Mattyb

Of those of us that got 11. Who is your team pick and final score? I have crown point over perry. 33 to 29.

Live will be held at Avon Middle School South (the old high school on US 36) this week. Please enter to the rear of the building.

We are looking for a dedicated family to join our team for the AAU National Duels in Kingsport, Tenn. on April 15th - 17th. The cost is $130 for gear. Our hotel will be $79.00 per night (2 nights). Wrestlers will get singlets, hoodies, cage fighter shorts and T-shirts. Each wrestler will get 9 to 12 matches. We will be meeting in Kingsport on Friday April 15th around 1:00 pm. The tournament will start Friday night and will conclude Sunday afternoon. All wrestlers must be in the 5th Grade or under and born in 1999 or later. This is a very tough event. We are looking for skilled wrestlers who are prepared for a challenging weekend of wrestling. Weight Classes Need: None There will be a .9 pound allowence. Please contact Matt Brewer at (317)201-0644 or mbrewer@eliteindy.com a.s.a.p. if interested.

Never in the past.

When you register on track it ask "have you won an ISWA Folkstyle, Freestyle, or Greco State Championship within the past 2 years?" Not sure but it seems like that they are going to separate ISWA champs. This is better then nothing.

I got 11 too.

We are full and expect a great afternoon of wrestling. All entries are to check in by 11:15. Check in will close at 11:30 sharp. If you have not checked in by 11:30, you will be scratched with no refund. This is necessary to start at noon. Look forward to it. Thanks

Because I am waiting on my comcast cable guy to come and fix my internet. I cant get comcast to come and my track doesnt work :'( Do you know anyone who can fix it?!

Track reflects that we have until the 18th 5:00 c.s.t. Is this not correct? Thanks

Name: Carson Brewer City: Avon 103: Boston 112: Todd 119: Ayersman 125: McKinley 130: Molloy 135: Jackson 140: Tsirtsis 145: Roach 152: Welch 160: Welch 171: Stein 189: Sliga 215: Reese 285: Meyer Duel State: Perry 29 Crown Point 33

Tournament will 4 or 5 man round robin format on full mats! Mat side pairing (same mat all day). Note the later than usual start time! Could do early church and wrestle in the same day! We have had request from East Chicago to Evansville! Please get your entries in a.s.a.p. We will cap the number of entries at 300! Entries are due Wednesday. Come check out the facility that will hold freestyle state this year!

Sign up info must be requested by Sunday the 13th. Clubs will have until Wed the 16th to turn in entries. Please forgive quinnsDAD for the bad info! LOL (Sorry Lee)

Matside at Northmont also. Nine mats were full all day. Always well run. Thank you to Northmont staff!

O-C-W you are right. I am a horrable person and a real loser. Maybe we should give the trophy to your club. I am sorry. It will never happen again. With this said, I give up. Have fun with this post. Again, I hope to meet you or have a conversation with you one day, since you know so much about me and my club. Sorry to all that had to read this topic.

Well said, I could not agree more. We had our line up set with all Avon (Washington Township) residents, when the rules were changed weeks before the tournament (due to teams not being able to field a line up). With this said, then all club members were then allowed to wrestle off for spots (regardless of school). As stated above 3 wrestlers (club members) from adjoining townships were given spots. It would not be fair (at any club) for paying club members to not be allowed to wrestle for a spot, if the rules allowed it (which they did). I am sure that is why we saw some teams with kids from two or three different counties. The rules did not disallow this. For this reason, we (Avon) did not take issue or have a problem with it. It was made clear, at the coaches meeting, that they had to open it up to club memebers which live outside of the school districts. If they did not we would not have had a tourney. I am sure that ISWA did there best, and that is all that we can ask. There is a meeting scheduled at ISWA folkstyle state to better set rules for the coming years. I have faith that the ISWA will address all concerns.

Thanks Bryan, You guys did an awesome job too. Tell your boy that I owe him a match, just tryin to go for the win. ;D

I have never been negative on this board so I will not start now. Just rest assured that all members of our team work out and practice with us. With this said, we had wrestle offs and the best wrestlers / club members were added. I am not sure what club you are with (you are not proud enough to list it in your profile). But rest assured If your boys wrestle an Avon boy, they will get a very tough effort. As I stated before, feel free to call me and I will answer any concerns. We have two teams that travel to duel meets. We do not charge either team a dime to attend duels. If you are a member of our club, you will wrestle duels (for free). We provide all kids (that are willing) chances to get many matches, before the ISWA season starts. On many weekends we will send them to different meets. IE: We had teams at Brownsburg and Columbus a few weeks ago. I can and will find mat time for any willing member. It is easy to knock success when you are anonymous on a message board. Apparently you have never met me, or you would know where my heart is. I hope one day you will be able to mentor kids and make your club better (wherever that may be). Until then you should really begin to look at the positives of our sport, and be thankful to the ISWA and the voluteers within our organization that make our sport the greatest in the state. Again, enough with the negative, call me if you need answers. I would really like to met you or talk to you so you can be educated or better informed. Thanks By the way we have over 100 youth wrestlers this year we could only bring 24. So, a lot of kids were left out of this tourney. I will find mat time for the kids that wanted to came but came up short. This is not soccer where as everyone makes the team, no one loses, and we all eat orange slices (sorry soccer fans). I would never single out anyones team, but I assure you that ours was just as legit as all others. I am sure that my friends from the other teams would agree.

