I know section duals have already started, let's get a list going of teams.

I know the last few years there has been problems of teams not wrestling in section duals and teams not going to state duals even though they qualify. I hope teams realize we are trying build this event and what a great experience it is for these teams.

I have been trying to find a list of teams in each sectional. 

 

Easy to find region, but sectional?

 

Can anyone help? 

Big school

SECTIONAL 1: Apollo, Barren Co (no team), Christian Co, Daviess Co, Hopkinsville, Graves Co, McCracken Co, Ohio Co, Owensboro

SECTIONAL 2: Boone Co, Campbell Co, Conner, Cooper, Dixie Heights, Ryle, Simon Kenton

SECTIONAL 3: Bryan Station, Henry Clay, Johnson Central (small school top 4 last season), Lafayette, Madison Central, Madison Southern, Montgomery Co, Dunbar, Tates Creek, Whitley Co

SECTIONAL 4: Anderson Co, Central Hardin, Grant Co, John Hardin, North Hardin, Oldham Co, Scott Co, South Oldham, Woodford Co

SECTIONAL 5: Bullitt Central, Bullitt East, Fairdale, Fern Creek, Iroquois, Meade Co, North Bullitt, PRP, Southern, Valley

SECTIONAL 6: Atherton, Central, Dupont Manuel, Eastern, J-town, Male, Seneca, St. X, Trinity

Small school

SECTIONAL 1: Caldwell, Calloway, Ft. Campbell, Tilghman, Todd Central, Trigg, Trinity (Whitesville), Union, UHA

SECTIONAL 2: Cov. Cath, Holmes, Lex Cath, Lexington Christian, Newport, Scott, Walton-Verona

SECTIONAL 3: Ashland Blazer, Belfry, Bourbon, Boyd, East Ridge, Harrison, Phelps, Pike Central, Sheldon Clark

SECTIONAL 4: Boyle, Danville, Letcher Central, McCreary Central, Perry Central, Wayne

SECTIONAL 5: Franklin Co, KSB, Moore, North Oldham, Shawnee, Spencer Co, Waggener, Western, Western Hills

SECTIONAL 6: DeSales, Doss, Fort Knox, LaRue, Holy Cross, Nelson, Taylor, Thomas Nelson

Union and Calloway qualified from small school section 1.

Both teams will attend the state duals tourney.

Did Union Really make it ?

Thanks for the info coachteater.

 

And like Crazyhorse, shocked that Union made it!

 

Don't look now, but they may turn into being  really good wresting school.   

Small school section 4- Wayne and Boyle co qualify.

Boyle declines state duals. As does 3rd place Danville. By the rule, this will let a 3 from another section get in now.

Cmon you guys if Union can do it anyone can LOL One stop light in the whole town and they are going ,But I did forget State duals are there ,And that brings up the real issue WOW good thing gas prices are down .

Those schools have traveled for years. What does it hurt to give them a chance? If there was a school in any other part of the state that was willing to host we would take it there as well. We are trying to be fair. This was voted on by the representatives selected to represent each region. This was not a one or two person decision. And while I'm at it, what does this have to do with teams not attending Sectionals. The sectionals were put together geographically. If it sounds like I am frustrated...it is because I am. The coaches wanted this split yet teams don't show up to their own sectional. Trying to get teams to fill spots is a nightmare. IF it was up to me and me only....... we would go back to the regional qualifiers and one class. But it is not up to me and as the President I will take what was voted on and make the best event I can.

Is it correct if you don't wrestle in your sectional this year, you are ineligible for the next year? Is that going to be enforced?

Yes it will be.

You are eligible to wrestle in you sectional but ineligible for state duals

Can we mandate that the sectional qualifiers are held on the same day across the state?  Scheduling plays a part I'm sure.  One section wanted to hold theirs on a weeknight that would force other teams to travel to wrestle several duals on a school night.  If they're mandated to all be on the same day then scheduling doesn't become an issue because kids would get several matches that day instead of one or two.  I'll agree that it's a waste of a Saturday to go to the qualifier if only two other teams are there because the others are at various tournaments.

I tried to get this passed coach. Other coaches voted against it based on what they were hearing from their region.

I agree Union does deserve a shot at having it ,I was just saying ,its a haul ,and I know the Union team has to travel a lot ,its all good and yes its good gas prices are down lol.

So can you verify that the points do or do not go against a team.

