Assistant Coach of the Year

Congratulations to Jose Villarreal for being voted the I-8 Assistant Coach of the year. I am blessed to have such a great coaching staff and to have Jose as my technician is beyond valuable. Thank you for all your efforts and Congratulations!!!

This guy is something special.

Watch more video of 2011 NCAA Wrestling Championships on flowrestling.org

Wesley Wes Wesley is Back and talking some smack to the Russians

Watch more video of The Return Of Wesley "Wes" Wesley on flowrestling.org

Watch more video of 2011 NCAA Wrestling Championships on flowrestling.org

T-Shirts and NCAA's

We still have T-shirts available. They are the 19-2 gray shirts. We have every size except for large.

I also wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the NCAA's from this past weekend. I was able to DVR both the medal matches and the championship matches. I have yet to finish the medal matches but have watched all of the championship bouts. I was hoping for some closer matches but was impressed with a few of the dominating performances. Congratulations to Penn State and Coach Cael Sanderson for winning the team National Championship. In an interview he stated that he had always wanted to be a part of a national championship team. It only took him 2 years as head coach of Penn State to accomplish that goal. He has been someone that I have admired since my college days watching him win 4 individual National Championships. I have even greater respect for him now that I know his desire for a team title.

I felt that the 125# match was amazing. I know that there are those that are saying that Robles had a strength advantage because he had an extra 30 pounds of muscle in his upper body because of him missing a leg. Yes he was stronger but HE WAS MISSING A LEG. Legs are usually pretty important when wrestling. I give him all the credit in the world.
I though Jordan Burroughs performed amazingly as well. Burroughs from Nebraska won his second National Title in deciding fashion. He was simply dominate.

I was pleased to see that the IL schools brought back 5 All Americans. In order to earn All American honors you must place in the top 8. Northwester University brought home 3 medal winners including Brandon Precin who took 3rd for the second time in his career. The University of Illinois also brought home 2 medal winners in BJ Futrell and Jimmy Kennedy. Both IL high school guys along with Precin. Overall it was a fun tournament to watch. I encourage my guys to look for some of the videos online. It is always fun to watch wrestling at its finest.

Grapplers v. Cops Basketball Game

On April 9th at 5:00pm in the Wrestling Gym, we will be playing a friendly game of basketball against Plano's finest in blue. Details are in the works but we do know that all proceeds will go to help send our wrestlers to camp this summer. Keep checking in for info.

New Wrestling Movie

Here is a link to a new wrestling movie. We don't get many movies about wrestling and when we do the
wrestling is sub par to say the least. The kid who is the main wrestler is a legit highly accomplished high school wrestler. The trailer looks amazing.

http://www.foxsearchlight.com/winwin/

Equipment and Uniforms

Some of you have not returned your equipment and uniforms. Please return them to me ASAP.

Illinois/Indiana Duals

Travis Tomac has been selected to wrestle in the upcoming Illinois/Indiana dual meet. This dual meet pairs up the highest senior place winners from each state to wrestle in a best of the best type meet. This is a great honor for Travis and we wish him the best of luck. The dual is scheduled for this Sunday at Wabash College in Indiana. Each year the venue rotates back and forth from Illinois to Indiana. This is the second year in a row in which Plano High School will be represented at JJ Cannon competed in the event last year.

Banquet

Thank you to everyone that came out to the banquet last night to celebrate our season. I think that the event went well and that everyone had a good time. I hope that is the case. Thank you again to the crew at PCC for their help and to Joel Longshore for taking the ball and running with it. They all did such a nice job for us.
For those not in attendance please stop by to pick up your awards and stat book.

Thanks again to everyone involved in our success this year. Collectively we put Plano Wrestling back on the map and are closer than we have been in 20 years to reaching our goal of winning a regional championship and qualifying for the team state tournament. It is within grasp and we need to put in the work to be able to take it.

Congratulations men, I am proud of what you have done and the history you have made. I am honored to be your coach. Thank you for your buy in, hard work and dedication that you have shown. I look forward to our future accomplishments together.

"Both Feet in the Circle"

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Shirts and Hats for Sale

I will have some of the 19-2 shirts for sale tomorrow at the banquet. I have a few baseball caps left as well.
The shirts are $10 and the hats are $20.

Banquet

Don't forget about the banquet tomorrow at 6:30pm at Plano Christian Church. The church is located on Rock Creek Road right outside of town. Dinner will be catered. Come out and celebrate our outstanding season.



