Ryan O'Leary

Indiana State Wrestling Association chairperson Pat Culp can still remember being approached by Hamilton Heights coach Gary Myers nine years ago about growing the sport of girls wrestling here in the Hoosier State.

Next Sunday evening, hundreds of millions of people worldwide will be gathered around television sets to watch the Super Bowl.

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Zach DeWitt says that one of the main reasons he got into coaching is because he’s intrigued by character arcs and personality development. The Franklin coach feels he got a feel-good ending out of Lili Ratzlaff’s senior season.

The highly anticipated rematch in the state 100-yard backstroke final didn’t quite go how Henry Lyness had hoped. After beating Bloomington South’s David Kovacs a year earlier, Lyness came up just eight hundredths of a second short of a repeat title (47.63 to 47.71).

Greenwood Christian can look back with pride someday about making the title game of the Johnson County baseball tournament for the first time.

Center Grove coach Alyssa Coleman calls Brownsburg “a pain in our butt,” saying the fact that every meeting between the two teams seems to come down to the wire is precisely why the Trojans keep the Bulldogs on their schedule.

With a sectional championship on the line Friday, all four players on the court at second doubles were a bit tight — even more so when the decisive third set went to a tiebreaker.

A month ago, Henry Lyness was in the locker room at a TYR Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, getting ready for one of his preliminary sessions.

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