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I heard good things about a kid from McMinn. Just wondering if he is as good as they think he is?

I watch a lot of guys wrestle and not win even 50% of their matches. They wrestle because it is fun and challenging. I saw a Jason Hoffert not win but a few matches but he beat a state qualifer just by blind luck. He was on top of the world.Ask him I bet he will remember it just like the ladies will their wrestling experience years from now.

Northeast also has a 215 Lb. girl 3rd year.  I feel that after 119 lb. the young ladies are at a serious disadvantage against the young men.  The unfortunate thing is this young lady and the one from Cumberland Co. cannot even compete outside of High school wrestling because there is no weight class for them after they their senior year.  from my research only one class 16-18 yr. old has that division. Not college nor international.  Unfortunate since this female would probably do very well against other women.  (She would do weel against other chics too)

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Cumberland College has a ladies team and a girl from cookville went there a few years ago. Wrestling against the men make them better wrestlers. It a good thing to have ladies on the mat.It push a guy that just going therough the act of be a wrestler to get better. I have seen a young man push himself to win and it helped the rest of the the season. I cheer for the girl every time I saw them on the mat because of the thinking on this page.

I had 3 kids wrestle and had little problems with cauliflower ear.Get a good head gear and wear it in practice too and the foam taped to them is good we have done that too. A ugly ear is nothing to be proud of. I see guys from years ago that did not take care of it and they wish they had. Tape it down with cotton balls helps some but they must be drained. Try to always be the one on top. Go get them guys.

What do you think about Todd Humbert? He was good but was he feared ? Matt Keller and the guy that wrestled 189 from bradley.Not sure of the weight class but he was good. Matt was so smooth. He kept it simple but so good.

McMinn has a good fan base we even have more fans than the home teams most of the times the years that we followed the teams. This goes for boys and girls. If the band and cheerleaders would show up at the games it would draw more to the games.

Sorry to hear about Finley field.  That usually was a great venue to play on.  The TSSAA is talking about shifting the tournament to the 4 major cities (Memphis, Nashville, Chatt, and Knoxville) after 2005.  I know that Knoxville does not have one venue that can host all the teams.  Webb's field is the nicest, and CAK's is big, but still needs a lot of work.  I don't know where AAA would play.

 

Anyway, congrats to all of the girls for a great season.

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Knoxville has several facilities thank can hold the state games. We have played at watts road, north shore, cellular fields, and one off middlebrook pike. You are always WELCOME to play in Athens. The high school and TWC fields plus the regional park. Memphis is just way to far for the team in the north east to come. Nashville area would be better if not Chattanooga.

Bradley under Chrissy is a fast improving team. Hope you are right they will be there next year. I had to scratch my head on the top 18 teams but any thing is possible. I think Walker Valley will be better team in AA. Farragut I think will be down a little next year. Hope Katie is kept in east Tennessee like TWC. They could use a pure scorer.

Smyrna???????????

Are you kidding me? Their new coach will be a middle school wrestling coach that has never played soccer in his life. I am not sure why exactly they hired him but I tell you this, that program IS going down the drain for sure.

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He may be trying to start a girls wrestling team. There is getting to be more girls teams and he will definite get to girls in shape. My son said wrestling practice is harder than Marine Corps basic training.He said if boys want a challenge to wrestle in high school and girls too. He may need the supplement pay for coaching. I think McMinn will be close to have one of their best teams in girls next year from top to bottom.

Curtis has this girls focused on the Win now at the end of the season. That is when he does some of his best coaching. I never thought he would win against McMinn but he had a plan and it worked. Go McMinn and good luck Curtis

I thought McMinn would win this game . What happened for it to be such a one sided game?

In 1994 I was coaching Todd and Kellie teams and picking up stone out at the regional park so we could have fields to play on and had about 1500 soccers ball to blow up to hand out to the tri-county area. James Hoffert and I was lining off fields at city park school and athens jr. high. I built goals at work so kids would have them and I bought the materials.I refereed games. Called the high school and main office ,made contacts like Bill whom might help get us a high school team. Just so you will know.

Is the SIS schedule right on Columbia Central? It must not have all the games because I went to look and was not impressed but list the teams Columbia has played and who they will play. That might impress more people. 123 does not say anything without a team to put it with.

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Jimmy Weekly, he's never gotten less than runner-up in state since he's been coach for baylor, and thats all i have to say

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when you have the players he has had that is to be expected.Iwould like to see him coach cumberland county and see how he does.

Sammy Defriese he use to coach the Midde Valley Magic. Now he is a coach of a team out of middle Tennessee. I like what he did with the girls when he was in Chattanooga. Sorry I can not remember the team's name.

Have any scores form the tournament? How do the teams look?

They play throught the summers and have had good coaching at the club level, many of them play for different teams and it takes a few games to get in sink. They also have a good rec program that identifies talent and they move to a higher level of competition play. Other in our districit do the same thing but not to the level McMinn does it and it all comes from the parents wanting to help their children succeed. They do lack some speed they have had in the past. They so have a deep young bench. Hope the starters will get to stay in the hard matches to get them use to post season play. Which has not happen in the past. This season will be fun to see and wish the girls luck and remember you make your own Luck. GO CHEROKEES

jp2 has talent and plays very structured game but no creativity to it attack. would like to see some this year.

we have played both teams and they both play a physical game but that is just part of the game.

Did anyone see the game on comcast? Did anyone tape the game I would like to get a copy it was the last game for Kellie.

I know of a few that change schools and used academics as the reason and they got to play their first season and one tranferred their junior year from McMinn to Baylor.

Come on boys lets push the private schools to the bottom of the list. I challenge coach's of public schools, Go whip them.

I like Clarksville coach.I have seen he get his teams up and do good when it come crunch time.So put me down for Clarksville to take Collierville. Bradley will win by tradition. Winning is learned so I go with the winners every time. Soddy is not bad but just a bride maid this year. GO BEARS!!!!!!!

Staling needs to to go . A good wrestler hardly looses if he has to shoot. There are safer shots. I was average on the floor but great at take-downs and I will go 1 for 2 any time. Action should be rewarded.