Needed improvement
by Buzzy62 on 3/13/25Mid-America Center - Council BluffsRating: 3 out of 5Everything on the first day ran smooth. It was the second day that pretty much sucked the championship round especially understandable that you had the invitational for the women there but you could’ve had two stages set up ran both weight classes and like any other tournament that I’ve been to example when the first weight class run the second weight class and distributed the awards for the first Waite class understandable you want all the all Americans to be there but when you start at 8 o’clock in the morning and run all the way through until almost 10:30 11 o’clock at night and most athletes are physically and mentally exhausted and to receive a medallion that’s smaller than a silver dollar was kind of a disappointed evening little bit more rewarded to the all Americans that battled their butts off to get where they are at even though it is a junior college event. The PIAA metals that are given from first place all the way down to eighth place are much larger than the metals that were given to these athletes. Something should be hung around their neck, not given to them in a box. This may be the kids only national event if some of them don’t move on to a D2 D3, possibly a D1 or an NAIA college, my opinion, and you asked for it. Thank you for your time David Gorring.