Matmaid

Heard he is just taking a couple of weeks 'personal time' off from wrestling.

luchador and all - 'D i t t o' on the Thanks!!! This tournament is a State-wide effort to raise FUNDS to offset the National team and the coaches' expenses. Each state sanctioned club has a responsiblilty to furnish volunteers to help out. Concessions will go to our gracious host, Father Ryan. Each time I assume responsibility for this tournament and I'm always scared because I know (as do those who know me ) there is no way my cross-eyed dyslexic self can pair a tournament. Ultimately, I am always pleased that folks do step up to help. [Edited by Matmaid on 5-2-03 7:41A]

Thanks guys...need table workers to relieve thru out the day, with luck and enough volunteers doing pairings we'll get started on time at 10:00 am ~ MM [Edited by Matmaid on 5-1-03 9:40P]

RC - I'm calm, just confused...Who'd you say, "threw the first stone"? I thought I was blocking being hit in the head by the one you threw in your earlier post. Notice that my post was a REPLY addressed to you and your friend. Like you, I gave my opinion in response to your adamant negative statements. Say what you will, but the way I see it -- we, the entire Tennessee Wrestling Community (AAU, FCI, USAW) are all in this together, doing what we can and giving what we can to make things better and meet the needs (as sly pointed out) of each individual wrestler. I will not argue about who's the better association. Each has clearly filled a niche and that's what counts. It's really sad that some schools are deprived of stuff that others get furnished by their school districts. I know there are others in the same boat as you. I do commend you and the numerous wrestling coaches who do volunteer their time, energy and money.

DEAR rcpatriot and cywrestle -- "Show me the money"˜ ( and the power ??? )" Who pays for your high school program, your coaches' salary, and the school bus that takes you to places your team needs to be? (I DO! ˜ your parents do and so does every taxpayer in Tennessee.) Yes, it does take money to run any program, even our summer wrestling programs. It takes money for clubs, training, insurance, travel, and hosting events. It takes money to communicate to the community about these programs with newsletters, and websites. For the National governing bodies of these organizations, it takes money to pay administrators and staff. Not too many folks work for FREE now a days. Granted this money is most often generated from membership dues or fees. The question is˜who benefits from the money˜Both TWF and USAW financial records are public...Both are all Volunteer Organizations. (USAW does have staff, as does the OTC) However, revenues generated are all put back into the primary mission of promoting wrestling and providing opportunities for YOUR BENEFIT. In Tennessee many volunteers put their own time and money into the pot for YOUR BENEFIT. "We do it for you !!!" This country has a great system called free enterprise and competition. From the adolescent male prospective, think about this ˜ Where would you be if you wanted a Chevy truck with a certain option but only Ford trucks were available with some other option? In Tennessee we have 4 sanctioning bodies, AAU - USAW - FCI - NHSCA each competing for wrestling participation and memberships˜You are free to choose which one will benefit you ( as an individual ) the most and that boys is the only POWER generated by summer wrestling programs. What would benefit our state as a whole is without question, UNITY ˜but that's another thread. ~MM

The server that our TWF home page is on is down for repair...You will get page error messages...bear with us while it gets fixed...our message board http://pub94.ezboard.com/btennesseewrestling is on a different server and it's working.

Whatdayamean??? "Leave off Leen"...Forget Division II, Don't you know that he just won the Southern Plains Regional Championships...Do you know what GREAT states compete in the Southern Plains? Well, let me tell you, they far out rank the best of our TN/HS Division I. Jordan will be in our history books, mark my words. He also placed 3rd just the week before in the Central Regions, with the likes of the Schlater bothers competing in the same tournament. This kid has more desire to succeed than most teams combined. Jordan I'm proud of you! ~MM

May 3rd at Father Ryan High School...read more here: http://pub94.ezboard.com/ftennesseewrestlingfrm123.showMessage?topicID=77.topic THIS TOURNAMENT is K thru 12 and for everyone not just those wishing to qualify for regionals or Nationals. It's much needed mat time, competition and the best way to learn. YOU COULD BE A STATE CHAMPION!!! FARGO - TN CADET AND JUNIOR NATIONALS QUALIFIER, Top 3 in each weight qualify...4th place alternate. AS WELL AS THE KID'S AND CADET SE REGIONAL QUALIFIER by participation. 5 pound weight allowance over qualifying weight for Regionals or Nationals [Edited by Matmaid on 5-2-03 10:15A]

