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Every time Jimmy Buffett performs at Ruoff, Klipsch, Verizon he says "Welcome to Deer Creek" I say we just keep calling it Conseco. 

I remember waiting forever to see this movie and it was never released and it looks like it would have been a good one

By JEREMY HINES
Thehines7@gmail.com
 
Warren Central senior Kiersten O’Neill has had quite an illustrious wrestling career. She recently won her third Indiana High School Girls Wrestling state title and did so in dominating fashion. Not bad for a girl that doesn’t like to wrestle, really doesn’t enjoy practicing and sometimes doesn’t even get along with her coach.
 
“Yeah, I don’t really like wrestling, per se,” O’Neill said. “But I love the environment of the sport and the energy it holds. That’s what keeps me attached to it.”
 
O’Neill’s coach is her own father, Jake.
 
“It doesn’t surprise me that she says that,” Jake said. “If you ask most coaches/ dads, it’s tough coaching your own kids. As a coach you hold your athletes to high expectations and not that I don’t do that as a dad, but when they fall short of those expectations it can bleed into home. It’s tough to draw those lines and keep those frustrations in the room and on the mat and not let it affect what’s going on at home.”
 
Jake has always pushed Kiersten to be her best in the sport – and, although at times she’s gotten frustrated with her dad as a coach, she sees it has been in her best interest.
 
“My dad and I would get into it a lot,” Kiersten said. “Coach and wrestler, father and daughter is a very different dynamic. There have been points where I was like, this is too hard, I can’t do that. I wanted to stop, but I kept going. I think if he wasn’t as present as he is though, it wouldn’t be the same and I wouldn’t have the successes I’ve had.”
 
Kiersten’s brother started wrestling when he was 4 years old. He ultimately decided that wasn’t the sport for him.
 
“I made my son wrestle when he was four,” Jake said. “By the time he was a freshman he ended up playing basketball and that’s about the same time Kiersten was like, dad, I’ll wrestle. I was like, oh, yeah, you’re probably going to be pretty good, too. I think she was six at the time.
 
“Her journey in wrestling gave me a perspective on women’s wrestling that I never had before and I wouldn’t have had if she didn’t wrestle.”
 
Kiersten won the state meet as a freshman, then placed second as a sophomore. She won as a junior and last weekend she beat her opponent 17-3 in the championship.
 
She would like to wrestle in college and eventually she would like to follow in her father’s footsteps and coach wrestling.
 
For Kiersten, and for many of the female wrestlers we write about in these articles, there becomes an unusually strong bond between opponents. Kiersten’s best friends are wrestlers on rival schools.
 
“Cailin and Catie (Campbell) are my best friends since I started wrestling,” Kiersten said. “We live far apart but we always make sure we see each other. I talk to them every day. It’s been great to experience that with other people that share your same interests. I think if you watch the finals you can see my reaction after Caty won her state title. I was screaming ‘That’s my best friend’.”
 
Kiersten also plays soccer. She admits that her wrestling aggression sometimes gets her in trouble on the soccer field.
 
“Yeah, I’ve had quite a few yellow and red cards,” she said. “Soccer, to me, is a lot of running. But the aggression I get from being a wrestler definitely helps me. I’m not exactly proud of my yellow and red cards, I just think I underestimate my strength some against girls that don’t wrestle.”
 
Jake really enjoys watching Kiersten on the soccer field, where he can relax and be a dad and not a coach.
 
“Her wrestling absolutely comes out in soccer,” Jake said. “She’s very competitive, aggressive and physical. She is fearless. It all spills out on the soccer field and it’s fun to watch. The other girls aren’t nearly as aggressive as her. Our athletic director was a professional soccer player. When he saw her play he was like ‘woah’. He was blown out of the water with the competitive edge she plays with. I enjoy every minute of watching her play.”

In wrestling, Kiersten is excited for what the future for girls is like in the state. Every year the numbers increase. If she had one piece of advise for girls just starting out in the sport it would be to stick to it.
 
