Originally posted by mom4:
I personally feel that some junior high coaches (not just here but everywhere) and the traveling teams focus on winning-winning-winning is what is driving down the amount of kids who compete. They are told at such an early age, they are not good enough. Too many coaches don't encourage ALL of their team athletes but focus on only a select few. These few get diminished each year. The sad thing is that many times, the kid who wasn't that good in 5th grade could have been your superstar in high school.
It doesn't help either when all other sports have 4-5 coaches and wrestling has 1 head coach that oversees middle and high school as well as kids club and doesn't have a budget to get but maybe 1 or 2 assistants if he's lucky.
