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The day before weigh-ins are for Youth State Tournament...so you might of heard about that.....Middle School is morning of.

Practice is cancelled for tomorrow for all our wrestlers with last name that starts with P

Great day of wrestling today as we had what was probably our first Bluegrass Youth State Dual hosted by John Hardin Bulldogs. Congratulations to Maritime Wrestling for going undefeated on the day and congrats to Jayden Raney of Maritime for being selected MOW, well deserved! 1st Place - Maritime Wrestling 2nd Place - River City Gold 3rd Place - Anderson County 4th Place - South Oldham 5th Place - Scott County Black 6th Place - Walton Verona 7th Place - MTS (Moore) 8th Place - John Hardin 9th Place - River City Green 10th Place - North Oldham 11th Place - Taylor County 12th Place - Kentucky Stars Wrestling Academy 13th Place - ALL STARS 14th Place - Scott County Red 1st-4th River City Gold defeated Anderson County 57-21. Maritime Wrestling defeated South Oldham 55-18. River City Gold defeated South Oldham 60-21. Maritime Wrestling defeated Anderson County 59-30. Maritime Wrestling defeated River City Gold 58-27. Anderson County defeated South Oldham 48-33. 5th-8th Walton Verona defeated MTS (Moore) 43-27. Scott County Black defeated John Hardin 48-30. Scott County Black defeated MTS (Moore) 42-22. Walton Verona defeated John Hardin 39-37. MTS (Moore) defeated John Hardin 42-27. Scott County Black defeated Walton Verona 44-21.

Yeah, we let him compete, that was kind of the consensus we came to is he wasn't our MS starter and 90% of his tournaments were at the youth level. Curious to see how he does at State since everybody in his weight class (92) are 7th & 8th graders, ought to be interesting, will be good experience.

Good Grief......you have a pen I can right their weights down with??

I agree and that's why I put that statement in there about 5th graders that are Middle School starters. Now, another decision I had struggled with is we have a 5th grader that didn't wrestle Middle School all year but practices with the Middle School and Youth and we entered him in MS Districts for the experience and he placed 2nd qualifying for Region, he goes to Region and places 3rd qualifying for MS State. What do you do in this instance, now obviously if he places top 6 on Saturday he wont compete Sunday but do you let a 5th grader like that compete at the Youth State Dual?

Nope, you are spot on....we decided to cut it off at 5th graders BUT I still put a statement in there that they could not be Middle School Starters since many of your lighter, 75-86, 4th and 5th graders are starters for their Middle School. thank you for your input...this is definitely what we are looking for to better this event for the future.

Yes sir, it was a discussion that was had but in the Youth bylaws residency for competing in KY tournaments is not addressed, only for Youth State, so since he was a paying member of the club it was decided to be allowed this time around. But you make a very good point and that might be something we spell out for next year. Thank you for your input, this is what we are looking for to better this event next year and years after that.

I spoke to the Scott Raney from Maritime inquiring about him and Scott assured me he is a fifth grader just a freak of nature and I have no reason to ever question Scott. Because of his size and age they have a hard time finding him matches through out the year, when you look at him you would ask if he drove himself to the tournament but when you watch him interact with other kids and his teammates he acts like 11 y.o. / 5th grader. He could of definitely been older but I didn't ask teams to provide birth certificates for the event BUT maybe we add that next year just as we did for State this year.

After talking to you about this at the Purler Camp you all hosted it became a goal for this year and continue to grow on...appreciate the information.

He was a big boy!

Oh yeah...good thinking..probably not bad idea. Keeping in mind all the teams were K-5th.

Possibly, Kentucky Stars Wrestling Academy did have a wrestler in their club that lived just across the border in Clarksville. His parents are probably stationed at Ft. Campbell.

45 Brennen East of Walton Verona went 5-0 (All by Fall) 50 Barret Wells of River City Gold went 5-0 Xavier Bottoms of River City Green went 5-0 55 Shayne Stilts of MTS (Moore) went 6-0 60 Steven Brown of Kentucky Stars Wrestling Academy went 6-0 65 Jayden Raney of Maritime Wrestling went 5-0 (All by Fall) 70 Reese Mcgill of South Oldham went 6-0 Sophie Anderson of Walton Verona went 5-0 (All by Fall) 75 Hunter Schimming of Walton Verona went 5-0 Jordyn Raney of Maritime Wrestling went 5-0 These two never met at the dual but my money would be on Raney after watching him wrestle 80 James Barragen of Maritime Wrestling went 5-0 85 Jack James of Maritime Wrestling went 5-0 90 Cam Stahley of Kentucky Stars Wrestling Academy went 4-0 95 Joshua Strayer of Anderson County went 5-0 (All by Fall) 100 Paxton Aldridge of Kentucky Stars Wrestling Academy went 6-0 105 Tucker Roth of River City Gold went 4-0 112 Luke Hyden of Walton Verona went 4-0 120 Gus Marble of River City Gold went 5-0 HWT Caleb Burt of River City Green went 6-0 Dereyon Harris of John Hardin went 6-0

McCracken (Paducah)

the weights will be entered when they weigh in on Friday Saturday or Sunday. Jonathan Strayer jnv858@gmail.com

Well let me check, i'll have to get right back with you

Yes Marcella, MS weigh-ins will count Jonathan Strayer jnv858@gmail.com

Yes they will. Jonathan Strayer jnv858@gmail.com

Wrestling in KY isn't big enough yet....what are their weights/ages? Our first year we bought online

Coaches, We have decided to add morning weigh ins for the Youth state tournament on the day of. Here is the schedule for weigh ins: -Friday February 3rd6-9PM at Crowne Plaza Hotel 830 Philips Lane Louisville, KY 40209 -Saturday February 4th1-4PM at Crowne Plaza Hotel 830 Philips Lane Louisville, KY 40209 -Sunday February 5th6:30-7:30AM at Broadbent Arena -Sunday February 5th 11:00AM-12:00PM at Broadbent Arena Please encourage wrestlers that can to weigh in prior to the day of the event. Make sure your wrestlers are aware they must show a copy of their Birth Certificate at weigh in. Questions or issues please contact: Jonathan Strayer @ jnv858@gmail.com Tyler Baines @ johntylerbaines@gmail.com Scott Raney @ purchaseareapounders@gmail.com 2017-Kentucky-Youth-State-Wrestling-Championships.pdf

Goo, I actually take copious notes as I scroll through these forums to see what the consensus is out in the field, like I said this is only my first year on the KSWA board and I am still forming ideas and thoughts fluidly. I know in Central KY we have discussed having a coaches meeting to get a consensus in our area so we speak with a unified voice on as many topics as possible when it comes time for he KSWA coaches meeting.

Yup, sorry, not well versed at typing.

Weigh-ins: Friday 3 FEB 6-9pm @ Crowne Plaza Friday 4 FEB 1-4pm @ Crowne Plaza

I think I see what your saying Goo, so when issues are brought up from the field (coaches) the we the board memebers are the only ones that vote on it not the collective group? That does make sense, although I personally like to collect as many opinions and thoughts from the field before making a decision and the only way to do that is max participation from the collective group. I would love to get emails from the field if somebody isn't able to make the meetings.....this is my first year on the board and I have my own initial platform but I am also trying to build and improve that platform with opinions from across the field.