I can only speak for Austintown Middle School because I have a step-son that is a student. The school is un-organized and in my dealing with the teachers, they do not have the skill level to deal with challenging students. I have often considered a transition to another school system that has more seasoned teachers that know how to better control a classroom. Open enrollment can bring more money into the school system, but I don't believe AMS is ready for the challenge of a more diversified student body.
Perhaps you need to read the article again and notice the lack of energy and weakness. How can that be positive? Again, I am disappointed that a coach would allow this to happen. This is not a coach that I would ever allow my son to train under.
Being a former former athletic trainer and the father of a son that ran both cross country and track for 4 years in high school, there was never an issue of needing to lose weight in order to fit into a bracket. As a former athletic trainer, I never experience a football player needing to lose weight to play. However, I have seen many wrestling athletes running on treadmills wearing trashbags in order to reduce weight. Your excuses don't fly. If you are retaining water, that is a medical issue, especially for someone in high school. If you loose water weight, as you say, then you are messing with electrolyte balance, which is never good. Wrestling needs to take a look at what it asks its athlete to do to play, and that should not be crash dieting to make weight.
I find this article very upsetting. How can the parents and the school allow this teenager to do this to his young body. This is why wresting is and always will be an un-healthy sport. I find it even more upsetting that the Vindy would think this article needed to be printed.
Austintown opens to nondistrict pupils
I can only speak for Austintown Middle School because I have a step-son that is a student. The school is un-organized and in my dealing with the teachers, they do not have the skill level to deal with challenging students. I have often considered a transition to another school system that has more seasoned teachers that know how to better control a classroom. Open enrollment can bring more money into the school system, but I don't believe AMS is ready for the challenge of a more diversified student body.
January 20, 2009 at 5:20 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Fitch wrestler Shawn Ague seeing positive results
Perhaps you need to read the article again and notice the lack of energy and weakness. How can that be positive? Again, I am disappointed that a coach would allow this to happen. This is not a coach that I would ever allow my son to train under.
January 19, 2009 at 2:27 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Fitch wrestler Shawn Ague seeing positive results
Being a former former athletic trainer and the father of a son that ran both cross country and track for 4 years in high school, there was never an issue of needing to lose weight in order to fit into a bracket. As a former athletic trainer, I never experience a football player needing to lose weight to play. However, I have seen many wrestling athletes running on treadmills wearing trashbags in order to reduce weight. Your excuses don't fly. If you are retaining water, that is a medical issue, especially for someone in high school. If you loose water weight, as you say, then you are messing with electrolyte balance, which is never good. Wrestling needs to take a look at what it asks its athlete to do to play, and that should not be crash dieting to make weight.
January 19, 2009 at 2:25 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Fitch wrestler Shawn Ague seeing positive results
I find this article very upsetting. How can the parents and the school allow this teenager to do this to his young body. This is why wresting is and always will be an un-healthy sport. I find it even more upsetting that the Vindy would think this article needed to be printed.
January 19, 2009 at 11:41 a.m. permalink suggest removal