Taylor Moeder and Chase Nitcher battled for seven periods, 8.5 minutes for the 135lb title Saturday night in Derby. It was a well wrestled and hard fought match. Jeff Nitcher is looking down and smiling as Chase left it all on the mat and took his loss gracefully even though it was his first in nearly 70 matches! Taylor bumping up from 130 made him an shoe for the OW. Congratulations to Taylor, the Moeders and Coach Medina.
Good luck to both in their quest to repeat as state champs!

Amen!

right on, i commend the wrestlers who go for competition rather than medals.

...guess it's fair to your teammates to pick and choose what weight you're wrestling that week. Yes it's good to seek competition but it's also good to have loyal, committed teammates with everyone's interest in mind.

I guess it's a good thing our boys can work together as a team when the weights do change. All of the SJA boys did great.

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

Well Said ......... this thread is about a great match. ....alot more could be said about life not being fair or fueds with Will should stay that way ... but I guess this should be left as ... Well Said..... and a thread about what sounds like was a great match between 2 great kids.

i think it's just difference in opinions. somewhere sometime a kid cut weight or didn't work hard enough, and took another kids spot. i don't think any of it was against you or your program coach medina. like i have told mr. cokeley some speak out of envy, and jealousy don't let them tear you down. don't let them drag you into the street.

Maybe my response didn't come out as I intended it to. I think it's great when kids can move around to get to the best competetion. I have no problem with that at all.

When kids don't move up or down, they shouldn't be bagged on for "going for medals". My kids have worked hard to spread themselves out and for all of them to get on the mat at the same meet. Those are their spots and they've each earned them and continue to earn them every day.

Different ways to accomplish the same goal. Neither is right or wrong. It is just an individual coaches preference. At least that is the way I see it. Personally, I would do it like SJA and move my studs to wrestle the best they can get.