Definitely same date every year. Scheduling nightmare now!

splitting into big and small kinda took away from state duals anyway and now with teams bailing on sectionals and refusing bids its obvious Ky should go back to the old way. 8 regions, 2 teams per region qualify, meet up in late January and decide who the best dual team is in the state.

 

I'm happy for union they get to host something, hell they pretty much run the state the last several years so they deserve a big home meet and their fans are some of the best and will show up in full force.    But are there hotels available for teams travelling 5+ hours?

I agree that there should be uniformity on the dates. It is a scheduling nightmare for teams and for those that host tournaments during January as the teams available are constantly rotating. I also agree regional duals had a special feeling sectionals do not.

In closing I'll say that the wrestling community at large is lucky to have someone as dedicated to the sport as Coach McCoy. Thank you for all your hard work in all the aspects both public and private in Kentucky. He does more for the sport than anybody right now.

I'll tell you this.  The small school sectionals in our region were changed last minute the last two years.  This year the confusion was on which day it was on. Either the weekday or the weekend.  Found out it was both.  Kind of hard to schedule for that.  Who gets punished for the change in day/days? Teams can't get out of engagements to other tourneys on last minute without a financial penalty and not being invited back the next year.  If it were scheduled on the same day each year it helps with scheduling.  If every school in the state goes to the sectional then there really is not problem.  

 

Sounds to me that the only way to get this problem solved is to get KHSAA to sanction the event.  Kind of like the regional and state tourney.  "You can only wrestle at these events on this day, or don't wrestle at all on that day". 

Yeah they deserve ,But I dont understand run the state the last few yrs im. IM Im all comfuseded CC won then X won CC runner up and Union won CC runner up ,

Section 1 large school qualifiers:

Christian Co

Ohio Co

Will the winner of small school and the winner of big school meet up again like last year ?

It's up to the 2 coaches.

Crazyman,

 

Union was state champs 3 out of last 4 yrs. and 5 out of the last 8.  These results are available on khsaa.org.  Wrestling did not start in KY in 2012.

3 out of the last 4 dual states maybe ,not overall state champs,And wrestling didnt start with you pal ,CC,X ,Union 12 ,13,14,thats reality .And thats not ,3 out of Four ,And if your being a wise Azz about when my sons came to KY they were Born here in 94 ,95 and 2008.Even have a few youth titles here.Of course the two champs.will wrestle its at Union isnt it .

Looking at the KHSAA records although I did not need to ,Your on Crack ,union 14,x 13,CC 12,Tri 11,Tri 10,union 9,

thats 2 out of 6 same as trinity and impossible to be Champs 5 out of 8 .your getting ahead of yourself and looking through some distorted lenses or something.

Does Union have their own set of KHSAA records or is that just the ones you keep in your room with the funny lights .

Jim Cornett and the Midnight Express ??

I thought they won in 2012 but was mistaken.  My bad.  They finished 2nd that year. Champs 4 out of last 8. 

wh wh wh wh whaaaaat the heck,even if they won in 12 and that was CCs yr thats still not 3 out of 4 like you said 3 out of last 4

and 5 out of eight .,They have won 2 out of last six like Trinity and I guess 4 out of eight I dont know I didnt look ,either way

Tbis Crazyman was right and you were wrong on multiple statements .

As for the comment I made that you were so kindly commenting on and reminding me that wrestling did not begin in 2012 ,I have to stick with it ,Union has dominated the small school div and won state and state duals but the last few yrs They have not been the best team ,CC won in 12 runner up to x and dual champs in 13 ,and runner ups to Union in 14 .I think thats a better record or at least equal if your counting duals ,

I am impressed with the way Union has been able to re-load from last year. I would have thought this would be a rebuilding year with losing 6 seniors from last year, of which 5 of the six were on the podium! They look to be in the hunt again this year and even if they do not win the title this year their future looks very good.

Since this thread is for state duals, we should talk about kywca state duals titles. Here is the last ten years( nice round number). I'm ju st posting to clarify. Khsaa has the state team title records.

Click Here for Results

Past KYWCA State Dual Champions

2014 - Big School: Saint Xavier Small School: Union County

2013 - Big School: Campbell County Small School: Union County

2012 - Union County

2011 - LaRue County

2010 - Cancelled Due to Weather

2009 - Cancelled Due to Weather

2008 - Louisville Trinity

2007 - LaRue County

2006 - LaRue County

2005 - Woodford County

Khsaa state team champions

2014-union

2013-st x

2012-campbell

2011-union

2010-trinity

2009- trinity

2008- union

2007- union

2006- woodford

2005- woodford

thanks coach.  I was going by memory at first and mis-gave Union one title.