Also...Off Season Schedule. Every day is from 3-4pm

Monday- Lifting
Tuesday- Lifting
Wednesday- Freestyle/Greco Open Mat
Thursday- Lifting
Friday- Freestyle/Greco Open Mat

ESPN Gable Story

Gable's intensity fuels legendary career

March, 2, 2011

Mar 2

8:59

By Mechelle Voepel

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Dan Gable officially retired from the University of Iowa earlier this year. He had stepped away from coaching the Hawkeyes wrestling program in 1997, after 21 seasons of dominating in the Big Ten and nationally.

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Iowa AthleticsDan Gable helped put wrestling on the map.

He'll never stop working to publicize the benefits of wrestling, though.
"I don't care what kind of job you have, you still have to pay attention to detail to be exceptional," said Gable, who since leaving coaching had served as an assistant to the Iowa athletic director. "And that usually takes a lot of discipline. Ours is one sport where you have to be disciplined in several ways, and you don't get to take any shortcuts."

Even in a sport populated by extremely intense people, Gable's focus as a competitor was uncanny. His ability to lose himself so completely to wrestling was in part his way of coping with some tough family times while growing up.

Gable was just 15 when his older sister was murdered while he and his parents were gone. He still speaks of the tragedy in a way that makes it seem painfully contemporary for him nearly a half-century later.
"There are certain things in your life that affect your whole life," he said. "That's going to affect me forever. And with my own daughters and my wife … you're always in this preventive, protective mode."

After going 64-0 at Waterloo West High, Gable headed to Iowa State. From 1966 to 1970, when so many of his college peers were experimenting daily with any and every stimulation, Gable lived mostly like a wrestling monk.

He dominated the three seasons he was collegiately eligible -- freshmen couldn't compete then -- for the Cyclones until his very last bout, a 13-11 loss to Washington's Larry Owings in the NCAA final that stunned the sports world.

Gable still reviews that match in his mind, like a mathematician going over the same equation for decades. He said the Patriots' loss to the Giants in the 2008 Super Bowl -- which kept New England from a perfect season -- actually brought him more clarity about the defeat that ended his college career.
"It took me to that event before I could start to close the door on studying my loss in 1970," said Gable, who went 118-1 at Iowa State. "I think I figured out the missing piece after analyzing it for all these years. It didn't take the sting away. But something clicked, and I understood why I lost.
"What it was came down to natural reaction. I always went for the pin. I did what was natural for me. I could have won the match without doing that. But I went for the fall, twice, the same way. I didn't adapt."
But he also knows it helped fuel him to a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics, where he didn't give up a single point. He realizes now that the loss had, in fact, taught him to recognize that the winning tactic sometimes was to be more conservative and that knowing that served him well in the Munich Games.
As a coach, Gable was just as driven as he was while competing. He led Iowa to a 355-21-5 record and 15 NCAA titles. Gable was succeeded first by Jim Zalesky, then by Tom Brands. Both of them had won three individual NCAA titles when they wrestled for him at Iowa.
"I think of it as I had one unbelievable opportunity as a competitor to be coached by Gable, and I bought into everything he said," Brands said. "Some kids want to know, 'Why are we doing this? It doesn't make sense to me.' Just do it, you know?
"Gable got you to do it his way. Here's how I describe it: We got better, and we didn't know it. You train with him, and, months later, you suddenly said, 'I'm pretty dang tough.'"

I found it.

I found the computer... stat book is saved.

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Missing Computer

To add to the quirkiness of the season, it seems that my stat computer has been misplaced. I am hoping to find it before the banquet so I can make the stat books, but if I can not locate it, I will be having to re-enter all of the years stats into a new computer which will take some time and obviously delay the creation of the stat book. I want to apologize ahead of time for this. If you've seen the computer, please let me know.

Freestyle/Greco

Off season has started. We will be lifting three days a week, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Wednesdays and Fridays we will have an open mat time to work on Freestyle and Greco wrestling. I have posted a few videos below of some freestyle technique. As you can tell it is a bit different than our high school Folk style wrestling. 

Whizzer Pull Up to Step Over KOLAT.COM Wrestling Moves Techniques Instru...

Fireman's Carry from 2 on 1 Without Leg KOLAT.COM Wrestling Techniques M...

Duck Under to Back Arch KOLAT.COM Wrestling Techniques Moves Instruction

High Crotch to Back Arch KOLAT.COM Wrestling Move Technique Instruction

Single Leg to Hip Toss KOLAT.COM Wrestling Techniques Moves Instruction