Hello everyone and welcome to another year of Aberdeen Golden Eagle Wrestling. The summer seemed to fly by and here we are just a few days away from the first competition of the year. Some schedule changes this year, the first one I noticed is we are not going to the Rumble on the Red. South Dakota now has a "no contact" time during the December holiday's and that is when the Rumble tournament is. I do see we are going to one in Valley City and one in Sioux City so getting to wrestle some different competition. However, as has been tradition for quite some time, the first tourney of the year is the Watertown dual tournament. After an opening round bye we will wrestle Harrisburg followed by Yankton. We will see who we have after that depending on the outcome of those two duals. Then the team heads out west on Thursday for a triangular against Sturgis and Rapid City Central before the big Rapid Invite tourney.
Speaking of duals, South Dakota finally adopted a state dual tournament following the same formula that North Dakota has been doing for several years now. the duals will be mixed in with the individual state tourney adding an additional day of wrestling. Competition will start on a Thursday this year instead of Friday. I, as a fan, am very excited about this. A hotly contested dual can be extremely intense, add in that it could be for a state title now. I can't wait!
Coach Bowden has around 30 wrestlers in the room this year. He sent 15 to Brookings Tuesday night to wrestle in the Brookings JV Jamboree. Sounds like we had quite a few kids do well there. Talking to coach last night we have all weights filled, some with a lot of experience and some with little experience but expectations are the same. Returning starters this year are Brenden Salfrank, Drew Salfrank, Brock Martin, Ethan Allen, Calvin Beadle, Logan Beadle, Sam Calvert, Garrett Mitzel, Richard Stoick and Dillon Stoebner. Expected to make a significant contribution will be Jacob Bellefeuille, Dylan Schaunaman, Landon Merkel and Connor Bockorny.
Coach Swenson has almost 40 kids in the middle school room. a huge 6th grade class of 22 kids so far added to around 16 7th graders makes for a competitive wrestling room. I interviewed both coaches last night. Here is the YouTube link for that interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_Y4QxSMNM
These interviews can also be found on our website www.aberdeenwrestling.com along with a lot of other wrestling information.
You can follow the high school team on Facebook Aberdeen Central Wrestling. Twitter is AC Wrestling which is @Golden EaglesWR. Also, the middle school Twitter page is Aberdeen Middle School Wrestling, @ eaglesmswr
Looking forward to the season. Good luck to all Aberdeen wrestlers!
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