This is to Aaron Sweazy and what he is saying, hes right on this and Kansas needs to start looking at getting in tune with the other states so are kids can complete and win.
I have two grandsons that wrestled this year for Hiawatha and both have college coaches talking to them and one is a 10 grader and the other is a 12 grader and after both placed at state this year we see that they should be wrestling most of the year but where, the school will not let them in the wrestling room because it turns into a weight room as soon as schools out.
Now that gas is three dollars a gallon its hard to drive to Topeka to pratice twice a week or any other club. KSHSAA is not looking to change to many rules to help people who love wrestling and maybe we should try and change the people running the KSHSAA.
The second thing I would like to see is our high school coaches wanting to help the kids club and the middle schools wrestling programs, most teachers that are wrestling coaches, are there for the extra money they get paid to coach, now saying that I do know that there are a lot of high school coaches that would and are working with the kids clubs and that is great but there are still to many that are doing it for the money, some coaches are coaching football, wrestlng, track, its hard to make me belive that they are great coaches at all three sports and would take time to work for the kids wrestling club for free.
Take a look at Hiawatha because thats where I live and as you all know we were a very good wrestling team a few years ago and were a good football team to, now as most of you know we lost 9 football games last year and are having a hard time filling our 14 weights in wrestling, Yes we have a few good wrestlers but they came out of the kids program that me and two other men coached, We got very little help from the school other than Rod Spellman. Aaron I hope you understand what I am saying and lets try and work forward to help the kids in Kansas to be able to wrestle year round and get help from the School coaches.
