Wrestling Blogs - Curtis Gocke

It's been a quick first week.? The young guys have came into the room and added good competition, and also a good work ethic.? Today is our alpha testing, so we'll know more later.? Also got news yesterday our senior leader and runner up last year will not get cleared for the season.? ACL injury in football won't be healed soon enough for contact sports. ? ? more »

So it begins, with many questions to be answered with some high expectations my 8th year of coaching is off to a start. Should be a pretty solid team, the new faces will be a spark to our team I have a feeling. First work out as a full group is today, hope they all work hard and stay healthy more »

Varsity football is 5-2 right now and as far as it looks on it's way to the playoffs, 9th football is 7-1 right now and has one left. Cross Country was conference runner-ups, hope all of this success we are having in the fall carries over to the winter. more »

Going on a visit to UNK with one of our wrestlers this Friday (10-16), then return to Kearney for USA wrestling meeting. 2 2 1/2 trips will not be fun, but it's all for the sport. more »

We had a great turn out for the fish fry on Friday. Fed about 150-160 people (orders) Very good fundraiser for us in a supportive community. Love to see it. Wrestlers going to Disney Duals were on hand talking to people and get support from businesses as well. more »

Curtis, Jesse and Ryan have all been invited to participate in the Disney Duals, June 21-26 in Orlando Florida. Congrats Gentlemen more »

UNK LOPERS 4th place finish at Nationals. In a year with tons of adversity, disappointment and questions, the lopers take 6 men to nationals and they all bring home AA honors. A lot of leadership was lost from 2008 national championship team, but the program is still one of the best in Division II. CONGRATS Coach Bauer, Swarm, Keiswetter, Ellenberger and Sylvester. more »

Lots of good time and good food last night. Many awards and recognitions were handed out. A few highlights, Brock and Alex- Academic All-state. Curtis wrestler of the year, Zeke Most Improved, Randy Practice partner of the year. Luddy most weight gaine (28 lbs.) Great video, thanks to all the coaches, parents and fans. more »

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND TO BE  A  HUSKER.  The BIG 12 championships were outstanding, it was wonderful to fill the venue and hear the roar of people cheering on the Huskers and for one match MIZZOU.  I think you can tell how much Nebraska wrestling appreciated what happened on Saturday.  An opportunity to watch a title be brought home since 1995 I think.  Hopefully the Huskers can keep it rolling.   Good Luck more »

Big 12 conference championships are in Lincoln this year. It's about a 1 hour drive for us. All three HS coaches are going, with a handful of kids also taking in the sites and sounds. Should be fun, many Nebraska High School coaches will be there to talk to. more »

What a great time to cuss and discuss last night. All winter EMC coaches got together last night for the conference meetings. Supper and discussions all around. We really have some awesome coaches in our league. Great stories and good times had by all. more »

I have never been more proud of our athletes than yesterday. You can talk about winning tournaments and winning state medals and how honorable that is. What our kids did yesterday is beyond that. We had a member or our wrestling community pass away on Friday night. This member just so happened to be one of our young mans mom. The support and respect our team brought to their teammate and past wrestlers in the family was amazing. What a great support system. This is the true meaning of team. more »

Curtis Larsen 171 2nd place Travis McIntosh 103 5th place Zeke Ryerson 285 2-2 Ryan Ludlow 152 1-2 Jesse Browne 125 1-2 Taylor McAllistar 140 1-2 Overall a great weekend more »

The key is to stay focused and not get caught up in all the hoopla surrounding the state tournament. Our mindset has to be that we are going to Omaha to win matches and bring home medals. We can't be satisfied with simply making it there. -Travis McIntosh: Travis is set to make his second trip to the state tournament where he finished with a 1-2 record last year. He is wrestling with a lot of confidence and if he can stay focused, has a good shot to come home with a medal.-Jesse Browne: The district tournament was the first… more »

With a chance at 9 with one round to go, we lost 3 very close matches in the blood and guts round to finish 5th as a team with 6 qualifiers. 1st round match-ups coming soon. more »

It comes down to beating those that youa re suppose to, maybe winning a match you shouldn't and not allowing mother nature to change your plans. Friday is suppose to bring the biggest snow yet this winter. All the seeds are in all mats are cleaned, everyone just has to get there now more »

Thought we wrestled well this weekend at confernce. We were without Jesse and Thomas which probably gives us an extra 30 points, but at this time in the year, we need to be healthly, so thye'll try this week. Travis and Ryan were conference champs, and Curtis was runner-up. This weekend is what we have been working for all year long, motto becomes 7 or 4. more »

What a great night last night. We took about 120 total wrestlers and coaches to UNL to watch Brandon Browne Plattsmouth Alumni wrestle OSU. Brandon was the Senior Hometown Hero. With a 7-5 win he put on a nice performance for those 175 aprox. from Plattsmouth. more »

If Grand Island comes next year the Skutt tournament will get tougher, until that does happen, we need to continually get better in order to compete at a higher level. Weaknesses exposed, injury bug arrival and getting back to the basics are thing that are on the plate right now to take care of. get away from our wrestling a little bit, the boys had a great time at UNO vs. UNK on saturday. We went out to eat and then headed over to the dual. I think I converted a few guys to be lopers, but not all. Many… more »