Terry's first match of the season was in Stillwater, OK against National Champions, Oklahoma State...He will bring in the best...that's what he's about. THANK Heavens we do have a Chattanooga Press (Sports writer, Ward Gossett) presence who does focus on the sport and keeps it in the public eye and that of the UTC/AD so maybe the program won't get cut as the men's track and field just did. ~MM [Edited by Matmaid on 4-1-03 10:26A]

This is it !!! - Mid-State Open Division FREESTYLE Attention all post-high school (college club, UTC, etc.)wrestlers ... You've been asking for it... SPREAD THE WORD and WE'LL SEE YOU HERE -- Bruin Open, Saturday April 26 ... Freestyle only Weigh-ins 7:00/CST to 8:00; Wrestling starts at 9:00 Clubs may fax in weights to Joe Blair at Brentwood High 615-373-0536 or email joeb@wcs.edu by 5:00 Friday afternoon. Clubs are encouraged to at least fax or email rosters by Friday in order to make the set-up go quicker. Tournament entry fee is $10, wrestlers ages 15 and older who would like to officiate and have their entry fee waived must attend an officials clinic at 8:30am Saturday morning. USA competitor and coaches cards will be on sale for $30; YOU MUST HAVE A CURRENT USAW COMPETITOR'S CARD TO WRESTLE AND COACHES CARD TO BE IN THE CORNERS. Any questions call Joe Blair at 615-477-6287 or email joeb@wcs.edu

TN ENTRIES -- Round I : 112 Michael Meger (MN) Pin 2:42 Kristopher Greene (Cheatham Co). 125 Terreyl Williams (NC) Dec. 7-5 Matt Bird (East Ridge) 125 Joe Fulton (MI) Dec. 10-4 Chris Brown (Soddy Daisy) 125 Dillon Jennings (Clarksville) Dec. 10-8 Tim Pierce (CA) 125 Tim Bohlman (MD) Pin 3:40 Jack Silberman (McCallie ) 130 Zack Terry (WY) Dec. Josh Bosken (Science Hill) 130 Raymond Dunning (Father Ryan) Dec 5-1 Scott Ervin (OK) 135 John Gallagher (VA) Dec. 10-4 Michael Creagan (Bradley) 145 Micah Zachar (CA) TF 18-2 (4:15) Lee Connell (McCallie) 145 Joe Ellenberger (NE) Dec. 7-6 Steven McKinney (Dobyns-Bennett) 152 Mitch Kuhlma (MN) Pin 1:20 Dustin Catlett (Bradley) 171 Matt Michaelson (ND) Dec. 6-3 Nathan Jones (Cleveland) 215 Matt Bauman (WI) Dec. 13-8 Ian Thornhill (MBA) 215 Josh Bonham (Cleveland) vs BYE 275 Tanner Munsell (OK) Dec. 5-2 OT Daniel Crosby (Greeneville) 275 Parks Harding (East Ridge) Dec 4-0 Dan Hola (UT) 275 Jason