 

Khsaa state team champions
2014-union
2013-st x
2012-campbell
2011-union
2010-trinity
2009- trinity
2008- union
2007- union
2006- woodford 
2005- woodford 

 

Yep  Campbell right on par with Union.  No way to see that any differently. Nope.  1 title in 8 yrs about the same as 4 I guess.

I tried to get this passed coach. Other coaches voted against it based on what they were hearing from their region.

 

Just my two cents, but that's ridiculous.

 

What's one Saturday to set aside for this? Qualifying for State Duals used to be a big deal, because a lot of folks felt that it crowned the true team state champs. It's almost sad what it's become now, with teams choosing not to participate for whatever reason. If an illness has hit their team, that's one thing.

thanks coach.  I was going by memory at first and mis-gave Union one title.

 

Khsaa state team champions

2014-union

2013-st x

2012-campbell

2011-union

2010-trinity

2009- trinity

2008- union

2007- union

2006- woodford 

2005- woodford 

 

Yep  Campbell right on par with Union.  No way to see that any differently. Nope.  1 title in 8 yrs about the same as 4 I guess.

you should also recgonize the fact that Union typically sends 12-14 wrestlers to state from a region that has been historically weaker than region 6 were they to be in region 6 or 4 they would send fewer wrestlers. the latest rankings has region 6 at 604pts

region 4 at 573 and region 1 a distant 443 and the vast majority of those points are all loaded on one team. so by having the advantage of being in a weaker region thereby sending more to a tourney with the  extra chances to score more points. than a team from a stronger region. So the state duals are a good avenue to gage overall team strength. Last year I thought Union had the best team hands down. reguardless of which region you put them in, dual or tourney. This year I think St.X looks like the team that has the fewest weak links. but their region will weed more of them out. Trinity has 4 good looks at state champs but more empty weight classes. Union will once again flood in 13-14 with 2 probable champs. And region 6 will once again score the most region points.

pairity between CC, Ryle, Simon Kenton, Walton Varona, Scott, Cooper,and the rest will challenge any team to send more than 7 to the dance.

Ok pal someone said union had dominated the last few yrs ,not decade ,And a win and 2 runner ups is better than a win .Plain and simple ,Your the one posting multiple wrong facts ,like 3out of the last four and five out of 8 lol what a joke you get set straight and still try to come out on top ,Admirable but laughable as well.And yes there is no comparison to the regions at all .Also I would wonder if those stud teams from the past in reg six had as much comp from Louisville and Union as they do now ,I doubt it .

Where did Union place at the Rumble ?

Just my two cents, but that's ridiculous.

 

What's one Saturday to set aside for this? Qualifying for State Duals used to be a big deal, because a lot of folks felt that it crowned the true team state champs. It's almost sad what it's become now, with teams choosing not to participate for whatever reason. If an illness has hit their team, that's one thing.

You say it used be a big deal because Gary Canter who was an easy interview for you made it out to be something bigger than it was. I don't blame him. I would have done the same if I wasn't ever going to win a KHSAA title. We have a single tournament for a state champion and it gets further diluted with this big/small school thing.

You say it used be a big deal because Gary Canter who was an easy interview for you made it out to be something bigger than it was. I don't blame him. I would have done the same if I wasn't ever going to win a KHSAA title. We have a single tournament for a state champion and it gets further diluted with this big/small school thing.

 

Who mentioned Canter?

 

Yeah, he was great to work with, but he wasn't the only one saying the State Duals were a big deal. And I agree with you that it's been further watered down by the split. I don't know how to "fix" it, either.

I wouldn't give Union bulletin board material and a few seem to be forgetting this was "supposed" to be a down year for them

They seem to be a Stud factory .

me trying to figure out how 1 title is equal to 4 titles

 

Crazyman,

 

Union was state champs 3 out of last 4 yrs. and 5 out of the last 8.  These results are available on khsaa.org.  Wrestling did not start in KY in 2012.

me trying to figure out how one title is better than one title and two runner up performances in the last few yrs not last 8 , And of course wth you were talking about when you posted this giberish .

So far-

Section 1 Big school

Christian county/Ohio County

Section 1 small school

Union county/ Calloway County

Section 4 small school

Wayne county/Boyle county (not attending)

Any others in yet?

