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Wawasee is open per their facebook message.

https://wawaseewrestling.com/the-end-of-an-era/

Great job coach Bumgardner.

Attached are the Vice Presidential Platforms of the three nominated candidates- Ed Pendowski of Carmel, Hunter Hickman of Rensselaer Central, and Jacob Bough of Kokomo.  

The position of VP will serve a two-year term, following that two year period they will become president of the association.  Our current president Danny Struck will leave office at the spring clinic, and our current VP Jason Cook will step into the position of president. The newly elected VP will take their position at the clinic.

Our voting for Vice President will run online next week, 5-1 through 5-5. In order to vote in this election, you need to be a member of the IHSWCA. There is still time to join for this season. To join the IHSWCA following the link provided.

https://ihswca.org/membership/signup/

For clinic info follow the link below

https://ihswca.org/camps-and-clinics/

Ed Pendowski VP Nomination 2.docx Hunter Hickman VP Nomination.pdf Jacob Bough VP Nomination.docx

For fun I posted an idea about a 3 point offensive takedown if the attacking wrestler scores, and a 2 point defensive takedown if the defensive wrestler scores. It was not recieved very well, and I will probably get made fun of again for posting this, but in reading some social media posts about the possible 3 point takedown it seems that a few others have this same idea. I think it would reward the attacking wrestler, but would add more to the officals plate.

Here is a story that I felt was worth sharing with the community that involved Bryce, I don't generally like sharing stuff involving my kids, but felt he deserved credit for this.

My middle son (8 years old) had lost in the state semi-finals, and was not handling it very well. We were in the cafeteria wrestling area, and he was having a "freak-out" (he needs to work on this) in the area behind the mats. I was trying to talk to him to calm down, but he was not registering what dad/coach was saying.

While this was going on a high school kid was passing through and asked me if he could talk to him.  The high schooler sat down with my son, and told him about how he had never placed at ISWA until this weekend, and he had won it today. He discussed how wrestling isn't just about wins and losses, but about progress.  This discussion caused my son to calm down, stop crying, and go on to wrestle the rest of his matches and place third. As he left I asked the high school kid his name, he said Bryce Denton.  I told him I had heard of him lol.

Anyhow I was really impressed with the maturity and kindness that Bryce showed this weekend. I had never met him. As a dad I was worrying what people thought of me/my son with the way he was acting, and Bryce was awesome in helping to calm him down and put things in perspective.  Also in my opinion it took a lot of bravery to ask a dad that you had never met to talk with his son in a situation like that.  Just wanted to share this and publicly say thanks to Bryce.  I was blown away with how impressive he was in this situation.

1 hour ago, Coach Beezy said:

What are the said events?

 

Ok so I rememebered where I had "heard" this from lol. It was an email for our section newsletter, it stated that only USA/ISWA events would be used for the rankings. So I guess any USA/ISWA event, but things like Nuway, Hyway, etc would not count toward the rankings.

18 hours ago, pupp44 said:

Do you know any more details? Like specific USA events or just state results from previous years?

The only thing that I have heard is that only USA events will count toward the seeding, and that it is taking into account several years of information.  I would consider myself far from an expert on how this seeding will look though.

2 hours ago, Silence Dogood said:

Does it have Christian Carroll tech falling him at Fargo? 

It shows him getting beat by Carroll.  Just mentions that he was second at Fargo.

Congrats to Joe Litherland- Tell City on being named State COTY and Zackary Johansen- Hobart on being named assistant COTY.

IHSWCA Regional COTY 2023
 

I came across this yesterday. Worth a watch if you have 30 minutes.  It doesn't look like it will work, if you search Ben Kueter on youtube it comes up.

I believe it is being seeded this year off of past USA Wrestling Results.

Curious, why is there not a tournament or an invitation to pick the team? Being on team Indiana is a big honor, so I would assume this event would be very well attended.

Also if the team is being based off of a committee, could you provide any insight to which events the group took into account when picking the teams? Are there any events that are more significant in picking team members or is it an overall body of work concept?  I am mainly asking for elementary, but I would assume others would wonder the same information for the middle school team as well.

If anyone has the contact info for Connorsville's Head Coach please send it my way.

I was going to post this last night, but the thread kind of took off on it's own. Anyhow here is the voting comittee and the teams selected/ alternates.

Attendance 

Greg Ratliff (Bloomington South, Former IHSWCA President), Dane Fueling (Indianamat Team Rankings Coordinator/Vote Before hand) Sam Riesen (East Noble, IHSWCA Secretary) Jason Cook (Hobart, IHSWCA Vice President) Mike Reiser (Indianamat Rankings Coordinator) Alex Johns (Avon) Eric Myers (Jay County) Josh Holden (Greenfield Central/Abstained from the 3A vote and discussion)

Vote-in spots

4A Perry Meridian Alternate Warren Central

3A Greenfield Central Alternate Columbus East

2A Owen Valley Alternate John Glenn

1A South Adams Alternate Central Noble

Januaary 4th Columbia City vs East Noble needs removed.  Our dual with West Noble was moved to the 11th, not sure if that needs to be removed and put in or not.

