Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion High School Two more KS Juco wrestling programs?

Anyone know for certain that Barton and Cloud County are starting wrestling programs?

It has been reported that Barton will have wrestling for the 2015-2016 school year.

http://www.gbtribune.com/section/1/article/79061/

Found a article that reports they are adding wrestling.

Trevor Rolfs the AD at BCCC says it is happening.

Barton Community College will add wrestling to its list of sports in 2015-2016, a decision made official at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Board members also learned that Barton has landed a five-year contract with the Kansas Department of Agriculture – Weights and Measurements Division to offer training for scales technicians.
As discussed at the Oct. 9 board study session, the addition of a wrestling program has the potential of increasing on-campus enrollment by 30-40 students. A number of Kansas community colleges already have wrestling programs and a couple of others are considering the addition of the sport.
Trustee Don Learned said he’s lost count of the number of phone calls he’s received about this topic.
“People say it’s a great idea,” Learned said. “I think the community is really behind this.”
Trustee Mike Minton added, “I think it’s a great idea.” He asked Barton President Dr. Carl Heilman for assurances that other sports programs won’t see their budgets reduced to make room for wrestling.
“We want quality teams,” he said. “We can’t take away from other programs.”
Heilman reminded trustees that startup costs were included in this year’s budget. After the initial expenses, the program's revenues are expected to exceed its costs around Year 2. “We did not reduced the operations of other athletic programs in putting this forward.”

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Barton Community College in Kansas adds varsity wrestling for 2015-16 season
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Oct. 24, 2014, 6:40 p.m. (ET)
Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kansas has decided to begin a varsity wrestling program, starting with the 2015-16 season.

Barton currently has 15 sports programs, seven for men and eight for women.

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As voted by our Board of Trustees, Barton will add Wrestling beginning in 2015-16 season. More details in coming wks #GoBarton

Excerpt from story in Great Bend Tribune, by Susan Thacker

Barton Community College will add wrestling to its list of sports in 2015-2016, a decision made official at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting.

As discussed at the Oct. 9 board study session, the addition of a wrestling program has the potential of increasing on-campus enrollment by 30-40 students. A number of Kansas community colleges already have wrestling programs and a couple of others are considering the addition of the sport.

Trustee Don Learned said he’s lost count of the number of phone calls he’s received about this topic.

“People say it’s a great idea,” Learned said. “I think the community is really behind this.”

Trustee Mike Minton added, “I think it’s a great idea.” He asked Barton President Dr. Carl Heilman for assurances that other sports programs won’t see their budgets reduced to make room for wrestling.

“We want quality teams,” he said. “We can’t take away from other programs.”

Heilman reminded trustees that startup costs were included in this year’s budget. After the initial expenses, the program's revenues are expected to exceed its costs around Year 2. “We did not reduce the operations of other athletic programs in putting this forward.”

Sure wish Butler County & Hutch would pick up a wrestling programs. No reason not to now that several in state Juco's now have programs. These are two of the biggest local Juco's and they would be flush with local talent.

I went to Cowley County in '91, and they were talking about adding wrestling. Talk about having local talent. Pull from Ark City, Winfield, Ponca City, Blackwell, etc. Still waiting . . . . . .

Cloud county is looking at adding wrestling for either 2015-2016 or 2016-2017 school year.