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Sure, everyone is going away from paper and using Trackwrestling for stats these days. I'm very supportive of the idea as it cuts down on the amount of work involved in compiling and tracking statistics. I also like that we are using less paper products to run tournaments. That said, a lot of coaches still prefer keeping stats on paper and it's always good to have paper on hand as a backup if Trackwrestling goes down or the wireless goes out. One of my assistant coaches from early in my career was an awesome man who had been around wrestling a long time. His name was Vince Trzinski and he knew everyone everywhere we went. He gave me this awesome document to keep track of stats at individual tournaments. Each wrestler had their own sheet and sheets could be traded off by coaches and statisticians when multiple wrestlers were going at a time. Impossible to do with a scorebook, and difficult with tablets unless you have several.  Anyway... Without further ado, here's the downl...

Introduction by Dan Sabin Back at the end of December, I published an article titled " The New Way To Run a High School Wrestling Tournament ".  I received a lot of great feedback from all over the country. Mostly positive, some negative, but the best part were the other ideas and formats people have tried.  I really learned a lot by posting that article.  By far the most intriguing format was the X-Over format that Ken Harvey posted. I found this so cool for many reasons, but instantly I knew I needed him to write an article explain the details.  I asked, he agreed, and after way too long here it finally is... The X-Over Format by Ken Harvey Any program hoping to build a tournament from scratch or re-doing an old format might find the X-Over Format fun and interesting.  Especially early season when setting up an individual tournaments  get complicated with entries essentially coming in without records. What we did was take our old team tournament which we ...

So many parents, coaches, and athletes think that youth success is transferable to success at any level beyond that. They are wrong. I wrestled at the Division I level and went through the recruiting process. I received letters and pamphlets from schools at all levels across the country. I filled out personal information, academic information, hobbies, outside interests....one thing I was never asked was how many matches did you win when you were 8 years old. When you are in the moment,nothing seems more important then what place your child takes at a tough tournament or what the score is against a ranked opponent. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As a coach for the past 20 years I have seen both sides of the coin. I have seen youth champions that never amounted to anything at the high school or college level. I have also seen NCAA champions that were below average youth wrestlers. There are so many variables that contribute to success or failure at the highest level...none of ...