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The Tazewell Wrestling Club is hosting a camp at Tazewell Elementary School on July 10th - 12th. Kids in grades 6th - 12th may attend and the cost is $125. This includes lunch and two 2-hour sessions per day. Camp Technicians are Pat DeGain (2X Michigan State Champion, 1998 2nd Place at World Championships, 3X NCAA Qualifier, 2005 NCAA ALL AMERICAN - 3rd Place) and Scott Moore (2X NCAA Placer, Big 10 and ACC Champ, 2X Winner of "America's Best Pinner" Award). Both are assistant coaches at the University of Virginia. Daily Schedule Session 1 10:00 am - 11:15 am = Technique 11:20 am - 12:00 pm = Drill and Live Wrestling Session 2 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm = Technique 2:20 pm - 3:00 pm = Drill and Live Wrestling Topics to be covered: High Crotch Takedowns, Double Leg Offense and Defense, Setups and Tieups, Defense from the feet, Front Head Offense and Defense, Far and Near Wrist Series, Half Nelson Offense, Chain Wrestling from the Bottom, Free Style and Greco-Roman Wrestling For more information contact Coach Pat DeGain at coachdegain@virginia.edu or WV2006camps@hotmail.com or Tazewell High School Wrestling Coach Chuck Burton at cburton@ntelos.net...

I'd say all 4 freshmen +1 upperclassmen

He also set the new record for Inside Linebackers in the Power Clean. Beat the old record by 20 pounds or so.

I finally agree with the G-Man...Time for the "You don't want to play in Single A do you?" to rest...It's time to play where your numbers indicate you play. Single A sounds good to me...Look at this, you have Lebanon playing single A and they are bigger than Tazewell, Graham, Grundy...Why not put those 4 teams in a district with say Virginia High and John Battle. Leave the LPD alone...Play them in Class D. Let Richlands pick up Abingdon, Marion, Carroll County and play them in Region IV... To answer your question there Beano...Very true that staying double A will give better challenges at times locally...But in the long run of the athletic programs at these three area schools, you're not going to have kids that want to compete when they don't feel like they have a chance to do anything more than the regular season... Single A is just as tough...Playing football in Region D has Gate City, Powell Valley, Honaker, Haysi, JI Burton...just to name a few... Look at this too, Grundy (long time AA power in wrestling) puts no one in the semi-finals of the state tournament this year...Places only 5 kids...One 4th and the other 4 were 7th or 8th...If the VHSL wouldn't have placed 8 this year for the first time, there would have been ONE placer from GRUNDY. Tell me we can compete with Double A numbers anymore. I say, play where your numbers dicate you to play...If it's Double A, then you find a district...If it's Single A then you find a district...Give your kids the best shot of being successful at the end of the season...In the state tournaments...The kids that are good enough to go on to college will get there anyway...Look at Heath Miller, Single A ball to Super Bowl Champion... It's about the kids having a chance to shine at the end of the year. A school with 500 will get destroyed by a school with 1400 9 times out of 9.5 times...

The Tazewell Wrestling Club is still signing up kids in grades K-8 for the Youth Season. Practices are held Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights in the Tazewell Elementary School Gym starting at 5:30.

Grundy came away with the team title. Had champs at 103, 125, 135, 152. 2nds at 171 and 189. Not sure on everyone else but I think they ended up with 12 out of 14 going to state.

Just heard that the Tazewell Girls beat VA High tonight. Who they play next and where?

His name is Oompa Lumpa and he's from the Lower East Side of the Chocolate Factory. Don't believe me? Ask me.

Not knocking on Abingdon, but if you see my post, Rural Retreat picks up 4 wins with the 4 starters that were out and they win the match. If memory serves me correctly, Abingdon got a FF win at 103, lost at 112, 119???, won at 125 (good match), won at 130 by a ff or a B teamer, lost at 135, won at 140 (starter was out), can't remember it all, but they lost at 152 where they had a starter out and 215 where they had a starter out. If RR would have been fully healthy, it would have been much, much closer. Not saying Abingdon wouldn't have won, but it would have been a different match.

Abingdon at Carroll County Super Quad. But to their defense, they had 4 starters out. 215 was out, 130 was out, I think 152 and can't remember the other...

I know where he's from, I know, I know. But I'm not telling!!!

Rural Retreat wins this one without a problem. When they are at full strength, they're tough.

Is K. Stiltner staying at 125?

Can anyone post results of these matches?

Any results to speak of from this past week or weekend? I know Carroll was in a tournament and there was a tournament at Marion. Grundy was in a tournament, any other teams out there wrestling already? Any results to post? Most area teams will be in action this Saturday with Graham, Tazewell, and Carroll County in a tournament at Carroll. Richlands, Marion, JJ Kelly, and others will be in action at John Battle.

