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Also, wasn't Cathedral already automatically in so the vote-ins were Mater Dei and Avon, both teams ranked ahead of Penn? That's what I assumed, but could be wrong.

Really fun one. Aidan is going to be multi time placer in Indiana for sure. Zach lost a scramble in the first period which ended with Kincaide locking up a cradle and going up 5-0. Hard to battle back from that deficit against anyone who is good and Aidan certainly is. Will be a fun battle when they see each other again at Conference and perhaps Semi-State.

I have an assistant coach who does reviews of the popcorn at each school. The girls team is making TikTok’s of his reviews for the end of year banquet. I look forward to hearing about how the hot dogs compare at each location. these are the important discussions

HSE would be interested. Have that weekend open with our Conference JV tourney being cancelled this year. We will have 35-45 JV athletes. By that point in the season, probably closer to 35 available bodies.

We do earlier than conference even--first weekend of January. Barring injury, kids should all have made their way to the weight they want by then and gives them the month of January to wrestle people at that weight for seeding criteria and such. Also ensures they have the 6 qualifying weigh ins on time and nobody is forcing me into last minute changes. In my opinion, Kids should know by the first week after the allowance hits how their bodies feel and what weight they perform best at. Pushing it any later can cause friction in the line-up and doesn't allow any build up of seeding criteria at that weight. To be fair, I care a great deal more about the team aspect of the sport than some coaches, who see it truly as an individual sport only, which drives my decision making on this.

Ava Shaw is a Junior at HSE

EJ Shults is a Junior this year at HSE.

HSE is at 11 this year. 3 returning qualifiers,3 others returning from last season and 5 who are new was hoping to get to 12-15 range so still need to recruit some more

Chatard is gonna benefit from this as well a lot more kids to Semi -State for the Trojans who were already building

The Indy school shake up will create a very deep regional at Perry Perry Warren Greenfield Central New Pal (gonna be really good really soon) Mount Vernon Lawrence North North Central Roncalli Beech Grove LC Franklin Central plus other schools that have decent size too How would you like to be tiny Lutheran or Triton Central, or Purdue Polytechnic? even if Perry and Warren never return to the programs they were in 2003-2019, the sheer depth is going to make that a tough road for those teams just to make Semi-state Maybe (emphasis on the maybe) even deeper than Mooresville overall who has Brownsburg Center Grove Avon Ben Davis Plainfield Decatur Central Pike Mooresville Martinsville Greenwood Whiteland The edge at the top would certainly go to Mooresville but I’d put the 2nd-5th placers at this regional up against any in the state.

A national competition like this, you’re wrestling best chance to win, other June matches, I’m most often putting my guys on bottom to get live looks from someone who’s not their practice partner on top. It’s a balance. I also think you try to protect that ego by reading body language at end of periods, I’ll never pick neutral for them but if I want them confident I’ll throw it back to them and say your choice bottom or neutral. This little psychological trick usually results in an escape when they go bottom. Either A) they knew they could get out and did or B realized it was their choice and are extra motivated to get away because coach gave them the choice.

Saw some really fun match-ups this weekend. I was mostly coaching my kids and with 3 gyms, I didn't get to see all the best match ups but some really good ones I did see: In Freestyle, at 16U 170, Xavier Smith of Fishers took out some really big up and comers, dominating his way over Coy Bender and Ethan Farnell before following it up with an even more dominant Greco State title. As the Rival HS Head Coach, I'm not looking forward to having to deal with him for 3 more years. He hit two 5 point throws in one match over our 170 who is no slouch at all in Greco. Jensen Boyd was a pleasure to watch compete at 106 at 16U as you might imagine. He was taken to the brink in his semi-final against Mason Goelz, ultimately winning 8-7. Goelz turned around then and beat Aidan Smalley (ticket rounder this past season) in one of the best barn burners I've seen, just back and forth the whole time with Smalley taking a 2 point lead with criteria as well with about 12 seconds remaining but Goelz was able to get a takedown and a gut as time expired to win it. Impressive young man all weekend. I'm sure he'll be a force in Avon's line-up for a while! If you want to watch a match for pure entertainment value, the opening round match-up with 2 state qualifier Juniors in Pendleton Height's Jackson Todd and HSE's Zach Lang at Greco 152 had nearly 40 points scored. Fun one! I'm sure there were others that were awesome matches, but like I said, I really only got to see my guys and others in their weights. There's also quite a few 14U kids that are getting after it in the Olympic styles. Check out some of the light weight action at 71, 77, 83, and 87. Could be I haven't been paying as much attention before this year, because my club kids are just now getting to the age division, but it seems to me our 14U kids are more polished at the Olympic styles than ever. Overall, really great wrestling this weekend. I think we'll be seeing a lot of success at National Duals and Fargo this summer.

Another stud athlete for sure. The point the Original Poster was making is that stud athletes will be studs at whatever sports they choose. My point is that it's easier to do at upper weights for sure because there is less sport specialization. That's not to say it can't be done at lower weights, as Mr. Thrine has shown us and I'm sure there are others, just more of a challenge because more of their opponents wrestler all year round.

All three of those guys, Leighton, Luke, and John are freak athletes. We coaches all know that football and wrestling cross over a ton! I'd love to see the statistics on how many 138-160 pounders that qualified for state played football or another sport this year though. Even better, would love to know how many 106-132 pounders did another sport. The further down the weight goes, the less options kids have to be involved in sports and find success. What other sports is a 105 pound kid at HSE or Brownsburg going to do and be a contributor? The options are limited, you could even argue wrestling is the ONLY one. These kids can choose to just wrestle at our schools. They usually have run CC or play tennis and baseball or track at a really small school. My hypothesis is that in the light weights, it's less than 10% of state qualifiers that do another sport, in the middle weights, you may bump to 25%-35%, with the heavier weights being over 50% for certain, maybe even more than 75%.

I know Fishers is open right now.

If we do just 2 classes, only Mater Dei would be in the first class, maybe Chatard. Roncalli and Cathedral would still be in the 2A class. Even in classed sports, teams can choose to bump up and I would assume Mater Dei would do just that as well.

I'm aware. They probably should move another over there as well, but better than it used to be for sure.

Absolutely I'd prefer longer drives with better balanced sectionals over the opposite. I'd bet the small schools care even more. Some of those schools scrap and fight just to get 1-3 kids to Regionals in the Frankfort Sectional and then if you're in the Crawfordsville Sectional teams that are essentially the same caliber can send 6-10 kids to Regionals just because of the other teams that are in it. That makes a difference in program building!

4 are in the same (Carmel, HSE, Fishers, Westfield) and you’re correct, they don’t care about it and I’ve said it before, if we won’t class, we HAVe to balance the sectionals more evenly Kids from Clinton Central, Frankfort, and Clinton Prarie HAVE to be better than at least one kid from one of those monster schools just to make regionals. Meanwhile, a kid who goes to Tri HS can make it to Regionals some years just by weighing in. Ask the small school coaches what a difference it makes when 2-3 extra kids make regionals or semi-state and how that motivates all the other kids. Anyways, My point to your original post is you were trying to fix just one problem and created at least 5 more by just trying to get Brownsburg away from CG. That sectional is just one example.