Pennington (Clarksville) Dec 11-4 James Clark (CA) Round II Championship -- 125 Andy Lacroix (NH) TF 15-0;2:25 Dillon Jenning 130 Cameron Dansie (UT) Dec. 5-4 OT Raymond Dunning 215 Josh Bonham Dec 4-2 Paul McKeirnan (CA) 275 Bruno Dorismon (CT) Dec. 3-2 Parks Harding 275 Jason Pennington Dec. 16-6 James Farrelly (NV) Round III Championship -- 215 Matt Kox (OH)Pin 1:57 Josh Bonham 275 Bubba Gritter (MI)Dec. 10-6 Jason Pennington Consolation - 1st round -- 112 - John Rojas (CA) TF 16-0; 4:27 Kris Greene 125 - Daniel Britto (CA ) Dec. 18-4 Matt Bird 125 - Joe Fulton (MI) Dec. 10-1 Chris Brown 125 - Dillon Jennings Dec. 5-4 OT Patrick Martin (MI) 125 - Jack Silberman Dec. 13-2 over Ryan Bohning (KS) 130 - Raymond Dunning Pin 2:46 William St. Pierre (CT) 130 - Chase Francis (CO) Dec. 6-2 Josh Boskin 135 - Michael Creagan Dec. 8-3 Stan Brown (AK) 145 - Eric Luedke (KS) Dec. 5-0 Lee Connell 145 - Steven McKinney 1-1 TB Jeffery Henneman (OH) 152 - Dustin Catlett Pin 4:05 Brett Hille (KS) 171 - Nathan Jones Dec. 10-7 Dustin Robinson (WI) 215 - Josh Bonham BYE 215 - Justin Bronson (MN) Dec. 5-0 Ian Thornhill 275 - Allan Mikolas (OR) Pin 3:14 Daniel Crosby 275 - Eric Reemes (NC) Dec. 5-2 Parks Harding 275 - Jason Pennington BYE Consolation II -- 125 - A. J. Lavender (IL) Dec. 15-7 Dillon Jennings 125 - Jack Silberman Dec. 9-8 Jason Bull (MI) 130 - Raymond Dunning Pin 2:46 Mark DeCiccio (RI) 145 - Steven McKinney Dec. 7-4 Trevor Howe (CT) 152 - Dustin Catlett Dec. 3-1 OT Michael Ragusa (MA) 171 - Nathan Jones Pin 1:31 Sean Kelly (TX) 215 - Josh Bonham Pin 1:24 John Loff (NJ) 275 - Olabode Ogunwole (MD) Dec. 13-8 Jason Pennington Consolation III -- 125 - Mario Estrada (CA)Dec. 6-1 Jack Silberman 130 - Earl Jones (KS) Dec. 3-1 Raymond Dunning 145 - Bobby Gingerich (MI) Dec. 14-2 Steven McKinney 152 - Zack Lee (AX) Dec. 9-5 Dustin Catlett 171 - Walter Hoffman (MD) Pin 0:24 Nathan Jones 215 - Josh Bonham Dec. 8-1 Phillip Doerner (OK) Josh Bonham - Still live... Satellite dish owners -- The Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals are Saturday. It is an action-packed day! The All-Americans wrestle for places Sunday morning and the finals are Sunday at 6PM. THEY WILL be broadcasting the finals on Cleveland, OHIO TV Channel 9. [Edited by Matmaid on 3-30-03 7:43A]

