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  1. Thomas Dull competed in the Pembroke open at UNC Pembroke last Sunday out of the Campbell University wrestling room. In his first college tournament Thomas went 3-2 with his first collegiate win being a pin in :43 against last years North Carolina 182 pound 3A state champion. Nice start to his season by finishing 4th place at 174 pounds. Thomas is signed up for the Wolfpack open at NC State this weekend.
  2. From the parents side. One thing that I think is lost is the amount of money that can be poured into a "career". Most parents want the best that they can get for their child/children. I know that when we had both of our children in a sport (different sports of course. volleyball and wrestling) we spent almost $10,000 on team fees, travel for different events, entry fees and even flight tickets and hotel costs for several team coaches when we had to drive 950 miles as parents to get to a venue. With those types of costs parents do expect higher returns from their kids. One other thing I will say. I have been a hard ass on my kid when he was young, but after those hard ass sessions it was always followed by build up sessions. You can't tear a kid down and not build him back up. As WE both got older the tear down sessions became fewer and farther between, but the build up sessions continued after every match! Many parents forget the second part of the equation, which is an unfortunate cause to kids leaving the sport (not just wrestling). Just my two cents (probably only worth a penny though lol)!
  3. Congratulations to the Goering's! Great kid loved the time we got to spend with him!
  4. Irick was 32-7 last year
  5. Yes he did. Was the first state champion from Delta I believe.
  6. Tim Klingensmith's Jay County Patriots in the 80's
  7. Tanner Christenberry seeded 6th at Bloomington North sectional. placed 4th at sectional and 3rd at regional yesterday at Bloomington South regional
  8. Thomas Dull vs Jacob Hendrich. These two have wrestled each other since grade school. Greg Stultz Invite, Sectional, Regional, Semi-State last year. Both same grade. Always a close match!
  9. Ds Dad

    Conference Indiana

    01/15/2017
  10. Conference Indiana this Saturday at Perry: Bloomington North, Bloomington South, Columbus North, Franklin Central, Perry Meridian, Southport, Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South
  11. Thanks to Fabio Jr. it was fun seeing the behind the scenes fun of semi state rankings. If any of you haven't sat through one of these, I think Joe should make it mandatory before you're allowed to complain about the rankings. Lol! In all seriousness get your results in if you want your (or any) kids looked at. It would really help these guys out!!
  12. Prayers going up from the Dull family for this young man and his family!
  13. Ds Dad

    2016 Evansville Reitz Hill Classic

    12/04/2016
  14. Great looking magazine as usual! Great job!!
  15. lol 6'4 ish and about 250-300 lbs! might not work so well!
  16. Actually you can thank my sons high school football coach who decided he couldn't participate the day AFTER I paid, for the donation!
  17. Thomas Dull at Free Safety goes for 12 tackles two interceptions and a fumble recovery for a touchdown.
  18. Actually since you are in Florida it really is the issue. You don't have any skin in the game...unless of course you're skirting the rules and bringing a Floridian to ISWA state?
  19. Yes God forbid you would do anything but cackle like an old hen behind the keyboard...wait sorry forgot you were whining from florida my bad enjoy your classes!
  20. They may not be helping you write it, but in most cases they are reading it! As far as suggestions to make things better, yes there have been a few, but far more of the comments have been disparaging against grecoref, coach hull and the iswa. If you don't like what is going on donate your time and become a memebr of the iswa board, be a local rep and show up at the meetings another way to say this is quit being a keyboard warrior and go forth and DO!
  21. I think studapalooza is the best one I've seen. The kids on that list are either cadet national champions, runners-up or all-americans. you all reject that you have agendas (even though we have talked about people's kids not having a chance to go on this junior trip) I have also seen folks say that having 30 second matches does no one any good. So what is it, do you want Chad Red, the Lee's, et. al. to qualify for state, go to state and destroy your kids(i.e. take their hearts and rip them out of their chest because they are head and shoulders above talent wise) and make your kids not want to wrestle anymore? Come on guys we all know that those kids on the list have earned their spots by going to tournaments on the point list (which by the way hasn't changed much if at all from last year if memory serves me correctly) So leave the kids alone and have your stud wrestle for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th spot on the team. That's what my kid is doing this weekend even though as a junior last year he placed 5th in IHSAA and 2nd at folkstyle state a weight up. He was on one of the cadet dual teams and just wasn't good enough last year for the junior team placing 3rd at freestyle state. That drove him to get better, and that is exactly what he has done. Instead of making excuses and whining he put his head down and found people to help move him ahead. I also did not allow him to make excuses nor did I tell him what bad luck he had because the ISWA did not "pick" him. As for you BigDanTeague, I do not know you, but it looks like you moved to Florida to a classed system to then troll the Indiana board to tell us how bad Indiana wrestling is getting. Feel free to come on back to Indiana some time and throw your stud back in the mix.
  22. I agree with a lot of what you say here. I really think that coaching is where it starts. The biggest thing is getting the young kids on board. If kids are starting freestyle/greco in late middle school early high school they are truly getting in too late in most cases. Personally I see numbers go from 30-40 kids in folkstyle to 4-6 in freestyle/Greco. I had suggested in another thread a couple of things that would help both the ISWA (not losing state tournaments) and our kids to be able to get more opportunity to wrestle freestyle/Greco. 1. shorten the folkstyle season for pee-wee through schoolboy to have the folkstyle state tournament towards the last weekend of January to mid-February. This would give the younger kids more time to wrestle freestyle/Greco. 2. still have the folkstyle state event for cadets on up either the day after state or the weekend after state. (iswa wins-kids still get the opportunity at the triple crown if wanted) 3. hold off on awards banquets for clubs. (this will keep the competitive kids in the room for freestyle/Greco season. (if the clubs award kids by points from tournaments/practices attended etc.) 4. make a push to educate parents about the benefits of freestyle/Greco for their children to be well-rounded wrestlers. 5. have clinicians of freestyle and Greco at folkstyle state and at local freestyle/Greco tournaments around the state not only showing moves, but explaining how freestyle/Greco affected their wrestling abilities. Just a few things that could get done and possibly help Coach Hull and the ISWA move wrestling forward in Indiana.
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