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Can’t stop laughing – you must be smoking pot with Oddo. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

That work ethic you spoke of is what i preach day in and day out to my athletes, and is the only way to get where you want. there is no counter for effort, you can only match someones effort or outwork them.

wrestlekid thats rough, and its last year, why bring it up now

I sense a bit of socialist class-warfare in your comments regarding where my son goes to school as if this gives him some advantage? The truth is Fordham Prep has a very weak wrestling program. Public Athletics programs have higher paid coaches and much better wrestling facilities…and a never ending flow of revenue because they do it on tax dollars much of it from folks that don’t even have kids in government schools.

With that said, Andrew success and every other wrestler from ISW has everything to do with an undying work ethic.

“Bob” this is my first year at Clarkstown South full time, give me a couple of years and we will have more kids in the finals out of our little no fee club then we have now! We don’t have to advertise who comes through our doors because we are not in it for the money. John Laurenzi has been running this club for about 20 years and many studs have honed their skills on the brown mats. If you don’t want to spend a small fortune on a wrestling club come to us. We will give you a great workout and you owe us nothing. We are not here to claim you as ours we just want to make wrestling better. April to August on Monday and Wednesday nights from 7-9:00pm at Clarkstown South High School.

Coach Rogers
Brown and Gold Takedown Club

he moved up to 215 to avoid Downer, I’m not saying what Downer did was right, but the kid clearly could have tried to continue wrestling, he never seemed in much pain and his coaches continuously told him to stay down on the mat, he did not leave to go to a hospital but instead stayed to get his unearned metal, well he earned a metal, but not a gold, how many times did he beat down not by injury ? or any all-section wrestlers at that ? my buddy lost his left hand but he might not even need help counting that one out

when he mentioned “area” wrestlers he mentioned Lenzi, the kid lives in westchester, he goes to a private school, more power to him, i hope my kids can go to private school, i love the school i went to but now i work in the district and i see what walks the halls and what can happen to a kid who links up with the wrong ones, odds are a little better at a private school , wouldnt mind going out to the island so my kid could go to St. Anthonys to play football, wrestling, and lacrosse

when jake talked about section 1 wrestlers he mentioned the ones in his coverage area. Beacon isn’t who he reports to, you think they ran a Brundage story in buffalo ?? and winningest wrestler ?? guys are cheating now, Realbuto is going to rack up a ton of wins, but he wrestles 60 matches a year while Mazzurco wrestled 45 so times that by lets just say 4 for the high school years thats 60 extra matches thanks to all these dual meet tournaments and stuff. Now Realbuto is an awesome wrestler and deserves to be the winningest unfortunately for my arguement, but there will be guys who fall between, Tompinks for example who #’s are inflated so wins might start to mean less while guys look at 4/5 x all-section, or 2+times all-state stuff like that because theoretically someone could win like 180+ matches and really only win sections once maybe twice while some guys won under 150 matches and won sections 4 times

yeah going there will make you better but i can roll off plenty of state champs that did it the old fashioned way, hard work, dedication, and a good drill partner, now if you can’t find that in your wrestling room … you better hope its the drill partner because if its one of the other two you wont make it anyway

Diane

“Lenzi not one of ours”? The section 1 performance is all about ISW & John Degl. This is where Lenzi trains. He opened the door last year so his club-mates like grippi, realbuto, rodriguez, Genta and others could believe that they could succeed at the state level. Andrew success is owed all to John Degl who made him believe. With that said – you have no clue – and your territorial attitude is what failed section 1 in the past.

Coach Rodgers is trying to offer opportunity, keep up the great work Coach. I’ll keep charging those high fees so kids can workout whenever they want 24 hrs a day 7 days a week with guys like Henry Cejudo and you keep doing what you do helping with open mats and offer great opportunities in freestyle and Greco. Together we can achieve even greater results!

However, this year has been years in the making. James and Brian benefited from all their experiences in everything they have ever done for that one moment. They have been the beneficiaries of CJ Rodrigues, and others who have shown that Section 1 can compete with anyone. Don’t be surprised if next year we have several more State titles.

Anklepick>> Despite your opinion, the evidence is overwhelming against you. Open mats have been going on since Tommy Jobin was kicking my butt in 1990-91 and it has not produced consistent results. The six finalist from the section 1 area (including Lenzi) have not been products of open mats but clubs.

In 2008 10 of 11 Section 1’s All State Wrestlers trained at a club year round. (add Lenzi to make 1 state champ and 11 all state out of 12)

In 2009 Section 1 takes 3rd place / Fox Lane HS takes a team 3rd place…
15 All State wrestlers. 11 from one club and Clay for sure wrestles tons of freestyle and greco.

Open mats are not an option if you want to continue the march to the team title. I could be wrong, it is just my opinion.

Thank you to all of the people who have paved the way for the current section 1 young men who are reaping the fruits of your labor. While they deserve tremendous credit having the help from likes of the Colagiovannis, Cuculo’s , El-Hags, Srednicki’s and Einfrank’s of section 1 showing it is in reach these current stars are taking it one more step and winning State titles and and being all-Americans.

JOHN DEGL

If you had some sense he was just trying to get kids in section one the chance to get together without worrying about paying the high cost of going to a club such as ISW. ISW does produce champs but not everyone can pay that kind of money. And they produce champs because a lot of good kids go and work out with each other. If kids work out with each other at Clarkstown south the same can happen.