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My prayers and condolences go out to the family and friends of Jeff!! He was one of the great ones!! He was an outstanding official, great friend and more importantly a great person!! He, Jeremy Callen and I traveled all over to officiate and was like family to all of us in the Kanawha Southern Boar...

Burt Mac was one of the great personalities in our great sport!! I was his pop cycle boy when he played football at Dupont !! We officiated many State Tournaments together and he was one of my mentors. His personality will be missed and it should be known that he was one of the great ambassetors of ...

Amen!! There are no one-leg takedowns in wrestling!!! I was there for four days and i thought that overall the officiating was very good and as you stated pretty consistent which is all you can ask for!! Many coaches commented to me that the refs did a good job!! As always a few calls were questione...

Amen!!GK

Amen Jenny!!!!GK

Congrats Anthony!! Tremendous job turning that program around!!!GK

Congrats Blake!!! Quite the accomplishment!!!GK

Many prayers for the families of the two young men who were tragically killed!!

Congrats to both Adam and Josh!! Both great wrestlers and great young men !! Well deserved!! GK

Congrats to Braxton Amos who not only is a great wrestler but a better person!! He's an amazing young man!!! GK

Congrats to a great group of WV wrestlersGK

Congrats to the Musselman girls program!! GK

Congrats Cody!!!GK

Nice job Jenny and all of the others involved!!! Lots of work done!!! Much appreciated!!GK

Congratulations to Samantha!! She is definitely deserving and a totally class act!!!Hopefully this is the start of something big for the young ladies of WV!!!!GK

Congrats Noah!! Stay focused and bring back the big one!!!GK

I agree with Dave on these points of emphasis that he referenced!!! Knowledge of the rules is important but more importantly being able to get into position is probably more important!! let me elaborate... In the Kanawha Southern board which I ran for years we had classes and training every Sunday f...

Outstanding job getting it started and more impotantly the recognition at the State Tourney was fantastic for the young ladies!!! Congrats to all involved and especially the wrestlers!!!GK

John Bonecutter was Coach of the year and the OW was Peyton Hall in AA and in A Noah Brown and Jeremy Tincher

Two top notch quality programs with terrific following, great coaches, great kids and above all kids who have great sportsmanship!!! the outstanding wrestlers each have is a bonus for us followers of wrestling in West Virginia!!! We all should be proud to have two quality programs like this in our g...

it should be noted that we also lost a former State Champion from Herbert Hoover this week. CHAD WERHLE was a State Champion in 1999 at Herbert Hoover!! He was a hardnosed, tough, wrestler who also loved the sport!!!GK

Chuck Wright was an outstanding wrestler, a true sportsman as a coach and truly deserves all the respect of the wrestling community!! Sorry to hear of his passing!!GK

Congrats Riley!!!GK

Coach Flynn is an outstanding coach and recruiter but every school has good coaches, great recruiters and tradition going for them as well. Its not the big time recruits that really matter because there are twenty kids across the country who are potentially just as good. (Amos being the exception) E...

Mike Stalnaker and I have been friends for over 45 years, He was always considered one of the best referees from the time he started until TODAY!!!! I know how hard it is to do something special for a long time and to be there for all the right reasons!! When you put the time in and work at your tra...

Congrats Noah quite the accomplishment!!! GK

Ditto to all of the folks at South for implementing this!!! Congrats to all involved and good luck to all of the wrestlers!!!!GK

For those of us in the know who knew the former coaches Jack Cullen, Dave Darst, JoAnn Cullen and all of the present staff the commitment to the program started years ago !!!! They implemented a peewee program, developed a middle school program and then it blossomed into a dominant high school progr...

Congrats Peyton quite an accomplishmentGK

Congrats Cody and ClayGK