Wrestling Is The Hardest Sport For Boys Regarding College Recruiting

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I was in a family of wrestlers,2 of 3 brothers were on state champions teams in PA. It was the largest team in the school. Even there it has dropped in popularity.

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True

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Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is not international

Why do people say these things?

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Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

Mens soccer is largely international players now

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

Ice hockey hard too but soccer is 60 percent international

Mens soccer is largely international players now

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Anonymous wrote:Many of the eating issues were reduced with rule changes 10+ years ago. That poster is irrationally hostile and obviously uninformed.

And sure, wrestling isn’t super popular around here, but in some geographic areas the best athletes do choose to wrestle. Certainly many of the best football and lacrosse players wrestle to improve their grit, strength, stamina, and toughness. I have a D1 athlete in another sport, and he maintains that high school wrestling practice is the hardest physical thing he’s ever done.

With all the issues to disagree about, can’t you just let kids enjoy their activity without blatant hatred?

This may have an element of truth to it. But also, after 4 years, the wrestling program has turned those kids into the fittest athletes at the school.

But in reality, outside of this area, go a few hundred miles north into PA. The best athletes wrestle.

I am a former PA wrestler...not too bad considering the state. Lightly recruited for an academic college. Wrestled for one season, but kind of realized that there was a point to my wrestling in HS (college)...but really no point to wrestling in college. You don't become a Pro Wrestler at the 135 lb. weight class. There were close to zero fans and honestly, it is not a sport that does much for you in terms of professional networking (at least not in the early 1990s)...unlike lacrosse, crew and other "country club" sports.

There were football players that wrestled...but 80% of wrestlers are at weight classes that are not designed for football...so many wrestlers did not play football. Also, fair amount of kids in wrestling that were not great at "ball" sports like football, basketball, soccer.

Having some perspective, I kind of think wrestling is a great sport to condition and strengthen you for your primary sport. Try to get my baseball player kid to wrestle because it is great for core strength and conditioning...and I tell him that if the coach tells you to drop weight just tell him No...that you are fine wrestling JV.

I feel like they are now more attuned to drastic weight loss these days...but perhaps that is still part of the drill.

As a high school swimmer, we always thought that we and the wrestlers were the hardest working teams, and they worked harder than we did. But — our school did a fun thing where one week, swimmers and wrestlers did a couple of basketball practices and basketball players did swim and wrestling practice. We all sucked at each others’ sports — not just skill wise. I was a swimmer and 400M track runner, and I did summer weights and conditioning with the football team, but I was shocked how much I wanted to puke doing basketball speed drills. Wrestlers were the same. Sport conditioning is very specific.

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My husband was an Ohio wrestler. His uncle was the high school wrestling coach. All his cousins wrestle.

Ohio is serious about wrestling.

I grew up in this area and didn’t know any wrestlers.

My brother played a D1 sport and was housed with 3 of the wrestlers. They were insane.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband was an Ohio wrestler. His uncle was the high school wrestling coach. All his cousins wrestle.

Ohio is serious about wrestling.

I grew up in this area and didn’t know any wrestlers.

My brother played a D1 sport and was housed with 3 of the wrestlers. They were insane.

^ meant to say my brother played a D1 sport at an Ohio university

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Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

Mens soccer is largely international players now

And with the new transfer rules, less incoming freshmen. A class would rather pick up a Transfer player from another university. There are many grad students on a lot of the soccer rosters now too.

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Tennis has a ton of international players too.

Basketball is where the best male American athletes are though. It is impressive to see them pick up sports like tennis and golf.

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Anonymous wrote:More girls wrestling is helping the sport. Hopefully more programs will sprout up overall!

I'd rather watch women wrestle than men.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrestling is super creepy and weird.

Second only to boxing in terms of how ugly it is. Followed by football and hockey. All too dangerous and not at all fun to watch.

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Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

They redshirt them and have them repeat grades.

My cousin’s son is a hockey star. He got picked up by a prestigious NE boarding school (recruited out if his private day school sophomore year) and they are having him repeat sophomore year. He had good grades. This is an age/development hold bank.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That article is a decade old. The hardest now are mens tennis and then I think mens soccer, but I can’t remember the exact stats.

Men's soccer is far from being hard to play. Ice hockey is much harder--the average freshman hockey player is 21 yrs old, thanks to having to play a couple of hears of juniors prior to college play.

They redshirt them and have them repeat grades.

My cousin’s son is a hockey star. He got picked up by a prestigious NE boarding school (recruited out if his private day school sophomore year) and they are having him repeat sophomore year. He had good grades. This is an age/development hold bank.

Americans are also comparatively not great at hockey. They have the same problem in men's soccer. A lot of the spots go to international students.
They are often white race wise, especially in hockey, but they do bring diversity to a class.
More than a few Canadians are good for a school! https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/roster