Trojan Wars
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The Simon kid only lives up here in Pa during the school year is what I was told. He lives in Louisiana the rest of the time. He was part of the Henson transplants. Then there was an Arizona state Champion who wrestled there the last few years. Not sure the name
Both Bethlehem Catholic and Notre Dame (GP) came together super quickly.
With Becahi - here are their state tournament placements.
1999: No qualifiers
2000: No qualifiers
2001: No qualifiers
2002: No qualifiers
2003: No qualifiers
2004: 76th
2005: 96th
2006: 93rd
2007: 17th (finalist)
2008: 13th (champ)
2009: 52nd
2010: 12th (Two finalists)
2011: 3rd
2012: 1st (Three champs/Finalist)
2013: 1st
2014: 1st (Three Champs/Finalist)
In '07 and '08, they had Ziad Haddad, a football player who also was obviously a great heavyweight, who accounted for all of their state tournament points. Jeff Karam gets hired for the 2009 season. He brings in Randy Cruz, which is the first of the Weaver Elite club kids which then became the Bethlehem Catholic team. They all filter in the two classes behind Cruz, and they win state duals two years later and they're off. But they went from total nonfactor to one of the best teams in the country basically from 2009 to 2011.
Notre Dame is even more stark.
2000: 52nd
2001: No qualifiers
2002: No qualifiers
2003: 10th (finalist)
2004: No qualifiers
2005: No qualifiers
2006: No qualifiers
2007: No qualifiers
2008: 91st
2009: No qualifiers
2010: 90th
2011: 82nd
2012: No qualifiers
2013: 73rd
2014: No qualifiers
2015: 115th
2016: 63rd
2017: 37th
2018: 23rd
2019: 3rd (Two champs)
2020: 1st (Two champs)
2021: 1st (Champ/Finalist)
2022: 1st (Two Champs)
Their finalist in 2003 was the third in school history, and he immediately transferred to Northampton for his senior season. Matt Veres got hired in 2019, Andrew Cerniglia transferred in and won a state title, Ryan Crookham followed Veres in, as did Brandan Chletsos and Derek Berlitz who were PJW high medalists and state qualifers as freshman, and they went from pretty irrelevant to 3rd in the state overnight.
Those are the two that felt immediate. Northampton was a ten year build, from hiring Don Rohn in '82 to being the top team in the country and winning three straight state titles in the early '90s. Started with no qualfiers, had a couple years in the 10th-30th range, a couple years in the top ten, then three straight titles. They got a lot of transfers after they started really winning, but there was pretty impressive program building there. Easton is a different animal - they've been good pretty much forever. Every coach they've ever had is in the state Hall of Fame. For a long time, their floor was really good, and their ceiling was one of the best in America, depending on the ebbs and flows of their feeder programs - they had super teams in the 1990s and early 2000s, but also in the early 1980s, the mid 1970s, the late 1960s, etc. Not a lot of coming together quickly.
The first time, yes. Then he went home to Missouri for a year, then returned to Waynesburg.
Phaturos is from Arizona.
Does Millard count? I feel like there was a lot of smoke around him at the time. He transferred after that year.
Considering he had been there since b4 his freshman year, and his father (a D-3 national champ) is a preacher who had been transfered and the father did a vetting of the Centre County school districts b4 moving his family into the BEA district I would conclude there wasn't much recruiting.
The father did want to help as a volunteer coach, and initially Coach Rhodes wasn't very open to the idea. The father did mention he thought Caslow would be open to the help. That seemed to settle the issue.
Millard graduated from BEA in 1997 so the only place he transferred to was Lock Haven University. Why would you just make something up that isn't true?
Do you get paid per M2 mention? Yeah, we get it. Your kid goes to M2, and thats great.
Raw Daddy is referring to Justin. NoVa is referring to Josh.
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As Sullivan pointed out, 2 brothers, different years. Millard the younger was a AAA PIAA runner-up for BEA his junior year (the year BEA won the team title) and was a PIAA AA state champ for Wyomissing the next year.
Get your facts right before you throw stones in glass houses my man. I wasn’t throwing any shade.
