Well hello everyone...I will admit this has been a frustrating topic for me. As many of you might know I wrestled for Coach McCormick and graduated from Yorktown. I do know that Yorktown is a great school, it prepared me well to go on to college, and helped me do well enough that I was accepted into a medical school and will graduate in December. I also know that Coach McCormick is a great coach, father, husband, teacher, friend, and a great man. For those of you that want to question his ethics based on one situation I suggest you truly get to know this man before you judge him.
While some of you may find this situation unethical, remember this, a man?s character is not created by only one action, but many actions over many years.
Let?s all ask ourselves a question; what is best for Cole Van Horn. Everyone only wants to complain about Yorktown, but why don't we sit back and think about or try to find out what Franklin High School or the Franklin Schools Administration did to Cole Van Horn and his family to drive them to make a decision to take him out that school.
One other thing to think about, the Van Horn family was obviously unhappy enough to take their child out of school and place him into another. Yes it seems really fishy that they decided to send him 80 miles away but if you look at today?s economy and the rising cost of college what is one way to help pay for it. That is through scholarship. If Cole is the great wrestler that everyone says he is why not give him that much more exposure and possibly give him the opportunity to receive a wrestling scholarship. Yes this may be the wrong way to think and yes it may be illegal to transfer do to sports reason but with Yorktown being the academic school that it is, it?s pretty easy to claim you are moving for academic reasons. I would imagine that this would not be the first sports related transfer that was claimed to be academic. (If this is truly a transfer based solely on wrestling, to me it seems like Franklin High School was not a good atmosphere for Cole to be properly treated and educated).
For all of you that are upset by this I can understand your frustrations, but my hope for this whole situation is that it helps Cole better his life.
For those of you that want to say "no wonder you don't care your from Yorktown" I?ll let you know, I have no ties to Yorktown Wrestling beside through this website, I currently live in Missouri and will be coming back to Indiana, and I will do what I have to for my children to go to Yorktown and hopefully Coach McCormick will still be there to help teach my kids wrestling and many of the life skills that I still live by today.
Good Luck to all the wrestler, I will see you at Conseco in a few weeks.