Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Great Night For All
Thanks for tuning into the 2009 GHSA State Wrestling Finals. Emotions ran high, we had some joyful fans and parents, bruised egos, bloody lips, but all in all was a great night. Congratulations to all the winners. From the Gwinnett Arena this is Joe Deighton signing off. Goodnight.
135 lbs. and Last matchups
Winners from this class included, 5A coming down to the wire and what a way to finish with Joey Lazor of Union Grove and Phil Holloway of Walton as they have the past 2 years dueling to the finish with Lazor winning it; 4A Immanuel Kerr-Brown of Rome, 3A Matthew Stanfield of Lafayette, 2A 4 time state champion, 214 career wins from Toombs County, Bryan Benton, 1A Horace Young from Irwin County.
119 lb. division
Collins Hill's TJ Mitchell putting on a dominating performance in 5A against Noah Hunt Dacula as Mitchell leads 9-1. TJ Bell a three time runner up from Bremen takes the 1A title for the first time over Doug Maloch of Commerce. Chatooga's Brandon Siffles takes the title in 2-A
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
First official awards show will celebrate high school wrestling community
“Who is going to win the Witt Award?”
That is the question that Cliff Fretwell hopes high school wrestlers, coaches, parents and fans will be asking each other next year and every year after. And if all goes according to plan on Sunday, March 15 at Center Stage in Midtown, he might just get his way. Fretwell is the wrestling coach at Henry County and a member of the Georgia National Wrestling Alliance. Last year, while attending a closed ceremony to honor the state’s champions, he realized there wasn’t a year-end event honoring the effort put in over the course of the season by all of the
wrestlers, coaches and parents in Georgia. There were no events to bring the wrestling community together to celebrate the year and the wrestlers who made lasting impressions.
“Wrestling gets such a little amount of respect. It is one of those sports that demands so much but returns so little,” said Fretwell, pointing out the need for a bigger ceremony. This year, with the 2009 High School Wrestling Award Show, he hopes to change that.
THE RUNDOWN
When Fretwell decided to take over the planning of Georgia high school wrestling’s season-culminating event, he wanted to change it from the quiet “invite only” affair for state champion wrestlers to a state-of-the-sport event open to all wrestlers, their families and the public. He wanted to “make a commitment to go over the top with it,” to give the wrestlers a night to remember. Along with help from Team Georgia Wrestling and the Georgia National Wrestling Alliance, Fretwell has taken the award ceremony out of the shadows in a high school cafeteria and into the limelight at Center Stage. No longer will state champions be recognized in relative anonymity with a pat on the back and a wooden plaque. This year there will be a splash of glitz, a little glamor, and a slew of new awards given out to wrestlers extending beyond the traditional awards for the state champions.
“People like award shows where there is some suspense, drama and excitement to it,” Fretwell said.
And that is where the Witt Award comes in. It is named after Witt Durden who Fretwell calls “the kind of man you would want your son to grow up to be like.” Durden is the four-time state champion and Dublin High School wrestling legend who went on to national recognition at Oklahoma University and eventually to medical school. The Witt Award will be given to the most dominant high school wrestler in the State of Georgia across all classifications – in other words, the king of the mats.
Joining the new awards along with the Witt Award will be the Kyle Maynard Award, given to a wrestler who overcomes physical limitations to compete on the mats. Maynard is the Collins Hill High School graduate who was born a quadruple congenital amputee with no elbows or knees, yet wrestled to a 35-16 record and won an ESPY in 2004 as the Best Athlete with a Disability. Sean Hage, a Harrison High School graduate and four-time state champion, has agreed to personally present an award to anyone who joins him in the elite group of Georgia wrestlers who have won four high school state titles (fewer than 20 wrestlers have accomplished this feat).
Adding to the suspense, the newly created Match of the Year award will be handed out: “It’s an award given out based on what the public thinks,” Fretwell says. “We’ll put the nominees out there for Match of the Year and let the public vote on it.”
BUILDING INTEREST
With these awards, Fretwell is trying to draw attention to not just the championship winners but to the entire wrestling community. He is looking beyond the records and the pins to find stories about the wrestlers who have given so much of themselves to their teammates
and their sport. By putting these previously unrecognized wrestlers in the spotlight alongside wrestlers who have won championships, the 2009 High School Wrestling Awards will provide Georgia’s wrestling fans with a more complete idea of what is happening in the sport.
