The Kansas Kids Executive Council has awarded the State Championships form 2010 - 2012 to Topeka.

Yesterday the council met and listen to three wonderful presentations from Wichita, Hays, and Topeka. All three cities can feel very proud of there presentation teams as they represented each city in a very proud way and made our decision a very diffcult one to make.

There was a lot of debate on the length of time to award the bid and the choice was three.

Everyone on the council recognize's the need for us to make changes in our sport, and we felt that three years gives us the time to study all the issues, make plans to take to the memebership to be discuss and then we can all agree on how to proceed forward.

Please keep in mind that Wrestling in Kansas is on solid ground right now. Memeberships continue to grow, in are current season we are up 300 wrestlers from past years. Nation wide we continue to hold the number four spot in memebership behind California, Illinois & Indaina. Our membership is active both in state but on a national scale as well. Plus our State Tournament conitunes to the priemer event in our state and we is recongized on a natiional level as being one of the best and we want to keep that going.

So as we move forward please become part of the process when ask to volunteer to sit on a committee give up some time, when ask your opinion please feel free to share, let's keep working together to make wrestling and our state championships the best in the country.

Please join me in thanking Wichita and Hays for wonderful bids and congratulations to Topeka for being awarded the State Championships for the next three years.

Ned Price
Executive State Director
Kansas Kids