If you have been around Trent McCormick, you can see he has a passion for Indiana high school wrestling. There are a lot of ex state champions who got and took a lot from our great sport and you rarely see them again. Trent is among those who have been giving back for years. And most of those years he was not a teacher. For those who don't realize it, having a job outside the school system makes it even more difficult to be a good coach. We are fortunate to have willing leaders like Trent who really understand this sport, not just from a technical standpoint, but also the administrative and political aspects. In today's economy, the sport of wrestling is in danger of surviving at more small schools than you maybe realize. Brebeuf cut their program last fall after their coach resigned, and their are several AD's who would love to not have to bother with wrestling. Girls' gymnastics is losing rapidly as there were only 87 high schools entered in the sectionals this year and many of those teams had only a few participants. School administrators are getting more pressure to cut costs and all it will take at some small schools is a year with a low number of wrestlers and they could easily get axed. Trent McCormick understands the importance of class wrestling to actually growing the sport at the high school level. You can't grow the sport by keeping things the way they have always been, because changes are always happening and you either have to adapt or die. I used to be mostly against class wrestling because I also like the idea of having one "true" state champion, but I realize now that idea is not what is best for the future of Indiana high school wrestling. In the last three years that I have been a varsity head coach I have come to understand the situation small schools are in when it comes to getting enough good athletes to wrestle to have a good wrestling team. I have one varsity wrestler who only wrestles, three who are on two teams and ten who are three sport athletes. Most of my team would like to be wrestling in the spring, but they know they are needed by our baseball, or track or golf team, and the soccer coach wants his players to play spring soccer. There is no way I can ask them to give less dedication to their spring sports than I want from them in the winter. Several have argued with Y2 about class wrestling, but they should pay closer attention to what he is saying because his reasons for class wrestling are good and valid. Why class wrestling would be good for Indiana isn't too hard to understand if you open up your mind and really think about it. I am voting for Trent McCormick. Even if he doesn't get enough people to realize that class wrestling will be a positive force to help high school wrestling grow in Indiana, I am confident he will still do a great job for the IHSWCA and will continue his years of advancing wrestling in Indiana.