Coach Peck

I do not think I have the email addresses for all of the TEC Coaches so I decided to post this in the TEC thread so that maybe they would see it or someone would forward it to them. Most are fairly close to NC and this would be an economical way for kids to get better. We will be having camp in new Castle again this summer on June 5-6-7 (Thursday-Friday). I have three outstanding clinicians coming in. Angel Escobedo, Reece Humphrey, and Pete Rogers are as good a line-up of wrestling instructors as you will find anywhere in the country. If you lay our camp schedule out against any other camp's schedule you will quickly see that there is no comparison in terms of the bang you get for you buck at our camp versus any other camp even at the non discounted price let alone the team discounts. We have as much instruction and Live wrestling as camps that charge anywhere from 3-5 times what it will cost your wrestlers to come to our camp. We also offer group discounts that allow your wrestlers to participate at a rate that is 7-8 times less expensive than most camps. I have attached the camp info to this email and pasted in a link to where the info can be accessed on the web. Feel free to forward this to anyone whom you think might be interested. The camp costs $100 and I will list our group rates below. Our group rates are: 5-9 Wrestlers (forms sent in together) - $75 10+ Wrestlers (forms sent in together) - $55 Group rates are good until May 15. I do not think you can find as good of a camp experience for your wrestlers anywhere let alone for these prices. If you have any questions please contact me at rpeckinp@nccsc.k12.in.us Thanks, Rex Rex Peckinpaugh Head Wrestling Coach New Castle HS http://www.newcastlewrestling.com/camp.pdf

I think there are a few factors involved: 1. Population density is greater in most of those states. More athletes to go around and a greater chance that lightening will strike and you will more well wired athletes on the mat. Hard work will take a person so far and then a certain amount of genetics comes into play. 2. Quality of coaching. We have good dedicated coaches in Indiana, but how many of them have competed at the college level for any length of time? Most of the states listed have alot more colleges that offer wrestling than Indiana does thus more potentially better coaches. Does it mean that a wrestler who has competed in college for four years will always be a better coach than someone who is a "Lay" coach....absolutely not, but if you had a poll of ten and the only thing you knew was the level of competition that they had attained to then which ones are yo going to bet on as far as being the best coaches? 3. Tradition. In Indiana we continue to struggle with tradition. We have our tradition the only problem is that it is limited to a relatively small circle of people. Basketball is so huge in Indiana because of tradition. Football has made great strides and has went from only a few kids being looked at by Major Colleges to where it is more common place. The Colts have helped Football. I think that ISWA programs have helped wrestling move from almost no National recognition to the point today where we are thinking about how can we get into the elite group instead of simply how can we get off the mat which was how it was 20-30 years ago. Solutions: 1. There is nothing we can do to make our population as big as PA, NJ, CA so why worry. 2. Our coaching has improved of late because of efforts by the ISWA and the IHSWCA, but we still have a ways to go. We need to continue to get more coaches involved. We need to strive to develop college programs. Louisville has been talking about wrestling. It is in Kentucky, but that would benefit Indiana wrestling in terms of post HS opportunities as well as them graduating people that might want to coach. We also need to figure out ways to encoourage wrestling at Indiana colleges whehter it being adding the sport to their actual programs or developing teams that will compete at the NCWA level. 3. Our tradition has improved due to the various wrestling organizations and we need to keep working to showcase the benefits of kids wrestling. We have to continually inspect our image to see what we can do to make our sport look good. Sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot. Enough for now.

Thanks to all of these Officials. I do not know how they do it. I was there both days working at a table out in the hallway and I was tired when it was all done. You guys are up and moving without alot of down time. You guys did a tremendous job!!!

I think ours is lost anyway. He needs to go back to the old "Know Nothing" Party. Maybe add "Do Nothing"

Purdue is hosting an RTC. Please check out the entire list at iswa.com

Most of those trees are leafless now a days.

Good luck!!!! That has been a topic of discussion for about 25 years. When you get every MS in the State using the same weight classes then we will have you carried to the center of the gym at Middle School State and have eveyone pay homage to you.