On March 15, Georgia high school wrestlers will get a chance to “trade a singlet for a suit,” as Fretwell says, and fans of Georgia high school wrestling will finally have a night when they can come together and celebrate the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in making the 2009 season a success. And the question that everyone will talk about in the future—“Who will win the Witt Award?”—will be answered for the first time.
Lentz can be reached at zlentz@scoreatl.com.
That is the question that Cliff Fretwell hopes high school wrestlers, coaches, parents and fans will be asking each other next year and every year after. And if all goes according to plan on Sunday, March 15 at Center Stage in Midtown, he might just get his way. Fretwell is the wrestling coach at Henry County and a member of the Georgia National Wrestling Alliance. Last year, while attending a closed ceremony to honor the state’s champions, he realized there wasn’t a year-end event honoring the effort put in over the course of the season by all of the
wrestlers, coaches and parents in Georgia. There were no events to bring the wrestling community together to celebrate the year and the wrestlers who made lasting impressions.
“Wrestling gets such a little amount of respect. It is one of those sports that demands so much but returns so little,” said Fretwell, pointing out the need for a bigger ceremony. This year, with the 2009 High School Wrestling Award Show, he hopes to change that.
THE RUNDOWN
When Fretwell decided to take over the planning of Georgia high school wrestling’s season-culminating event, he wanted to change it from the quiet “invite only” affair for state champion wrestlers to a state-of-the-sport event open to all wrestlers, their families and the public. He wanted to “make a commitment to go over the top with it,” to give the wrestlers a night to remember. Along with help from Team Georgia Wrestling and the Georgia National Wrestling Alliance, Fretwell has taken the award ceremony out of the shadows in a high school cafeteria and into the limelight at Center Stage. No longer will state champions be recognized in relative anonymity with a pat on the back and a wooden plaque. This year there will be a splash of glitz, a little glamor, and a slew of new awards given out to wrestlers extending beyond the traditional awards for the state champions.
“People like award shows where there is some suspense, drama and excitement to it,” Fretwell said.
And that is where the Witt Award comes in. It is named after Witt Durden who Fretwell calls “the kind of man you would want your son to grow up to be like.” Durden is the four-time state champion and Dublin High School wrestling legend who went on to national recognition at Oklahoma University and eventually to medical school. The Witt Award will be given to the most dominant high school wrestler in the State of Georgia across all classifications – in other words, the king of the mats.
Joining the new awards along with the Witt Award will be the Kyle Maynard Award, given to a wrestler who overcomes physical limitations to compete on the mats. Maynard is the Collins Hill High School graduate who was born a quadruple congenital amputee with no elbows or knees, yet wrestled to a 35-16 record and won an ESPY in 2004 as the Best Athlete with a Disability. Sean Hage, a Harrison High School graduate and four-time state champion, has agreed to personally present an award to anyone who joins him in the elite group of Georgia wrestlers who have won four high school state titles (fewer than 20 wrestlers have accomplished this feat).
Adding to the suspense, the newly created Match of the Year award will be handed out: “It’s an award given out based on what the public thinks,” Fretwell says. “We’ll put the nominees out there for Match of the Year and let the public vote on it.”
BUILDING INTEREST
With these awards, Fretwell is trying to draw attention to not just the championship winners but to the entire wrestling community. He is looking beyond the records and the pins to find stories about the wrestlers who have given so much of themselves to their teammates
and their sport. By putting these previously unrecognized wrestlers in the spotlight alongside wrestlers who have won championships, the 2009 High School Wrestling Awards will provide Georgia’s wrestling fans with a more complete idea of what is happening in the sport.
On March 15, Georgia high school wrestlers will get a chance to “trade a singlet for a suit,” as Fretwell says, and fans of Georgia high school wrestling will finally have a night when they can come together and celebrate the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in making the 2009 season a success. And the question that everyone will talk about in the future—“Who will win the Witt Award?”—will be answered for the first time.
Lentz can be reached at zlentz@scoreatl.com.
Atlanta Takedown Association makes state traditional wrestling tournament a success
Call it February Madness.
