middle schools will have three, sometimes four events in a week and I couldn't imagine a kid needing to make weight that many times. Even if they aren't cutting weight they still need to monitor their weight in order to not be over. When talking about middle school we need to work on retention of athletes more than anything. This includes uniforms AND weigh-in procedures.

Officials Point Breakdown 50% -Coaches ratings(Coaches vote 1-5 for officials) 20% -Number of varsity matches on the season (7 or more to get full credit) 15% -Number of association meetings attended (4 or more to get full credit) 5% -Previous tournament experience in the past 6 years -State Finals = 5pts -Semi State = 4pts -Regional = 3pts -Sectional = 2 pts -Never worked tournament series = 1 pt 5% -Number of years licensed -7 or more years = 5pts -5-6 years = 4pts -3-4 years = 3pts -1-2 years = 2pts -First year = 1pt 5% - Number of time official worked the tournament in the last 6 years - 5-6 years = 5pts - 4 years = 4pts - 3 years = 3pts - 2 years = 2pts - 1 year = 1pt Notes These are points basically so for coaches ratings they can get up to 50 points, varsity matches up to 20 points, and so on. Officials at the semi-state level are looking at around a minimum of having 85 points in this system. That means they need to have basically a 4.1 average coaches vote along with most of the other criteria. For the coaches vote they have to have a certain number of votes to qualify for advancement. On top of that after X amount of votes they will throw out the top X and bottom X votes. That means the more votes you get the more of your bottom votes get thrown out. Advancement Officials have to work 3 sectionals before a regional, 3 regionals before a semi state, and 3 semi states before working the state finals. You can work your first regional in the same year that you do your 3rd sectional, your first SS the same year that you do your 3rd regional, and your first state finals the same year that you do your 3rd semi state. Basically if you have high enough ratings you can do a state tournament in 7 years. This used to be 10+ years. State Finals 12 state finals officials with 2 rookies 2 year rotation for each official. After your two year rotation, the first year you can only do a sectional, the second year you can do a regional. The third year you can do semi-state and state again if you qualify

Yes he has....