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Jason Warthan '01 Head Coach Work Phone: (317)788-3417 Email: warthanjc@uindy.edu Jason Warthan finished his fourth year as the head of the UIndy wrestling program. Warthan, a Greyhound wrestling alum, mentored the program's first National Champion in 2011. Warthan has coached five All-Americans and twelve national qualifiers. This past season, Coach Warthan's Greyhounds finished 19th in the nation behind two All-Americans and four national qualifiers. Junior Alex Johns finished fifth at 125-pounds and classmate Cameryn Brady took seventh at 149-pounds. The Greyhounds finished fifth in the NWCA All Academic team race, while nine members were honored with All-Academic selections. The Greyhounds finished with a 5-2 dual record with wins over #5 Wisconsin Parkside and #15 Maryville, and fourth in Super Regional 3. In 2011-12, Warthan led UIndy back to Nationals, with a trio of Greyhounds qualifying for the NCAA Division II Championships. Freshman Josh Kieffer came home from the meet as an All-American, taking sixth in the 125-pound weight class. In addition to Kieffer's All-American finish, Ethan Harris became the first UIndy wrestler to earn NWCA All-Academic honors all four years of his career. The 2010-11 Greyhounds finished the year with a dual meet record of 4-5, with a pair of national qualifiers in Nick Walpole and Matt Irwin. Both earned All-American status, with Walpole taking the 149-pound national title and Irwin taking sixth at 141. Warthan's first year, 2009-10, the Greyhounds posted a dual record of 10-9 with three national qualifiers. Warthan returned to UIndy after a successful coaching career at Columbus North High School. There, Warthan spent five years as the head wrestling coach, leading the team to five straight sectional championships, a semi-state title and the school’s first team state appearance. He’s mentored six all-state grapplers, including the school's first individual state champ, a runner-up and 11 state qualifiers. At UIndy, Warthan was a three-time qualifier for nationals, earning All-America status in 2000. The two-time Midwest Classic and 2000 Midwest Regional champion racked-up an impressive 88-28 (.759) career record as a wrestler. He was also a three-time Little State champion as a Greyhound, a two-time team captain and was named the 2000 Midwest Regional's Most Outstanding Wrestler. Warthan also ran cross country and was a decathlete in the spring for the Greyhound track team. He finished third in the decathlon in 2001 and fourth in 2002 at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championships. In the classroom, Warthan was an Honor Roll student and twice made the Dean’s List. He was named a Verizon Academic All-American wrestler in his senior season. --

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Look forward to seeing everyone here tuesday. Jason is the asst coach at Central Michigan, where Perry Meridian State champ, Cody LeCount has signed at. Jason Mester Assistant Wrestling Coach Wrestler Three Time State Champion (Wisconsin) Two Time All American (Central Michigan) Two Time University National Champion (Freestyle) Junior World Team Member (Freestyle) Coaching Experience University of Nebraska 2005-2010 University of Missouri 2010-2012 Central Michigan 2012-Present Have coached 2 NCAA Champions and 19 All American Honors at NCAA Tournament