Kahmya Bell is a freshman from EN.

East Noble is right at 50, 37 guys. 13 Girls. Hopeing to get a few more holding out from football season. We also have 13 managers, that number grew as a handful of girls found out they prefered that side of practice more than wrestling lol.  

We had 80+ at youth practice last night, but that includes several wrestlers from area schools without a club.

East Noble 

Nov 5 Girls Invite New Pal

Boys

Dec 8th Leo

Dec 15 HN

Jan 4 Columbia City

Jan 12 New Haven

Jan 18th Plymouth

*** All of the NE8 teams will be @ Huntington North on Dec 10th. It is currently listed as at Norwell.

Also if the other NE8 schedules look like ours they will need their indivudal conference duals removed.

Thanks

2022-2023 Fall Clinic Meeting Minutes.docx

These are really cool! Great stuff.

1 hour ago, Galagore said:

Culver Community  may be interested as well. We have two girls right now who may try it out this season, and my feeling is that could lead to more.

email me at sriesen@eastnoble.net, ill send you the info.

On 8/19/2022 at 10:44 AM, Matt Time said:

@ebnoblewrestling 

 

Illiana Christian would be happy to participate. Last year we had six girls. I'm unsure about our roster size at the moment as we are just about to begin promoting the first informational/callout meeting. There is a thread in the women's wrestling tab here that is starting to list out confirmed and possible dates, too. I'm passing those to our AD as they get posted so we can reach out for contracts and begin building the schedule.

Sent you a message.

Just got the ok to start to look into teams and numbers for a girls invite on 11/12.  If you'd be interested reachout to me sriesen@eastnoble.net.  We have room for 4 mats. Would hope to get each girl 3-4 matches depending on interest.

I hadn't been to the ihsaa.org site in a while. Went yesterday, they had revamped the page from the last time I was there. They also had some historical/ legacy pages.  One that I thought was pretty cool was the state meet record book.

https://www.ihsaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/Wrestling Records Book.pdf

Anyhow I am sure that a lot of this information is availible on here, but thought I would share what was over at the IHSAA site.... Also of note, this may be old news and could have been on the site before, but it was news to me.

I discussed SAC wrestling with a friend  the other day. The SAC used to be one of the better conferences in the state. In 2001 they had-

1st-1

2nd- 3

3rd- 2

5th- 4

8th-1

Q-2

Represented in 11/14 classes.

2002 they had

1st-1

2nd-1

3rd-2

4th-2 

7th-1

Q-4

Represented in 11/14 weights.

3 hours ago, Thor said:

I’m doing a little survey to make a point for our wrestlers. We have guys in our program with state level aspirations, but it is difficult to get participation. We are a small school and nearly every wrestlers participates in football workouts that we work around. So I have a few questions for coaches to get my point across. 
1. Did your state qualifiers wrestle in the off-season? Yes or no

2. How much off-season work was put in? 
3. What odds do you put at being an in season wrestler only and bring a state level wrestler. 
4. Any other thoughts you guys have on off-season participation. 

We had three state qualifiers two years ago. They all three pretty much started wrestling in middle school.  We are a 4A school, I used to teach/coach at a 1A school.  At both football is the top dog.

1/2. Of those three, 1 did a lot of offseason (126, 4 time qualifier, three time placer, three sport athlete. Started on football, two-time regional qualifier in pole vault) One did a few camps/open mats (170, two sport- tennis and wrestling). One only wrestled and did very little in the offseason in terms of wrestling, spent most of this time working (106 2X qualifier, injured senior year)… he did do Frosh/Soph state his first two years.

3. It can be done, but is much more difficult.  I gave some examples that show its possible... but I would say it is difficult. Placing high would be almost impossible IMO.  I think you could make a fair argument that the semi-state we are in makes it possible to not do offseason and still go to state.

4. More often than not offseason work is needed to get to state/place. I also feel that it can be done while an athlete is doing multiple sports. We still push our kids to do three sports. The ones who want to do well will find the time to get to some offseason opportunities/ take advantage of yours. 

As a team I think you can have success at the small school level with kids doing multiple sports. Busco has had two 5^th place finishes, a runner-up, and a state championship during the team state era, while in many ways being the third sport for many of the wrestlers (football, and track are both big there).  Working with the other coaches will really help, doing things like following the schools weight program is a big help in getting those other sports to push kids into wrestling.