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2020 and 2021 Tennessee did not send kids to National Preps. 2020 the TSSAA moved the calendar so that our States was the same weekend. I’ve never been more angry in my entire life. We were willing to skip States and go to Preps instead but McCallie wouldn’t let us. National Preps is the most important tournament of the year for private school kids and it’s the reason why a lot of us sent our kids to private school. My son got all of his interest and his offer for Pitt from his performance at National Prep as did most of his teammates that are wrestling D1 today. This tournament is that important. Lakeway wasn’t eligible to send their kids to state in 2020 cause they were a new program(which maybe the stupidest rule ever) and they sent Ivey and Roller who both placed(actually both of them had phenomenal tournaments and beat some hammers) and this tournament helped both of them get their offers to UVA and WVU. As for 2021, PA and NJ was still locked down because of Covid so no PA and NJ schools were allowed to compete, so National Prep decided to have an Open tournament about 6 weeks after they normally have it. I forget were it was, but it wasn’t at Lehigh of course. The tournament was open to any private school kid in the country who wanted to show up as this was not a school affiliated event. A lot of TN kids went so we had a strong showing. But most of the brackets were half full as freestyle season had already started. Not taking anything against anyone who placed in 2021 but 2021 wasn’t the National Prep Championships but just a standard open tournament.

Well my bad, I thought Hilton had gotten far enough in Juniors to place. I didn’t realize he needed to win that last one. My fault for not going back and checking. Yeah, if I knew anything about the Girls I would have added them. Be cool if somebody could add the history of the girls the last few years and the boys before 17 which is as far back as I go.

Well dang it, we finished with 13 Stop signs this year. Which is our second most ever but one short of last year. But, this is by far the most Freestyle stop signs we have ever won.

We’ve got great volunteers running TNUSA and great coaches throughout the state now committed and really driving up those numbers. It’s really encouraging.

With 5 stop signs today in 16U and 1 in Juniors TN set a new record for our most stop signs ever in Freestyle Last year was the most stop signs ever won in Fargo at 14 but we only won 4 stop signs in Freestyle so we are ahead of last years record pace as we head into Greco. 2022 16U FR - 2 AA Juniors FR - 2 AA 16U GR - 7 AA (team finished 6th beating MN and IL) Junior GR - 3 AA Total 16U - 9 Total Juniors - 5 Grand Total - 14 2023 16U FR - 5 AA (team finished 7th beating MN) Juniors FR - 1 AA here is the totals for the last few years.. before 19 we had a long drought.. 19 - 10 total. 20- Covid 21 - 4 total 22 - 14 total 23 - 6 so far The trend and growth is nothing sort of unbelievable.

Shamus is Hudson Chittum’s training partner. He moved from NY to Cleveland to train at Boom Ranch. He is a TN kid now.

Correct.. in 16U Shamus Regan, Jojo Uhrochuck , Max Norman and Hudson Chittum all are in the semis and have a guaranteed stop sign. Jose Cordero and Chase Walker both have to win one this morning to earn the most coveted award in all of High school wrestling. Once again the second day of Fargo Juniors proved to be the most brutal day of wrestling in all of High School Wrestling as the entire TN group outside of Cooper Hilton just got decimated once again. Hilton lost a tight one in the quarters he shouldn’t have let slip away so he is in the same boat and has to win one this morning to get his stop sign.

Cooper finally gets on top of the podium at UWW and earns his spot on the U23 World Team! Way to go Coop!

Your being a douche.. either support TN kids or stop posting.

Just to clarify, Cody has never had an altercation with anyone including his teammates. There was an altercation involving some of his teammates while Cody was in HS that caused certain members of one family to be asked to leave that HS but Cody was not involved in that incident.

Stop being a douche.

UTC’s Kamdyn Munro just secure his spot on the podium at 76k in U20. He will wrestle for ⅞ tomorrow and just qualified for World Team Trials. Huge day for UTC.

Cooper Flynn placed 5th at US. Open Seniors at 57k today. He had some monster wins and a heck of a tourney. He is now qualified for World team Trials. Not bad for a kid from Seymour..

I never once mentioned scholarships, I said specifically financial aid. After my sons Freshman year, we had over 10 high level wrestlers apply at McCallie the next 3 years that would have qualified for a very high percentage if not 100% of financial aid based off their families income level but McCallie didnt grant them any aid at all because that money was tied up in football. Just because you qualify doesn’t mean you are getting it or the entire amount you qualify for. It completely up to the schools if they want to give out aid and how much they give out based of the financial aid calculator. And, yes you are correct, the financial aid system does penalize middle class families as once the family income gets above 150k then you only qualify for a tiny bit of aid and for those families the tuition at McCallie, Baylor, and MBA is just to much to swing. As for the cross country team, the McCallie wrestling team was really good in 18 and 19. My sons freshman year in 18, McCallie would have won beaten Christian Brothers in both traditional and dual state if River Henry had not gotten hurt. His sophomore year, they lost to Baylor on the last match to lose dual state. I would aLao argue that you are more likely get full pay kids in cross country than you are in wrestling. My point on all of this is that the amount of financial a sports program gets at McCallie, Baylor, MBA is single determining factor of success of those sports teams. As for as judging the overall ability of a coaching staff, for me and my son we looked at different coaching staffs and our determining factor was which staff would prepare him best for D1 which is why we eventually decided on McCallie. Yost has produced the most D1 wrestlers of any active coach in TN and Pitts has developed probably the 2nd most. This past season 3 programs had 4 wrestlers that wrestled D1, Christian Brothers, Baylor and McCallie. As far as starting varisty matches this past season Baylor had 1 of their 4 that did, Christian Brothers had 2 and McCallie had 3. So I will say it again, McCallie has the best coaching staff in the state.