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We’re hopeful that they’ll perform well.” Winning the Friday tournament isn’t the goal for Wartnik. “The thing you’ll notice about the best teams is that they’re much better at the end of the year than they are in December. It’s the conditioning.” Unlike football or bas- ketball, wrestling tourna- ments don’t count for an overall goal. Each tourna- ment is practice for the state-qualifying match. And even in that moment, the best laid plans can go to the wayside. “I was watching a dual meet yesterday between Arizona State and Penn State,” recalled Wartnik. Penn State was on a 60 duel-match winning streak that lasted almost five years. Arizona State wasn’t expected to win. “There was a situation where the Penn State wrestler was in a pretty good situation, but in the span of a second he was on his back,” Wartnik said. “Arizona State made a lightning quick adjust- ment, applied a hold and put them on their back. How do you prepare for that?” In the span of one sec- ond, Penn State’s five- year-long winning streak ended — and the under- dog came out on top. For Wartnik, who wres- tled at Stanford under the late, famed coach Dave Schultz, the thrill of wres- tling is all about preparing JARED ANDERSON/SIUSLAW NEWS Siuslaw wrestlers and assistant coach Robert Forsythe (standing, far right) watch as demonstration on technique by head coach Neil Wartnik. for the unknown. “I love it because I’m mentoring people physi- cally, conditioning people mentally and there’s even a spiritual portion of it,” he said. “It takes a lot within to go to that mat and face your unknowns.” Of all his experiences at Stanford, he counts his experiences with wres- tling as shaping the per- son he is today. “I had to learn to deal with pain, with adversity, with managing my weight, with going to practice every day,” Wartnik said. “There were many days that I knew I was going to end up getting beat up for a major stretch of the practice. There’s that test of the soul. We come here to learn something about ourselves.” Like learning how to manage that pressure, along with discipline, how to face fear and not giving up when the odds are against you. “Those are the lessons that wrestling taught me. Now, as a coach, getting a chance to pass it on and help them go through their worst battles and deal with their disap- pointments?” Wartnik asked. “This is really all about mentoring.” Training for wrestling can be intense. On Monday night, as wresters were trying out their prac- tice moves, there were a lot of laughs and smiles. The kids were having fun. “That’s what we want it to be,” Wartnik said. “I want my program to be a place of fun, of friendship building and skill build- ing. I also want us to be tough. The thing I’ve noticed over the past cou- ple of years is that there’s a whole lot of gloom and negativity in the world. I want this to be a place where my kids can come and have fun every time. I want it to be a safe place.” However, to be the kind of team that takes state championships, the train- ing has to be intense. “If you’re going to watch Jordan Burroughs train, the typical person would say it’s insane, the way they push their body,” he said. Wartnik brought up famed wrestler Dan Gable who wrestled at Iowa. He would train by wrestling every member of his team, one by one and going up the “weight line.” He would wrestle each team- mate, of every weight class, until they couldn’t physically wrestle any- more. When one team- mate was exhausted, Gable would then move on to the next person. “There’s sometimes when I want to elevate the intensity,” Wartnik said about his team. “I want kids to begin stretching their limits. There’s that balance of ‘Let’s make this an enjoyable place, and let’s make this a furnace where we’re going to get tough.’” While he may not go to the lengths of Dan Gable to get the kids ready, throughout the season the activities and instructions will be intensifying. This is where the tournaments come in. “I think of the concept of a fire drill or a tsunami drill, why do we do them?” Wartnik asked. “We don’t get into those situations very often but, by golly, if they do happen you want to be prepared.” Because like Penn State, even the most seasoned players can watch for- tunes fall in a split second. “The only way you can get prepared for some- thing like that is to be in those situations,” said Wartnik. “And there’s one of the things that we struggle with as a team. Our kids get into those situations maybe once or twice a year. Not here, but in a tournament.” And that’s where the real practice of the season starts, when the players face off against the unknown. “Our job is to get our kids more skilled in those weird, unexpected situa- tions,” Wartnik said. “As a coach, I need to train my team to know how to react in as many of them as I can. And then put it into a fluid wrestling style. We don’t stop a match when we get into a bad situa- tion.” And at the same time, he’s going to be working on building relationships. As the high school team practiced, the middle school was also practic- ing. It wasn’t always that way, especially when Wartnik first arrived over a two decades ago. “Our system was really broken. We didn’t have anything going on with the younger kids,” he said. “We had a middle school program, but there was a disconnect between the middle school and high school.” But Wartnik, along with coaches like Stecher Buss, Rylan Burum, Robert Forsythe, Chris Rupp and Scott Harvey rebuilt the team throughout the school system to ensure that a strong program exists at the district. “We want to create that sense of fluidity,” Wartnik said. “We want a program with lots of integrity and a sense of ownership. We want the elementary to think they’re part of the high school program. We want the middle school to feel that way as well, and we want the high school to feel like they’re part of the Little Toad program. It’s all about building rela- tionships. Whenever you see a great wrestling pro- gram, you’re going to see great relationships.” For Wartnik, that’s the ultimate goal of the wres- tling program, what he said is a key to great teams, organizations and families. “Hopefully we’re mod- eling that for our kids,” he said. “Hopefully they’re walk away knowing what it takes to develop that degree of relationship bonding. My earnest goal is that the young men and women I’m coaching will become the next out- standing citizens.” Siuslaw’s opening tour- nament is Friday at Harrisburg High School, beginning at noon. Serving the entire Oregon Coast. Staff ed locally with factory trained professionals. Residential and Commercial Garage Door Installation. Overhead Door Company of Th e Oregon Coast™ 541.997.5008 OverheadDoor.com CCB# 50460
