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Brad Burvan is the NEW Wrestling Coach for the Kankakee Valley Kougars!

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Kankakee Valley 2nd Day Individual Results:

106: Marcus Kidwell 5th Place

113: Logan Kidwell 7th Place

120: Bryce Niewoehner 10th Place

126: Mike Nava 5th Place

132: Chase Clark 4th Place

138: Ayden Blake 6th Place

145: Mike Mikovetz 4th Place

152: Andrew Schulteis 4th Place

160: Logan Nowak 9th Place

170: Koy Schmidt 5th Place

182: Jake Williams 7th Place

195: Tim Schoonveld 2nd Place

220: Al Berdine 2nd Place

285: Aron Ceglarek 4th Place

Kankakee Valley Placed 4th out of 12 Teams.

195 Schoonveld of KV places higher than Derrrick Suttles of Valpo does anyone know who won between these two in the dual on Friday?

Schoonveld of KV won the match on Friday Night and was in control the whole match.  Score ended up 4-2.  Schoonveld took him down in the 1st period.  Suttles took down got a escape in the later part of the 2nd period and in the 3rd period Schoonveld took down and got a quick reversal and Suttles got a escape with just a couple seconds left, I believe Schoonveld just let him go.  Pretty sure this is how it went down.  Suttles is a solid wrestler and I see him getting better and better each day with Coach Line in the wrestling room this year.  I was very impressed with Schoonveld's performance and he will be a guy to watch for this year.  The guy has a fuel tank that won't go empty. 

Munster Site:

Kankakee Valley Won The Duals Here Going 3-0

Kankakee Valley beat Munster 56-21

Kankakee Valley beat Valparaiso 31-30

Kankakee Valley beat Hobart 74-6

Great post/subject unknown wrestler!!!!!!!!!

I witnessed a slam at the Rensselaer Duals a couple of weeks ago. This happened at the 132 weight class and was between Rensselaer Central and River Forest.  I was very disapointed to see a senior wrestler from River Forest slam the Rensselaer kid who's a freshman but was way over matched in the first place and was getting beat pretty badly when the River Forest kid decided on slamming him in the 3rd period.  The thing that was most disappointing about this was how the coaches from River Forest reacted when this match had to be stopped because the Rensselaer kid had a concussion. These coaches threw a complete fit because the match was stopped and the Rensselaer kid won.  Well this happened 2 weeks ago and for the River Forest coaching staff knowledge this kid is still out and not wrestling and most likely will be out for another 2 to 3 weeks if he even is released from the doctor because he is still suffering from headaches. All I would like to say is show some class and respect and with your young man being a senior he should understand what the possible outcome could be if he slams another wrestler, if not now he will. Good luck to all!

Rensselaer Central High School

2012 Super Duals Results

Round I

48 Rensselaer vs. South Newton 28

42 West Central vs. Cass 30

12 Ritter vs. West Lafayette 67

45 River Forest vs. Hebron 33

Round II

28 Rensselaer vs. West Central 48

21 South Newton vs. Cass 60

54 River Forest vs. Ritter 24

15 Hebron vs. West Lafayette 63

Round III

38 Rensselaer vs. Cass 36

22 South Newton vs. West Central 60

43 Hebron vs. Ritter 42

27 River Forest vs. West Lafayette 50

Round IV

36 West Central vs. West Lafayette 37

33 Rensselaer vs. River Forest 39

61 Cass vs. Hebron 12

30 South Newton vs. Ritter 54

Bonus Round ? tentative assignments

23 Rensselaer vs. West Lafayette 52

60 West Central vs. River Forest 24

45 Cass vs. Ritter 36

42 Hebron vs. South Newton 36

Individual Results

103 5-0 Ozzie Herrera ? South Newton

      5-0 Jeffrey Castle ? West Lafayette

113 5-0 Jermaine Fletcher ? River Forest

      5-0 Jarrett Carden ? Cass

120 5-0 Kirk Cunningham ? South Newton

126 5-0 Wyatt McIlvain ? West Central

132 5-0 Cody Denton ? West Central

138 5-0 Isaac Rentas ? River Forest

145 5-0 Jeffrey Martin ? Rensselaer

152 5-0 Danny Wallace ? Hebron

160 5-0 Christian Clayton ? West Lafayette

170 5-0 Logan Wuethrich ? West Central

182 5-0 Scott Sholar ? Ritter

195 5-0 Brice Watts ? West Central

220 5-0 Dylan Faulkenberg ? Ritter

HWT 5-0 John DuVall ? West Lafayette

Team Champion - West Lafayette

Rensselaer Central:  16 Total Wrestlers on the Team.  50% (8 Total Football Players)

Best of Luck with gathering your information and hope everyone has a GREAT SEASON!  Good Luck To All! 