Campbell and Ryle out of region 6 with SK in third not sure on small school

 

Josh Claywell

 

The reason why some teams cannot give up a Saturday is they are like GOO said already committed to tourneys (some they have been going to since the early 90's).  To force a team to change its schedule for ease of identifying state dual qualifiers is kind of crazy.  I went and watched whatever section Region 6 is and it was only four teams CC, Ryle, SK, and Dixie.  6 has enough teams to make it a two day dual tourney, but the teams that did not show can't fill a line-up.

 

My point is to force a team like Cooper to go to duals (they had 6 or 7 kids at the conference the week before) in which they are giving up 42 points and have no chance to win the dual makes absolutely no sense to me, when they can go to another event and get better competition for the athletes they have.

 

And for the distance

 

Union hosts it this year shouldn't it be moved from section to section each year?  Who pays for the venue if it is not at a school?

Its not sanctioned so there are NO POINTS taken.

Neverbreak, I get that. But what I'm wondering is why teams can't have the duals penciled in on their schedule and have another on the docket just in case they don't qualify? I know a few teams around my area did that, choosing to enter Fort Knox's tournament in case they didn't make it to State Duals.

 

I'm not trying to argue anything; just trying to better understand it all.

Section 6:

Trinity 1st

St. X 2nd

Great finals dual! Came down to last match.

Do we have a completed list of ALL of the teams that qualified for the LARGE and SMALL State Duals yet?

As far as I can tell based off all the posts

Large school:

Christian Co

Ohio Co

Fern Creek

Meade Co

Oldham Co

North Hardin

Trinity (Louisville)

ST. X

Campbell Co

Ryle

Henry Clay

Johnson Central

Small school:

Union Co

Calloway Co

That's all I've seen

Small school Doss and LaRue

Also Wayne co.

I've also been told ft. Campbell will be going as a 3rd to replace Boyle co

Who qualified for the Section 2 small schools?

I've heard Newport is in, don't know the other.

Also I know Harrison co is in

Cov Scott was the other team that qualified in Small School Section 2.

Thats really neat if Newport is in and goes ,the coaches there are go getters and so are the wrestlers good stuff from a fairly new team .

Sectional 2 Small School

Scott 1st

Newport 2nd

Congrats to Newport and to Scott.

Section 5 Small School

 

Moore

North Oldham

Just an FYI. 15 schools did not attend the sectionals in the small school division and four did not in the big school division.

Has anyone other than union and Calloway qualified for small school ?

All info is on another thread.

In the section 2 qualifier the date was changed and was confusing as to which date was the correct one.  Let alone it finally being held on the middle school district day, which does not allow for a team to be at 100%.  Maybe not a big deal for the big schools, but for the small schools its a big deal.  

In the section 2 qualifier the date was changed and was confusing as to which date was the correct one. Let alone it finally being held on the middle school district day, which does not allow for a team to be at 100%. Maybe not a big deal for the big schools, but for the small schools its a big deal.

I have to disagree on your point about being small or big. Or being 100%. I was at a small school the last 2 years and only had maybe 8-10 weights and young kids. But I went to section duals, and finished toward the bottom both times. But you know what, I felt it was my obligation as a coach for the state, not just my team to support what the association is trying to do. Could I have not gone, yes. But some things always aren't about out individual teams, it's about building wrestling as a whole and being united. I get Coach McCoy's frustration and hopefully more will eventually make the sacrifice for the better of all.

With the original date we were going to make the effort to go and probably would have, but we were obligated financially to another tourney when the date was changed.  Our head coach is ticked about the whole situation.  

One team was not able to travel to wrestle multiple duals on a weeknight. The date was changed to accommodate and several schools apparently were already committed for the second date.

With the original date we were going to make the effort to go and probably would have, but we were obligated financially to another tourney when the date was changed. Our head coach is ticked about the whole situation.

See, there is a difference in that and the first statement. I understand financial issues and the schedule issue, but you made it sound like cause you weren't a 100% you didn't want to go.

And "make an effort"? That's why we need a change in mentality. It needs to be a priority, just like regions is to qualify for state

The MS thing had and effect on Male as well. To those that say well I know I don't have a shot, so why go? In Big School Section 6 we have Trinity and X. Both in the top three. Every team still attended.

Yes that is true.  Our hands were tied.  If we would have forfeited the money to the other tourney our school would have had a fit.  On top of that if we would have qualified we would not have been able to go because our school would not have sprung for the hotel stay, heck they complain when we have to stay for the state tourney. 

Ok. I understand not being able to go for financial reasons because it is Union. But I do not like that teams use that as an excuse. Your sectional should have made a date for everyone to attend. Sectionals were done geographically.

