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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I am glad you think they do but when you compare the venue's of the Ft. Wayne SS and Evansville SS... East Chicago is NOT adequate... From things like absolutely no room for all wrestlers and coaches to sit on the floor level, to workers that feel like ther are the police and threaten parents filming their kids wrestling from the designated locations just because they have a power complex, to making teammates and assistant coached park 2 football fields from the doors that they will let you in when you must ride with the wrestlers and coaches that get in for weigh ins and now forced to wait in the cold outside the doors for an hour till doors open. Not sure if I explained it well but things like that plus more... This has been my experience for 4 years going to East Chicago as an assistant coach and a parent... There are others that have had similar experiences. EC SS wrestlers deserve a venue like Ft. Wayne and Evansville has... Its a Dream...

I wonder what ideas are out there to move the EC semi-state to a better fitted venue. I know used to me at Merrillville but I was wondering if there is a Venue in the area or maybe toward South Bend area that might be more like where Ft. Wayne and Evansville Semi-states are held.... War Memorial Coliseum, Ford Center... somewhere like those would be a dream I feel......Just thoughts and ideas on where it could happen.....

NCAA D3 Regionals this weekend.... Who do you think is for sure going on? Lower Midwest Regional = Southeast = Upper Midwest = Central = Wabash, Manchester, Trine Mideast = Northeast =

My thoughts (however meaningless)...... EC Semi-State deserves a BETTER VENUE.. Compare to where each of the other 3 semi-states are held... EC Year in and year out is arguably the TOUGHEST semi-state in Indiana up and down COMPLETELY but yet it can't be held in a facility that is of the same level? instead we get older people working that think they are the police and yelling at parents whom are recording their kids from the corners of the balcony. threatening to have them kicked out or arrested.... COMPLETE NONSENSORY... THE REGION SEMI-STATE DESERVES BETTER... ENOUGH SAID....

BW Invite @ Baldwin-Wallace in Ohio: Shaun Pratt - 6th Justin Brantley - 8th Jett Boots - 2nd Keagen Mabie - 8th Ethan Nash - 7th Might have been some other Indiana Young Men in there but not names I recognize so I apologize if I missed...

Some Indiana Kids at Smaller D3 Opens: Ben McMullen Open Jett Boots 2nd Lakin Webb 3rd Ethan Nash 2nd Trine Invitational Brendon Mark 1st Matt Gimson 1st Brayden Erb 1st Elijah Anthony 3rd Elijah Chacon 3rd Shaun Pratt 4th Some great showings from some great young Men these last 2 weeks!! Excited for rest of season!!!

Great Preview!! Best of luck to each program this upcoming Season!!!! I am biased so Go THUNDER!!!!

3 years I have been on here lobbying for Winamac to get (and Earn) an invite to Team State... I spit out many many statistics and comparisons to teams that were going and each year just felt CHEATED by the system.... couldn't understand how others were more deserving than our program based on given information. The hardest part was comparing teams that don't see each other... ECC Semi-State vs Fort Wayne Semi-State, The always viewed weak Logansport Regional, and now to see that what so many people started working for almost 9 years ago to rebuild a program from 7 total wrestlers in the wrestling room to EARNING enough respect as a program from the selection committee (obviously not amongst all coaches in the northern half of the state) to be invited to TEAM STATE..... I am so very thankful... I have no words to express the gratitude for this recognition... The part that excites me most is how this will ENERGIZE our kids and our community... These kids that have put in the work even when they had been knocked down time and time again. The FUEL this honor will provide our program can't be matched.... This experience for our kids will not be something that could be replicated anywhere.... I see and now understand that I was wrong the last 3 years.... focusing on the negative of not being invited was not fair to those that were invited and to all those programs I do publicly apologize.... wished I would have learned that sooner.... Side note.... To see Rochester, West Central, and Winamac all invited to Team State is so awesome for our little area!!! Great job head coaches and all supporters of each of those programs!! Best of luck to each!!!

Was a Great day of Small School wrestling!! There were kids that beat kids that got further in IHSAA tournament just because of draws and facing those large schools.. it was a day of ups and downs and a day where Thoughts and Prayers were needed for a wrestler that had a very serious medical issue in his finals match.. I can't elaborate as I don't know that much but was a very very worrisome moment.... hope he is recovering quickly. To get to come back to our little community of 3,000 people and say that we had 3 placers and the Inaugural 1A/2A State Championships was very VERY cool... and the kids were already buzzing about it on social media and messaging each other with pics of the plaques.... THATS the kind of buzzing our sport needs in our little community!!! NO DOUBT this will transition into 1-2 more kids next year and maybe 3-4 more kids year after.... so excited to watch this grow!! To see the look on our wrestlers faces that got to feel this accomplishment... you can't replace that feeling..... Great Stuff!!!

East Chicago is a JOKE.... I was in a designated corner to film our wrestler wrestling and this guy told me I had to sit down when there were 10 other people there recording with their phones... I told him no, I am Recording our Senior wrestling, He told me I was going to be kicked out and that he was going to get the police... Police officer came over and threatened to take me to jail for disturbing the peace and that I needed to sit down.. I pointed out that I was recording in the designated area and that there were 10 other people doing same thing I was... Made no difference to the officer... WHAT A JOKE... POWER hungry people thinking they can run the world... this is 3rd year in a row I personally had been singled out to sit down by SAME person playing Security.. Surrounded by people doing same thing and yet its all cool for them.... Busses with kids that are alternated or workout partners for the qualifiers have to park 2 city blocks away and walk in the cold to get to the doors to get in.... No managers allowed on the floor to record matches and take stats so they fight for an angle upstairs and get yelled at by people to sit down... they are just trying to do their job.... JOKE.....

Winamac is sending 5 to East Chicago.... I think that is most since '97