Perry Meridian RTC at 6 pm tonight. Indiana Tech coach Mike Ester Head Coach Mike Ester just completed his second season at the helm of the Indiana Tech wrestling program after an impressive inaugural season in 2011. Under the direction of Ester, in their inaugural season the Warriors finished the season ranked 17th in the final NAIA Wrestling Coaches' Top 20 Poll and placed 16th at the NAIA National Championships. Tech qualified 11 wrestlers to the championships and placed two on the All-American podium. The 2012-13 Warriors continued the programs early success by Crowing 2 NAIA East Region champions and again placing 16th with 8 national qualifiers which the Warriors completed the tournament with at 15-16record in individual matches and 4 of 8 wrestlers competing in the round to all-American two of which finished 7th place. Coach Ester's Warrior wrestling team also has excelled in the classroom. In 2012 Tech received NAIA/NWCA All-Academic Team honors by having a team grade point average of 3.34, the second best GPA in the nation. Six wrestlers were also recognized for their hard work as NAIA/NWCA All-Academic Individuals for having qualified for the national tournament and having at least a 3.25 GPA or being an All-American with a 3.0 GPA. In 2013 the Tech wrestlers repeated the feat by finishing runner-up academically with a 3.35 team GPA narrowly behind U. of Great Falls (MT) 3.37 with 4 individuals garnishing NAIA/NWCA All-Academic honors. From 2006 to 2010, Ester was the head assistant coach at Trine University which was only in its second year of competition when he arrived. His responsibilities included planning and running practices, technique development, strength and conditioning development and recruiting. Ester had the pleasure of helping the program grow to national prominence, eventually landing the program as high as #16 ranking in the NWCA DIII polls with as many as seven nationally ranked wrestlers at one time. While at Trine, Ester helped the program to two NCAA Midwest Regional team runner-up finishes, and one NCAA qualifier. From 1998 to 2006, Ester led his alma mater (Ft. Wayne) Snider Panthers to eight SAC conference titles, eight IHSAA sectional titles, one team regional championship, one team semi-state championship, and 2002-2003 team state finalists. In his tenure at Snider there were 26 individual state finalists, 18 of which were medalists, three IHSAA State Champions, and one IHSAA Mental Attitude Award winner. Ester’s teams produced six IHSAA Academic All-State wrestlers while adding five other honorable mentions as well. As a competitor Coach Ester was a 2x IHSAA State finalist finishing 3rd his senior season (1992). In college Ester competed under the tutelage of Hall of Fame wrestling coach Tom Jarman at Manchester college where he was a 4 year letter winner (1992-'96), Manchester college's first ever champion of the prestigious Midwest Classic invitational, 3x conference champion, finished 3rd and 2nd in the DIII Midwest regional and 1996 NCAA DIII national qualifier. Ester was a 2 year captain for the Spartans, and graduated with B.S. in secondary education and licensed to teach in K-12 Physical Education, Adapted P.E. and 6-12 Health and Safety. Coach Ester went on to obtain a Master's in Education from Olivet Nazarene University (IL), currently lives in Ft. Wayne with his wife (Tami), and children (Brittani, 15 and Brady, 12) where he teaches Adapted Physical Education in FWCS.

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Big week for wrestling. First our tournament (Greco/freestyle) is next weekend. Kids get signed up on track wrestling This tuesday at RTC we have a special guest. Josh Zupancic, Asst Coach at Cleveland State University. Josh wrestled for national power house Walsh Jesuit High School where he was a 4x state finalist and 1X State Champ, he wrestled for Stanford University where He was a 2X All American at 157lbs and 4X NWCA Academic All American, he was a graduate assistant coach at Oklahoma University where the team finished 5th at 2010 NCAAs and He received a master's degree in Education, finally He has been assistant coach at Cleveland State University for three years and this season they had 2 NCAA Division 1qualifiers and one Eastern Wrestling League Champ. Perry Meridians own state champ Riley McClurg will be wrestling for CSU next fall. Coach Tonte Perry Meridian

PM will have workouts all three days for anyone getting ready for a tournament or needing to roll a little over spring break. 6-730 PM.

There will be no RTC this Tuesday at Perry Meridian but RTC will resume Next Tuesday at 600 PM

Perry Meridian RTC. Tuesday 6pm. Last weeks RTC was cancelled due to weather. Wade McClurg from CIA will be here again to run a great practice before state. Hope to see everyone there and banging.

Perry Meridian RTC. Tuesday 6pm. Last weeks RTC was cancelled due to weather. Wade McClurg from CIA will be here again to run a great practice before state. Hope to see everyone there and banging.

Just wanted to say VERY well run tournament. We had 19 big guys and 15 little guys wrestling. I was the last of the group to leave and headed out at 5PM. I was shocked. When I saw the numbers, I told my wife I probably wouldn't be heading out until at least 8PM. Great job and see you guys next year! Thanks Darrick Snyder, Brownsburg Wrestling

Look forward to this. Two guys that have done a great job in Central Indiana. Hope to see a big group at Perry. Starts at 6 PM.