I am not sure if that will happen. Again, some teams had kids from all over. As stated above the vast majority of kids live in Avon and will attend Avon High School (where the club is located). Again, we can care less about the make up of the other teams.We were told back when this tournament was announced that all kids need to go to school in each community. With this said, we got every tough Washington Township boy (and we have a bunch) together, they joined the club, and we started to work (within the rules) to make a run at the title. We had collected report cards and were set. Then two weeks before the tournament, we were told that it was open to all club members. We added the three club members to the line up that live in adjoining townships. That is how we went about it. It is no mystery that some of the kids that live in Avon attend CIA, Red Cobra, or Contenders. We are very fortunate to live next to these fine clubs and have families that are dedicated enough to join them. With this said, we will not force any family, or child to choose us over another club. The fact of the matter is that most elite wrestlers in our state attend elite clubs as well as their home club. If any Washington Township child prefers to enter a team competition with another club (and rules allow it), we will not hold that against them. They will always be welcomed at the community club, and congratulated when they have success elsewhere. We want the kids within our community to grow as wrestlers and people. We do not look at elite clubs as our competition, but as a huge benefit for our residents and future wrestlers. With all of this said I assure you that our kids will always do their best to represent themselves, their familes, their community, or what ever organization that they represent. Again, lets remember this is all about growing the sport of wrestling.

Quinnsdad is correct. We took 24 wrestlers on our team. All wrestlers live within our county and within 10 miles of the high school (two live in my house!). All are paying members of our club. All but three live in our township (2 live in Plainfield and one lives in Danville). The three kids that live in the adjoining townships, have been coming to our club off and on for years. The youngman from Danville is the son of an Avon Grad. (can not get much more community based than that). With this said, there were many teams with kids from multiple counties. We had no issue with this. There were 16 kids from our township that placed within the top 8 at youth state last year. Our duel meet record over the past 3 years is 45-4. We are are working very hard to build our program and to bring the Washington Township (Avon) kids together. You may have seen our team earlier in the season at Perry. We had 7 wrestlers wrestling with team Indiana at Christmas duals that day and 3 at family Christmas. We did look different with 10 starters out. We were still able to take 3rd out of 16 there. It is a shame that we had this awesome tourney, and all that is being discussed is ringers and coaches pulling hair. We are all better than that! Lets be thankful that our kids were able to get some very quality matches in early on, and thank Chris Lynch, the young table workers, and the rest of the ISWA for a great tourney. If you have any questions about my club, you can call me at 317-201-0644 or better yet feel free to come to live night tonight. It is held every Wednesday night and is open to all USA card carriers. You will see first hand what we do. I hope that this post helps clear up your concerns O-C-W. And I hope that if you have any other concerns about my club that you will contact me directly. With all of this said, great job to all AWC team members. We have all but 6 coming back for next year and look forward to defending our title. Thanks, Matthew Brewer AWC board member www.avonwrestling.org

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My 5 year old has been walking around for a few weeks now saying "Quinn got suped! Quinn got suped!" LOL. I keep telling him that it was just a nasty gut.

Thank you for your clarification infolady and your imput Bryan. This explaination should clear up all concerns on this thread and we all should be on the same page moving forward. It sounds as though that the boys should get some quality matches and and mat time. Our club looks forward to this event. Thank you all for helping the kids and growing the sport.

This info has been noted. But again please refer to my above post. Which take issue with this info. Again, If you wrestle with an elite club to make yourself better, then you are less of a member of your community club? We can not field a team, we all go somewhere else on days off. I am heading to CIA with my son now. Does this mean that he can not wrestle for our club? I can name a kid or kids from just about every club that has entered, that attends other clubs or practices. We all are effected by this ruling.

I can see this point, but as we all know the USA Card expires in September. Most clubs do not start until November or December. So with that said, are we not to wrestle until our club starts (and we issue cards)? Many kids just pick up their cards wherever it is they are getting in their off season workouts. Again, in our club that does not make them less of a member. It just means that they pay $30 less (due to the fact that they have a card already). The rules which were in place last week were very clear. I know that the ISWA means well, but this last minute change in the rules is not clear. Lets just go with what we have been taking up to this point and be done with it. Maybe next year we can get together and bang something out. We all all friends and can make this work. Maybe next year we adopt something similar to Disney Duels where as we take a community team and allow a certain number of kids from outside to complete a line up. I would say 3 or 4. InfoLady can we get an offical ruling from the ISWA so we can get this together a.s.a.p. If not I am sure that we all can make a gentlemens agreement and move forward. Thanks.

Please clarify. Under this rule any one who attends CIA, The Region Academy, Contenders, Red Cobra, State Street, or any other Elite club to make themselves better on the days on which they are not attending their community based clubs, will not be allowed to particiapate. The vast majority of our ISWA elite wrestlers attend these elite clubs as well as their community clubs. We can not disallow these boys who live, come to the community based clubs, and seek further instuction. I do not know about the rest of the clubs, but I encourage my boys to attend other rooms to better themselves. However, this does not make them less of a member of our club. All members of our club and duel meet team live within a few miles of our school and attend on a regular basis. All members pay and are considered equal. Duels meet spots are given to the best wrestlers as determined by wrestle offs. There are very few elite ISWA members who "practice exclusively" at one club. Is this not why we provide RTC's? To encourage additional training and allow the athletes to push each other in new or different environments. This requirement will make it more difficult to field a team not help.