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McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 3:05 am
by SPEEDkills
Anyone heard any news on Bishop McCort starting their own wrestling program? A few people in the wrestling community have been talking about it. It would follow suit with all the advertising they've been doing lately? They are really trying to get the kids there.

Just curious if anybody else heard anything on this topic, though?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 9:13 am
by vman
I heard Coach Pecora is volunteering @ McCort and may give up his day job @ UPJ. Could his son be far behind? Also believe a few transfers are lined up from CC and CR(long commutes) as well as the 2 or 3 transfers from Iowa. Now with all the available sponsorships; building a program should be no problem!

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 12:16 pm
by crfan4ever
who from CR and CC? Just curious

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 12:33 pm
by LionPride
[quote="crfan4ever";p="121265"]who from CR and CC? Just curious[/quote]

It was sarcasm

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 1:09 pm
by 11th man
Does every thread about Bishop McCort have to turn into pointless chatter about recruiting?

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 2:39 pm
by vman
Sorry bout that, but I figured I would just beat everyone else to the rumor mill. Of course no one I know of is transferring. I believe BM is hinging hopes of finding someone experienced enough to run a half decent program. I do not believe they even have a mat as yet.
I also think one of the impetuses(besides it being a great sport to offer) is the fact that Jtwn. would not allow interested kids(from McCort) to compete on their team any longer!

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 5:48 pm
by El-Moldo
Does Johnstown have some sort of "co-op" with McCort anyway? I always thought that if you attended McCort, and they didn't have a specific sport, that you could do that sport in the district where you reside. For example, if you live in Richland, go to school at McCort, and McCort does not have wrestling, then you just go back to Richland. Don't you pay taxes there? How can you live in Richland, attend school at McCort, and wrestle for Johnstown??????

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 9:16 pm
by SPEEDkills
It doesn't necessarily have to be in your school district. It just depends on what schools make an agreement with other schools. Carroll has a co-op with Portage wrestling, even though most of the kids that compete for Carroll don't live in Portage. They also have a co-op with Central Cambria with cross-country, but that doesn't mean that the athletes have to be in CC's school district.
The decision is the adminstrator's to make.

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: April 11th, 2006, 10:32 pm
by El-Moldo
So, does McCort have a co-op with Johnstown or not? And if a kid from Spangler goes to Bishop Carroll and wants to wrestle, he has to wrestle for Portage instead of Northern Cambria??????

Re: McCort Wrestling?

Posted: May 31st, 2006, 12:47 am
by SPEEDkills
Unfortuneately, that's how it works. A freshman from Northern Cambria commutes all the way to Carroll for school, then Portage for practice.

A lot of miles must be put on there.