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PITT Wrestling and Recruiting

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The finals of the PA State Team wrestling championships were Nazareth -Winner & Bethlehem Catholic -2nd place. Both Eastern /Lehigh Valley HS's both form district XI.

The team standing after the 2017 individual PA championship are shown below:

2017 AAA FINAL TEAM SCORES

1 Nazareth

2 Bethlehem Catholic

3 Northampton


We know this conference well since both our kids wrestled for one of these teams which won a PA state championship a bunch of years ago.

These three AAA HS's are in the same conference District XI in Eastern PA / Lehigh Valley and are located within 10 miles of one another. Other great wrestling AAA HS's in the same conference are Easton, Parkland, Freedom, Liberty, Emasus, & Wilson ( AA), Saucon Valley (AA), Penn Argyle ( AA) look them up they've all won PA state titles.

Yet PITT spends no time recruiting great wrestlers from these schools. I can tell you that PSU, Lehigh, Okalahoma St., Oklahoma, Iowa, NC State etc are all over these schools.



One of the recruiting techniques the big wrestling U's use is to be guest coaches at youth and HS camps. Wrestling is a sport where he wrestlers begin to form opinions of where they want to end up in college early on.

This talent is 300 miles away from PITT a 4-5 hr drive and its being wasted! We've been to youth and HS clinics and camps since our kids were 5 and never noticed a PITT anyone anywhere!










 
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That is why the last coach needed to go. You can build a very good team out of pa and oh kids who don't get psu or osu offers.
Agreed! Losts of PA talent is lost to the BIG10 and other schools. I believe PITT could snag a few of the top PA wrestlers and fill its weights with other exceptional PA wrestling talent! That would be a way to start and branch out to other states.
 
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