How about I'm the coach and I choose who wrestles at what weight! I don't want the young men to worry about losing weight and want them to worry about learning how to wrestle. Also I want my best wrestler's to wrestle the best if they can and if works out for the best of the team. This week it did, next week it might not when they are all down to weight. You don't get better running or cutting, you get better by learning how to wrestle. I've never seen a wrestler get better by cutting weight. Every tournament matters, but the only tournament that really matters, in the end, is the state tournament. Our State rule make us take a week off for competition during Christmas and I want them to come back after break and worry about learning how to wrestle. Most of the young men we have, started wrestling when they were freshmen or sophs, like some of the rest of us. I think it paid off w/ all but 2 of our KIDS wrestling up and competing, learning what it takes to place at State. I try to teach them losing is learning and wrestling is the best sport to learn how to be an individual and a team player at the same time. If anyone has a problem w/ how I run my team feel free to give me a call or email at mmedina@sjakeeping.faith.org, but don't ever put down my program where I have great kids working their butt's off to achieve the ultimate goal, place at state and get out of the sport what you put in. This is the best sport and I hate to post, but when you have kids that don't know how to lose weight and have a mandatory break, you have to work them down to weight slowly and when you have kids sick at weight and it allows you to move Kids up to wrestle the best in the state, it works out even better. I root for all the kids and would never want to put down a program or a student/athlete. I think every kid that wrestled is an OW. We have too may kids in all our schools busting their butt's everyday and making the sacrifice. Enough of my rant, I'm done w/ this post.
Mike Medina
St. James Academy
Mike Medina
St. James Academy