Dave Cloud

Coaches: The NWCA is proud to partner with the United States Marine Corps to offer recognition for your junior and senior team members as Scholar All-Americans and Character & Leadership All-Americans. Click on the links below to nominate your wrestlers. The coach MUST be a member of the NWCA to nominate a wrestler (You can join here: Membership Link ). You may nominate as many of your athletes as you like. You may wish to contact your local Marine recruiter to present the awards when they arrive. The deadline for nomination is March 15. Please make sure your nominated athletes meet the listed criteria for each award. Dave Cloud NWCA Indiana Rep. Scholar Link: Scholar All-American Link Character & Leadership Link: Character & Leadership Link

The 2024 IHSWCA Academic Team Challenge is now open for the 32 IHSAA Sectional Championship Teams. Please fill out your team GPA form. Info on where to send and how to fill out the form are in the accompanying information sheet. Due date is Feb 13 but if you need extra time let me know. Dave Cloud IHSWCA Academic Team Challenge Coordinator 2024 IHSWCA Academic Challenge (1).pdf

Thanks to Coach Cook from THS! Keep an eye here if you are looking for some large shoes in case anyone else has some they want to share. NO community like the Wrestling community! dave

A former wrestler of mine is now a middle school coach and needs a size 17 shoe for one of his wrestlers. I had some big pairs but gave them away in recent years. Anyone have a line on some of these rascals? Give me a call 765-610-8150 if you can help out. Much thanks, Dave

Gunner: Think you will like Laradise! Coach Branch is a real dude and the setting is absolutely beautiful.

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The Olympians of Columbus East High School are our first repeat winners in the three years of the program. Coach Chris Cooper's team GPA of 3.700 earned a first place finish to go with their win in the first Academic Challenge in 2021 when they shared the title with Coach Michael Weimer's Noblesville Millers. The Patriots of Heritage Hills High School finished second with a team GPA of 3.669. This is the first time Coach Adam Zollman's squad has earned a top three finish. The Wildcats of Mater Dei High School round out our top three with a team GPA of 3.644. This is also the first top three finish for Coach Greg Schaefer's team. Congratulations to our place winners! All teams with a team GPA of 3.25 or higher are named to the Honorable Mention roll. Those teams are: Carmel High School, Jeffersonville High School, Rensselaer Central High School, Tell City High School, Terre Haute South High School, Western High School, Zionsville High School

Sports Movies That Continue to Inspire From ‘Field of Dreams’ to ‘Vision Quest,’ the films of my youth can teach valuable lessons about beauty and the transcendent. By Mike Kerrigan April 16, 2023 4:13 pm ET Matthew Modine in ‘Vision Quest.’PHOTO: WARNER BROS. When I text with friends who, like me, came of age in the 1980s, it isn’t long before someone refers to a sports movie from his youth. With a buddy facing long odds in a job interview, I shared the tryouts sequence from “Rudy.” When I thought he was overthinking preparation, I sent him the wilderness training montage from “Rocky IV.” I’ve written “Wanna have a catch?” from the end of “Field of Dreams” to remind one friend of the importance of seeking forgiveness. On the power of granting it, the town-hall vote of confidence in Norman Dale, the high-school basketball coach with a checkered past in “Hoosiers,” is my go-to bounce-pass. Recently I received such a text from my friend Greg. We’d been debating the nature of beauty. My head, filled with Thomas Aquinas, C.S. Lewis and John Keats, knew pure beauty is objective reality: an attribute first of the thing observed before any secondary perception of it. Knowing in your head and feeling in your bones, though, are two different things. The scene Greg shared was from “Vision Quest.” Protagonist Louden Swain, an 18-year old wrestler, can’t understand why Elmo, a much older night cook at the hotel where they both work, is missing a shift and much-needed wages, to watch Louden wrestle Brian Shute, his nemesis. Louden asks Elmo why. Elmo explains by describing his reaction to something he saw on television: Brazilian soccer sensation Pelé scoring—and then celebrating over—an acrobatic, bicycle-kick goal. Though watching alone in his shabby apartment, ignorant of soccer and hardly a crier, Elmo admits that the vision moved him to weep. Elmo’s tears show the arresting effect beauty has on the ordinary person. The gruff cook is overtaken by Pelé’s preternatural talent and joyful heart. Mere proximity to it draws Elmo from the cramped confines of his subjective self to a higher plane where the sublime is appreciated, simply for existing. Nourishing not his stomach but his spirit, objective beauty compels the hash slinger to forgo wages and watch Louden wrestle. Beauty restores man’s capacity for wonder, which remakes a tired world anew. Its power derives from its source, which is both outside the subjective self and the created world. Greg’s clip reminded me how the sports movies we adored in childhood not only can transcend. They can be signposts to transcendentals themselves, of which earthly beauty is but a foretaste. Those movies really were the best. Mr. Kerrigan is an attorney in Charlotte, N.C.

Wonderful tribute to Kevin on WISH-TV. Always enjoyed stopping over to talk to him at the finals each year; always so gracious to people who wanted to talk to him. Had the unbelievable good fortune to stand next to him in line waiting to get into the venue this year. It was awesome reminiscing with him. Such a great guy. He will be missed. Oh, and by the way....Evansville is a lot closer to Kevin's Old Kentucky Home. Just saying. Think we could get Kevin to do a Tom Brady?

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Go to the IHSWCA website (ihswca.org). Click on forms. You will see Hall of Fame Nomination on the list. You can fill out the Google form and submit.

Coach Pendoski: Wrestlers like Heldt are the real reason we coach. What a GREAT story.

You only have until 11:59 pm on March 15 (Wednesday) to nominate your wrestlers for the NWCA/USMC Scholar All-American or Character & Leadership awards. You must be an NWCA member to nominate a wrestler.

So Jack Heldt (Wabash/Carmel) captured the D III national heavyweight title and Shawn Streck (Central Oklahoma/Merrillville) won the D II heavyweight title and now Mason Parris is the D I national champ. This is an unbelievable achievement. Indiana should be proud of these three young men.

Katie Downing Kriebel Winning record as a senior competing at 140. Quite possibly first girl to earn a sectional placing (third) not by forfeits. Placed third at Sunkist Open fall of senior season. Weight class champion at the first girls high school nationals (award for most falls in least time-championship match fall in under 30 seconds). Wrestled at first women's college program (University of Minnesota-Morris). In first class of athletes to be part of resident athlete program at USOTC. Member of U.S. National team for 8 years. Multi-time U.S. Nationals champion. World Junior silver medalist. Two time Senior World bronze medalist. Gold medal at World Cup. Beijing Olympics alternate. Assistant coach at Oklahoma City University. Current assistant coach for USA Women's Senior National team.