Takedown Report

With participation down, forfeits up, high school wrestling searches for solutions

Editor’s Notes; Distressing news and something that should be addressed and dealt with.
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High school wrestling is enduring some tough times. Everyone involved in the sport knows that. Participation is down and forfeits are up. Take last Thursday, Jan. 11, as just an example. It was a full night of York-Adams League competition. Results for nine matches involving 17 league teams could be tracked down. Those matches featured 47 forfeits, or more than five forfeits per match. In nearly 19 percent of the weight classes, the local teams didn’t field a competitor. And this is in Pennsylvania, which has long been considered a wrestling-mad state. Nationally, the situation is even worse. Rest of the story at https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/sports/columnists/2018/01/16/heiser-participation-down-forfeits-up-high-school-wrestling-searches-solutions/1037804001/?mc_cid=27ba681e76&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

February 9, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized