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HUSKERLAND 22
Report Great People Make a Great Tournament
Maybe I’m a bit less than impartial, but from my viewpoint as
tournament director, what a great tournament this year !
It was a great tournament for many reasons but first and
foremost, because of the people I dealt with from parents to
coaches to club directors. At some point all of the above made
an error or two, I know I did. But everybody asked what
happened, discussed the situation and walked away peaceful and
understanding with a reasonable solution worked out. One
particular situation could have been rather serious, but the
concerned coaches proposed a workable solution, I took their
advice, they calmed the parent, and we had a mutually agreeable
solution. People!
A
wrestling tournament of course, features wrestling, and we had
some very good wrestling. We had one more 6-time champion this
year in Austin Wilson from Hastings Blue Hawks. Congratulations
to Austin. But there was so much more. I watched a couple back
and forth matches that were up for grabs and we had a few
overtime matches with the wrestlers very evenly matched. We
calculated from our official entrant number of 1216 that we
conducted 1990 matches. We had very few instances where coaches
were upset with the officiating, and the officials were quite
pleased with the coaches conduct throughout. People! Again.
I
was very happy with the quality of our officiating this year.
Many commented they thought it was the highest overall level of
officiating ever. I was happy to see we had officials from Omaha
to North Platte working the tournament and each one was very
good. Oh yes, PEOPLE again!!
We
had an excellent club directors meeting with about 10-12
directors present to ask questions or let us know their thoughts
and ideas. We want those ideas and we’ll at least consider them
all at our next board meetings. There were some disagreements
but we all left understanding why the other side felt that way,
even if we disagreed. People !
I also was very happy with 2 other things easily overlooked. Our
4 Hall of Fame inductees were all very deserving. You can read
about them on another page soon so I won’t go into their bios
here. But what an outstanding group, and from all areas of the
state. So, yes, that’s PEOPLE once more.
I
also want to thank every youth club from the western segment of
Nebraska who brought kids. The participation from West-Central
and western Nebraska continues to grow and I’m quite proud of
the fact we’ve gotten your interest. Of all the clubs who won
plaques for being in the top 2 of their class, North Platte took
home one of them. Many others gave a very good account of
themselves and were highly scored in their class.
One more group of people deserve high praise: the 20 or so
people that make up the Huskerland Board of Directors. They all
take an area of responsibility and they make things work for
you. Their names are on the website and in the program book. It
doesn’t run at all, let alone smoothly without their efforts.
PEOPLE !!
I
enjoyed visiting with many of you and getting to know some of
you for the first time beyond a name on a piece of paper. And so
until we see most of you in April ’08 take care, and remember to
send us your ideas on rules/policy/procedural changes and names
of nominees for our Hall of Fame.
Fred Hall |
