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Strongly disagree

Friday night at Maconaquah was filled with some great action and a lot of young ladies putting themselves on the line, but I wanted to share with all of you a photo I took that really hit me. Heritage High School hasn't (according to IndianaMat results) won a dual meet in the last four years and they are 0-47 in that time. But every time I see coaches Lockett and Martin, I am impressed at the way they run their program. They are full of energy and passion for their kids. I have seen it at home dual meets, at the ACAC duals and I saw it on Friday night. Heritage had one girl wrestling. One girl. Yet the entire team (almost, I think) and both coaches were in attendance and coaching their hearts out and laughing with their kids. This made a huge impression on me and I will be rooting for the Patriots the rest of the year. The whole team spent six hours in a gym to watch Amber Hoy wrestle four matches. Kudos to the Heritage team and to both coaches for the role they are playing in their program and congrats to Amber Hoy on her placement Friday night.

I think I've followed the IHSAA long enough to confidently say that the IHSAA is nowhere close to making a change to anything close to what we're doing and if they ever do, they'll do it their own way and certainly not copy something a bunch of us came up with.

Now that we've seen the changes to Team State, which teams will take the challenge of moving up in class? We probably all assume Cathedral and Mater Dei will move up to 4A. Will Franklin? Mishawaka? Or will they stay in 3A? Will any 2A teams take the challenge and move up to 3A? Will any 1A teams make the big surprise and go to 2A? (I don't see this one happening)

Date: 01/08/2020 Entity: IndianaMat Type: Dual Ranking Class: All 1. Indianapolis Cathedral 2. Evansville Mater Dei View full team ranking