Middle School News

The middle school Mighty Duck squad (Varsity Team) show great signs of progress in their wrestling abilities in this weekend’s Middle School State Duals at Peachtree Ridge High School.  The Mighty ducks wrestled well against Georgia’s top middle school teams.   Coach Nick remarked after a close loss to ranked Collins Hill, “This team was in the match the entire dual.  Our team was just as skilled and prepared as they [Collins Hill] were.  I would not have been able to say this only one short month ago.  I could tell things were changing by the atmosphere in practice the last couple of weeks.  Our boys are really making great strides to becoming better wrestlers.”

Although this year’s squad did not finish in the top six, they certainly made other teams take notice.  Furthermore, they improved over last year’s State Dual performance at Union Grove high School.

Coach Nick took his middle school team to the McCallie Tornado Duals for a very tough dual format tournament.  The young Harrison middle school team faced the toughest middle school teams in the state of Tennessee.  Although the team finished a disappointing tenth place in this event, the team had many highlights to the weekend.  On Saturday night, the team all stayed at a local hotel with an indoor pool.  The Booster Club also catered a barbeque dinner for the boys.  Finally, the team went on Sunday to see the Division 1 college dual between the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga and the nationally ranked Oklahoma Sooners.  This was the first out of state trip for a Harrison Wrestling Club middle school team, and another important step in building a strong wrestling program.

The booster club has purchased a new set of singlets for the Harrison Wrestling Club’s Middle School varsity team.  This move was another sign of commitment from the Coach and Booster Club to exemplify their commitment to building a strong program from the ground up at Harrison High School.  These new singlets will be worn by our starting middle school wrestlers at all team events.   The sharp new singlets are blue and green with a “H” on the front and the name “Mighty Ducks” on the back.  The “Mighty Ducks” name is related to the High School’s “Dojo Trained” faction that Coach Fiacco has created to label the group of wrestlers doing extra things to improve their level.