I would say that you would be hard pressed to find a bigger coaching tree than Bloomington High School and Bloomington High School South. I can trace my coaching lineage to that as I know others can as well.

The situation is terrible in terms of the possibility of wrestling not being included in the OLympics, but I do not remember when I have seen so much attention given to wrestling in the media, and although it is about something negative that has happened to wrestling the publicity itself is very positive.

I figured he would be. Good luck Cody. It has been a pleasure to watch you develop through your career.

At least the IHSAA is not the IOC.

Awesome. I remember watching Mike wrestle at the various levels of the tournament. We had a pretty good 98 pounder and Mike always was a ponit or two better. He had the best and quickest sit/turn I have ever seen. No one even came close to stopping him.

This is nearly as crazy as it gets, but one had to see this coming when they kept cutting weight classes. I guess now we can concentrate on Folkstyle.

It was seeded using Trackwrestling information and separtion criteria. mark Durham can address this better than I can. It is sometimes difficult to seed local eight team tournament where people have common opponents. This is a tounament where there are few if any common opponents and records would mean very little. We wrestleback to a true second which makes it about as fair to the kids as any tournament going.

Stacks and the Ice House...two fine establishments run by New Castle Legends Eli Alafogianis and Bruce Horan. I won't mention Bruce's sport on here, but he was a great college player for a great Program (the Bulldogs). I go to Stacks all of the time. People will love the new place with a nicer decor and lots of room.

No skin issue

If you are interested in hosting an ISWA Regional Training Center please email me the following information: Location in terms of both school and where in school Name of person in charge Night to host RTC Time for RTC Phone # of contact person email for contact person There are a limited number of spots available so please act quickly. ONLY ISWA MEMBER CLUBS MAY HOST AN RTC so do notreply if you are not a member Club or until you have taken care of signing up for that. Information can be emailed to Rex Peckinpaugh at rpeckinp@nccsc.k12.in.us

If you are interested in hosting an ISWA Regional Training Center please email me the following information: Location in terms of both school and where in school Name of person in charge Night to host RTC Time for RTC Phone # of contact person email for contact person There are a limited number of spots available so please act quickly. ONLY ISWA MEMBER CLUBS MAY HOST AN RTC so do notreply if you are not a member Club or until you have taken care of signing up for that. Information can be emailed to Rex Peckinpaugh at rpeckinp@nccsc.k12.in.us

I do not think there has ever been any approval from the IHSAA. A few tweaks have been made at certain Sectionals due to the coaches all agreeing that it is the fairest and most sensible way to do things.

I think some Sectionals do thigns a bit differently (by coaches agreement) than the exact rules so the seeding (and the tournament) go smoother and so it is fairer to the most kids.

Joe, I would have to say that I agree with you in terms of making positive decisions on where the tournament will go from here. There needs to be a longer range vision, and hopefully the revenue can be high enough (or grow) to the point where it can be held in a nicer venue (not knocking Westfield). I think there are sponsorships to be had, and some sort of pay perview might be an option as well. I would also like to see the tournament get to the point where the teams do not pay an entry fee (or it is minimal). The shifting dates are always going to be an issue, but I would hope as the event proves to be successful over the long run that steps can be taken to make that less of an issue. Rex

Not so much geographical...more they got mad at me a couple of years ago....some coaches cried and the ADs did not know how to cope with that. I actually think this year may be a fairly reasonable process since we are using Trackwrestling to pre seed the tournament.

I am not positive (not speaking for IHSWCA), but I got the impression that because it was going to be the first year they wanted to keep expenses as low as possible since they really had no clue if teams would committ, how many fans would come at that poinnt in the season and other issues. I am not really sure whether they did check on Pepsi Colisium before they finalized this year or not, but I do know that Pepsi Colisium is rarely empty and once people get a date for their event they rarely give it up. There could have been conflicts with the date.

There is no seeding meeting prior to the event and so finalized brackets will not be in place until about 45 minutes after wiegh-ins Saturday. The event is on Trackwrestling.

I plan to ask JD to repay the money I sent him like he promised me he would in the email he sent (LOL).