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My 2 cents on 8 placers is it's a good thing for future recruitment. I understand some weight classes could be placing everyone or almost everyone but when I go to recruite next season if I have 7 wrestlers and get 5 or more of them on the podium I can use that when I'm trying to encourage more girls for next season and bragging rights for those girls in school. The more they can brag about their accomplishments the better for us. It's only the parents and coaches who complain it's watered down. We all know if you take 7th as a wrestler you're telling all your friends you're the 7th toughest, baddest girl in the whole state. Let them brag and get something for their hard work.

Maybe. Too old to put on the girls wrestling team. Can she coach? Could always use an assistant.

Nice jump in numbers from year 1 to year 2. Hopefully it keeps going and we can press the state to sanction girls wrestling. That should be the obvious goal in taking the next step. Once again I saw a lot of good wrestling and I need to give a shout out to my daughter Savannna Bacon, a senior, as that was possibly her last match as a high school wrestler. She had what I think was one of the bigger brackets with 19 girls, though I think one dropped out so maybe 18. She wrestled 4 matches, all first period pins and was on the mat a total of 3 minutes and 23 seconds and had no points scored against her! She was a buzzsaw! Yes, this dad is bragging, sorry it's my last chance.. haha! Wrestling with the Union County boys the past two seasons definitely paid off so thanks to everyone at home and thank you to everyone who put this state tournament on for our girls and thank you to all the girls that wrestled this past weekend for stepping out there and battling in what is one of the toughest sports for an athlete. Congratulations to all the champs! Looking forward to watching girls wrestling grow. It has to because I still have two more girls coming up ;)

I'm dropping to 220, hopefully by summer. Christmas dinner killed me though !

I dont see how there could not be an issue with a state qualifier being before Christmas. I would have an issue with it. If it's a "qualifier" you qualify at the weight you wrestle. Many wrestlers go down a weight class when they get the 2lbs after Christmas. Why is any qualifier over a month before the tournament? I cant possibly be the only person who thinks that's just weird but then again, what do I know

Good read https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-school-wrestling-was-fading-then-came-the-girls-11577797653?reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Already very odd having a qualifier so early and right during Christmas break. Strange they want it even earlier next year before the 2lbs allowances. Just curious, are wrestlers locked into their weight classes for JV state at this "qualifier"? Usually that's how it works but I'm still getting used to Kentucky rules.

So did Union County have any JV kids at this qualifier?

I had no idea about a JV qualifier going on. I also heard about a Fort Cambell girls tournament but never got the date. Guess I'm not in the loop enough

Anyone know if there has been any progress getting the girls "state" tournament sanctioned by the Khsaa?

Yea, I'm sure some people dont mind it just sucks for my daughter as we don't have any women tournaments in our area so the state tournament is it as far as women only wrestling goes during the season. Kentucky girls definitely coming on strong and I hope it continues as I still have a few of my own girls coming up

Sad to see they will do the girls "state" tournament the same time as JV and middle school state again. I know a lot of girls that dont make Varsity wrestle all year with their JV high school teams and they don't get many tournaments as it is. Seems like we could choose a different weekend so they could compete with their teammates. Not to mention high schools sending coaches to the JV state run thin trying to send coaches to girls when they usually only have 1 or 2 girls. Last year we helped coach a very tough young woman who didn't have a coach attend, possibly for that reason. I know for my daughter I haven't decided whether to do the girls or just send her to JV

That's why I said "I think" it was the first match. I knewit was the first or second. It was just a bad no call. As someone has since posted the rules, should have been stopped and if he did it again, stalling. Bottom kid never had a chance.

And as far as the misinterpretations of "bashing refs", I would never. They are however paid for their services so... I have a son who's failing two classes right now and I flat out told him it's horrible and unacceptable and he's lost any and all privileges until he gets them up and proves he can and will do better. I'm not bashing my son, I'm trying to make him better. If I let him continue to suck at school he wont bother trying. They need to know it's not good.

And I said I dont want to bash them either. I told you what we did in Pa, I'm not 100% sure what we do here. Do they have training? Do they have weekly or bi weekly meetings with interpreters in their area? Do the join chapters and are they required to attend a certain amount of meetings during the season to discuss and learn the rules and what they're doing wrong? Do they get evaluated by their peers? We did all those things in Pennsylvania and I feel the quality of reffing as a whole was 10 times better. I guess the only way I'll know what we do here is to sign back up and get back out on the mat. I love reffing, I love wrestling and I like and respect referees and the thankless job they do but sometimes it pains me when the battle isn't between two good wrestlers but it's between two wrestlers and a ref that infuses himself into the match or just plain doesnt seem to know what the rules are or how to interpret them.