I think maybe is should be like Ohio is doing. They spread it out over the 2-3 weeks before state duals.  Allows for a couple of duals on the weekdays every week.  No weekend is disturbed for those who have been attending tourneys for years.  And yes I know the OHSAA sanctions the event and forces them to do so. 

As I said before, all the sectional qualifiers should be on a Saturday, just like the regional tournament. Traveling on a school night to wrestle several duals just isn't possible; they wouldn't get home until early in the morning. Having them all on the same date makes the most sense but I would settle for just having it on a Saturday.

So here is the issue. We don't want a common date because of tournaments teams have been in forever. But we can't find a common date to make it work. Something has to give.

Yes that is true. Our hands were tied. If we would have forfeited the money to the other tourney our school would have had a fit. On top of that if we would have qualified we would not have been able to go because our school would not have sprung for the hotel stay, heck they complain when we have to stay for the state tourney.

Consider yourself lucky you get any school help. Fayette County does not give a dime to any program. Not transportation, tournament fees, equipment, nothing! It's all raised by the team.

We did that Bulldog. Teams still didn't attend. Where's the compromise

We just said they had to be done by January 17th yet 19 schools chose not to attend.

:I'm all for more matches. We use to use our NKAC tourney as our qualifier.  One year we had round robin duals in 2 days.  I started with 5 wrestlers on the 1st day and only had (1) on the second day and wrestled 5 duals with 1 wrestler.  I did it but would never do it again.  It was embarrassing to the one wrestler I had to watch 13 kids get there hand raised after he wrestled (he was a 106 lber)  He was an 7th grader who begged be to just forfeit his match, but I refused. 

So what is the answer? As president I am looking for ways to make this the event possible and help grow wreslting in KY

We did that Bulldog. Teams still didn't attend. Where's the compromise

We just said they had to be done by January 17th yet 19 schools chose not to attend.

I know it's an assumption, but I would have to guess that out of the teams that choose not to compete, none had a chance in you know where to qualify, so they just didn't go. Let's get real, that's the main reason no matter what they say. There are exceptions and I get it, but not every team has those issues

Consider yourself lucky you get any school help. Fayette County does not give a dime to any program. Not transportation, tournament fees, equipment, nothing! It's all raised by the team.

We are lucky in that fact then.  because If that were true here we would not have a team and I would be somewhere else. 

We had a chance.  We have a punchers chance against Newport and will find out next wed.  I believe it will come down to 1 match as to who will win the dual. 

We did that Bulldog. Teams still didn't attend. Where's the compromise

We just said they had to be done by January 17th yet 19 schools chose not to attend.

OK I did not know that.  I am not the top dog here.  I have no idea how things are done now, it has changed since i last was here 6 years ago.  Our head coach is just now getting organized to where he may know when the meetings are.  

 

It comes down to each sectional.  You should make sure that every team had a dual with every other team in the sectional at some time before the state duals.  It shouldn't matter if its the 1st weekend or the week prior.  You take that win or lose and count it toward qualifying to state duals.  We wrestled 2 of the teams earlier in the year.  That could have counted toward the sectional qualifier.  It shouldn't be hard to schedule duals with everyone in your sectional.  As you mentioned it was done geographically.  It does not have to be one event to qualify. 

I wouldn't have a problem dueling teams on different dates, even at night. We didn't have a chance to qualify but attended anyway and got our butts kicked. I'm all for growing the sport and State Duels does just that. Teams wanted it to be split so small schools would have better shot. Well now they have it so they need to step up and take advantage of what they got. The real answer is to get the KHSAA involved, but don't know if that's possible. I'm sure it's been tried.

I wouldn't have a problem dueling teams on different dates, even at night. We didn't have a chance to qualify but attended anyway and got our butts kicked. I'm all for growing the sport and State Duels does just that. Teams wanted it to be split so small schools would have better shot. Well now they have it so they need to step up and take advantage of what they got. The real answer is to get the KHSAA involved, but don't know if that's possible. I'm sure it's been tried.

there has been talks about giving it to khsaa before

Back in the dino age in NKY we had a master schedule.  You were assigned a week where you had to wrestle a team on or before that week.  Then the next week and so on.  It worked out because the small teams that could not hold home meets or the big schools did not want to waste a date only wrestling 3-6 matches because of forfeits could piggyback on another dual, and make it a tri or quad.  By the end of the year every team in the district had wrestled each other. It helped with seeding the district tourney. 

