randalllynch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What I read prior was the NFHS is suggestion that starting in 2023-24 season each state choose to have either 12, 13, or 14 total weight classes.   So unless something has changed since then it will not be something the IHSAA will need to make a change with for a couple more season. 

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

Timmy Burton @160 from Paoli....no love two time SS Qualifier and is a Senior just saying...

To amend my previous post S32 is a day before weigh-in’s so that cut and recovery time is a little different than morning of weigh-ins.  
I’m getting word from Columbus that 170 is where South is planning to be this season.  

Good morning coaches.  Please allow me to help with the posting of results -- if you email me a picture and/or text listing the results of your matches I will make sure they got posted on the website in a timely fashion.  My email address is agentowner@gmail.com -- this will help the whole wrestling community and promote wrestlers for their achievements on the mat.

A wrestler can wear either as long as they are school issued

Weight classes get updated when we do the rankings updates.

As the monster said, due to some illness between myself and my son over the past week+ it isn't as far along as I have wanted. There will be a few late nights this week and I'm hoping for Friday sometime.

As a part of a greater project we now have the brackets from every state tournament from 1985 until 2018. Please feel free to peruse these great brackets and point out any errors in names or spellings or results...or to praise me for the great work. The best way to view is use the sort and go by year. In the future it will be MUCH easier to navigate. I am hoping to add the other years soon. 
http://indianamat.com/index.php?/state_results.html/

As we approach what has to be one of the toughest days in all of sports in Indiana, let' aal ttke aa moment to recognize the efforts of the Coaches, Assistants, parents, and most of all the competitors who allow us the opportunity to witness their journeys.   Ladies and Gentleman, It is Wrestling Semi State Time! 

I bet most of them do care about the scores because it help them compare their results with other team in their area, of their size, and in their sectional.  Now they may not worry to much about making it to Team State, but I best most team like to see where their scores puts them against their competition.

Possibly, but not if that team does feel a Team State bid is within reach and/or don't believe Team State is a useful event.     I'm sure all coaches are pushing to increase numbers, but I'm not sure an off chance of getting invited to Team State will increase their effort more.  If it was a much larger field maybe, but I think most coaches see Team State as nice but still a far off thing right now especially if they have some number issues. 
I do think going to Team State and the school making a big deal of it is helping increase numbers further at some schools.  But those are already schools who have the numbers to make Team State to begin with.

Actually, it’s leaning as far away as it can from Kentucky 
 
 
 

Shoddy workmanship at the Ford Center... It looks like it's about to fall over!

Good news is the Sectional should be over in time to drive to another one and catch the Semi-Finals and Finals.

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.  

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.  

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.