Last Sunday, volunteers from the AtlantaTakedown Association concocted five brackets—one for each classification—for Georgia’s Traditional State Wrestling Tournament, which runs this weekend at Gwinnett Arena. Unlike in any other high school sport in Georgia, wrestling uses a committee to come up with its playoff brackets. It’s as similar to the NCAA Tournament’s selection Sunday as a seeding process in the Georgia High School Association can get … but at the same time, it is much different. Yes, there is often chaos, controversy and tireless hours of work, but the ATA’s bracketing meeting relies solely on a formula rather than the opinion of certain committee members.
Of course, that does not mean the ATA’s method is problem free. It never has been and probably never will be. ATA First Vice President and tournament director Bud Hennebaul admits as much.
“There are flaws in every system,” Hennebaul said. “It will never be perfect.”
Every year, however, the seeding process is tweaked as necessary and this time around Hennebaul is confident the ATA has produced its best—and most fair—brackets ever.
“There’s no seeding that goes into it,” he explained. “There’s not enough head-to-head competition. It’s too difficult to compare kids from different parts of the state. So it’s done strictly by formulas, and we will use one of three for the state tournament bracket.”
Hennebaul hopes the result will be a 2009 tournament in which the best wrestlers are correctly positioned within their respective brackets. In past years, that has not always been the case.
“Two of the best kids could wrestle in the same sectional,” he recalled. “We could see the two best wrestlers go head-to-head in the quarterfinals.”
SELECTION PROCESS
With the ATA using a formula that seeds wrestlers based on the results from eight area tournaments that took place around the state earlier this month, Hennebaul insists that similar problems will be mostly avoided in this year’s tournament.
“It’s kind of secret who came up with the formulas,” he added, “but we should have the best kids wrestling in the finals.”
Restricting all coaches from attending Sunday’s bracketing meeting should also make the process more effective and much more efficient. According to Hennebaul, coaches have technically never been allowed to attend the meeting, but more than a few have nonetheless found their way into the room on previous occasions.
“We had to start over three times last year,” Hennebaul said, adding that the ATA’s goal was to “keep the coaches away until we [were] done.”
That will leave the manual labor at the hopefully controversy-free bracketing meeting to the ATA volunteers, led by ATA president Gary Schaefer. As long as everything goes according to plan, however, they aren’t working frantically until 6 p.m. like the NCAA Tournament Committee so famously does every year.
“The whole thing shouldn’t take more than two to three hours,” Schaefer explained. “We have different groups of volunteers working on all the different classifications.”
It’s also a lot easier when committee members are simply processing results and filling in names accordingly, a far cry from whatever goes on during the March Madness meeting.
“Everything is in writing,” Schaefer added. “There’s no discussion. We’ve got the formula. They fax or e-mail the winners to us on Sunday morning and we just fill in the bracket.”
Sounds pretty simple to get the field set for what has become the largest wrestling tournament in the country, right? Well, maybe, but a lot more than merely making the brackets goes into putting on the whole show.
“Bud and I start working on the next year’s tournament in March or April,” Schaefer said. “We have to line up mats, line up motels, food, drinks, clocks, heaters, doctors, scoring tables. … There are a lot of little things here and there.”
READY TO GO
Thanks to the hard work of Hennebaul, Foster and the rest of the ATA, Georgia’s Traditional State Wrestling Tournament becomes more and more friendly to fans, volunteers, coaches and officials every year. Most importantly, however, the hours of work and tweaking of formulas are done for the benefit of the participants themselves.
“It’s all about the kids,” Hennebaul concluded. “Our goal is to make the whole tournament experience better for them.”
Consider it done. Now, let the madness on the mats begin!
Dimon can be reached at rdimon@scoreatl.com.
Last Sunday, volunteers from the AtlantaTakedown Association concocted five brackets—one for each classification—for Georgia’s Traditional State Wrestling Tournament, which runs this weekend at Gwinnett Arena. Unlike in any other high school sport in Georgia, wrestling uses a committee to come up with its playoff brackets. It’s as similar to the NCAA Tournament’s selection Sunday as a seeding process in the Georgia High School Association can get … but at the same time, it is much different. Yes, there is often chaos, controversy and tireless hours of work, but the ATA’s bracketing meeting relies solely on a formula rather than the opinion of certain committee members.
Of course, that does not mean the ATA’s method is problem free. It never has been and probably never will be. ATA First Vice President and tournament director Bud Hennebaul admits as much.
