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NCAA Article link here which was last updated April 8, 2020 Nearly eight million students currently participate in high school athletics in the United States. More than 480,000 compete as NCAA athletes, and just a select few within each sport move on to compete at the professional or Olympic level. The table shows how many high school and NCAA athletes compete in each sport along with an estimate of the percentage of high school athletes going on to compete in the NCAA. In contrast, the likelihood of an NCAA athlete earning a college degree is significantly greater; graduation success rates are 86% in Division I, 71% in Division II and 87% in Division III. High School Participants NCAA Participants Overall % HS to NCAA % HS to NCAA Division I % HS to NCAA Division II % HS to NCAA Division III Men Baseball 482,740 36,011 7.5% 2.2% 2.3% 2.9% Basketball 540,769 18,816 3.5% 1.0% 1.0% 1.4% Cross Country 269,295 14,303 5.3% 1.8% 1.4% 2.1% Football 1,006,013 73,712 7.3% 2.9% 1.9% 2.5% Golf 143,200 8,485 5.9% 2.0% 1.6% 2.2% Ice Hockey 35,283 4,323 12.3% 4.8% 0.6% 6.8% Lacrosse 113,702 14,603 12.8% 3.1% 2.5% 7.3% Soccer 459,077 25,499 5.6% 1.3% 1.5% 2.7% Swimming 136,638 9,799 7.2% 2.8% 1.2% 3.2% Tennis 159,314 7,785 4.9% 1.6% 1.0% 2.3% Track & Field 605,354 28,914 4.8% 1.9% 1.2% 1.7% Volleyball 63,563 2,355 3.7% 0.7% 0.7% 2.3% Water Polo 22,475 1,072 4.8% 2.7% 0.8% 1.3% Wrestling 247,441 7,300 3.0% 1.0% 0.8% 1.2% tl;dr Men's wrestling has the lowest overall HS-to-NCAA rate of any sport listed above so don't be a psycho parent.

It seems pretty clear that she told the prosecutors she didn't want to testify. At that stage, prosecutors can subpoena them and try to force them to testify, but will often just drop cases in that scenario. 1. They don't want a reluctant witness because to affects their ability to win 2. They don't want to retraumatize somebody or 3. They no longer believe the accused is guilty...this is the most rare occurrence of the 3, as I've often found that prosecutors will continue to believe in my clients guilt long after the victim's story has fallen apart Typically this will occur in cases like this one or "regular" domestic violence cases. Most often it's because the victim has had a change of heart after they see what the person they've accused is facing. They'll then say "I just wanted him/her to get help, not go to prison" and then ask for the charges to be dropped. The second most common occurrence is what the alleged victim's attorneys are alleging here, that they don't want to be retraumatize and just want to move on with their lives; often the victims are constantly facing social media attacks on their character from the accused's family (or in a case like this where the accused is [relatively] high profile), from the family of the accused OR fans of said (again, relatively) high profile person.

You may be interested in knowing that apparently Kerkvliet is heading down to 97 KG? Source: Some deplorable on these forums said so.

I turned down the scholarship to go to the more expensive school. And I have never had to avoid ex-girlfriends. You do like to project your circumstances on to others. I can't help but wonder if that informs your abhorrent opinions on sexual assault as well.

Wasn't Coulter a lawyer for about 5 minutes...and mostly corporate law at that? Then she went into politics and became just a ridiculous, over the top personality? And why would I want to ask a rapist daughter anything? And the accuser was facing Masterson and that tiny little TOTALLY by the book, non-intimidating little entity known as the "Church of Scientology." They're WELL known for not intimidating or harassing accusers, right? It was also three accusers including his ex-girlfriend. But to be clear, HE is just another "victim" of these women?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-palestine-hamas-attack-hostages-gaza-strip-b2426936.html Decapitating people is 1st degree murder. They raped and murdered women. They killed children in front of their parents. They indiscriminately mowed down youth at a dance party. They paraded bodies around Gaza to cheers. Again, what did they expect as a response? This was a monstrous attack by cold blooded killers. They should expect a somewhat similar response. The billions (and possibly trillion) of dollars of aid to the Palestinians has gone where? To make the people's lives better? To improve infrastructure? Apparently not. mspart

I simply say may the Ferrari boys get what they deserve.

Being surpassed by Alirez is a little strong. Alirez won the match, but it was off one move where he was being ridden like a dog. He scored no other points. The year before, when Woods beat Alirez at the Scuffle, it as a 5-4 decision. The two are close. No doubt Alirez won, but surpassed is probably not the correct word choice there, though I suppose I'm devolving into the same semantics debates I criticized others for earlier.

