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On 3/11/2019 at 11:24 AM, Academy said:

Live Stream will be at:

https://livestream.com/accounts/17075222/events/8588474

Event location:                               

Culver Academies High School

1300 Academy Road

Culver, IN  46511

 Saturday, March 16                       

Location – Culver Academies Wrestling Room             

1:00 pm    Team Indiana workout in Culver Academies wrestling room                                                

3:00 pm    Weigh-in Indiana team

3:00 pm    Team Illinois workout in Culver Academies wrestling room

5:00 pm    Weigh-in Illinois team

             

Sunday, March 17                         

Location – Fleet Gymnasium at Culver Academies

10:00 am    Brunch for the athletes in Dining Hall

12:00 pm    Pictures and warm-up                

1:00 pm     Introductions (t-shirt exchange), National Anthem and wrestle

 

Guidelines

 - Wrestlers will wear their high school uniform (warm-up, singlet, headgear, and shoes).

- The Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association will provide each wrestler with a t-shirt to exchange and one to keep for themselves.  Also bring a tee shirt from your school to give to your opponent!

 

If you have any questions call Matt Behling Cell 574-930-0676 or email matthew.behling@culver.org.  Hotels are listed below:

Culver Cove Lakeside Condominiums$162

319 E Jefferson St, Culver, IN 46511•(574) 842-2683

The Culver Cove is very close to the High School and is located on the lake.  These are not hotel rooms, but condominiums.  

 

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Plymouth$95

2-star hotel

2619 N Michigan St, Plymouth, IN 46563•(574) 936-2444

 

Swan Lake Resort and Conference Center$84

3-star hotel

5203 Plymouth Laporte Trail, Plymouth, IN 46563•(574) 935-5680

 

Super 8 by Wyndham Plymouth

2-star hotel

2160 N Oak Dr, Plymouth, IN 46563•(574) 914-4851

 

 

 

Could you give a ticket price?  Little kids also. Thanks. 

7 hours ago, ontherise219 said:

The ‘Staches grow strong in the Oaks. Great match for AJ in the semis and finals. What is better is that he is a great kid from a great family. If you guys ever get a chance to meet a fowler they will be one of the nicest and most respectful kids in the state. 

I've been rockin my 'stache since playing ball at the Black Oak little league! 

AJ thanks man. Watching you wrestle that match being behind i had no doubt in my mind you were ready for the challenge and wouldn't stop till that whistle blew the heart can't be measured or ranked. I knew from my years in the program Coach Wadkins had you ready to go. Props to the Brownsburg team you guys are beast. 

Oh for those who understand SYP!  There will be a handful of guys who know that. 

Love you Coach.

I'm very grateful that I wrestled for Calumet and Coach Jim Wadkins, Larry Jamie Slagle, Begley and Fox. My parents did the best they could, but I feel like we kind of struggled financially when I was in middle school and high school. My mom worked part time as a carry out at the grocery store, but my dad was disabled. He wouldn't let me work though. He said that I had the rest of my life to work, but just a short time to be in sports. So, I concentrated on school and sports and got free breakfast, free lunch, reduced book rental and often wore poor fitting clothes that were stained by well water because we didn't have a water softener and sometimes the laundry mat was too expensive. I even remember a period when we got food from some food bank, but all the labels were missing from the canned goods. Dinner could easily be condensed milk and shrimp. Another night, it could be beans and cranberry sauce. Although I dressed kind of goofy and was often kind of hungry, I ALWAYS felt like a CHAMPION and I think Calumet's wrestling program had a lot to do with that.  
   My coaches had very high expectations. We could have had a lot of undefeated wrestlers during the regular season, but "to be the best, you have to beat the best" so we would travel in search of the ultimate competition. Instead of beating up on Griffith or the Gary schools, we would go to places like Mishawaka, Kokomo or Evansville so we could face the best competition. Our practices were just as intense as our competition. After a lot of practices, I wondered what could best describe what we just experienced. There was an Iowa wrestling video where one of the wrestlers said they did stuff that would make a billy goat puke. That sounds just about right. We even practices after winning sectionals one year because we had bigger and better things to do. The hard work paid off and we would always have a wrestling room full of champions. It made feel great to be a part of that.
   I also enjoyed the fun stuff the wrestling team would do. We'd go to State, even if we didn't have any qualifiers so we could see what the goal was. We'd also  take a yearly trip to watch Big Ten wrestling. The first time that i ate at Olive Garden was on a wrestling trip. I actually think about it whenever I visit or see a commercial. (The slogan even reminds me of wrestling, "when you're here, you're family) I even got to see the world's greatest athlete and second greatest coach, Dan Gable. (To say that he is very intense is an understatement.) It was pretty amazing to see him in person. It was also pretty amazing to watch Trevino wrestle one of Iowa's wrestlers, while Gable was coaching. 
  I have so many great memories thanks to Calumet's wrestling program. I could've been just another poor kid from Gary, but wrestling made me feel like a winner. I was grateful I was able to donate this year to help other wrestlers feel great and make great memories. I was very honored today when Calumet's wrestlers shook my hand and gave me the wrestling sweat shirt. 
  Thanks guys.

--written by David Bisbee but not posted by him. 

---- I opened an account just to post this. 1st thanks Biz even thou its been yrs since we seen each other you're still my brother from another mother! The reality of it is Coach was so so much more to all of us than just a "Coach". I honestly believe i wouldn't be where i am in life today without him and his program. I wanted to quit one day and he knew i did. It was so simple what he said "don't quit I'll make you a champion". It was true but not only on the mat also in life. I can't thank you enough.  I really wonder how many other lives he changed. 

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