“There are flaws in every system,” Hennebaul said. “It will never be perfect.”
Every year, however, the seeding process is tweaked as necessary and this time around Hennebaul is confident the ATA has produced its best—and most fair—brackets ever.
“There’s no seeding that goes into it,” he explained. “There’s not enough head-to-head competition. It’s too difficult to compare kids from different parts of the state. So it’s done strictly by formulas, and we will use one of three for the state tournament bracket.”
Hennebaul hopes the result will be a 2009 tournament in which the best wrestlers are correctly positioned within their respective brackets. In past years, that has not always been the case.
“Two of the best kids could wrestle in the same sectional,” he recalled. “We could see the two best wrestlers go head-to-head in the quarterfinals.”
SELECTION PROCESS
With the ATA using a formula that seeds wrestlers based on the results from eight area tournaments that took place around the state earlier this month, Hennebaul insists that similar problems will be mostly avoided in this year’s tournament.
“It’s kind of secret who came up with the formulas,” he added, “but we should have the best kids wrestling in the finals.”
Restricting all coaches from attending Sunday’s bracketing meeting should also make the process more effective and much more efficient. According to Hennebaul, coaches have technically never been allowed to attend the meeting, but more than a few have nonetheless found their way into the room on previous occasions.
“We had to start over three times last year,” Hennebaul said, adding that the ATA’s goal was to “keep the coaches away until we [were] done.”
That will leave the manual labor at the hopefully controversy-free bracketing meeting to the ATA volunteers, led by ATA president Gary Schaefer. As long as everything goes according to plan, however, they aren’t working frantically until 6 p.m. like the NCAA Tournament Committee so famously does every year.
“The whole thing shouldn’t take more than two to three hours,” Schaefer explained. “We have different groups of volunteers working on all the different classifications.”
It’s also a lot easier when committee members are simply processing results and filling in names accordingly, a far cry from whatever goes on during the March Madness meeting.
“Everything is in writing,” Schaefer added. “There’s no discussion. We’ve got the formula. They fax or e-mail the winners to us on Sunday morning and we just fill in the bracket.”
Sounds pretty simple to get the field set for what has become the largest wrestling tournament in the country, right? Well, maybe, but a lot more than merely making the brackets goes into putting on the whole show.
“Bud and I start working on the next year’s tournament in March or April,” Schaefer said. “We have to line up mats, line up motels, food, drinks, clocks, heaters, doctors, scoring tables. … There are a lot of little things here and there.”
READY TO GO
Thanks to the hard work of Hennebaul, Foster and the rest of the ATA, Georgia’s Traditional State Wrestling Tournament becomes more and more friendly to fans, volunteers, coaches and officials every year. Most importantly, however, the hours of work and tweaking of formulas are done for the benefit of the participants themselves.
“It’s all about the kids,” Hennebaul concluded. “Our goal is to make the whole tournament experience better for them.”
Consider it done. Now, let the madness on the mats begin!
Dimon can be reached at rdimon@scoreatl.com.
Collins Hill, Jefferson look to continue dominance on the mat
Over the past decade, two teams have achieved unparalleled success in Georgia High School Association wrestling. The Dragons of Jefferson have dominated in Class A and now do so in Class AA, while the Collins Hill program has built a dynasty in Area 7-AAAAA and Class AAAAA.
How do the two programs do it? Everything starts with Jefferson head coach Doug Thurmond and Collins Hill head coach Cliff Ramos. For Jefferson, several already decorated wrestlers helped the team recently capture its eighth straight duals title in January (its first in Class AA). The Dragons won the 2009 duals championship, after moving up from Class A, to go along with the program’s 12 traditional titles. Thurmond’s two sons, Cason (103-pound champion, 2008) and Cam (119-pound champion, 2007 and 2008) helped lead the team to victory. The squad also boasts threetime champion Jay Fowler (152-pound, 2006, ’07 and ’08), and Zac Crosby (160-pound) is a reigning champion as well. The team has a great love for the sport, according to Thurmond.
“We don’t treat wrestling as a secondary sport,” he says. “We feel the sport teaches for life.”
Thurmond’s talented bunch also features several 2008 runners-up that will be seeking the elusive individual championship. Daniel Barber (112), Cutler Finch (130), Cole Hightower (285) and Patrick Allen (215) all came close last year and will now look to hit the mat and capture their respective titles. With a team championship already in the bank, look for Thurmond’s bunch to make another huge splash with multiple individual championships.
