Coach Willmann

Starts tonight! See you there! Email with any questions.... jwillmann@tricreek.k12.in.us

Mar. 7-Lowell Staff Mar. 9-TBA Mar. 14-Lowell Staff Mar. 16-TBA Mar. 21-Lowell Staff Mar. 23- 2x State Champ Eric McGill Apr. 4-Lowell Staff Apr. 6-TBA Apr. 11-Lowell Staff Apr. 13-TBA Apr. 20- Matt Burlingame: Manchester College Apr. 25-Lowell Staff Apr. 27-TBA

The Lowell RTC program will start on Feb 28th meeting every Monday and Wednesday at 6 pm cst at Lowell High School. Use door 17 please. Schedule of clinicians will be out soon.

Our heartfelt condolences from the Lowell Wrestling Family. Joe Willmann

I am pleased to announce the 1st Jr. Academic All-State Teams 1st Team 103 Ben Branson Alexandria Jack Grimaldi 4 112 Isaac Greeson Maconaquah Bob Freije 4 112 Alonzo Shepherd Jeffersonville Danny Struck 4.54 112 Colton Saroff Crown Point Scott Vlink 4.22 112 Paul Petrov Hanover Central Nick Petrov 4.02 112 Parker Leisure Rushville Cons. High School Rob Hadley 3.717 119 Kody George Homestead High School Randy Pursley 3.73 125 Trevor Moody Evansville F. J. Reitz High School Scott Ferguson 4 125 Philip Gerber Bluffton Kyler Kearby 4.048 125 Gabriel Flores Marion High School Heath Duke 3.9714 125 Jared Wilson Snider High School Seth Congdon 4.05 130 Cody Clark Shelbyville Wes Hall 3.9 130 Brian Harvey Cathedral Sean McGinley 3.99 135 Kris Roberts Elkhart Memorial Brian Seltzer 3.9533 135 Michael Nix Bishop Dwenger John Bennett 3.937 135 Josh Blanton Alexandria Jack Grimaldi 3.8 135 Jon Raugh Bluffton Kyler Kearby 3.921 135 Dillon Hinen Fairfield Nathan Steffen 3.76 140 Payton Sorg Manchester High School Kyle Wood 3.97 145 Graham Redweik Caston Jr. Sr. High Dave Redweik 3.91 145 Jon Blanton Alexandria Jack Grimaldi 3.778 145 Lucas Rooney Westfield High School Terry O'Neill 3.77 152 Brian Dick Maconaquah Bob Freije 4.1 152 Jeff Koberstein Princeton Clay leek 3.8711 152 Matt Irick Hamilton Southeastern High School Greg Gastineau 3.744 152 Isaac Steury Leo High School Todd Mason 4 171 Kyle Sprunger Bishop Chatard High School Kevin King 3.89 171 Aaron King Evansville F. J. Reitz High School Scott Ferguson 3.75 171 Tanner Lynde Delphi Mike Atwood 4.13 189 Lukas Schaeffer Westfield High School Terry O'Neill 3.71 215 Elijah Curtley Jeffersonville Danny Struck 3.7 215 Cameron Colby Kokomo High School Ryan Wells 4.08 285 Abraham Hall Bremen High School Shawn Campbell 3.9 285 Logan Short Knox Brian Windbigler 3.97 285 Andrew Mason Huntington North Phil Eckert 3.7445 285 Hayden Janney Hamilton Southeastern High School Greg Gastineau 3.744 Honorable Mention Dewey Melcher Bellmont Brooks Faurote Bellmont Alec Weise Benton Central Carter Delaney Bishop Dwenger Michael Venezia Cathedral Troy Willsey Center Grove Brock Warner Center Grove Adam Boggess Churubusco Cameron Halsted Crown Point Jake Fuqua Crown Point Jason Tsirtsis Crown Point Tyler Kral Crown Point Josh Swope Crown Point Alex Mix DeKalb High School Jeff Mason DeKalb High School Aaron Mason DeKalb High School Austin Jones Delphi Gideon VanHook Evansville F. J. Reitz High School Blake Rueger Evansville F. J. Reitz High School Ben Johnson Evansville Memorial Brian Hayhurst Evansville Memorial Mitchell Reed Greensburg Lucas Lager Hanover Central Peter Konieczny Harrison (West Lafayette) Brandon Weinkauf Jimtown Jesse Goodnight Kokomo High School Clayton Campbell Lebanon Charlie Mavros Lowell Tanner Williams Marion High School Brenden Campbell New Castle High School Hunter Wells Northfield Drew Miller Northwestern High School Raymond Monroe Northwestern High School Mitchell Wilson Norwell High School Mason Meling Snider High School James Starks Snider High School Charlie Hirschy South Adams Jordan Landers South Adams Hunter Wetzel South Spencer High School Jake Barclay South Spencer High School Kris Workman Taylor High School Trent Bauters Tippecanoe Valley High School Will Nelson West Noble Dylan Smith Yorktown High School

