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Evansville has several Arby's, get all the shaved roast beef you want. 
 
 

Evansville has several Arby's, get all the shaved roast beef you want. 
 
 

Evansville has several Arby's, get all the shaved roast beef you want. 
 
 

Evansville has several Arby's, get all the shaved roast beef you want. 
 
 

Evansville has several Arby's, get all the shaved roast beef you want. 
 
 

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.

Ray Black Jr, ask him, he'll tell you allllll about it!!!
 

Did it happen to be Valentines Day 2019ish? Bc I was there, and over 350, and sweaty...
 
Just curious..lol....

Stick that pick on there..... brutal...
 
Prayers to Parker and his family!!!
 
 

Did it happen to be Valentines Day 2019ish? Bc I was there, and over 350, and sweaty...
 
Just curious..lol....

At Hobart, we have a sports mural in our field house. Previously, Hobart had 21 sports represented in this mural. With the addition of girls wrestling, and boys volleyball there had to be additions to the mural. Girls wrestling on our sports mural forever. Even better that the art is based off Hobart's first ever girls wrestling state placer, Keirys Click. 

Nothing official has been announced yet, but be forewarned there will be fireworks when @TripleB enters the building.
 

Nel's Pizza, I doordashed the Hellboy after SS and it was lights out. 
 
 

Now that Evansville is official, does @TripleB get the nod for Grand Marshall for the Parade Of Champions?
 

Zach Adams - Madison - 4x ticket rounder, headlocked a Welch through the floor in the ticket round his jr year. He beat the SS champ his sophomore year at Regionals. Had wins over runner up and third place his senior year. Beat multiple state placers over his 4 years. 
 
Ticket round losses to Rueger, Milton, Welch and VanHorn
 
For a 1 year run - 1997 Jeremy Johnson from Madison was undefeated and ranked top 5 in state. Stuck the #2 ranked kid  at Team Semi-State, beat the eventual 7th place finisher about 8 times that year and majored the 3rd place finisher in a dual before losing to him 3-1 in the ticket round. 
 
Joe Pinnick of Jeffersonville was a hammer right along w Hunter Hughes. Jeff had a murders row w Doherty, Rosbottom, Pinnick, Hughes, Koch, Stith, Bowman and Ware. That Jeff team was 🔥🔥🔥

sorry @ENoblewrestling just seeing this post. 

We have done this in the past with a wrestle off challenge date for all spots.  It started off well attended and then with timing wise people stopped coming due to conflicts with FS wrestling and spring breaks and they also started to figure out they could still get on team even if they did not come and we had to call people to fill spots.
We decided to form a committee this year of 2 ISWA board members (Myself--Kids director & Ryan Parrish--folkstyle development director). 
We then took the elementary duals team state large division coach and small division coach, the Middle school team duals winning coach. (Garland Cooper--New Pal; Cameron Harris--Leo; Doug Strayer--CP)
We then looked at the state representation for all those people and had 2 at large spots for any other part of the state not represented or a person who just knows kids in the state (for those we had Matt Kelly and Dustin Bentz)
With this group of guys we had 3 zoom calls and used the last years Folkstyle State, National level events, MS state, elementary duals results, MS duals results, head to head results and also just common sense and we all agreed who are the 2 best kids 6th grade and under for elementary and 6th grade to 8th grade for MS.
We then listed the team and opened it up for any challenges by non selected kids for the selected spots and we did have about 10 of those on a Friday/Sat at a centrally located facility with an IHSAA/ISWA mat official.  There was only 1 instance that I can think of that the selections made were changed.
Bottom line is people in the know always know who the kids are that are the best at each weight for these teams.  In the past we were not always getting them due to vacation and other conflicts and kids coming to the wrestle offs to wrestle off were getting the spots but maybe not our best kids at that weight.
If this process does not seem like it worked then we will look to modify or tweak it again because our goal is to send the best Team IN teams we can out to Heartland to represent the state.
 
Thanks for your question and if you have any others please do not hesitate to reach out. 

Has the big announcement been made? 
 
Crescent City here we come!?!?!?

A couple more notes on his ascension:
He didn't make it to state his senior year once he cracked the lineup. Last year, obviously he was fantastic at Wabash with his runner-up finish--but it was at 197. This was his first year at 285 and he wins the title while also being D3's most dominant wrestler.
 
With this steep of an ongoing rise, next steps are like world team member, olympic gold, greatest wrestler ever!  
 
In all seriousness, though--awesome story!

Heldt also received NCAA Div. III Most Dominant Wrestler award by averaging 5.56 team points per match on the season!
https://sports.wabash.edu/news/2023/3/11/heldt-wins-wrestling-national-title.aspx
 
Heldt is a pretty special story if you don't know much about him.  As a junior in high school he was still JV 170 and believe his JV record that year was 12-5.  He grew 3 or 4 inches and spent the summer in the weight room/wrestling room with Nate Warman and everything was different after that!
 
Heldt also won the NCAA Elite 90 award last year when he finished NCAA Runner Up and having a 4.0 GPA.
https://www.wabash.edu/news/story/11886
 
 
 
 

I almost left my shoes on the mat.....
 
But I couldn't bend over to do it, so they came home w/ me. 
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words, it was pretty cool and that's a good group of guys in that picture. All very supportive of each other and wrestling movement!
 

I almost left my shoes on the mat.....
 
But I couldn't bend over to do it, so they came home w/ me. 
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words, it was pretty cool and that's a good group of guys in that picture. All very supportive of each other and wrestling movement!
 

I almost left my shoes on the mat.....
 
But I couldn't bend over to do it, so they came home w/ me. 
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words, it was pretty cool and that's a good group of guys in that picture. All very supportive of each other and wrestling movement!
 

I am not sure if you want my opinion or not, just an average ol coach here. However, If i had to do a freestyle 101 breakdown for someone going into their first tourney I would focus on 3 things. 
 
1.) work on hand fighting and outside singles. If you are going to attack high c style thats fine just make sure you rotate to a corner so you dont get crotch lifted. Knee pulls are awesome. You want finish high as much as possible. Get to your feet ASAP
 
2.) transition to a lock (leg lace or gut) on the way down to the mat after your takedown. Someone who is experienced in freestyle will “glue” their chest to the mat and while
not impossible, it is harder to get your hands locked once they get flat and start defending. 
 
3.) be tough on bottom for 8-10 seconds and dont try hitting a standup 🥲 had a friend try do this in his first ever freestyle tourney and get launched for 5 😮‍💨

I am working with the kiddies again, it takes me longer to get down to the mat then it does to show the move, and they are on to something different by the time I get back to my feet.

I almost left my shoes on the mat.....
 
But I couldn't bend over to do it, so they came home w/ me. 
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words, it was pretty cool and that's a good group of guys in that picture. All very supportive of each other and wrestling movement!