SOARING TO THE TOP
Meanwhile, Collins Hill features just as many all-stars in Class AAAAA. Senior Taylor Knapp, who is ranked No. 10 in the country according to Amateur Wrestling News National, leads by example. Ramos said that Knapp is just one of the many seniors that “does a good job, especially in practice.” John Allgood is another senior that Ramos was quick to cite as being strong for this team. “There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle that make this program successful,” Ramos said, crediting the “six outstanding assistant coaches, supportive parents and a fantastic youth program” in helping the program win two straight team state championships and three since 2005.
Thirteen Collins Hill wrestlers qualified for state sectionals and two of Ramos’s juniors were his picks to go on to win state individual titles. T.J. Mitchell and Joel Smith are favored to win state, while Gary Tiller, a previous state runner-up (152-pound), will try to overcome injuries to win what he missed out on last year. Nine other individual area champions will join those three in seeking state championships. Look out for Bazell Partridge (103), Nick Holbert (171), C.J. Collins (215) and Allen Willard (130). These wrestlers have been pushed all season by the team’s nine seniors, which at times can be pretty tough, according to Ramos: “We’ve wrestled all over the country and sometimes you come back to the in-state meets and motivation is tough.”
Knapp, named most outstanding middleweight in the recent Sham Slam, and Caleb Sawchuck were huge in clinching the duals title when the team knocked off Pope, 47-9, to win the team crown. Ramos is proud of the fact that his program has done something no other Class AAAAA team in any sport has done: finish in the top three every season since 2000.
AROUND THE STATE
Wrestling fans will have plenty of storylines to follow in the individual championships. Carl Rider of North Gwinnett became the first Bulldog freshman to win an area title when he took home the 152-pound crown in 2008. Peachtree Ridge will send Michael Chapman (145) and Sam Kuntz (189) to try and win individual glory. Mill Creek has five hopes for a state title, led by Josh Harrison (130). Union Grove will be represented by Joey Lazor (135), who recently notched his 200th career victory. Lazor, who is committed to Northern Iowa, will be joined by his teammate, former champion Justin Crozier. Toombs County’s Bryan Benton is a beast it the 140-pound division and already owns three state rings. Pope finished second in the Class AAAAA Duals and was led by Dexter Bushart (130). If pins are your thing, keep an eye out for Central Gwinnett’s sophomore Jacob Aiken-Phillips (285), who recently won the area title and tied the Gwinnett County season record in pins.
With so much talent hitting the mats, fans are sure to see some great action this weekend in Gwinnett.
Proctor can be reached at fproctor@scoreatl.com.
How do the two programs do it? Everything starts with Jefferson head coach Doug Thurmond and Collins Hill head coach Cliff Ramos. For Jefferson, several already decorated wrestlers helped the team recently capture its eighth straight duals title in January (its first in Class AA). The Dragons won the 2009 duals championship, after moving up from Class A, to go along with the program’s 12 traditional titles. Thurmond’s two sons, Cason (103-pound champion, 2008) and Cam (119-pound champion, 2007 and 2008) helped lead the team to victory. The squad also boasts threetime champion Jay Fowler (152-pound, 2006, ’07 and ’08), and Zac Crosby (160-pound) is a reigning champion as well. The team has a great love for the sport, according to Thurmond.
“We don’t treat wrestling as a secondary sport,” he says. “We feel the sport teaches for life.”
Thurmond’s talented bunch also features several 2008 runners-up that will be seeking the elusive individual championship. Daniel Barber (112), Cutler Finch (130), Cole Hightower (285) and Patrick Allen (215) all came close last year and will now look to hit the mat and capture their respective titles. With a team championship already in the bank, look for Thurmond’s bunch to make another huge splash with multiple individual championships.
SOARING TO THE TOP
Meanwhile, Collins Hill features just as many all-stars in Class AAAAA. Senior Taylor Knapp, who is ranked No. 10 in the country according to Amateur Wrestling News National, leads by example. Ramos said that Knapp is just one of the many seniors that “does a good job, especially in practice.” John Allgood is another senior that Ramos was quick to cite as being strong for this team. “There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle that make this program successful,” Ramos said, crediting the “six outstanding assistant coaches, supportive parents and a fantastic youth program” in helping the program win two straight team state championships and three since 2005.
