"Many athletes are going home after the school year and you want to make sure that they return," says Rager. "By communicating with athletes throughout the entire year, it lets them know that you are engaged in their life and have taken an interest in their success."
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Technology is changing and changing fast. MySpace -- while still out there -- has been replaced by more popular social networking technologies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and SnapChat, among others. New Web-based applications are evolving, making it even easier to communicate, get team information, stats and wrestling news. It's hard for coaches to keep up. But it is important to stay on top of technology trends for one key reason:
The ability to communicate with wrestlers is greater and easier than ever before.
"As a coach you have to be flexible with the new technologies and adapt to what the athletes are using," says Rager. "When I first started coaching it was MySpace. I don't think I have anyone with a MySpace account now. It has moved to Facebook and that is getting outdated with snapchat and Instagram."
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