Virginia is now predominantly AAU! Central
Virginia has been AAU, and now with the help of Vic Morales in the Potomac Valley,
northern Virginia registered 1500 AAU members this year!
The BIG fish however
was Grundy from the Eastern Shore switching to AAU. Grundy, a strong club with 250
members, should bring Eastern Virginia with them. Then the western area will most
likely follow suit.
It looks like Virginia is going AAU just in time for
the AAU Junior Olympic Games. They will be run there next summer. Congratulations
to Wade Schalles, Josh Henson, Mike Newburn, Frank Lipoli and all others who helped
make this happen!
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In the Finals of the NCAA Tournament,
five out of the ten matches went into overtime. Two were decided in the 30-second
tie-breaker and both were won by the wrestler who won the flip and chose bottom!
In
three other overtime matches the score was 1-1 during regulation, with an escape
being the only points scored by each wrestler. In other words, a youth wrestler
needs to learn to get out of the bottom! Choosing top is going to backfire at the
higher level competitions if you can't score from bottom!
Another NCAA tidbit...
The
ten champions were all from different schools.
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