All 3 Hilliard HSs win a Sectional

• Cthelites

  Pretty impressive showing at the sectionals for all 3 Hilliards.
  Darby wins the Pickerington
  Bradley wins the Watkins
  Davidson wins the Westland
  
  Gratz to the Hilliard wrestlers!
  
  Marysville wins their own and are obviously the class of Central Oh.
  I think what Hilliard has done is pretty exciting!
• Knight rider

  Imagine if there wasnt 3 schools.
• Cthelites

  Knight rider;1390950 wrote:Imagine if there wasnt 3 schools.

  no doubt.
  I would settle just to have two.
  Bradley is 90% darby kids!
• cruiser_96

  

  Wow! Very nice.
• Dad4Sports

  Knight rider;1390950 wrote:Imagine if there wasnt 3 schools.

  Central Ohio schools seem to be much more accepting of dividing the schools than other parts of the state. With the exception of Gahanna, haven't almost all of the other big schools split 2/3 times? Hilliard, Worthington, Westerville, Pickerington, Dublin, Olentangy.
  
  I agree....can you imagine the lineups some of these schools would put on the mat if they didn't split? Maybe that is one of the factors why D1 Central District wrestling has had trouble competing with the "big boys"?
• coach1

  

  Why can't you have a central div tournament like brecksville
• Blast82.5

  RE: Splitting Schools ...
  
  Maybe it's nice to dream, but if the schools did not split, then there would be 4500 - 5000 kids at Hilliard, Dublin, Olentangy, and Westerville (did I get all the districts with 3 HSs?). I humbly submit that such a situation would be a little, um, "unmanageable" from a facilities standpoint. You would need a building so big that you'd need 15 or minutes between classes ... Also, think of how few opportunities there would be for so many of the extracurriculars (not just sports) ... 14 starting wrestlers, or 12 or 13 guys on the B-ball team, from a male student body of 2500? I'm sure they would be powerhouse teams! But perhaps at the expense of some pretty deserving kids getting a shot.
• coach1

  

  You sur would have some great wrestle offs
• cruiser_96

  

  coach1;1391014 wrote:You sur would have some great wrestle offs

  Similar to one of Blast's points... That's if all those who are currently wrestling still continued to wrestle. 42 weight classes is a bit more enticing for the second tier kid than is 14.
  
  Either way, kudos to Hilliard. Bradley, Darby, and Davidson.
• Citybuck

  Wow, nice job Hilliard !
• HilliardDad

  coach1;1391014 wrote:You sur would have some great wrestle offs

  During the state team dual tournament match between Darby and Bradley one of the other dads said to me, "just think, 5 years ago, this is wrestle offs." Really speaks to the coaching job of Coach Riggs and Coach Moody to bring both schools to the level they have after the split.
• Cthelites

  HilliardDad;1391194 wrote:During the state team dual tournament match between Darby and Bradley one of the other dads said to me, "just think, 5 years ago, this is wrestle offs." Really speaks to the coaching job of Coach Riggs and Coach Moody to bring both schools to the level they have after the split.

  The mat cat program was pretty strong back then! All those kids together now as Panthers or Jaguars going against each other.
• M5 Grappler

  Impressive, Hilliard will probably be the first with 3 football teams in final 4 of region soon. It is becoming a little more realistic the longer the big districts have three schools in place. Last year Olentangys 3 wrestling teams were really good. Westerville's three schools put 3 basketball teams in district finals last year. I believe Dublin was close to doing it in baseball recently. As these districts get even bigger and get acclimated, you may see it more.
• HilliardDad

  Cthelites;1391270 wrote:The mat cat program was pretty strong back then! All those kids together now as Panthers or Jaguars going against each other.

  Thinking back to around that time, you have your boys, the Valentis, the Stratton boys, the Driscoll boys, Davidsons, and others I know I'm forgetting.
• cradle3

  Back in the mid 90's it was one team & they were tough. Same w/ Dublin(s), Pickerington(s) & Olentangy(s)