Hope to see a great group at RTC this tuesday at PM at 6 pm. Wade McClurg, CIA, will be on hand. He has done a great job with the kids in his program. We are looking forward to a special night. CIA Coach, Spring 2008-present Team Indiana National Coach, 2008-present (includes Schoolboy Duals, Cadet/Junior Folkstyle Nationals, Cadet/Junior Fargo Freestyle and Greco Nationals) Coached multiple elementary, middle school, and high school wrestlers to state championships, state place finishes, national championships, and All-America finishes Graduates from the University of Indianapolis (May 2013) with a degree in Elementary Education and a license to teach grades K-6

I am happy to say we have reach our limit of wrestlers we are allowed to have in our tournament. I am sad that we had to closed it, but it is out of our control. If you have submitted a wrestler and have not completed the registration contact me or Tim Naughton at these emails. ttasseff@comcast.net indeefun@aol.com We will build brackets this evening. please look at your brackets for correction. we want all corrections made tonight so we can start on time. I will post when brackets are done. Thank you very much for entering our tournament and we will see you in the morning! Stephanie Tasseff

Sunday March 3rd Perry Meridian Middle School wrestling starts at 9am all thru Track wrestling, electronic bouts mat side registration closes at 10 am Saturday morning.

You know better to even mention Bocci Ball. Everyone else is playing for second place kid.

Hey all you northsiders, make it down to Perry on the Southside on tuesday at RTC. Its funny, Donte had his spandex on tuesday as well. Hope to see everyone at RTC on tuesday

I was hoping to have the elder statesmen of coaching ranks get on here and talk about the ole Chauncy McDaniels and his branches; I will continue on. Phil Strader, the only other coach in the history of Perry Meridian, coached under Chauncey at Southport before the schools split. Phil was a big contributor to Indiana wrestling at the national level. I know that he is very upset about the Olympics. more Chauncey coaches!!

Former high school state champ from Mooresville and IU varsity wrestler Alex Warren will be here tomorrow night to run RTC at Perry Meridian. Look forward to seeing Alex here as he always does a great job. RTC starts at 6 pm and ends at 745 pm.

Former high school state champ from Mooresville and IU varsity wrestler Alex Warren will be here tomorrow night to run RTC at Perry Meridian. Look forward to seeing Alex here as he always does a great job. RTC starts at 6 pm and ends at 745 pm.

I will tell you that it seems that wrestling coaches and the IHSAA seem to be at their most distant relationship since I have been coaching. I do believe there is an ear at the IHSAA who is willing to listen but I believe it is being shut down from above. I still will never understand the logic of not scoring Friday night, not scoring the first round of the semi state, no medals for the team, and the loss of a team concept at the state dual championship. How much different was it to win state in the individual tournament and the team duals. Light years. One of our eight kids there could not find his pass and could not get down to the floor. We got 7 medals. No handshake of congrats from the IHSAA commiss. No team jumping up and down in the center of the mat. No parents and fans celebrating. We really stepped backwards. I like keeping score at the individual. It was fun but to crown a champion, well, not the same. And Bankerslife was like a prison camp. I won't get into some of those issues but a Bankerslife employee told me that part of my issue was a directive from the IHSAA. I will just have to raise money to buy all my kids a medal since we only got seven because it took a full room of kids to accomplish what these kids did this year.

How about the tree that Chauncey McDaniels started. WOW. I should start a new post but if you have a tie with Chauncey and coaching please post. I do. He was my coach in High school so anyone under me has ties with him. Keep em coming!! Al Morgan-Warren The Late John Hurrle of Tech Dave Holman of Southport lets keep the ball rolling.......

Yes. Straight from the IHSAA

It's the same format as New Castle, but I feel bad for grandma and grandpa who came to see lil Johnny wrestle and they could have found a seat by mat one where they knew all week that he was on but now he is on mat four and they are all the way across bankers life Or how about coaches who could know ahead of time what kid was coming up where and they could adjust their coaching staff accordingly to make sure that a certain coach could be with that kid. Again. I don't get it.

Yes they can Pre assign. It was always nice to try and sit in the area where your kid was going to be wrestling. No longer!! I don't understand some of the changes.