DMelt19

Not sure what the specific requirements are but Jason Wille at the IHSAA is the person you want to contact. His email is jwille@ihsaa.org

3 hours ago, ontherise219 said:

Pretty cool tweet from a Chicago sports writer 

He was there taking photos for this story: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/sports/ct-ptb-wre-cp-mc-st-0123-20220122-dqbjxktl4bf6bfkyy7hhbslaiy-story.html

I don't think those were coaches. 

On 1/17/2022 at 12:01 AM, 4U2NV said:

This is how I see it going down on Friday. It will be a great meet.  132 and 170 will be critical matches 

106 MC by maj MC 4 CP 0
113 MC by dec MC 7 CP 0
120 MC by dec MC 10 CP 0
125 MC by dec MC 13 CP 0
132 MC by dec MC 16 CP 0
138 CP by fall MC 16 CP 6
145 CP by dec MC 16 CP 9
152 CP by fall MC 16 CP 14
160 MC by dec MC 19 CP 14
170 MC by dec MC 21 CP 14
182 CP by Maj MC 21 CP 18
195 MC by dec MC 24 CP1 8
220 CP by dec MC 24 CP 21
285 MC by fall MC 30 CP 21

Anyone know what the sources are for the National Rankings here? I assume the state ones are based on IndianaMat/Illinois Matmen but unsure of the others. 

Here's an article confirming the Penn State thing: https://onwardstate.com/2020/02/25/penn-state-to-host-2021-big-ten-wrestling-championships/

On 2/1/2018 at 3:25 PM, NarrowGate said:

My boys have played at Grand Park and I believe someone said they actually haven't made any money in three years, although I'm sure they will long term.  The cost factor is huge, especially for parents with multiple kids.

The cost of being competitive in sports is simply ridiculous in the grand scheme of things

1.  Club fees for my three boys - $300
2.  Private academy fees - $230 (this will increase if we start doing privates and camps)
3.  Weekend club tournaments - $600 (estimated and doesn't include Greco/freestyle)
4.  Hotel fees - $460 (Estimated, including trips to Indy twice, Iowa and Battle Creek)
5.  Travel Baseball cost ($750 for 10U, $1000 for 13U)
6.  Estimated Hotel for baseball ($500 and this is cheap because both my boys play at the same out of town place twice, which isn't always the case)
7.  Pop Warner - $250
8.  And I'm not even including the stupidity that I have to pay to walk into any of these sporting events to watch my own kid play in a sport I've paid for them to play in.  Nor does it include food, gas, fund raising (which I almost always just end up paying for), etc.

Grand Total :  $4090 and I'm sure I'm missing a crap ton of other expenses since these are quick rough estimates.  In fact we actually budget $400 per month for sports.  I could be driving my dream car right now after a few years!!!

 

And you're right, many parents can't afford the time commitment or the financial commitment so that drives people from the sport(s) as well.  It also creates a lack of local pride, meaning that kids travel to play in other elite clubs or baseball teams because they are more competitive or in some cases because dad can't get along with a coach.

 

 

That's the biggest problem I have with the sport specialization crowd: the cost. It's not a fair playing field. Someone who may have the talent but doesn't have the opportunities that another kid does gets left behind due to circumstances well beyond control. I think it's great that kids can play sports year-round. I think it's terrible that money has become such an important factor in it. The commercialization of youth sports is a HUGE problem. Too many people just using it to make money instead of developing/growing kids. That's one thing I like about sports in a local setting, at high school or within the same towns/communities: they're usually better at developing a person along with the athlete.

On a slight chance of topic, I think kids playing one sport year-round is probably not a good idea until high school due to the reasons others have mentioned, like burnout and the heightened potential for injuries. Once they're into high school? Have at it. But I don't think you have to play a sport year-round as a 10-year-old to be a stud in high school. Just be an athlete. 

From the Crown Point Regional:

At 113, No. 6 Andres Moreno beat No. 2 Jose Diaz
At 160, No. 4 Oszkar Kasch pinned No. 3 Diego Lemley
At 170, unranked Evan Bates pinned No. 9 Marc Buehler

Lake County Tournament will have a bunch of the Region schools' attention on Saturday. It's at Hanover.

Portage is still waiting to hear back from the appeal: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/sports/ct-ptb-wrestling-notes-st-1220-20161219-story.html

(Portage gets mentioned down near the bottom)

About the only information I can share on this is that Perry Meridian's JV team beat Lowell, which probably means that they won the whole thing. did the same last year.

Also know that both Cummings and Hughes for Lowell went 5-0.