Each member school shall observe a moratorium week starting on Monday of the week which includes July 4th, either IHSAA calendar Week 52 or Week 1. During this seven day period, there shall be no contact between athletes and coaches, and no athletic activities, including conditioning, conducted.
I am not a coach, nor am I associated with any program, so take my opinion for what it's worth; but I think that if the IHSAA didn't want wrestlers going to Disney, they could have easily interpreted the rule in such a way that would disallow them from going. They could have said the volunteers with the wrestlers during the moratorium are for all intents and purposes "coaches," especially because they are taking over for the coaches who leave once the moratorium starts. And there really is no question that competing at Disney counts as an "athletic activity," which is "conducted." I'm not saying the teams that go are breaking the rule, because the IHSAA has supposedly said they are not. What I am saying is the fact that the IHSAA approved of teams going to Disney with this arrangement tells me they don't mind; and therefore there is no reason to worry about the IHSAA retaliating against wrestling, or looking unfavorably upon wrestling coaches, for skirting the rules or violating the "spirit"of the rule. I hope this doesn't get me into trouble with the moderators ;D