Click the link to find a team result and Brackets. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0ByXKTbd9Sh0kNzdlMTAyYTUtYTE4MS00ZDAzLWIzMjYtMWY1MGMyZDVlMzk5&hl=en

http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/wrestling/article_d1b55592-40ed-530d-8fcf-12d5c711aee4.html

Round 1 Lowell 35 Kankakee Valley 28 Andrean 45 Hammond Clark 27 Penn (JV) 78 Boone Grove 0 Manteno (IL) 41 Kokomo 19 Round 2 Lowell 70 Andrean 12 Kankakee Valley 68 Hammond Clark 12 Kokomo 74 Boone Grove 0 Penn (JV) 36 Manteno (IL) 30 Round 3 Lowell 69 Hammond Clark 12 Kankakee Valley 72 Andrean 12 Manteno (IL) 62 Boone Grove 11 Penn 39 Kokomo 24 Round 4 Manteno (IL) 42 Lowell 36 Penn (JV) 31 Kankakee Valley 28 Andrean 66 Boone Grove 12 Kokomo 59 Hammond Clark 13 Round 5 Lowell 36 Penn (JV) 24 Manteno (IL) 48 Kankakee Valley 24 Kokomo 78 Andrean 6 Hammond Clark 42 Boone Grove 12 Final Team Records and Placements Lowell (4-1)* Manteno (IL) (4-1)* Penn (JV) (4-1)* Kankakee Valley (2-3) Kokomo (3-2) Andrean (2-3) Hammond Clark (1-4) Boone Grove (0-5) *Lowell, Manteno, and Penn all went 4-1 on the day. Tie breaker criteria was most points scored over the day. Lowell had 246, Manteno 217, and Penn 208.

Lowell Super Duals Lowell Kankakee Valley Andrean Boone Grove Manteno (IL) Kokomo Hammond Clark Penn (JV)

The team has been filled. Thanks everyone!

LHS had a team cancel on us this weekend. We need one more team to finish out our super duals this weekend. I know this is extremely short notice, but we need a team asap. Please contact Joe Willmann @ jwillmann@tricreek.k12.in.us or the LHS Athletic office kmize@tricreek.k12.in.us

Lowell Super Duals Lowell Kankakee Valley Manteno (IL) Hebron Kokomo Andrean Boone Grove Hebron

From nwitimes.com Lowell 37, Hobart 33: Jeremy Crocker was moved up to 189 and got the pin to give Lowell the Northwest Crossroads Conference win. The Red Devils (1-1, 1-1) also got pins from Kenny Hughes (135 pounds), and Scott Piotrowski (Hwt.) in beating the Brickies (1-1, 1-1). Lowell's Charlie Mavros had a major decision at 140. Hobart's Tom Camacho (145), Tony Rodriguez (160) and Jon Ramirez (215) all won by fall. Hebron 48, Roosevelt 18: Eric Windsor won his 145-pound match by pin as the Hawks defeated the Panthers. Hebron won four other matches by forfeit. Kankakee Valley 36, Benton Central 36: Six Kougars had pins as Kankakee Valley tied the Bison. Will Sutton (135), Dakota Dellahan (145), Joel Bolen (152), Al Berdine (189), Jack Erwin (215) and Kyle Dalka (Hwt.) all won by fall. Hanover Central 65, Clark 9: The Wildcats' Isaac Cortez (103) and Paul Petrov both moved to 11-0 as Hanover Central beat the Pioneers.