Starting? I have always been s deplorable.

It is good that media is now getting the same treatment as social media on this bbs. There will now be a push for all media outlets to show all sides evenly. No buzz words, no censor by omission, no coordinating content and scheduling with the sitting POTUS. None of that. Just freedom!

A guy who hasn't wrestled a match at 285 and hasn't spent much time actually wrestling the last two (2) calendar years is going to beat a guy who is in the best training situation in, quite possibly, the world that has been training and showing clear signs of improvement? Nah bro.

The Humphrey Era Downey is about as good as you are going to see with him. Not sure anyone else has or will be able to get in his head good enough to get both decent results and a somewhat in check demeanor on and off the mat. Sure not world beater but at least he added decent depth to the US ladder and could be competitive internationally for that short period of time.

Where can I bet on this?

Clearly not meat but smoked cheese. Needs to be a little colder outside but I was running out and it takes a couple weeks to cure. Used a variety of cheeses and cut some cream cheese into blocks also.

The victim can not withdraw the charges, they are not technically parties to a case, they are witnesses. The case is typically the state vs. the individual. They can ask that prosecution be dropped or recant their allegations, but prosecutors get the final call, they have to decide if they feel they can prove the case. They can not. This is true. If the eyewitness was served with a subpoena for trial and then doesn't show up, thus violating the subpoena, you would ask the judge for a mistrial on that basis; you have to have served them, though. Unfortunately it happens a lot. Not really directed at you, but since you used the "innocent until proven guilty" line, I wanted to address that quickly. Innocent until proven guilty only applies to taking somebody's freedom away. People are not "innocent until proven guilty" in any other context, and you see us, in society, not hold to that standard all the time. OJ Simpson. Casey Anthony. Trump and/or Biden right now. You even see it in lesser circumstances like people making judgments on the athletes competing based on our very limited information. People getting fired based off accusations. It's fine. The court of public opinion does not have that standard, nor is it required to. Part of being human is we form opinions. Both statements are incredibly, incredibly false. Ann Coulter's reasoning is terrible and biased, and her research skills are not provable based on what you've offered here. There are many, many twit attorneys.

Not an option. Sport doesn’t have anything to do with snow or ice.

And I know what he is.

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Lots of athletes do multiple sports in high school and focus on one on college. Lots of athletes do sports in high school, but don't continue through senior year (seniors are often the smallest class on a team). The attrition starts well before college. Not everyone even goes to college! I can see why wrestling might have the lowest number just by my intuition that wrestling is probably one of the least fun sports to be mediocre to poor at when competing against better athletes. In a team sport, if you suck, you can sit on the bench, and get some minutes when your team plays a shitty team. In track, if you suck, you can lose, but still have fun and set a personal best. In wrestling, if you suck, you'll just mostly lose.

The Community Colleges 2023-'24 wrestling season has gotten underway... albeit in California (where there are presently nearly two dozen active men's CC wrestling teams). For more info on that front: https://www.caccwrestling.com/ Wouldn't it be nice to have more CC & junior college wrestling teams nationwide? California consistently demonstrates that maintaining a healthy quantity can be achieved, and with suspenseful team title chases keeping things interesting, too. Elsewhere in the USA, there are around 55 community college / JUCO wrestling teams for men: https://productiverecruit.com/mens-wrestling/junior-colleges Meanwhile we are seeing some community colleges & JUCOs launch club teams: http://www.ncwa.net/teams There are now reportedly nearly two dozen JUCO / CC wrestling teams for women, too: https://www.njcaa.org/sports/wwrest/teams-pages Community colleges are affordable, and at least in theory...embraced by their local communities. That means they are, in theory, less likely to shut down like Alderson Broaddus (in West Va.) seems to be doing (while alumni resistance is growing, FWIW, including from the wrestling community). Hopefully more CC & JUCO wrestling programs will emerge nationwide... Might the schools nearest you be next to add wrestling?

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks like Cerritos College and East LA College are close enough to go to some matches.

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I'm fairly confident in saying not on the scale that has been witnessed this weekend. If the Gazans hoped to bring hell and war to their enclave, then they went about it the right way. I'm sure the IDF has done things that were not right. I don't condone those actions. But we have rarely seen atrocities of this magnitude in recent modern times, only ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, and perhaps Russia come to mind. War is not pretty and the middle east and Palestinians have been waging war with Israel for over 70 years. Yet Israel is the only one that has to temper any response. Palestinian action - Well, it has been bubbling over for a long time. Israel reaction - Better not go too hard Bibi. mspart

Most recent California JC rankings. https://caccwrestling.wordpress.com/rankings/

That's a shame, on various levels. Thanks for sharing those insights (as always).