Back in the dino age in NKY we had a master schedule. You were assigned a week where you had to wrestle a team on or before that week. Then the next week and so on. It worked out because the small teams that could not hold home meets or the big schools did not want to waste a date only wrestling 3-6 matches because of forfeits could piggyback on another dual, and make it a tri or quad. By the end of the year every team in the district had wrestled each other. It helped with seeding the district tourney.

only problem is most people seem to hate week night wrestling now.

The problem with wrestling on weeknights now are the descent plans. I understand why they're necessary and lack of serious weight cutting has improved the sport but this has been a negative side effect. You either have to make weight three times in an eight day period or wrestle up a weight and mess up the following weekend, but still have to monitor it.

On the other side having a week night meet actually helps the wrestler maintain and control his weight. I have seen swings between after the weekend comming in to practice 9-10 lbs. over and starvation for the rest of the week. 

 

   Back in the stone age, we did have dual matches during the week,  If that were still done then you could use those results as the

qualifying events and not have to use a weekend for all the teams to attend.

I really liked weeknight duals when I wrestled and they usually got more fans to attend. But this was before we had weight dropping regulation and usually the majority of the team would bump up one weight or we'd throw in a tough JV kid to help in the lineup. But I realize that just isnt an option for most schools. We  probably had over 50 wrestlers and several of our "JV" kids wouldve been state placers if they weren't behind studs.  The fact is there is no way to tweak the schedule to help out the small teams with less than 10 kids. Obvs coach mccoy has done everything he can to make this dual tourney accomodating to everyone....and yet still teams are bailing on it. They are short-handed in every way and need to build their program in order to be flexible on scheduling.  But they can't build the program until they get exposure and opportunities to compete in cool events like state duals.  So its like a chicken and the egg argument.

Ok. I understand not being able to go for financial reasons because it is Union. But I do not like that teams use that as an excuse. Your sectional should have made a date for everyone to attend. Sectionals were done geographically.

 

Not piling on or anything, but I have one question. If the sectionals were done geographically, why was Woodford County competing at John Hardin? Wouldn't it have made sense to send them to Lexington?

I was very pleased this spring when I was asked to be the sectional rep for Small School Section 2.  I immediately contacted the other coaches that were in our section and started to plan a date that would work for everyone.  The previous year things had been way out of whack with numerous attempts to hold our sectional qualifier all being snowed out.  I wanted to do my best to avoid that this year.

 We had set a date for January 7th.  A weeknight, where we all could meet and have our sectionals.  A wrench was thrown in when two schools from Lexington were added to our sectional.  I informed them of the date, however, they told me they could not compete on a weeknight.  I spoke with every coach and when I realized that some were committed to Saturday events already I decided to hold the event on both days (the 7th and the 17th).  I had our gym reserved on the 7th and planned on having Newport, Walton, Holmes, and Cov Cath attend.  Then I would hold Saturday the 17th for the Lexington schools to come up and compete.    I informed each team that we would take the best two teams who wrestled in the sectionals.  I informed everyone that if we (Scott High) lost to any team and there was a controversy that we would forfeit our spot and they could attend state duals.  It was then that some teams began to pull out.  Some had small teams and injuries were taking their toll, others had scheduling conflicts, one team folded.  Cov Cath told me they had other things going on, (first home meet in teams history, congrats) etc. and pulled out.  Walton sent me an E-mail notifying me that they were not going to compete in the sectional qualifiers due to having a young team and other commitments.  Tim at Newport said he was down for whatever we needed to do.  I had not heard from Holmes,  My calls were not returned.  I would have still wrestled on the 7th regardless who showed up.  

 

All in all I tried my best to accommodate everyone, I know Saturdays are difficult, however, if competing for state duals and being a representative of your area is as important to everyone as it is important to us.  Things wouldn't be this hard.

I know wrestling is an individual sport for most people, but at Scott high we are a family.  We compete together, we train together, we bleed together, we win together, we lose together, we cry together, we grow together.   Wrestling ends for 95% of student athletes at 18 years old.  5% get to lengthen their career 4-5 years by attending college.  Regardless at 25, all you are left with are the lessons you learn to become a good man.  I am now 26 and continue to strive to be considered a good man.  

That rant now over.   Scott High needs teams to attend our senior night on Jan 28th.  If any school would like to come up, we would gladly do a home and away series for the upcoming years.  Hopefully some sectional schools would like to come.  

It was done geographically and to try to align more with the newregions. They were in with Oldham and others. One complaint was teams couldn't see teams from their region so we tried to accommodate both.