BB

Lets show um how the boys roll up in here in da land of steel !!! Good luck tonight and bring home da bacon !!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH  BUDDY!

Do you have the overall standings posted anywhere? If not could you post a link to it? Thank you!

I agree as well. Overall they did a great job. I appreciate the time they take out of their busy schedules to do this sometimes unrewarding job. I am usually 98% in agreedence with their calls.  for me pointing out the 220 match I just thought the MC wrestler got a bad break. But if you allow any match to be as close as what this match was sometimes the official good or bad can decide the winner for us. Always build a safe lead when you can and this kind of stuff won't happen! Keep up the good work officials!

I'll bet if the officials got on here and said things about coaches and fans there would be an uproar. Why is there a double standard?

How do you know they don't????    You must know everyone that post stuff on here.

One of the worse calls I saw yesterday was at the 220 pound ticket round match. I felt bad for the McCutcheon wrestler (Kult) I believe is his name. The score was 1-1 with 40 seconds left in the match and was called for his 1st stalling while having a pushing match with the Merrillville wrestler. Agree but both should have been called for stalling but unfortunately the McCutcheon wrestler got the raw end of the deal. Okay knowing this the McCutcheon wrestler became very aggressive and took 3 shots while the Merrillville wrestler kept backing up the whole time while not taking any shots and being on the defense but you probably know what's coming the McCutcheon kids gets called for stalling again with about 13 seconds left in the match. So now the score was 2-1 and the McCutcheon wrestler shot 2 more times and Again the Merrillville wrestler kept backing away.  The match ended 2-1.  I don't know either of these young men but felt really bad for the McCutcheon wrestler who was on the offense and did what he was suppose to do but ends up  getting screwed. Did anyone else see this?

Nicely wrote.  Thank you!

Wrestling is so unpredictable ~ at any time, ANYTHING can happen.  It's glorious and jubliant, overwhelming, and devestating all at the same time.  I spent a LONG day at Evansville's Semi-State yesterday and it was exciting and heartbreaking.  To watch so many great wrestlers go down in the ticket round - several Seniors - was simply horrible. I'm torn on wrestlebacks.  On one hand, it would give kids like Seng, Kennedy, Rueger, Hoehn - all VERY CLOSE ticket round matches - a chance to earn a spot at State that is truly deserved, on the other hand it takes away from the win the other wrestler claimed that day, and a that's just the way with wrestling - on an given day, someone who isn't necessarily better than you can wrestle better than you - and we cannot forget about the refs - what refs you "draw" can be just as important as the wrestler you draw. Wrestlebacks become an especially important discussion though because all semi-states are not equal. We talk about "fairness", but when one or two semi-states are completely loaded, I wouldn't say it's not fair, but it's not equal to be sure. Wrestlebacks would make me feel better - they'd ease that heartbreak that comes from watching a kid I completely love  go down, because I know he'd be getting another shot at earning that spot...but...then again...they also cause heartbreak for a kid who thought he'd punched his ticket (often by winning a very tight match). Once you get to State, however, I think there should be wrestlebacks - those Friday night matches are killers and the draws can be so crazily unpredictable, especially when drawing from a very stacked Semi-State - you could be a champ and draw someone who could have easily been a champ had they been in your semi-state.  All that being said, some of those ticket round matches at semi-state and those Friday night matches at State are the stuff legends are made of...

 

 

Thanks for sharing and what a wonderful and touching post!  I totally understand and sometimes we find out the hard way who the real champions are.  I wish you and your family all the BEST! 

