Hornet Coach

Kids today will never understand "bulletin board" material.  Confidence is good, overconfidence can be devastating.  CP, Brownsburg, and Center Grove have set themselves apart from the pack and deserve the respect for putting our sport and the state of Indiana in the national discussion.  Way too many keyboard trolls that can just type and push the send button.  Just one man's humble opinion. 

Your comments are laughable at best. You sure do have a lot to say. Care to share your name or do you just want to be another keyboard warrior all season? 
 
Landon Clouser

Kids today will never understand "bulletin board" material.  Confidence is good, overconfidence can be devastating.  CP, Brownsburg, and Center Grove have set themselves apart from the pack and deserve the respect for putting our sport and the state of Indiana in the national discussion.  Way too many keyboard trolls that can just type and push the send button.  Just one man's humble opinion. 

Kellan Carter (Scottsburg) finished 8-1 Silver AA (132 lb Smackdown Black). Team finished 7th in silver bracket of developmental. He knocked off several state qualifiers from various states. His only loss was a decision to a kid that hadn’t lost at Disney in two straight years. Score was 10-11 going into the third period. Could have gone either way. It was a good week and he’s definitely gaining confidence after missing last season due to injury. 💪

Following the lead of Coach Sprangle, we decided to hold a 1A Wildcard Invitational. Eastern Hancock will serve as the host school. The original plan was to have 8 teams in two pools, with two crossover rounds. If we end up with only 6 teams we will move to a traditional 6-way invitational. The date of the tounrament is Saturday December 2nd, 2023. Much like the 2A tournament, the purpose is to allow teams vying for one of the vote in spots to get common opponents and hopefully make the vote process easier for the voters.
 
Right now invitations have gone out to the following schools:
South Adams
Faith Christian (IN)
Madison Grant (IN)
Rossville (Out)
Manchester
North Posey
Winchester
 
This has the potential to be a great event! If you are interested in throwing your hat in the ring please let me know, and we will send an invite if someone else declines. 
For more information or if you would like to be involved please reach out:
Sam Pfaff
spfaff@ehancock.org
317-753-0254

After final approval from our athletic department to open up gym space. 

Chatard is committed to hosting 2A Wildcard weekend on 12/9. 

We are putting together a 6-way tournament and hoping to pull as many of the teams that are in the hunt for the last 2 spots as possible. 

I have sent invites to:
Garrett
Rensselaer Central ❌
Peru ✅ 
Angola ✅ 
Glenn❌
South Ridge
Owen Valley ✅ 
Monrovia ❌ 
Bishop Dwenger ❌ 
Norwell
Oak Hill ❌ 
 
My hope is to make the voting committee's job a little easier come the 3rd week of December. 
Obviously, this will require shifts in some schedules but we are trying to help schools build the best possible case. (And put together a strong case for our guys)
 
If teams are unable to attend I will open it up to other teams on the list. 

At Hobart, we have a sports mural in our field house. Previously, Hobart had 21 sports represented in this mural. With the addition of girls wrestling, and boys volleyball there had to be additions to the mural. Girls wrestling on our sports mural forever. Even better that the art is based off Hobart's first ever girls wrestling state placer, Keirys Click. 

I want to personally apologize to Andy Oberlin from The Fort Wrestling Facility for the DM I sent him on the night after Semi-State.  I want to also apologize for insinuating Andy is biased.  I also would like to apologize to the entire forum for my coarse words.  I'm competitive but I don't want my competitive nature to alter my character.  I will do better going forward.

We are good. I personally apologize to the General also for over reacting and making it public. It’s about the kids and I lost sight of that. 

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.

So Jack Heldt (Wabash/Carmel) captured the D III national heavyweight title and Shawn Streck (Central Oklahoma/Merrillville) won the D II heavyweight title and now Mason Parris is the D I national champ. This is an unbelievable achievement. Indiana should be proud of these three young men. 
 
 

Shout out to my friend Dustin Bentz, aka TripleB!!  Dude had a real scare last year, lost about 100 lbs and then decided to step up to the plate and compete at Folk State this year.  Still got it!  Matter of fact, props to all the dudes in this pic and all the masters division wrestlers still willing to go out and throw down! 👏👏👏.  Dustin, Sam’s has the 5 gal pale of flex-all on sale… haha.

Fixed! 🫡🫡🫡

2005 130lbs
 
1st Reece Humphrey SQ🥇🥇🥇
2nd Andrew Howe 🥈🥇🥇🥇
3rd Matt Irwin 🥈🥉🥇
4th Kyle Pittman 4th 

*Irwin.  He's my good friend so I had to make sure he got some love.  Impressive list of flat out hammers!

I just wanted to take a minute and commend these young wrestlers, their coaching staffs, and their families for the sportsmanship displayed by the vast majority of these young wrestlers this weekend.  These young people have poured countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this sport and whether they got the result they wanted or not, they carried themselves with pride and dignity.  In a world of trash talking, showboating, and showing up your opponent, it's refreshing to see some humility, humbleness, and mutual respect.  
 
Side Note:  The GPA's of the wrestlers in the finals were impressive.  They are not just disciplined on the mat, but also carrying that discipline into the classroom.  Keep up the good work!  

Totally agree!!! Only points given up were by escapes. Beyond the tournament, Bryce didn’t allow a takedown, back points, reversal all year… any points scored were by escape. 

Dude didn’t start wrestling until 7th grade!  Unheard of now a days in a middle weight class.  Lots of dedication and hard work, and a great kid.

Bryce Lowery deserves to be mentioned in the discussion as well

Bryce Lowery deserves to be mentioned in the discussion as well

Bryce Lowery deserves to be mentioned in the discussion as well

Bryce Lowery deserves to be mentioned in the discussion as well

I just wanted to take a minute and commend these young wrestlers, their coaching staffs, and their families for the sportsmanship displayed by the vast majority of these young wrestlers this weekend.  These young people have poured countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this sport and whether they got the result they wanted or not, they carried themselves with pride and dignity.  In a world of trash talking, showboating, and showing up your opponent, it's refreshing to see some humility, humbleness, and mutual respect.  
 
Side Note:  The GPA's of the wrestlers in the finals were impressive.  They are not just disciplined on the mat, but also carrying that discipline into the classroom.  Keep up the good work!  

I just wanted to take a minute and commend these young wrestlers, their coaching staffs, and their families for the sportsmanship displayed by the vast majority of these young wrestlers this weekend.  These young people have poured countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this sport and whether they got the result they wanted or not, they carried themselves with pride and dignity.  In a world of trash talking, showboating, and showing up your opponent, it's refreshing to see some humility, humbleness, and mutual respect.  
 
Side Note:  The GPA's of the wrestlers in the finals were impressive.  They are not just disciplined on the mat, but also carrying that discipline into the classroom.  Keep up the good work!  

I just wanted to take a minute and commend these young wrestlers, their coaching staffs, and their families for the sportsmanship displayed by the vast majority of these young wrestlers this weekend.  These young people have poured countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this sport and whether they got the result they wanted or not, they carried themselves with pride and dignity.  In a world of trash talking, showboating, and showing up your opponent, it's refreshing to see some humility, humbleness, and mutual respect.  
 
Side Note:  The GPA's of the wrestlers in the finals were impressive.  They are not just disciplined on the mat, but also carrying that discipline into the classroom.  Keep up the good work!