TeamJesus316

I know if there are any first year coaches in high school that are involved in elementary wrestling also, there is a NFHS coaching education class scheduled for that day. I would love to come to the elementary school meeting, but am required to attend that NFHS meeting by my high school.

Any Elementary school tournaments announced yet? My team is in southeast kentucky with about 6 elementary kids.

When and Where are these tournaments?

Are these tournaments Freestyle format or folkstyle?

Oneida Baptist Insitute in Southeast Kentucky has a new elementary, middle school, and high school program.

I think this is common sense. However you run into situations where a true stud does not make wt. and bumps up a wt. class(because the team has an opening) and he messes up that bracket. I like the tourneys where they ask for 2 or 3 kids that need to be split and go, no true seeding. Actually I would not mind if they blind drew all the tourneys except the region, since it is the one that really counts. If you dont make weight you should not be able to wrestle. Why are we allowing kids to not keep commitments, but still be allowed to compete. Coaches need to send in the roster, and if there is a scratch that is one thing, but if your kid doesnt make weight because he wasnt disciplined enough to do it, he should be dropped out of the tournament. About the online seeding, each team should either send their info in on the forum or email or fax the info to the tournament director. The director should then add it to the forum. That way everyone knows why wrestler A is seeded above wrestler B. If a kid gets hurt or scratched, there should be a twenty minute or so meeting at the conclusion of weighins to verify the seeds. This is what my school did and it worked out great. Dont allow the coaches to argue over seeds at that 20 minute meeting. Seed 1 alternate and bump him in and everyone else up one spot to fill it.

For the california tournaments, my high school used to run a 24 team tournament and it would get done between 9 and 10 at night, but they would break for like an hour or hour and a half between the last round of consolation and the first round of finals. There were pigtails, and if you lost in the pigtails, you went into a seperate consolation bracket and wrestled for 7th and 8th. They used between 5 and 7 mats in two gyms depending on how many mats they could get from surrounding schools. Finals were three mats, 1st/2nd on one, 3rd/4th on another, 5th/6th on the other. The finals would not move on in weight until all the matches for that weight were finished. Usually the tournaments that had problems with taking too long was because of: A. Booking problems. Inviting too many teams and assuming some of them would not have full teams. If they did have mostly full teams, the tournament would take forever. B. Seeding problems. Problems with not all teams sending in their rosters and seeding information and having to adjust the brackets after weighins, causing a late start. My high school one year tried doing the seeding meeting over the forum during the week prior to the tournament. It actually worked out great and got some great publicity for the tournament. Wrestlers knew who were seeded and then the final seeding meeting after weighins was just to verify that everyone made weight. Fans knew the matches to watch for. Just a suggestion. Having all the coaches post their wrestlers records and placings and common opponents on the forum.

Coming from California, Tournaments there routinely get over between 9 and 11 pm, especially if the tournament wants to give the finalists their proper resepct (1 mat finals for 1st/2nd and spotlight if it is available).

sorry phone number typo. 606-847-4111 ext 311. :-o

Oneida Baptist (new team this year) has set up a couple matches: Dual @ Wayne County 12/11 Tri Meet @ Oneida Baptist vs. McCreary Central and Letcher County Tri Meet @ McCreary Central vs. McCreary Central and Whitley County I am looking for more in our region if anyone is looking for a team to fill out a tri meet or tournament, let me know Coach Mendez teamjesus316@hotmail.com 606-847-9111 ext 311

What we would probably need to do is have two coaches correct? The rule just states that you cannot coach your own wrestlers in the off season. If there were two coaches, then technically, if one coach has a kid on the team, he would have to be coached by a different coach from a different school. Am I correct in this interpretation? I am in South East Kentucky, so it wouldnt apply to us since you are only looking for northern Kentucky, but if this got off the ground, we could make one with all the border states if possible: SE KY vs W. VA S KY vs Tenn W KY vs Missouri N KY vs Indiana and or Illinois From my understanding of the rule, we could do this if we had two head coaches, therefore, for example, I could could the McCreary County Kids in our area and the McCreary County Coach could coach the Oneida Baptist kids (just using two schools in the same area to give an example). What does everyone think?

Sorry, California guy here trying to adjust. :-D Are there any openings at the Trinity tournament?

I am coaching at a school that is a 6th-12th grade boarding school. The question I have, if anyone knows, is can a wrestler who is in 7th or 8th grade compete for both the high school and junior high? Are there any rules regarding this? Trying to figure this out so I can schedule matches so everyone can wrestle some. Coach Mendez

Anyone have any open Jr. High Tournaments for this upcoming year? If so, when and where. Thank you. Coach Mendez

Is that first week of competition for scrimmages or official matches?