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First I would like to introduce myself. My name is Jim Gabriel, I am the Head Coach of Heritage Middle School, I help Coach Berry at Independence High School and more importantly I am Ralph’s brother. I very seldom get on CoachT and it is even more seldom that I respond to any of the posts that are out there. I happen to read “up til now’s” post and my initial reaction was to respond but thought better of it because of what I would say, especially to someone who won’t identify themselves. Brian’s post sums up Ralph very well from one of his wrestlers’ perspectives but from another coach, a brother and a best friend, Ralph is all of this and more. He is the most unselfish person I know who often times goes without so others can have. Like in the wrestling room he takes the hand that is dealt to him and does the best he can, he never complains, he never blames anyone, he just keeps on doing. Ralph is the reason I got into coaching and other volunteer activities. I used to tell him when I die other than the standard good husband, good father, etc. on my tombstone it would say something like ‘saved his company money’. On his, it would say ‘positively touch the lives of many, many, many people’. I wanted to be like him. In the post by “up til now” he mentions the little man, a personal attack that has nothing to do with wrestling or anything else for that matter. To me the measure of a man is not in his stature but in his accomplishments, successes that make him stronger, defeats that he learns from, lives that he has touched and the contributions he has made. With all that said Ralph is the biggest man I know Love ya bro and don’t let idle chat get you down just keep doing what you are doing Jim Gabriel

The Jon Maher Invitational hosted by Independence High School is looking to add some quality teams for next year. The date is Saturday Dec 29 2007. The tournament is ran by Fiscus mat control. Last years teams included Brentwood Academy 4th is DII, Ravenwood Top Ten in DI, Cordova Top ten in DI, Independence Region 2 runner up, Beech(3SQ), Blackman (5SQ), Franklin Road Academy(5SQ) and others. It is an individual tournament where all kids are guranteed 4-5 matches. Please contact Coach Berry at johnb1@wcs.edu if interested. We would really love some teams from the East to come over

Yes HWtTand 145 send the top 4

Does anyone have a schedule of the times. Like when do weigh in start on Wednesday?

Independence High School will host a one day clinic in July. The instructors last year wrestled at Purdue. There will be more details to come

Jan 9th Ravenwood vs Independence @ Centennial

Hey coach you forgot Independence from Tennessee

That's how I have done it Artist. Once you enter the actual weight in the "Pre Match Weigh in form" and save the weight automatically populates in the Dual Meet Results data entry page once you select a wreslter

The younger one. From IHS

Just for the record IHSEAGLE BuckLateral is not coach gabe. CoachGabe is coach Gabe

Beech Blackman Brighton Brentwood Academy Franklin Road Academy Page Ravenwood Rossview Lafayette (KY) Independence

You know the funny part about it is, these kids work harder than any other athletes yet don't get the recognition they truely deserve. Maybe it'll change someday. I am planning on calling the Tennessean to ask what it would take to get included

Is there anywhere or any newspaper that has the dual match box scores. Unless I am missing something I looked on the Tennessean web site and they did not exist. Being from New York you could open the paper and every dual match and tournament result was listed. Short of scouring through CoachT is there somewhere else ? Thanks for the help

Talyor Dixon will also be at independence next year. The kid is an animal