State of the Program Articles

[cowcatcherII]

I hope this can help rejuvenate the board and get everyone excited for the season. South East Wrestling does a great job with these State of the Program articles. I found them very interesting. This will give you an inside look at what some teams will look like this year.

 

BOYS TEAMS

Alcoa

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-alcoa

Baylor

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps

Brentwood Academy

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-brentwoodacademy

Briarcrest Christian

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/wstrhe6493k4hwp-ydgsa-6xtzy-xtty3-epydk-amn7j-8mbpa

Christian Brothers

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-cbhs

Cleveland

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-cleveland

Coffee County

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-w5ggd-ncwf4-ad6x5-e5prn-3z3sz-2hs49-gffaj-lah64-x7c8r-9kynw-hrh2g-fb9z8-ss9bh-sn4pj

Collierville

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa-sfb4a

Fairview

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa-sfb4a-84p2y-5d22c-hlk54

Independence

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa-sfb4a-84p2y-5d22c

McCallie

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-mccallie

Montgomery Central

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-easthenderson-krkke

Nolensville

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-nolensville

Rossview

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa-sfb4a-84p2y

Samuel Everett School of Innovation

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/wstrhe6493k4hwp-9sbzt

Signal Mountain

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-signmtntn

Summit

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-summitboys

Wilson Central

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa

 

GIRLS TEAMS

Alcoa

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-alcoagirls

Cleveland

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-clevelandgirls

Coffee County

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-coffeecountycentralgirls

Montgomery Central

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-montcentralgirls

Summit

https://www.southeastwrestling.com/blog/2023/9/5/state-of-the-program-athens-al-5xp4t-8ptps-ak3tr-9pwtj-59bd2-ln9bj-3lrw3-6a9je-7mfkd-tyfz3-6hhpa-sfb4a-84p2y-5d22c-hlk54-pkhg4-tbww2-wge8f-rdmgc-m9pas-p4zjl-macxs-gtwe6

[KidGloves]

I like those articles, but did I read the McCallie one right? Cooper Ledbetter is STILL an 8th grader? Isn’t he 16? Are they letting him drive the bus to the matches? That’s wild. 

[TotallynotLEO]

22 minutes ago, KidGloves said:

I like those articles, but did I read the McCallie one right? Cooper Ledbetter is STILL an 8th grader? Isn’t he 16? Are they letting him drive the bus to the matches? That’s wild. 

Wrestling in general does this quite a bit unfortunately.  I dint know about this particular case but in AAU it's common.  I know of a HS sophomore (ranked) who is older than another ranked kid, same weight class, that is a senior. 

[KidGloves]

That’s pretty wild. I hate to see it. To be fair, Ledbetter might not be 16 but definitely turns 16 as a freshman.

I graduated when I was 17. When I was in school, anyone 19-20 years old was a cop. Lol. 

Guess they’re just wrestlers now. 

[FR615]

On 11/25/2023 at 8:54 PM, KidGloves said:

That’s pretty wild. I hate to see it. To be fair, Ledbetter might not be 16 but definitely turns 16 as a freshman.

I graduated when I was 17. When I was in school, anyone 19-20 years old was a cop. Lol. 

Guess they’re just wrestlers now. 

It appears as though they will have 4-5 19 year olds in their graduating class 5 years from now with one or 2 turning 2- 4 months after graduation.

Edited November 27, 2023 by FR615

[cobrakid8]

On 11/25/2023 at 8:54 PM, KidGloves said:

That’s pretty wild. I hate to see it. To be fair, Ledbetter might not be 16 but definitely turns 16 as a freshman.

I graduated when I was 17. When I was in school, anyone 19-20 years old was a cop. Lol. 

Guess they’re just wrestlers now. 

Same here, I was in college and away from home at 17, have never understood why anyone would do this, it’s wrestling and it’s very hard to make a living doing so after you are done with the sport unless you stay to coach and heck you can do that even if you didn’t graduate high school at 19 almost 20. Of course the same thing happens in college where they take an Olympic year, a redshirt year and if that got the Covid year they could be pretty old(college age that is) and still wrestling college.

[TotallynotLEO]

People do this for those coveted AAU championships they can put on a resume I guess.  

It happens at public schools a lot too. The ones I know of are at public schools. 

[KidGloves]

On 11/26/2023 at 10:11 PM, TotallynotLEO said:

People do this for those coveted AAU championships they can put on a resume I guess.  

It happens at public schools a lot too. The ones I know of are at public schools. 

You’re not talking about the AAU state championships whos importance immediately expire when you walk off the mat after your last AAU match are you? The new car of the wrestling world. Depreciated as soon as it’s driven off the lot. 

How many HS wrestlers care about a kid’s AAU championship? If that’s the reasoning for, shame on them. Don’t live through being able to post that your kid is a state champ on facebook.