I hope everyone had a productive summer but it's time to get your teams organized if you have not already. I just want to say thanks to all those people who spend hours upon hours to get these team up and running. It's the effort of these people who will advance our sport.
The SW Conference Open is less than 2 1/2 months away. It's time to get your paperwork into the national office and start planning out your season. I hope the talk of Washburn & Pitt fielding sanctioned teams this season comes to pass. By no means is it easy but just think if because of your efforts your school ends up sponsoring a varsity team down the road your efforts are well worth it. It has happend at few schools, Belmount Abbey and Newberry most recently both D2 schools.
If you haven't noticed I'm from Texas and you probably wonder why I promote the NCWA and college wrestling on your forums. It's rather simple without Kansas NCWA teams who would Texas teams compete with? If KU or KSU adds wrestling that will make the Texas Big XII schools have to look at adding wrestling as well. This year Newman joined the Heritage Conference and hopefully Texas colleges in the Heritage Conference will take note of Newman wrestling squad and will add one too. I believe to growth of college wrestling in Kansas and Texas are intertwined.