Here is another point to ponder. kansas is almost a month and 1/2 behind the other states when it comes to starting the freestyle season. We are one of the few states that has the extended kid series in the high school level and in my opinion this hurts us immensely when it comes to developing our freestyle skills. I have been the proponent of cutting off the state usaw series at 8th grade. Starting our freestyle season in March and getting our summer teams going much earlier.

We have some real quality kids that should be competing at the FILA world cadet and junior trials as opposed to trying to win their multiple kids championships.

Having coached in other states where the D1 recruits are higher, California and Nebraska, the difference i see is the emphasis on freestyle not continuing the folkstyle series.
Nebraska and Iowa also have tons of small college programs for their kids to choose from.


But, still here is an example of the limited monies. Meneely, double all american, recieved a very very very small amount to go to Iowa out of Skutt High School. There is just not a big enough pie to divy up. title 9 has been choking out wrestling and will continue to do so until we can get some sort of reform