randalllynch

Any new officials out there (or experienced) New Albany is looking for more officials for our JV and Girls tournament on 23 December, our goal is to have 8 officials for 6 mats.  We have some seasoned officials signed up so this could be a great opportunity for new officials to get some experience.

New Albany just added a Girls 10 team event for 23 December.  It is aligned with a 10 team JV boys tournament the same day. 2 Gyms, 5 mats.

Appreciate it Y2, but the I think the coaches association is where I saw it.

I remember seeing a spreadsheet with all the coaches wins, does anyone still have that?  We are specifically looking for the number of wins that Phil Thrasher of New Albany had.  He had the most for a long time, but finding records from the 50's on is difficult.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Randy

Sorry if I missed this some where else, but what are the girls weight classes for Indiana as an emerging sport?

New Albany has had school cancelled and will not be allowed to practice on 6 January.  Will a 1 pound allowance be given. 

I would agree with "Scrimmages" we used to do that, but consistent practices would be a different situation.  In our area we have 6 Indiana High Schools and probably close to 20 Louisville High Schools all in commuting distance.  We see kids move between them in all sports.  

With school of choice for High School I think you will find quite a few coaches will not want their feeder schools to have joint practices with other feeder schools.

Condolences from the New Albany Wrestling family

Condolences from the New Albany Wrestling family.

I am very happy to be back in coaching and have accepted the Head Coach position for New Albany.

I was reading on the IHSAA SITE the NFHS recommended weight class change of a choice between 3 for boys and girls.  I apologize if I missed the topic somewhere else, but does anyone have any insight or could point me in the right direction?

Tre Lynch was a 5'9 106, 6' 132, and a 6'2 152 - in a 3 year span

Due to IHSAA rules on weight management, Chase Aldridge (Providence) will only be wrestling 132 instead of double dipping into 113 as well.  He is a team guy!

: )

I know not much of Phil Thrashers 500+ wins are in New Albany's total, had trouble finding his old records to put into the database.

The SICW/Southwestern Classic at Southwestern High School (Hanover) has been cancelled

Didn't Nick South go 160 at super 32?

15 minutes ago, nkraus said:

Not just the 2% exception.  That form must be filled out by the parents.  You'll also need the doctor's note, which essentially says that the kid is healthy and naturally has a low body fat.  The 2% form would be beneficial so the kid doesn't have to weight 105.8-105.9-106.0 to get a quality weigh in.  It would give them a little wiggle room.  

I was taking for granted the paperwork was done as well.

13 minutes ago, ENoblewrestling said:

I would double check your alpha sheets.  Ours are saying their minimum weight is their weight at 7% even after the doctors note.  

For example if you have a 106 who weighs 105.8 and is 6.5% bodyfat ours is reading that their minimum weight would be like 106.4 or whatever their weight at 7% would be, and the minimum weight class would be 113.  This is after the Dr. note is in.

Make sure the 2% exception is selected, mine adjusted after it was selected and shows up as an "exception" on the Master Alpha report.

I have lost track, if we want to pass on information for the semi-state rankings who should we send it too?  For me it is Evansville but others may want to know theirs.

21 hours ago, Y2CJ41 said:

Teams that have 6 or less wrestlers don't care about being included. I would guess they don't even look at the scores because they can't qualify.

When we have our first team with only 6 wrestlers and they all win state maybe we can include them in the discussion.

As a team that only had 6 this year at sectional, you guess wrong.  I use it to motivate the kids I have and as a marketing tool to continue to get more.  Exclusion or the perception of exclusion will only hurt small schools trying to build up.

31 minutes ago, Jimtown 138 said:

At least Ft Wayne has the best venue...

Have you seen the Ford Center in Evansville?  Talk about not too shabby....  : )

1 hour ago, Wrestling Scholar said:

Do we need 14 weight  classes.  Back when I wrestled we had 12.    Maybe it would be easier to fill 12 classes.  Probably not great for really deep teams,  but maybe it evens the playing field for some decent teams and less forfeits.

It was a question on the new questionnaire that just came out to the coaches.

My team is in that sectional and it is night and day to previous years.  We have VERY few kids or weight classes that would be considered "top tier", but there are a few good wrestlers that know what there doing (and yest will most likely struggle at the regional), but I do look forward to seeing several weight classes that have kids who are very competitive at this sectional (126, 160, and 285 come to mind quickly) and most of those kids are just as nervous and anxious as those kids preparing for the Avon sectional.  

More importantly though if you are only looking at the top tier kids, how they do competing with each other, you may be missing a piece of the sport that makes most of us smile especially at sectional.  It is the kids seeded 6th or unseeded at sectional who overcomes all odds and their own doubts to place 4th and get to wrestle at regional.  Some of them will have achieved their only goal in wrestling after 4 years taking a beating in practice, never even believing they could do it because they wrestled behind a stud or had 5 studs in the sectional.  That kid will ll be just as happy (and most likely or more so) than most of the wrestlers who lose in the go round or on Friday night. 

Weak or strong there is a lot of happiness and tears getting ready to happen on Saturday, but that is what make sectional entertaining and brings a lot of smiles.  

You can't forget that most IHSAA rules are put in place to be applied across multiple sports, and like it or not in Indiana basketball is king.  I have not of anyone setting up a high school for wrestlers yet or tempting our top talent to go to a wrestling school that has the system in place to let kids get a high school diploma while they work at their sport with the top AAU kids from the country.

There is a kid down here who is one of the top recruits in the country and there is fear every year he will be coaxed away from the high school to go to a basketball academy.