“You just have to stick to it,” she said. “You can’t give up, even when it’s hard. I know it gets hard and I’ve not enjoyed that time. But stick it out. Push through. It will be worth it in the end.”
 

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So as the tournament approaches, and the topic of this discussion, I got excited and found this video of the most exhilarating 10 seconds of my adult life. I still yell at the screen to LIFT THE HEAD!!! 😆 
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Dang it @ENoblewrestling you are hogging the party line connection for the block. 

 
Yes, you millennials and beyond (heck some gen-X city folk) have no clue how deep a cut this is without appearing in your history books.  

If you want his address I have it 

Eppert vs Wright IMO.  

Good summary:  Just one detail you left off Garcia, and is relevant since were talking about teams getting voted out of a conference.   The  3 Lafayette schools: Laffayette Jeff, Harrison and McCutcheon just didn't leave the HCC in 2014.  The 7 HCC Indy schools ADs had a special secret meeting and voted the 3 Lafayette schools out the conference   I believe the reason was they didn't want to drive up I-65,  the Lafayette schools weren't very competitive in Football and didn't travel well resulting in the gate being too small for football games.     As a result, the next best option for the Lafayette schools was to join the NCC, which has been really good for their football programs as the conference is much less competitive in that sport, but did increase the travel budget for those teams do the large distances between teams.
 
Looking back, I think the HCC had a vision of making an Indy super conference  back in 2014.

Eric McGill Munster and B. Cosgrove Hobart.... wrestled like 7 times in one year. Always a great match both ended careers with a State Title 

Wright vs Eppert gets my vote. What happened at the seeding meeting?

Wright vs Eppert has got to be one of the biggest HS career long ones. Multiple years of battling from sectionals all the way to the state finals.  Including one of the most controversial sectional seeding meetings in existence.  
 
The one year Kleinhenz and VanDeveter faced each other like 8 time including the state-finals accounting for I think all Kleinhenz loses was crazy.   I think there was another similar story like this with another group of big men facing each other a ton in one year.  

Unbiased opinion but I think that’s absolutely insane if you think CP can only win one match against Brownsburg. 

You guys have seen 220 lbers and heavyweights wrestle, right?
 
I'd rather have 138 and 139 as separate weight classes.

I agree with everything in this post except its Franklin Street not Ave. Any degenerate worth his Busch knows this.

Now that’s funny! It was Conley’s mints. You know my stash got in! 
 
The town of Evansville lost me when @FCFIGHTER170 got kicked out of the  casino. 

I should ban you again.

One word - Matroom

Oh my goodness, could we cry some more..... Holy smokes...... 
 
I do the EVANSVILLE Semi-State rankings, not the jasper Semi-State rankings
 
1 - Lack of hotels in Jasper vs Eville
2 - They only allowed fans after @tskin and I opened up the flood gates with our attacks
3 - Gerst Haus is better than any German establishment in Jasper
4 - Franklin Ave
5 - Wrestling is a secondary experience for the casual fan or the parents.... Evansville is popping..... Jasper is.......Jasper
 
This place.....semi state?!?!?! 
 
Or this place 

 
Brewer hide those mints better, Coop wipe up your tears, We going to the CRESCENT CITY, EVANSVILLE BBBBABBBBBYYYYYYY
 
 

We were really surprised with Jasper last year.  Caused me to really rethink the semi-state experience.  Up until last year, I just thought a painfully long check in, getting treated like we were children, and overall rude behavior of those running the tournament were all just a part of the semi-state experience.
 
Maybe no one explained to the Jasper AD and his crew that this was how semi-state was “supposed” to be.  Everything about how Jasper ran the tournament was first class…Genuinely nice, helpful, smooth process all around.

They did not. Egli wrestled 120 all day and looked great as did Zirkelbach at 126. I’m sure at some point they will face off to see who the world’s most dominate wrestler is

What is a list of people banned at least once by me?

Do posters that have multiple IndianaMat "egos" have to pay for all "egos" or does one subscription cover them all? Askin' for a friend....lookin' at you @TeamGarcia and #PistolPete..I kid of course, I support all multi ego posters. 

100% worth it, I will pay every year.