But he is on video record threatening to kill someone and did in fact almost kill 3 to 4 people, so its ok to convict in the court of public opinion, correct?

Israel has never committed atrocities and war crimes? C'mon.

Thanks for sharing that detail. An article I read on his injury-plagued history yesterday leaves it out by simply mentioning his having had plans to wrestle for Duke only for the family to turn around and for him to wrestle at Mizzou instead.

I didn't purposely include him (or DSJ) in the part about sure-fire recruits. They're in a separate paragraph. Both Metcalf and DSJ were big-time recruits. I was simply using Metcalf and DSJ to bolster the Brands success in the middleweights. After all, most of PSUs success at those weights includes super high end recruits. Trust me, I know Metcalf was a sure-fire guy, he's my all-time favorite Hawkeye.

I do not know that, but I have to imagine that the lure of becoming a head coach of a(n eventual) D1 program is appealing to a young coach.

So is basketball

Yet. A few years back you would have said the sport doesn’t have anything to do with sand either.

Pre-season look for the fans.

Patient: "My throat hurts." Doctor: "You have strep throat." Patient: "Oh, so now we're JUSTIFYING the Streptococcus pyogenes bacterium?!?!"

One more time. Maybe call it lawyerly again?

Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up lacrosse.

Sigh. Well. I think I know who title IX is

I think we’ve reached an impasse; we aren't going to have a productive conversation here. Ann ‘rape isn't really rape unless the victim has been "hit on the head with a brick”’ Coulter is not a serious or unbiased journalist in any way especially on this topic. I also find it spectacular that you / Ann used a 30 year old study that used unreliable methods to make inferences on ‘nowadays’.

But seriously, unusual events get attention because they *are unusual*. Ask yourself what occurs more, and why you’re more concerned with the unlikely outcome vs the most likely.

@TitleIX is ripe for reform,s club house...

If he sheds 20lbs of ego, 197 shouldn't be a problem.

Funny how people point to a few false accusations to support their world view but never reference the *many* sexual assaults that do occur. Says a lot about them.

He's also very capable of He's also very capable of (a) undermining the well-being and chemistry of a team; (b) directing lots of unnecessary energy to his narcissistic needs; (c) besmirching the reputation of another school and program; (d) committing more crimes; (e) embarrassing the sport of wrestling; (f) losing to Aaron Brooks at 197; (g) becoming even more of a joke himself. If you will sell your own "soul" for a chance at one guy winning a title, then it suggests your sense of "dignity" is pretty low and isn't worth much.

Whatever the circumstwnces, I still don't want this self fellating turd biscuit anywhere near the Iowa Hawkeyes.

You weren’t saying the accuser lied but you wrote multiple paragraphs about accusers lying, got it.

C’mon this is a garbage post. AJ is innocent until proven guilty, but so is his accuser and yet you’re basically accusing her of filling false charges. Lots of cases get dropped for lack of evidence or various other reasons other than the charges being fabricated. The “thirst for attention” claim doesn’t really make sense since I’m pretty sure most people (including myself) have no idea who she is, and the “attention” is the exact reason given for dropping the charges.

So here's an article on why it's being dismissed: https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/sexual-battery-case-dismissed-against-aj-ferrari/article_aaedc456-6493-11ee-be16-83d27698e540.html “The young woman who is at the center of this matter has endured in the last year vicious attacks on multiple forms of social media, continuing trauma, blame, harassment, ostracism and indirect threats to her career: a career she has just begun,” Thomas wrote in the motion to dismiss. “She has made the very difficult decision after consultation with her family that her further involvement is much less important than her health, a career that she loves and the ugliness and hatred that she encounters and suffers each time this matter progresses to the next step. The office of the District Attorney supports her decision to be relieved from this further participation in the prosecution of this case by dismissing this matter.” I wouldn't say it's a declaration of innocence by any means. Seems she's been harassed to the point where she felt it was no longer worth it.

Is anybody going to report on what happened here? Seems like it's a lot of speculation in terms of him being "innocent" or the accuser withdrawing the allegations (for whatever reason?). Based on Ferrari's past actions, I give him zero benefit of the doubt for anything here, but we can't really draw a conclusion unless somebody does some actual reporting.

The devil will gain the soul of which ever coach puts the lad on the roster.

Why would anyone want this toxic loser? He's an embarrassment for the sport and for life on earth.