Lowell High School @ Valpo Duals The Red Devils finished second on the day going 4-1 Munster HS 37 Lowell HS 33 Lowell HS 55 Warsaw HS 21 Lowell HS 51 SB Adams 24 Lowell HS 75 Gary Westside 6 Lowell HS 72 Boone Grove 12

Lowell 39 Griffith 29

I don't understand all of the banter. I will preface by stating I am for class at all levels. I wrestled at a small school, started my coaching career at a small school, and am now at a large school. I see the difference in everything. I've gone through it all. I cannot understand how losing the team tournament is an option for anyone. Here are some thoughts I have. 1. Who does it hurt if we have it? 2. If we are ever going to get to class wrestling, how does losing a part of our tournament help our cause? I am strongly against the belief that you have to start with strong individuals to build team success. Program building is so much more than just the individual. If you focus on the team, individual success will take care of itself. Danny put it best. If you teach kids to work hard for each other, then by doing their jobs for the team, their individual success will follow. Is our current system flawed? Yes Is awarding the team state champion based on the individual tournament a flawed system? Yes Should we replace one flawed system with another? The obvious answer is no! Why isn't there much parody in our state? Being successful in our sport is taxing on a coach. I look at the greats like Jim Tonte, Royce Deckard, Trent McCormick, Scott Vlink and I wonder how in the world have they made it this long in our sport? It takes countless hours, lots of sleepless nights, traveling all over the country, and a great amount of elbow grease to succeed at the level these men do. If we go back to the way the state tournament was scored before, that doesn't show the true measure of a "team." A few examples that I have put on here before. As a team last year we took 9th at the individual state tournament. We lost 11 dual meets last year just in our area of the state. Lowell won the coaches trophy in 2000. They did not even make it to the team state tournament that year. Don't let the state tournament disappear because you won't get what you want right away. I promise that I will fight for a class system. We must save what we have right now first.

We stepped out last year. As per what the RC said.

Just some things to think about..... Lowell won the Coaches Trophy in 2000. Lowell has never won a Team Regional Title in the entire existence of the school. This year we were 8th in the Coaches Trophy standings. We lost 11 dual meets this year. Of the teams 11 different teams we lost to, 1 placed ahead of us in the standings, 5 placed behind us in the standings, and 5 scored no points at the state tournament. Is this really how we want our team champion to be crowned? I am not on here bashing my school. I am on here to try to show some data of why we need the team tournament! I am in the same boat as Coach Snyder. Eliminating the team tournament would make my life much easier in the next five years, but I don't want that. We talk every day in our room about winning a team title and what we need to do to get to that point. I came up in a 3A school most of you have never heard of where team wasn't important nor stressed. It never mattered how we did team wise, just that the few of us who worked hard at it did well. I then was blessed to get to work with Coach McCormick for 5 years and see how important team really was. Sure, we came up short to Bellmont in the regional each and every year, but that still didn't mean that we gave up on our goals. I have taken that to my team now and our numbers are increasing every year because of it. I hope we can find an answer tomorrow to this, I fear it is too late, but I am on board with whatever we have to do to save team state.

Our deepest condolences from the Lowell Wrestling family. Joe Willmann Lowell High School

Blackford High School- Dave Abbott- State Champ Lowell High School- Marcus Schontube 2x State Champ

Chris Fleeger of Purdue University will be running the last RTC of 2010 at Lowell High School. May 5th enter in door 17 at 6:00 P.M. CST. See you there!

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Make sure to make it to Lowell High School on Wednesday the 21st of April for IU's Andre Hernandez. Coach Hernandez was a 2X State Champion for Griffith High School and an All-American during his competitive career with the Hoosiers. 6:00 P.M. CST. Enter through Door 17.

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Bill Hawkins will be our clinician this Wednesday at RTC. Coach Hawkins was a longtime coach in the Crown Point system and now runs CIA NW. Reminder that we will be meeting at Lowell Middle School for RTC Wednesday. Use Door 18. 6:00 CST.