I will give the late Joe Burvan of Rensselaer Central some props on this topic.  He may not of been a coach with many state qualifiers, championships and such but I can tell you he had a heart of a champion and dedicated his life to this sport.  He for the most part taught life lessons on and off the mat and anybody that knew or ever wrestled for him would tell you the same thing.  He ran very hard and difficult practices but wanted each wrestler to be the best they could be.  He was a very disciplined coach and many new wrestling for Rensselaer Central you weren't just wrestling for the school you were wrestling for Joe Burvan.  He took great pride in his wrestlers and program! He touched many lives in Northwest Indiana and helped young boys who had a tendency to find themselves into trouble and not having much going for themselves turn thier lives around and become respectible young men.   I feel we have many coaches out there like Coach Joe Burvan and hope we aren't forgetting these coaches because its not all about championships & titles its about having a coach who cares and wants thier wrestlers to be the best they can be on and off the mat.  This is what I believe a GREAT COACH is all about!

Also its not to often in the Hoosier State of Indiana your High School Gymnasium is named after a High School Wrestling Coach like at Rensselaer Central

Rensselaer Advanced 8 out of 11

I would like to wish all the best this weekend to all wrestlers & coaches here competing for a Sectional Title.  A lot of excellent wrestlers and exciting match ups are in store to watch.  If you do not have anything to do this weekend I recommend coming out and supporting this great sport of wrestling while rooting on your favorite team and individuals.  I can tell you these wrestlers and coaches  would really appreciate your support because a lot of hard work and dedication has been put forth throughout the year all for this excellent event. Take care and we will see everyone on Saturday.  Wrestling Starts at 9:00am EST.

Congrats to the West Central Wrestling Team on your Confrence Title!  Also Congrats goes out to Coach Kenny Nielson on all of his hardwork and dedication to this great sport of wrestling.  Keep Up the Good Work!

2011/2012 Rensselaer Central High School Results

11/30 Kankakee Valley 38 Rensselaer Central 29

12/3 Twin Lakes 44 - Rensselaer Central 23

12/3 Rensselaer Central 60 - North Judson 18

12/3 Rensselaer Central 41 - North White 28

12/3 Rensselaer Central 38 - North Newton 33

12/3 Rensselaer Central 50 - Pioneer 22

12/6 Rensselaer Central 61 - West Lafayette 8

12/10 Rensselaer Central 45 - South Newton 33

12/10 Rensselaer Central 47 - West Central 30

12/10 Rensselaer Central 46 - Lewis Cass 30

12/10 Rensselaer Central 56 - River Forest 24

12/10 Rensselaer Central 60 - Indianapolis Ritter 18

12/17 Twin Lakes Invite 9th Place

12/23 Rochester Invite 8th Place Tied - Champion at 138 Jeffrey Martin

12/28 Hanover Central 39 - Rensselaer Central 35

12/28 Rensselaer Central 43 - Cascade 24

12/28 Kankakee Valley 33 - Rensselaer Central 30

12/28 New Castle 45 - Rensselaer Central 31

12/28 Rensselaer Central 54 - Seeger 27

12/29 Rensselaer Central 42 - Lafayette Jefferson 35

12/29 New Priarie 40 - Rensselaer Central 19

12/29 Rensselaer Central 38 - Crawfordsville 36

12/29 Kokomo 43 - Rensselaer Central 18

1/5 Rensselaer Central 41 - Benton Central 24

1/5 Lowell 58 - Rensselaer Central 18

1/5 Portage 43 - Rensselaer Central 18

1/5 Crown Point 72 - Rensselaer Central 0

1/10 Winamac 36 - Rensselaer Central 33

1/14 NWHC (Northwest Hoosier Conference) 4th Place

          NWHC Champions: 138-Jeffrey Martin  152-Jay Resendez  160-Michael Roe  170-Thomas Potts

Overall Dual Meet Record for 2011/2012 Season: 15 Wins / 11 Losses

1/28 Sectionals (at Twin Lakes) 3rd Place Team

Individual Results

106 - Caitlin Oliver DNP (13-16)

113 - Seth Souza 5th (19-24)

120 - Anthony Amsler (6-26)

132 - Hunter Hickman 3rd (32-10)

138 - Jeffrey Martin 1st (35-4)

145 - Skyler Ringen 1st (27-2)

152 - Jay Resendez 2nd (31-6)

160 - Michael Roe 1st (27-10)

170 - Thomas Potts 4th (28-7)

182 - Adam Langley 2nd (33-9)

195 - Brandon Sypult DNP (2-6)

220 - Chris Salrin 2nd (26-13)

285 - John Ohanis 6th (15-23)

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. ???

