SPORTS MAN

I would get with one of the local teams. Usually local wrestling coaches will help other teams get started just to increase the popularity of the sport. It also gives them closer compitition.

Classy or Classless? It is a game. It looks to me like he was just having fun in a game that was invented for fun. He was also putting on a show that everyone there wanted to see. If it doesn't affect you how can it offend you.

Who are they returning in the backfeild? Last year they had 3 or 4 kids maybe even 5 that could all run.

Today people seem to think its an eating disorder if someone won't eat McDonald's or if they don't drink soda. With the new regualations its hard to do the extreme tactics that athletes went through before. By today's standards I wouldn't even be aloud to drop but a few pounds and i'm 215lbs. There are no sauna's, no plastics, and you have to make weight very early in the season.

Yes they wrestle against boys. Girls do hold their own in the grade school levels.

How far are you from WV. You should look into taking them outside of the state for summer compitition. It will help them more than you could imagine. There is a pretty big gap in talent between WV and KY. I used to compete at the Mason Co open in Pt Pleasant WV. There was one day for the youth alone. I've never seen so many kids from 3-12 wrestling.

If you have seen a wrestling meet and thought it was boring than you just did not understand what was going on. Its kind of like taking your girlfreind to a football game(except for my wife, she understands the game better than most men). But wrestling isn't as popular as football or basketball. That doesn't mean they should end the sport(or in this case not pick it up). If you look at it in a world veiw football isn't as popular as soccer. But for me that doesn't make it less appreciated. Your assumption that wrestling crosses over to lineman but not skill positions just shows your lack of knowledge on what wrestling improves. If you notice most of the weight classes go along with the sizes of skill players more than lineman. It increases eyehand coordination, foot speed, agility, flexibility, core strength, grip strength and so much more. That translates into any position. There are alot of kids in the school that don't play basketball, give them something to do.

Theres several tournaments in WV. I'm not sure about the website but you can google it. Its something like WVmat.net.

Your arguement for not adding it seems to come from you being a fan of basketball. Well thats your choice. Alot of wrestling programs in KY will actually let teams borrow things like mats to get programs started. Everything has limited continuation at the next level. Wrestling may not have a legit professional association (which there was one started but i do not know how it is doing) but there are still college programs, aau teams, world team, and the olymipics. How is that different than other sports. As far as basketball coaches fear of losing athletes to wrestling. Well they usually don't have to worry about it. Basketball players don't make for the best wrestlers usually. Football players do. The last time i checked there are alot more football players at Russell than Basketball players.

I've personally talked to people on the board or control for the khsaa and they stated that title IX shouldn't play a part. Wrestling is technically a coed sport. Its the interpretation from the local part that causes the problems most of the time.

The main difference is usually form. Its usually a pause rep bench and a parellel squat with judges.

Well their not high school only meets but you can see a USPF powerlifting meets that has all age groups. The WV state meet is in Charleston during march. The Ky state meat is in Prestonsburg during april. Theres also the NASA state meet in paintsville during march. These are powerlifting meets though. Just squat, bench and deadlift. No olympic lifts.

Most of the guys mentioned on here are big guys. Most are probally around 300lbs. I just wanted to throw another name out there. Micheal Jackson from Woodford Co. Known mainly for wrestling i believe he played football too. It was rumored that he Benched over 300lbs. He wrestled at 119lbs.

Shannon was one of the strongest people on MSU's team when i played there too. I remember walking in and seeing him rep out 315 for reps on the military press.

A world record for a high school kid but no where close to the world record.