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What every high school wrestler - and their parents - must know
Send your comments/feedback to Dale Anderson If you are a high school wrestler give this article to your father - or better yet your mother -- right now. Wrestling is in imminent danger of extinction. For every female athlete added at the college level, four or five male athletic participatory opportunities are being eliminated. At the present rate, wrestling at the college level will be gone in the next five to ten years. Those of you who love wrestling can fiddle while wrestling burns, or you can fight to save wrestling. There is one thing that you can do that will help wrestling, you and your son. Talk to the college coaches and athletic directors at the colleges where your son intends to go to school. Ask them frankly whether the program will still be around in four or five years. Let administrators / presidents of the schools that cannot commit to your son's program for the next four years know what you think of them - in writing. Don't let your son attend any school where the school's administrators will not assure you that the program will be viable in four years. When your son goes to the school of his choice send a letter to the president, athletic director and coach explaining that your son went to that school because of their assurances and thank them for their courage, etc.
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