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Caldwell County High School has a job opening for Special Education position. Collab setting 9-12th grade. If interested contact this email address below for additional information. jason.walls@caldwell.kyschools.us

Just wanted to see how everyone that is hosting tournaments this season will handle the new start date? Will everyone just bump their tournaments up a month? or will those tournaments that were scheduled in December need to find dates in February? I don't really have a preference, just as long as we all get to compete.

Caldwell Co. is looking for tournaments for January 9th and January 23rd. If you are hosting a tournament or know of one please contact Coach Walls at: jason.walls@caldwell.kyschools.us

I agree 119Rider. It was small, but fun.

I think that going by 10's (100, 110, 120, 130, etc.) should be considered. If that was in place kids wouldn’t be able to drop weight classes as much. The way it is set up now a kid that is wrestling 138 at the start of the year could be tempted to drop to 134 after Christmas, because it’s only four pounds. If you went by tens and eliminated the growth allowance you could eliminate a lot of those temptation. Age shouldn't be a factor for cutting weights. Caldwell had an 8th grader finish third at state in 1982.

Walls was Caldwell's first 8th grade Region champ and Gray was Caldwell's first four time Region Champ. Congrats to Mason!

We have all been in a match where a call doesn’t go our way, but this weekend I (Coach Walls) from Caldwell actually had a ref make a call that I questioned. The call didn’t get changed and I received my warning for questioning the call. Later in the tournament that same ref came up to me and said “I apologize, earlier you were right” and took away the warning he gave me. I responded with how I appreciated him letting me know that. I would like to say thanks on here, because I realize it would have been a lot easier to continue the day and say nothing...and the fact that no one else even knew that it took place. Thank you.

For what it is worth. Being Seeded two or three is the same thing. Nothing really to argue about on those two spots.

Thanks for the heads up.

14- Casey Cornett 170 13- Sheffer 138 12- Castellano 132 11- Andreoni 182 10- Wallace 113 9- Culver 220 8- Moore 126 7- Jones hwt 6- Insko 120 5- Smallwood 152 4- Roberts 145 3- Mattingly 106 2- Irving 195 1- Gray 160 Dark horse- Duke 145 Union 230

Falcon, "Focus should be on athleticism, having kids understand how their body moves in wrestling, not techniques that get wins at the youth level." Totally agree. Could be why the kid quits when they get older, because those type of techniques don't work and they have fallen behind the rest of the pack with their development.

I know from my experience here at Caldwell Co. is they didn't have a feeder program. Middle School started their organization around 2000 and I was hired in 2007 and started Tiger Wrestling in 2008, so I'm a little behind on that part and it shows. Another thing I'm sure other coaches face, I coach all levels (Youth, Middle, and High), so when you see these teams with say two coaches at youth/middle and then double that for high school that makes a big impact as far as kid/staff ratio. You take those factors and throw in an enrollment of 600 students, it becomes a difficult task at times to be competitive along with having a full roster. The more hands on deck at all levels, I think really makes the biggest impact. I'm not referring to the weekend warriors that you never see until tournament time. I'm referring to practice/instruction time where all the kids are getting equal one on one instruction is when programs see the fastest and biggest results. Just my opinion tho.

I think the jacket thing got shut down, because it could keep those receiving them from wrestling in college. I started wrestling with the High school in 1988/89 season. If I remember correctly it was considered getting paid as an amateur. Not completely sure on that. Not long after that Coach's threw in money, so if a wrestler won a T shirt or anything from tournaments they were actually bought.

Can't speak for other Region's, but Region 1 numbers seem to be down due to injuries along with a few guys just quitting their team. Hate to hear any kid removing themselves from a sport before it's over. I know it makes things hard on the Coaching staff and the fact you don't want that type of behavior to become a habit even after your done with wrestling.

119Rider, that mentality could be why I never got the gold lol. Did make college transition a lot easier tho.