Thirteen Collins Hill wrestlers qualified for state sectionals and two of Ramos’s juniors were his picks to go on to win state individual titles. T.J. Mitchell and Joel Smith are favored to win state, while Gary Tiller, a previous state runner-up (152-pound), will try to overcome injuries to win what he missed out on last year. Nine other individual area champions will join those three in seeking state championships. Look out for Bazell Partridge (103), Nick Holbert (171), C.J. Collins (215) and Allen Willard (130). These wrestlers have been pushed all season by the team’s nine seniors, which at times can be pretty tough, according to Ramos: “We’ve wrestled all over the country and sometimes you come back to the in-state meets and motivation is tough.”
Knapp, named most outstanding middleweight in the recent Sham Slam, and Caleb Sawchuck were huge in clinching the duals title when the team knocked off Pope, 47-9, to win the team crown. Ramos is proud of the fact that his program has done something no other Class AAAAA team in any sport has done: finish in the top three every season since 2000.
AROUND THE STATE
Wrestling fans will have plenty of storylines to follow in the individual championships. Carl Rider of North Gwinnett became the first Bulldog freshman to win an area title when he took home the 152-pound crown in 2008. Peachtree Ridge will send Michael Chapman (145) and Sam Kuntz (189) to try and win individual glory. Mill Creek has five hopes for a state title, led by Josh Harrison (130). Union Grove will be represented by Joey Lazor (135), who recently notched his 200th career victory. Lazor, who is committed to Northern Iowa, will be joined by his teammate, former champion Justin Crozier. Toombs County’s Bryan Benton is a beast it the 140-pound division and already owns three state rings. Pope finished second in the Class AAAAA Duals and was led by Dexter Bushart (130). If pins are your thing, keep an eye out for Central Gwinnett’s sophomore Jacob Aiken-Phillips (285), who recently won the area title and tied the Gwinnett County season record in pins.
With so much talent hitting the mats, fans are sure to see some great action this weekend in Gwinnett.
Proctor can be reached at fproctor@scoreatl.com.
Message from GHSA Executive Director Ralph Swearngin
Here we are again! Bringing together all classifications for the GHSA Wrestling Championships continues to be a highlight of the GHSA year. On behalf of the Georgia High School Association and its corporate partners, I want to thank you for your support at this year’s State Championship matches, and for your support of high school sports throughout this season.
The Georgia High School Association could not offer quality tournaments such as this without the hard work of a large number of volunteers who give of themselves tirelessly. This championship event is hosted by members of the Atlanta Takedown Association, who have participated in its planning and operation. A special word of thanks goes out to these volunteers led by Bud Hennebaul, Tournament Director, and to GHSA Assistant Executive Director, Gary Phillips, who is the GHSA administrator for Wrestling.
The quality of wrestling in Georgia continues to improve tremendously as players, coaches and officials perform at new levels of excellence. This championship event will showcase great wrestling and outstanding coaching. These athletes have persevered through the battles involved in maintaining their weight in a healthy manner, and they have endured long practices and intense competitions. The Georgia High School Association strongly believes that lifelong lessons about discipline and hard work are best learned in the competitive arenas of high school athletics.
Now, get ready for exciting wrestling action. Support your wrestlers vigorously, and remember to demonstrate good sportsmanship always.
The Georgia High School Association could not offer quality tournaments such as this without the hard work of a large number of volunteers who give of themselves tirelessly. This championship event is hosted by members of the Atlanta Takedown Association, who have participated in its planning and operation. A special word of thanks goes out to these volunteers led by Bud Hennebaul, Tournament Director, and to GHSA Assistant Executive Director, Gary Phillips, who is the GHSA administrator for Wrestling.
The quality of wrestling in Georgia continues to improve tremendously as players, coaches and officials perform at new levels of excellence. This championship event will showcase great wrestling and outstanding coaching. These athletes have persevered through the battles involved in maintaining their weight in a healthy manner, and they have endured long practices and intense competitions. The Georgia High School Association strongly believes that lifelong lessons about discipline and hard work are best learned in the competitive arenas of high school athletics.
Now, get ready for exciting wrestling action. Support your wrestlers vigorously, and remember to demonstrate good sportsmanship always.
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