Sorry Bobby Musser and John Gannon, JR. didn't mean to leave you off the Officials clinic list [Edited by Matmaid on 3-10-03 9:24A]

Centrally located for convenience of all (Clarksville is excited and would like to host as does Cookville.) Guess they're drawing straws, don't know...Lauderdale is working on those details. Idea is to put as many kids on the same mats on the same day as we can. Hopefully we will have 4 mats (2/folk 2/free) and with the use of staggered starting weights, rotate between both the styles and brackets alternately. UNIQUE Logo is in the works; we would like this to become an annual event. Participation will not be limited to Tennessee; this will be an open tournament. Maybe someone from PA would like to go home as "the STUD".

* June 14th - "TENNESSEE STUD Trials" - a dual-sanctioned, simultaneous, OPEN folkstyle/freestyle event in cooperation with SE/AAU & TWF/USAW. Champions who win both styles will take home the certificate proclaiming the coveted TITLE, plus Medals (3 places) will be awarded in each style. Both AAU and USAW cards accepted. All age groups. Site TBA (Centrally located either in Cookeville or Clarksville)...More Details forthcoming. Tournament Directors: Daryl Lauderdale/AAU and Louise Davis/USAW.

OPEN FREESTYLE PRACTICE ROOM Get ready for USAW Junior Division Central Regionals in Jeffersonville, IN. (4/11/03 - 4/13/03) Daily beginning February 24th, (Monday thru Friday) 6:00 - 7:30pm/EST Soddy Daisy Wrestling Room with Coach Shane Turner

Dream team is decided by coaches...TEAM has been selected and press releases coming soon. In addition to the dream team are these catagories - DIV I: all-midstate (Large) school DIV I: all-midstate (Small) school DIV II: all-midstate Johnny Drennan Award (OW): none other than R________D______ . Coach of the Year Outstanding Cheerleaders Official of the year

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Well, I'm really glad someone sees where I was coming from with this...Oh Joe, we do love you...Just keep up the good work and maybe hire a plumber to be on hand next time. MM

MESSAGE FOUND ON TENNWRESTLING BOARD....BY oter Wednesday evening NBC aired a re-run of The West Wing. I was pleasantly shocked when one of the characters broached the subject of Title IX with an accurate characterization of the positions of wrestling and other embattled men's Olympic sports on the college level. The responding character countered with a statistic descriptive of women's numerical advancements since the advent of Title IX. Later a third character, a female, brought up how football numbers threw the whole male / female numbers game out of balance. Character four countered that football brought in the money that supported other sports, the same rhetoric we have heard over and over again. But the encouraging thing is that our position was played out, briefly as it was, accurately on a popular, acclaimed television series before a national audience. Everyone, please do as USA Wrestling, NWCA, Tennessee Wrestling Federation, and others who are in tune with the national scene have been encouraging us to do. Send an email to the address that Louise has provided for us on another post. America has heard and is listening for us to fill in the blanks on the questions they still have. We have the just position on our side. We need to let others know. WHAT TO DO: Write a letter today! Send an email to - OpportunityinAthletics@ed.gov Do you care about the future of sports opportunity for all? [Edited by Matmaid on 1-24-03 12:11A]

Regarding this thread... There is no use beating a dead horse. My post was NOT meant to be sarcastic. It was simply in defense of Joe and Brentwood (my stomping grounds). I do agree 100% ... tournament was and always has been VERY WELL run. It is amazing how people seem to hop on this site just to try to trash others and that IS exactly how I interpreted the bathroom issue. Read the whole thing - quote: "Good tournament, BUT ... " If this same problem is everywhere, why pinpoint it here? My tongue may often short-circuit my brain, but that does seem to be contagious on this board. ~MM [Edited by Matmaid on 1-19-03 11:32A]

Being a lady, a chore I often find difficult in this male dominated sport, I just felt that the 'stinky' bathroom issue would have been better addressed when it could and should have been corrected rather than after the fact by bringing to the attention of the world on the WWW. Yes, I guess my dry sense of humor escapes many. I thought Joe's tournament was SUPER and as a matter of fact, I think your bathroom posts tarnished it's shine. ~ MM

JV - Freshman combined team (?) Would be OK if they limited team entries to one per weight...otherwise too big, too long. Well, Gentlemen ...So you had a problem in your restrooms. Why didn't you report it at the time? Coach Blair was probably not even aware of it. Boys will be boys! PS: The ladies rooms were clean at all times.

Overdose on VITAMIN C

Hey - in defense of Smyrna...I was at Ryan...I was healthy...I was healthy the following couple of days...then the bug got me, almost instantly...thought I was dying...this flu thing is sudden and you will feel like you've been hit by a Mack truck...everything hurts...24 hours later...I'm fine. Haven't seen Smyrna lately so it must be in the air...beware!

Make plans to attend The Southern Open - A Folkstyle Wrestling tournament which will be hosted by the Chattanooga Takedown Club on November 30, 2002 (Thanksgiving weekend) at UT-Chattanooga. Entry fee is $15.00 and a current USAW wrestling card, which will be available at registration for a special event price of $25.00. Participation - Boys and Girls ages 13-14-15-16-17-18-19 Middle School and High School only... Normal high school and middle school weights -- weigh-ins will be held at UTC's Maclellan gymnasium from 7:00-8:00 a.m. (EST) on Saturday, Nov. 30th. Wrestling will begin at 9:00 a.m. and run continuously until the completion of the tournament. Both the middle and high school tournaments will be run simultaneously. Hotel Accomodations- Days Inn Rivergate: 423/266-7331 Quality Inn Brainerd: 423/894-2040 Hampton Inn Downtown: 800/426-7866 Event Director - Mike Parker * Important note to athletes - If you wish to take part in this tournament, you MUST ask your HS Coach NOT to include your name on the TSSAA roster as a member of your High School's Wrestling team until after this date.