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High School Wrestling Thread
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Can we include California high schools in this thread? Asking for a friend.
You should start a new trend for that, so that we can have 3 threads dedicated to high schools recruiting.
Wow. Couple of the more talented kids I had my eyes on when they started HS, and both may not even be wrestling now.
Someone over on HR said Nate Jeseroga hasn't been wrestling much...burnt out from the sport. Kids crazy good, would be a blow to the Hawks if he gave up the sport.
Not sure what's going on, but both appeared in the Lancaster-Lebanon League preview 3d ago.
BRANDS MADE HIM HATE THE SPORT !!!!
I was told that they would both be on the mat this weekend. Carlisle tournament I believe. We shall see.
Some nice footage from Manville vs Repos
Fierce bout between top wrestlers highlights Central Dauphin’s rout of State College
Read more at: https://www.centredaily.com/sports/high-school/article269571442.html
Fierce bout between top wrestlers highlights Central Dauphin’s rout of State College
Read more at: https://www.centredaily.com/sports/high-school/article269571442.html
2 quick things from that article:
1) I always like to see coaches giving their best wrestlers the best matchup they can. In this case it happened to be between the reigning state champ and a 3x state medalist.
2) CD's 107 is named Thunder Beard?! I don't think I've ever read a more cool name
1) I always like to see coaches giving their best wrestlers the best matchup they can. In this case it happened to be between the reigning state champ and a 3x state medalist.
2) CD's 107 is named Thunder Beard?! I don't think I've ever read a more cool name
I second this- Thunder Beard’s name may never be beaten. Is he good?
Thunder is solid and ranked in the 7-15 range at PIAA 107 works as hard or harder than anyone. He's steadily improved every year so is just getting some recognition around the state. Spends a lot of time at M2. He's a kid that shows how much effort and attitude matters in this sport. I believe that he just recently changed his last name.
I commented about Angus 2 weeks ago that he probably would of been a good 125 pounder.
Nothing but ,"High Voltage".
It's a long way...given my avatar, thought I should reply
To the top...
If you wanna Granby roll...
PAPower state rankings updated. Benton top ten and all home grown. Kolb at #4, big Kolb 7, Granahan 3, Burke 10,
ND, Faith and McDevitt top three & not one kid started at their school. Every wrestler transferred in. I still don’t know why people rave over Mcort. They honestly have 3-4 good kids. They would get crushed in duals. Saucon Valley has put together an impressive run.
Did Burgettstown hired Sunny Abe? He is a PSU legend. He used the run Mt Nittany like it was nothing
ND, Faith and McDevitt top three & not one kid started at their school. Every wrestler transferred in. I still don’t know why people rave over Mcort. They honestly have 3-4 good kids. They would get crushed in duals. Saucon Valley has put together an impressive run.
Did Burgettstown hired Sunny Abe? He is a PSU legend. He used the run Mt Nittany like it was nothing
As I have repeatedly said there needs to be an open division for schools that recruit.
Yes, as a volunteer assistant coach.
He's also the freestyle development coach for PA USAW.
State College actually did spend some time amongst the State's elite programs in the late 1990s/early 2000s. That run coincided with the arrival of an early local version of the current M2 program (Ken Chertow's camp- ironically housed for a short time in the same building as M2). State College had six State Champs and 14 medalists during that impressive five year period; finishing in the top five in AAA four of those years..
- 1999 - 12th: one placers - Champ
- 2000 - 5th: three placers - Champ, 4th & 7th
- 2001 - 2nd: four placers - Champ, 2nd, 3rd & 8th (also finished 2nd in the team dual tournament)
- 2002 – 2nd: four placers – two Champs & two-3rds
- 2003 – 3rd: three placers – Champ and & two 4ths
OK.....this surprised me......maybe you as well. No surprise....Pierson Manville....138lb. State Champ wrestled @ 145lbs and won his match 1-0 over a tough kid from Central Dauphin. Somewhat Surprising to me... Hayden Cunningham wrestled @ 133 lbs and scored an 11-0 major decision. Central Dauphin won the match 42-20 with SIX pins. Surprising to me: Asher Cunningham wrestled @ 152lbs. and scored a 9-1 major decision. The Cunningham boys are growing fast
Thunder Beard. He had his first tattoo at 12 of his wife. Divorced at 16, remarried to his wife’s sister at 18. Cannot leave a parking spot without burning out his 91 Burgundy Camaro.
That run started with Nathan Galloway who was an elite PJW kid. It seemed like we could wrestle at SC High every weekend for a tournament. We would come in from SWPA looking for new kids to wrestle.
Some kid who wrestled for Abe told me lots of stories. He used to make kids drink an entire gallon of water before getting in the school van (if they didn’t have to make weight) and then would not let anyone go to the bathroom until the first person peed their pants.
It helped that a few non State College athletes found their way to State College, ie Matty Storniolo, Harley and Rocky Anderson.
Instead of whining to the District 6 committee or the PIAA Coach Rhodes and the Bald Eagle Area program just beat the Little Lions.
Burke is too low, just took out AAA #4. He sucked way too much weight last year for the team, he's going to turn some heads.
Thunder Beard is the new Suds Dubler!!!!
People 'rave' about McCort because they plastered their signings with an all-out media assault, like those kids were committing to college. Literally put memes up with the Youth and JH records, saying 'committed' in 7th grade. So, in essence, they taunted the PIAA and got caught. Now with that said, its not the kids fault, but the adults (or should I say adult) behind it. And I'd say they have more than 3-4 good kids in terms of PA Dual wrestling, and next year they will be even more loaded.
Shikellamy and North Schuykill were the toughest schools I wrestled against in the late 80s. They both always just killed us.
Absolutely. They accounted for 2 of those 6 State Champs and 3 of the 14 Placewinners. The Chertow club though was the real draw-much like M2 is today, The Club drew kids from all over PA and helped many of the other local school's programs. In fact several other State Champs and many of the placewinners during that time also trained there.
Not that the District or PIAA would have done anything anyway... BTW, mad respect for coach Rhoades but to be fair, he didn't seem to mind later when a few non BEA athletes, "found there way" to BEA
Such as Quentin Wright?mad respect for coach Rhoades but to be fair, he didn't seem to mind later when a few non BEA athletes, "found there way" to BEA
The Millard brothers were solid transfers. I think if you look back for 30-40 years kids transfer to the better programs. But this whole crap with privates just got bad the last ten years. Most programs public & privates, have at least 2-3 families who moved in. It has now become par for the course.
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The Wright Brothers wrestled for BEA from elementary school on.
