PA HS Wrestling thread

[Nitlion1986]

Yes, and the NW AAA regional was held there too. Guessing the D9 and D10 schools are not happy with the travel time (3.5 hrs each way from Erie) and would prefer something closer to home.

Kittaning is almost equidistant from Erie, Waynesburg, and Lock Haven. Regionals should be held somewhere near there.

AAA NW regionals historically have been held at Altoona's field house. Several times it rotated to Clarion. The problems with Clarion were floor space, 5 mats vs 3 mats and attendance (up at Altonna and down at Clarion).

Arguing equidistant is a little silly considering the considerable rural space. If equidistant was the prime and a must consideration the BJC would host almost all of the PIAA championships. If Kittaning was interested and had a capable host site then I am sure they would be considered.
First consideration is if site is capable accommodating the size of the tournament, the second consideration should be local accomadations for teams/participants, third should be ability to accomadate crowd size and fourth should be convenience for s participating schools.

 

[El-Jefe]

First consideration is if site is capable accommodating the size of the tournament, the second consideration should be local accomadations for teams/participants, third should be ability to accomadate crowd size and fourth should be convenience for s participating schools.

I agree with these priorities, and think it's a false choice.