I agree. It is a very thankless job! Your work is appreciated and respected!!
As a wrestling community, we need to "grow" our base of officials. Many of today's officials share with me their concern that there are not enough good, young officials that stay with the sport after trying to work up through the ranks of working youth tournaments.
Please find a way to help develop them within your communities and programs. If each of us could develop 1 or 2 every couple of years, we could help correct this problem before it reaches a critical point.
Thank you to all the men and women who put on the stripes for the sport of wrestling!
Doug Vander Linden
Burlington Wrestling
