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  1. Chris Cooper
    The coaches you mentioned have done a phenomenal job, no question, and I respect them a lot... but these programs weren't starting from scratch. Youth coaches at Brownsburg built up their club before Snyder arrived, Penn has a tremendous enrollment to draw from, and Portage has exceptional tradition from the Coach P days as well. I'm not downplaying what these coaches have done, these teams have accomplished great things, but these examples are far from the norm. From experience I can say it takes an unbelievable amount of work to start from essentially scratch and build up a program that can compete on a yearly basis. Even then a competitive team only goes so far. You have to put an additional amount of work in promoting your meets to increase attendance. Including elementary and middle schools in your meets will go a long way, but takes tons of leg work, planning, and persistence. I'm pretty confident in saying that adjusting scheduling rules to include more weeknight duals will not increase attendance nor participation levels. However, working at increasing attendance at your currently scheduled weekday meets COULD increase participation. We have 6 weekday dual meets on our schedule. Our JV kids are lucky if they get a match in 2 of those 6 meets. If parents new to the sport don't like sitting in a gym most of a day on a Saturday to watch their kid wrestle a couple matches, you can bet they like even less the 45 minute drive on a weeknight to sit in a gym for an hour and not see their kid wrestle at all.
  2. Chris Cooper
    Haha, this comment was too good to pass up.
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    Perry Meridian
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    Columbus East
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    2016

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    Columbus East
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    Still need a 285.
  15. Chris Cooper
    We had 14 graduated seniors and 7 kids from other schools... #oldtuffdudes
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    Team Balboa 106- Joey Gordon, Jeremy Clark 113- Cayden Rooks 120- Jake Schoenegge 126- Grum Rooks 132- daws Combest, Trevor foster 138- Corb Pollitt 145- Jack Eiteljorge 152- Josh Cooper 160- Austin Wilson, Josh Zamarripa 170- kam fuller 182- lane Goode, Tyler Morris, Brycen Copeland 220 Austin Sheckles 285- dalton anderson Team Balboa arrived today and will attend a Florida technique camp featuring Olympian Jared Frayer starting this evening.
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    Vaughn lost a dec at 145, by 1 pt I believe. 152 Bam won by ff, I'm pretty sure the Nauman 152 missed wt. Also I think Brey Bailey won by fall at 132 with a hip toss Hughes had a td, then legs in doing his thing, Bell was able to back arch into a defensive fall I think Parris was up 6-2? I thought he had 3 td's.
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    Amazing competition. Team Balboa took one on the chin vs Team Nauman Goofy, very solid team. Finished 1-2 in our pool. Team Balboa is Columbus East plus Xander Stroud, Kyle Hatch, and Andrew Chapman.
  19. Chris Cooper
    Filled, thanks for the interest.
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    Just when you have the team full and everything covered.... Columbus East needs a 145 for NHSCA Duals in Va Beach over Memorial day weekend.Cost is $60. Contact Chris Cooper, cooperc@bcsc.k12.in.us Weigh-ins Friday, May 27, wrestle Sat, Sun, Mon.
  21. Chris Cooper
    $60 was for entry only, no gear. Our kids paid for their gear already. We use it for Disney and some other events as well.
  22. Chris Cooper
    Spot has been filled, thanks for the interest.
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    Columbus East needs a 152 for NHSCA Duals in Va Beach over Memorial day weekend. Cost is $60. Contact Chris Cooper, cooperc@bcsc.k12.in.us Weigh-ins Friday, May 27, wrestle Sat, Sun, Mon.
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    Believe me, I'm well aware... I feel we should have been included. I was surprised when we didn't earn enough points to be automatic bids to begin with, but we did have some tough losses at crucial times in the tournament series. No fault of our kids, we just didn't have our best matches at some critical times. It wasn't lack of preparation or effort, it just happens sometimes, it's wrestling, we lost to good kids. In the grand scheme of things, we aren't going anywhere that's for sure, we are just getting started. I honestly thought the committee would see us as the best team that didn't get an auto invite. It didn't happen. Fine. It's our job to see that we are not in this position next year. Like Colat said in the flo video, gotta be 10 points better than the official... Same mentatility applies here.
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    I'm not a keyboard warrior so I won't defend this position all day with replies, but I would like to give my opinion. Posting on here is generally a lose-lose opportunity if you don't spend all day defending it, but here goes. I think Indiana should make an effort to put the best team out there, especially since it's hosted in Indiana. Joe, back handing the efforts of those who put the Indiana Gold and Blue together is a bit counter productive. I think it's great that there were a lot of Indiana kids who had the opportunity to compete, but an effort in state should be made to get the best team together. I understand Walton, if he can't make the wt then that's valid. Beyond that, put the best kids on one team.
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