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The National Voice of High School Wrestling



		April 15, 2005 VOL. XL, NO. 10





	CONTENTS

		3 EDITORIAL Wrestling Last Frontier . . . The Inner Cities By Al Bevilacqua 6 WRESTLING HEROES Gene Davis 10 ADVICE FROM A CHAMPION Wrestling & Weight Loss By Carol and Patrick Milkovich 12 WRESTLER'S CORNER Standing Switch By Dave Conifer 14 CHAMPION'S CORNER McGaw Hall, The Legend Slayer By Royce Alger 16 SPORTS MEDICINE Steroids & the Athlete An Insight Into the Side-Effect Profiles By Randy Martin, M.D. 19 MAT THOUGHTS Novel Approaches for the 30-Second Tiebreaker By Bill Welker, Ed.D. 22 POINT OF VIEW Rules Should Follow Principles By Ira Fleckman 24 COACHES CORNER No One But You Knows: What Happens on the Mat, Happens in Your Heart By Coach Bill X. Barron, Hyde School, Maine 26 WRESTLING PARENTS The Birth of a Wrestling Family By Jerry Meehan		30 TOP TECHNIQUE Stand-Up Defense By Steve Martin 32 ALL-AMERICANS WUSA Magazine's High School All-America Teams of the 21st Century 42 WRESTLING ACTION The Clash By G. Wyatt Schultz 44 POINT OF VIEW Who's to Blame for Wrestlers' Deaths? NCAA Ponders the Question By Jack Roller 48 MAT NOTES 50 WADE'S WAY From Pins to Pen . . . As I See It! By Wade Schalles 52 OFFICIAL'S CORNER Kill the Referee! By Jack Roller 54 WRESTLERS TO REMEMBER Undefeated 4x High School State Champions 60 REAL PRO NEWS Get Wrestling Off Welfare By Toby Willis 62 NWCA NEWS NWCA & Marines Expand Building Leaders for Life Initiative to Include Online Leadership Training for Wrestlers




					National Prep Championships - 112 pounder Rollie Peterkin (Blair Academy) cradles this opponent and went on to place 2nd in the tournament. Photo by Bill X. Barron.
		National Prep Championships - 112 pounder Alex Cournoyer (Suffield Academy) scores back points against his opponent and went on to place 3rd in the tournament. Photo by Bill X. Barron.

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