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    NWCA State Coaching Awards

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted

    Congratulations to the NWCA Head Coach of the Year and Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year for boys Wrestling!

     

    Head Coach of the Year: Cody LeCount of Delta High School. Coach LeCount led the Eagles to an outstanding dual meet season, a dominant Hoosier Heritage Conference championship, a State Dual Meet championship and a 10th place finish at the IHSAA State Championships in Evansville. The Eagles has three place winners for the former Perry Meridian state champion. 

     

    Assistant Coaching Staff of the Year: Brownsburg High School. Kyles Ayersman, Brian Smiley, Alex Skipper, Brandon Gay, Chris Doty, Drew Krietzer, Eric Lynn and Rick Tompson. The Bulldogs captured the IHSAA state title after a 13-1 dual meet season, a runner-up finish in the IHSWCA Dual Meet Championships, Conference, Sectional, Regional and Semi-State team titles and a national ranking of 18th. The program has produced at least one state champion for the last 10 years. 

     

    Congratulations to Coach LeCount and the Brownsburg assistant coaching staff. They are now under consideration for NWCA Section 4 recognition as part of the national coaching awards for the NWCA. 

     

    Dave Cloud-Indiana Rep

    NWCA

    USMC & NWCA Scholar All-American and USMC & NWCA Character & Leadership Awards

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted

    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

    Congratulations to our IHSWCA Academic Challenge Place Winners and Honorable Mention Recipients

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted

    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

     

    Article in Wall Street Journal--Shout out to Vision Quest

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted

    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
     
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    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.

    Kevin Whitehead's Final State Championship

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted · Edited by Dave Cloud
    adding idea

    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? 

    Best/Most Accomplished wrestler During and After HS to come out of Indiana is?

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted

    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.

    USMC/NWCA Character/Leadership Awards Open for Nomination

    in High School Wrestling

    Posted · Edited by Dave Cloud

    Coaches: The National Wrestling Coaches Association is proud to partner with the United States Marines to sponsor the USMC & NWCA CHARACTER & LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN AWARD. 

     

    The nominating head coach MUST be a member of the NWCA in order for the wrestler to receive the award. You may join the NWCA here:

     

     https://www.nwcaonline.com/membership/join/#/storefront/12d635c0-f8d5-ec11-a7b5-002248042391

     

    The award is for those wrestlers who display dependability, judgement, endurance, initiative, tact, integrity and unselfishness, loyalty and courage. Those wrestlers nominated should represent the very best of your program. Please do not just send in your entire roster. By definition, the nominees should be the pinnacle of your program. 

     

    The deadline is not until March 15 but you know how those deadlines creep up on you and it is helpful for you to get the nominations in as early as possible to facilitate their timely production.  Here is the link to the nomination form: 

     

    https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6821172/2023-NWCA-High-School-Character-Leadership-All-American-Award-presented-by-the-United-States-Marine-Corps

     

     

    The USMC/NWCA Scholar All-American Awards nomination form will be released in a few weeks.

     

    Dave Cloud

    NWCA Indiana Representative 

     

    IHSWCA Academic Challenge Winners

    in Past Discussions

    Posted

    Congratulations to the 2022 IHSWCA Academic Challenge place winners. This is our second year for the program. This year's top three were:

     

    1st) DeKalb High School--Team GPA 3.569

     

    DeKalb wrestling

     

    2nd) Roncalli High School  3.539

     

    3rd) Carmel High School    3.501

     

    These Sectional champion teams distinguished themselves in the classroom as well as on the mat. The link at the bottom is the article that ran in the local paper about DeKalb's team.  The IHSWCA is very proud of all of these teams. They were all athletically successful while also placing emphasis on the student aspect of student/athlete. This year all Sectional champs with a team GPA of 3.25 or higher who were not in the top three will receive a digital Honorable Mention certificate. 

     

    https://www.kpcnews.com/sports/latest/eveningstar/article_62261773-8655-5fa1-bb3a-0710d0e59bad.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

     

    9 Deluxe Sterilaser Floor Units Available for 25% Discount

    in Past Discussions

    Posted · Edited by dave c

    We have 10 (now 9, sold one) Deluxe Sterilaser Floor Units that were used as demo units at the NCAAs and other tournaments. These units come with full warranty like brand new units. These units sell for $1,496.25 (25% off of regular price of $1.995) + shipping and handling. Please let me know if you would like to start sanitizing your mats at the speed of light! I have placed a link to our web page below in case you want to look up performance data.

     

    Please contact me if you would like to order before these are gone!

     

    Dave Cloud

    cloud080302@aol.com

    765-610-8150

     

    https://www.thesterilaser.com/

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