As the Freeman Tournament is so called, was not so big. Getting to bed at 1:15 on a Thursday night is not a good way to start the weekend. Two champs, a second and two thirds is ok though. The boys have a chance to compete against some varsity kids, and also have team points. Thought Jacob Pierce wresled very well along with Cody larsen. more »

After a day off from our crazy weekend, we have had practice the last two days and have really been working on staying in good position. We have started to focus on the athletes strength and not try to put new things into their head unless they ask. Our motto has been countdown it started with 16 or 13, 15 or 12 now its' 14 or 11, the smaller number represents practices till districts, larger number represents practices left for those that make it to state. JV's get a chance to get into a nice class D varisty tourney and… more »

Wow what a weekend. 3 Tournaments - 3 days. Picked up and put away and ready for more. It's nice to have the day off after a hectic weekend, the athletes should enjoy it too. Middle School starts practice today, they will be using our team website as well, so stay up to date on all their happenings also. Overall Varsity tourney went well, we finished 3rd out of 13 teams. Have yet to finish a tournament lower than 3rd as a team. Jv's had two champs and the kids club tourney brought right at 600 kids in. more »

The busiest weekend for the Plattsmouth Wrestling Community, is moments away from beginning. We'll have about 160 matches tonight fo the JV tourney. Saturday begins our stretch to the end of the season, with our toughest tourney yet to date. more »

We have yet to be truly effected by any injury bug (knock on wood), but we have had the many sicknesses that are running all over our school. instead of athe panting of hard work, it's a cough or sniff, or sneeze. During this time of year it's very easy to get in a rut and continue to do the same thing over and over and over and over. This is a time for focus, hard work and ability to change the problems, that have cost us some big matches.   For those of you that watched Obama's speech yesterday,… more »

Yes Mr. president we still have work to do. In many ways this week. We are still working on being a very technically sound team. Our future is struggling right now, JV tournaments have not been easy for us, they will have many opportunities to correct these mistakes over the next month. Our other work is that we have three tournaments at home this week. Our community and team, alumni and club will all play a huge role in making this weekend a success. more »

What an important part of your program. Looking back on the winter break and having some of those old faces reappear helps you remember where we have come from. We even have some alumni still in the community and actively helping out on many differnt levels. We had two stop into practice yesterday and talked and wrestled with our kids. Jerrod is even one of our middle school coaches. Its great for them and us to keep them around. Flowrestling gives us an opportunity to stay in touch with them as well. more »

Coach O has been duing some homework trying to find out people and weights for district tourney. We definately have our work cut out for us. I hate looking ahead, but finding out who is where for teams and finding their opponents and results is important. We can take care of a few things this weekend winning some very key head to head match-ups. Some of these will be re matches in which we need to beat them again in a couple fo cases and in others we need to win that way we are 1-1 with them for seeding… more »

Back to work again today. Should be a great day to get back in the room. We need to focus on a few teams this week that we will see at the duals. 5 confernce teams and one non confernce. This torunament will competive at weights, I am going to make a statement that Blair will be our toughest competition, but we should be able to beat them. more »

What at great tournament. The 40th annual tournament was full of great matches, great teams, blood, and loud fans. Took a few minutes before the finals to talk about the history of the tournament, facts, history, wrestlers, teams and how the tourney started. Finalist were asked to wear throw back singlet, which were hilarious. Coach Loosevelt at Madison has put together a very nice team. They look to compete for the Class C title in February in Omaha. more »

Athletes are starting to sign up. I have a parents letter prepared also to hand out this weekend. I think this could be a hit. Coach O is doing an awesome job helping download videos. Even talked to some middle school wrestlers about getting on Flow. more »

very competitive duals last night. Not very many bonus points. The ones that did get bonus points proved to be big in the team score. Had very many closes matches as I predicted. Elkhorn and Gretna have very solid teams all the way through their line-up, should make an intresting conference tourney. more »

Match day!!! Quality match ups in both duals, a couple of rated match ups also. Should be plenty of JV matches as well. Elkhorn first, then Gretna/Elkhorn, Gretna last. more »

Big challenges present itself as we get started on tuesday with Gretna and Elkhorn duals. Two teams that will give us some great make ups early after break. The Clarks Tourney also presents many out of Class B and in Class B. Always a great tourney with a unique atmosphere. more »

Thank goodness we got out of the first round alive   Weeping Water has put together a nice team and challenged us early and often. Louisville and Conestroga were not much of a threat to compete with us. Our guys looked a little sluggish for the start and struggled to do some things right. Thank God in this sport there is always another chance to improve. See ya Friday.   Plattsmouth 3-0   Weeping Water 2-1 score  vs Plattsmouth37 -29   Conestoga 1-2 score vs. Platsmouth 68-6   Louisville 0-3 score vs. Plattsmouth  71-0 more »

Trophy has left only 2 times in the 10 years of he quad, we plan on keeping again this year. There are a few good weight classes at the duals, 103, 112, 125 all should be very good weights. Snow is in the forecast and did postpone the quad last year. We need to wrestle tonight. more »

NOT BAD FOR TAKING 6 KIDS.. We finished 5 out of 10. 4 in the finals, 3 champ Back to work this week, busy nights Tuesday and Friday more »

Back to work today. Lots of review and simple things need to be cleaned up. JV kids should get a good experience this weekend at Skutt. Cass County Quad, is coming up and gotta pound on Shuler's old crew for sure. more »