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team is looking good.
“For the first day back
from break, we had a good
practice — and we’ve got
three more practices
before Friday,” he said.
“We’ll do the best we can
before Friday. That’ll be
our first look at where
we’re at, and it may be a
mixed bag. 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.
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