shawwrestling

Thanks Camper! We are flying out in a couple of weeks with some family to cruise around the area for the weekend. Quick trip to visit some different areas, now I can add Corryton to the list! Non wrestling question for you: Is you name camper because you like to camp? We love to camp, upgraded to a trailer about 3 1/2 years back and have close to 40 trips. I don't see many campers on properties or at houses we have looked at on realtor sites. Is camping not that big in Tennessee?

Daniel Cormier? The Champ! I got to meet him at mid-cals (gilroy’s tournament) last year. Seems like a good guy. Gilroy is trying hard to rival Buchanan and Clovis. Cormier has those boys driving up to San Jose wrestling with khabib nugamedov (think I just butchered that) tons of AA’s, ufc big timers at AKA. Pretty special situation for those kids. they are still light years behind the tirapelle brothers right now at Clovis and Buchanan. Those two schools have won 9 state titles in a row. And they are about 7-8 miles apart. This is a league dual: Thanks to everyone that posted here. We have limited means so we don’t exactly get to pick where we live, but at least I have a few areas that we can look! Super cool to see so many schools and areas listed, and sounds like it is growing. Unfortunately that is not the case every where. Numbers are down out here. Lots of schools have trouble filling a lineup.Too many soft kids.

Thank you for the info Noonesfool. Much appreciated.

Good Evening All, I am relocating to the Knoxville area with my family in the next few months. Since the conclusion of my college career in 1999 (Sacramento City College, Fresno State) I have been the head assistant wrestling coach, and for the last 7 years, Associate Head Coach, which is a fancy title that means I do all the paperwork and my best friend gets all the credit (J/K), at my alma mater, Elk Grove High School. Our program was recently rated the #24 ranked program in the history of California wrestling. Yes I am coming from California, but we are small town folk with conservative Christian values...please don’t roast me:-). I understand the frustration. I am a secondary science teacher with 10 years of middle school experience and 4 years of high school experience. I have two sons, currently in the 7th and 8th grade who both wrestle and play baseball. We are leaving a huge family support system behind, so moving into a wrestling community for us is a must! My father was a college wrestler, who at 70 years old still coaches at our feeder middle school. My brother and I both wrestled in college. My wife’s brothers all wrestled at Elk Grove High and one even made it to the UFC, Scott “hands of steel” Smith. If you get nothing else out of this post and you are a fight fan, search him on YouTube, he has some amazingly entertaining highlights. Bottom line, we are a wrestling family through and through. I am hoping to hear a little about the wrestling community in and around the Knoxville area. Specifically which communities have a strong wrestling tradition. There is really nothing like a wrestling community in my opinion, and leaving so much behind (between my wife and I we are leaving behind 7 siblings and families, and my parents who all live within 5 miles of us, not to mention 30 years of friends) moving into an area where we can be involved as a family is goal number 1. I still want to coach and am hoping to find that opportunity...It is in my blood, and is the sole reason I started teaching to begin with. Thanks in advance for any input. I appreciate your time, Ryan Shaw