Just wondering if this match was recorded and put on the internet to watch?  If so could you please post the link.  Thank you in advance!

Good day!

Seed Meeting is tonight (Monday, December 19, 2011) at 7:00pm. 

Here is the schedule for this Invitational!

TIMES:                      7:00    Doors Open to Building

        8:00    Weigh In Begins

        8:45    Coaches Meeting

        9:00    Wrestling Begins 

(Please note that we will be wrestling in two gyms until the final round.  In the Auxiliary gym, we will wrestle 170# 182#, 195#, 220#, and Hwt until the final rounds.)

                                          10:15  Second Round of Wrestling (Winner? Quarterfinals and Losers v. Losers)

  11:15 Round of Loser?s Bracket                 

12:15  Championship Bracket  ---  Semi-Final Round

                      1:15 Round of Loser?s Bracket

        2:30    7th Place Matches

    3:00 Final Round ? 1st, 3rd, 5th on Three Mats  

      CHAMPIONSHIP T-SHIRTS/MEDALS, 2ND PLACE MEDALS, RIBBONS, AND CARDS WILL BE GIVEN AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FOLLOWING WEIGHT CLASS.  THE 106# CLASS AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 113# MATCH AND SO ON.

Teams Participating in the 2011 John McKee Memorial Wrestling Invitational

Breman Lions

Caston Comets

Culver Cavaliers

Churubusco Eagles

Knox Redskins

North Miami Warriors

Northridge Raiders

Manchester Squires

Rochester Zebras

Tippecanoe Valley Vikings

Rensselaer Bombers

South Bend Clay

South Bend Washington

Plymouth Rockies

Triton Trojans

Laville Lancers

This will be another GREAT Tournament because Rochester always puts on a FANTASTIC EVENT.

BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE! 

Rensselaer Central is 10-2

You have them as 9-3.  Please look at the results page it will show this and that is correct 10-2.  Thank you!

Here is a nice little article about Coach Vlink being inducted into the Wrestling Hall Of Fame.  This article was posted in the Hammond Times today 12/16/2011. 

I would like to CONGRATULATE Coach Vlink and his Crown Point Bulldogs with all thier hardwork and dedication they have put into this wonderful sport of wrestling. 

Keep up the GREAT WORK COACH!!!

Link to article posted below: http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/high-school/wrestling/c-p-s-vlink-to-be-inducted-into-wrestling-hall/article_67482e63-ed00-5f06-a752-414063332e49.html?mode=story

Scott Vlink is kind of like the old Lake County Courthouse in Crown Point. The Bulldogs' wrestling coach has been around for quite awhile and his resume is as impressive as the beautiful old building that anchors "The Square."

Vlink was notified recently he will be inducted into the Indiana High School Wrestling Coaches Association's Hall of Fame after the state finals.

"I was humbled," Vlink said Thursday, his 56th birthday. "It's taken us some time to get where we're at. We've tried to do the right things. We have good administration that supports us. We have great kids and great parents. And we've been lucky, too."

Heading into Thursday's dual against Lake Central, Vlink's career record is 394-123 in dual meets. He became Crown Point's varsity coach in 1980.

His Bulldogs have won seven individual state championships along with 40 medalists. And Vlink won the IHSAA's team state title in 2009. The IHSWCA gave Crown Point the team state championship in 2009 and 2011 from the individual state tournament.

The Bulldogs have won eight regionals, 18 sectionals and 13 conference titles, including five straight in the Duneland Athletic Conference.

Calumet coach Jim Wadkins will receive the Billy Thom Award at the induction banquet.

Vlink credited former 'Dogs athletic director Brad Smith and former wrestling coach Bud Ballou for being great mentors and teachers when he was a fresh-faced coach out of Indiana State.

"Those guys taught me how to coach kids and how to do the right things," Vlink said. "I'm just very grateful and thankful."