Found this on the Graham High School site offered in memory of Coach. Thought it was good and worth sharing here. Good essay about coaches. He’s called a coach and it’s a different job. There is no clear way to succeed. One cannot copy another who’s a winner, for there seems to be some subtle secret chemistry of personality that enables a person to lead successfully and no one really knows what it is. Those who have succeeded and those who have failed represent all kinds. They are young, old, experienced; they are soft, tough, good-natured, foul tempered, proud and profane. They are articulate and even inarticulate. Some are dedicated and some casual. Some are even more dedicated than others. Intelligence is not enough, and dedication is not enough. They all want to win more than others and just wanting to win is not enough. Losers almost always get fired, but winners get fired also. He is out in the open being judged publicly for six or seven months out of the year by those who may or may not be qualified to judge him. Every victory and every defeat is recorded constantly in print. The coach, this strange breed has no place to hide. He cannot just let the job go for a while or do a bad job and hope no one will notice as most of us can. He cannot satisfy everyone, seldom can he even satisfy very many, and rarely does he even satisfy himself. If he wins once, he must win the next time also. They plot victories, they suffer defeats; they endure criticism from within and without; they neglect their families, they travel endlessly and the live alone in the spotlight surrounded by others. Theirs may be the worst profession in the world. It’s unreasonably demanding, poor pay, insecure, full of unrelenting pressures and I ask myself: Why do coaches put up with it? Why do they do it? I’ve seen them fired with pat phrases such as, “Foolâ€ÂÂ, “incompetentâ€ÂÂ, or “He couldn’t get the job doneâ€ÂÂ. I’ve wondered about that, having seen them exalted by victory, and depressed by defeat. I’ve sympathized with them having seen some broken by the job and others die from it. One is moved to admire them and to hope that someday the world will understand them; this strange breed they call coach.

I'd suggest anyone wanting a seat for the Taz-Rich game, get there EARLY

Comer = #58 Lewis = #7

Excellent point djr. I'm not here to argue, just to state some facts. I know most coaches would do it for no pay. They are in it for the love of the game. If these "fans" that know everything there is to know without ever playing a down of football as you say Charlie Weiss never did, then why aren't the involved in coaching? To put it simply, they don't want to be criticized. All I'm saying is that the coaches and players go out each week with a game plan. They know what they have seen on tape and what should work given their offensive or defensive philosophies. We're talking about 14-18 year old boys here. Not college level kids or pro kids that should be criticized when they mess up. I know of no coach alive that would completely change their offensive or defensive philosophy from week to week. If they did that, then they better have 22 super athletes that are 4.0 gpas with nothing else but football to do. No school work, no homework, no chores, nothing else but football.

That's $6.05 an hour before taxes are taken out. Now tell me, how many of you are willing to work two jobs with the second paying under $6.00 an hour and then listen to people who think they know what they're talking about tell you how to do it?

Just as a little thing I wanted to see what a coach averages per hour. Assuming, and I know it's more in some counties, less in other counties, that an assistant coach makes $2500 for coaching. Using just the little I know about what goes into it, each assistant coach makes approximately $6.05 an hour for the time they put in. This in addition to the regular job. Here is what I came up with and I know there's more to add, so please feel free. 12 two-a-days 8:00 – 3:00 = 84 hours 2 scrimmages = 8 hours 6 home games of painting the field @ 2 hours = 12 hours 11 guaranteed weeks M-W practice @ 3 hours = 99 hours 11 Thursday practices @ 2 hours = 22 hours 2 more days of non 2-a-days @ 3 hours = 6 hours 10 Games @ 8 hours (actual game, prep before, clean after) = 80 hours Bus Rides with the kids to 5 away games = approx. 10 hours Weekend Meetings = approx. 30 hours (could be more in some cases) Preparation before season starts = approx. 12 hours Waiting for kids to get a ride after practice and clean up = 1-2 hours each day = approx. 50 hours 413 approximate hours spent during pre-season and regular season. Approximate asst. coach pay $2500 = approximately $6.05 an hour. This does not include post season, summer, winter and spring weight lifting, watching grades and checking on players in school, taping, end of season clean up and equipment storage, etc.

I'll agree that coaches accept the responsibility of molding and shaping these young kids lives, but it also has to come from home. I also agree that we all get criticized, but when parents, maybe not even parents of a football player stand up, shout out and criticize a coach or a kid, what is that teaching their child? When grown adults criticize someone else or criticize a child about something they may "think" they know something about, what is that teaching our youth? It's got to come from home too people. Big D, I understand your points as well, I was just informing the people that some coaches aren't paid. That they do it for the love of the game, for the love of coaching and helping shape young men and women.

Not all coaches are paid. Some of them are there on a voluntary basis. I love it when fans think they know more than they do. Like the ones that have never touched a football field will stand up and yell about what that "dumb" coach should do.

While many things go unnoticed in many games, its not gonna get any better till the officials are held accountable for their actions. Like it or not, many times they control the outcomes of close games. Granted, they're not perfect, no one is, but if you're gonna get paid to be a neutral third party and judge a game, then read the rule book before you go out there. These so called cheap shots can all be avoided if the whistle is blown when it is supposed to be. People see a block or a hit and think it's a cheap shot, but until the whistle blows, everyones fair game. At least that's what I've always been told and that's what they teach from the Pee Wee Level all the way through the Pro Level.

From what I heard, Eric McDaniel had 215 yards rushing and two scores. Anyone correct me on that?