Dapper Dan part 2

okay so it's Sunday and the day starts out with a mandatory tour of Pittsburgh with lunch included all of Team USA in team Virginia are there only about half of teen Pennsylvania is there.
after the tour was over they return to the hotel with an hour or maybe a little more to get ready. Then we all boarded the buses to go to the Fitzgerald field house at the University of Pittsburgh. there was a lot of publicity there as well. Teen pictures were taken a large picture of all the wrestlers with Jake Herbert was also taken with a sign that said save Olympic wrestling. Then they finally had an opportunity to warm up. By that point the sold out crowd of 3000 was already in ring the arena to take their seats. Things were getting exciting as we prepared for the match to start there were a lot of people sitting at tables all 3 on 3 of the 4 sides of the mat. Flo was all set up and started filming in commentating.
from the get go the officiating was interesting as we lost our first match order to had a takedown that we scored with mood from the scoreboard and seem to chase the opponent around the entire second. The format for our tool was a little strange and at first we thought with favor us. But I'm not so sure about that now looking back at it. They had each match as a as a too. Match with those. Starting in neutral so many of the matches most of them actually ended up being very Lowes scoring matches that came right down to the end. I think it was a tool that we could have 1 but things just didn't turn out that way. Technically we did fine they are very good at doing nothing until the end in scoring to win. We could have been in a little better shape but that wasn't a surprise.
Personally it was a great experience for me and it always is a good experience to be around high quality wrestlers from various different schools. It really gives you an opportunity to see different dominant styles and common themes. It also reminds you that really good wrestlers are normal kids to. They like the ice cream bar. And some are goofy some are quiet and some talk too much.
the Team USA vs team Pennsylvania tool was exciting and the team score came down to the last match. Most of the individual matches were pretty boring. The 1 thing that was different from these kids and most other wrestlers we're how hard they fought out of awkward positions and where some of the scrambles ended up. Eat 1 of these guys were very tough and had a lot of composure.
I think this weekend was a great experience for me personally as a coach. I was also happy to see that we put together a quality team that represented Virginia well. I really think that the Virginia Wrestling Association is headed in the right direction. We are putting better teams together for the sort of events. The Virginia elementary and middle school state championship is a quality event. I really hope to see all of the best teams and best wrestlers in the state continue to take time out of their schedule to represent Virginia in these sort of events in the future.