Scott Miller

Northwestern High School is looking for a Varsity Head Coach.  Unfortunately, no teaching openings are available at this time.  Should have a state contender at 160/170 plus a really nice group of incoming freshmen.  Contact AD Dan Armstrong, dan.armstrong@nwsc.k12.in.us.

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Congratulations Andrew!  You exemplify great coaching and a great role model.

Yes, Phil, JD's email account was hacked.  I got a similar email a couple of years ago from Jim Humphrey's hacked email account.  I hope nobody gets scammed by these because internet crooks are really tough to catch.

I have resigned as head coach at Northwestern.  My assistant from last year, Adam Ferguson is the new head coach.

It's called pure laziness from kids now a days. Kids would rather go home and play with the latest and greatest technology that mommy and daddy buys for them. I believe this is the root problem in today's society. This is tough what would like to do? Go to practice everyday and bust your butt and accomplish something in your high school career or go home and eat ice cream sandwiches and drink all the soda you want and play xbox all night long (good gig). Its sad but I think kids are picking the xbox over sports and that is what I see why some programs are suffering. ???

This is very true at a lot of smaller schools these days.  Our football coach encourages kids to wrestle and we still can't fill 182 and 220. 

Northwestern High School - 2A - Yes

Scott Miller

Blue was a great coach to wrestle for.  Unfortunately most of us did not win enough matches for him to keep his job at IU.  He had a ton of time, hard work, and money invested in his Top Of The World Wrestling Camp a few miles outside of Bloomington that because it sat at the top of a big hill and you could see for miles had been one of John Dillinger's hideouts.  Blue had some hardships in his life but he cared for everybody and would give you the shirt off his back.

from what i hear, peru isnt gonna get any extra weight even though madison grant didnt have school today (but they were allowed to practice) how are they allowed to prac when school is closed????

Peru Regional has the additional two pound allowance.

the only real problem I see with the other brackets is in the 189 class. Shoffner has beat the Monroe kid twice. just say that Monroe wins, the last match between Monroe and Smith was only a 3-1 match. Monroe might just beat him this time, but that says he gets there first

Monroe and Shoffner have only wrestled one time.

Yes, Matt Miller weighed in at 119 Thursday but wrestled up for the match.

Northwestern Tigers Wrestling Schedule  2009 - 2010

Sat 11/21/09 Logansport Early Bird Super-Six 9:00 AM

Wed 12/02/09 Western Dual Meet  6:00 PM

Sat 12/05/09 Northwestern Super 8 Invitational  9:00 AM (Adams Central, Ft. Wayne Luers, Hamilton Southeastern, Lafayette Jeff, Lewis Cass, Madison Grant, Marion, Northwestern)

Thu 12/10/09 Kokomo Dual Meet  6:00 PM

Fri 12/18/09 Caston Invitational  5:15 PM

Sat 12/19/09 Caston Invitational  9:00 AM

Tue 12/29/09 Holiday Duals - Eastern  9:00 AM

Wed 12/30/09 Holiday Duals - Eastern  9:00 AM

Thu 01/07/10 Oak Hill Dual Meet  6:00 PM

Sat 01/09/10 Tipton Invitational  8:30 AM

Wed 01/13/10 Pioneer Dual Meet 6:00 PM

Sat 01/16/10 Warren Central Duals 9:00 AM

Sat 01/23/10 MIC TOURNEY - Eastern  9:00 AM

Sat 01/30/10 Sectional - Oak Hill  9:00 AM

Wed 02/03/10 Regional (Team) - Peru  6:00 PM

Sat 02/06/10 Regional (Individual) - Peru  9:00 AM

Sat 02/13/10 Semi-State (Individual) - Ft. Wayne  9:00 AM

Fri 02/19/10 State (Individual)  6:00 PM

Sat 02/20/10 State (Individual)  9:30 AM

Sat 02/27/10 State (Team)  10:00 AM

Tim, good to hear from you and that you and the family are doing well.  Keep the class wrestling info coming.  Someday the classless will finally understand.

Thanks MATTM

Did Reece get 3rd?

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.

Yes, Karl, thanks for the good coverage and well-written article.  Northwestern only forfeited 140 on Saturday (actually our varsity 135 has the knee injury), but the small schools do struggle every year to field full teams and even their good wrestlers don't have quality practice partners.

Northwesten 5-0:

Matt Miller at 112 and Evan Floyd at 285, both 17-0 on the season, and Drew Miller at 103, 16-1 on the season.

Northwestern 4-1:

Nolan Cockrell at 152, C.J. Hansen at 160, Andy Hunkeler at 189, and Jordan Hodupp at 215.

Coach Miller

Matt Miller from Northwestern (ranked #1 at 103) is at 112 this year.