Wrestling Team Op-Editorial

Cole Jolovich
April 21, 2009
English 2
Op-Editorial

There are many reasons for a school like ours not to have a wrestling team. One reason we cannot is our lack of students willing to. Also we do not have the facilities to allow them to practice, and cannot afford them or be able to support them financially.
For starters we do not need one because we are such a small school and do not have enough people to support one. Since we have a huge number of participants in basketball, which is during the same time, most of the other part of the student population either will not partake in sports or are lifting and running in preparation for another sport. With these limitations that greatly reduces the numbers of potential wrestlers from a hundred some to maybe the twenties or thirties. Of those not very many of them would wrestle because they would be doing something else extracurricular related. Obviously we could not support a wrestling team at Tongue River High School.

Also we do not have the facilities to support another sports program. During the wrestling season there would have to be a separate area for them, which the school cannot afford at the moment, since the gyms are taken up by the basketball teams. If we were to add wrestling to our school then we would have to buy all new equipment for them. The new equipment would cost the school a fortune since they have to pay for wrestling mats, uniforms, and other equipment necessary for the sport. On top of that we would have to pay more than usual during the winter months. On top of the costs of those minor things we would have to pay for an extra bus to go to a farther away place just so that they can wrestle. We would have to cut funding from somewhere in our budget, which would probably be from the lunches like it usually is, just to pay for their trip and food during the trip. The money that we have is already becoming scarce as it is without the help of another activity feeding off from it.

Obviously, this is a bad idea at the current time. One is that we do not have enough people to support it during that time because of basketball. Also we do not have the facilities and the money to support a program that would sky rocket our spending. All in all, adding a wrestling team to Tongue River High Schools extracurricular activities list is a terrible idea.