Tour Of John Davis Wrestling Center

this is the sickest wrestling facility ive ever seen. i wish we had this in my town. hope support like this continues for wrestling all over. congrats coach

It is acceptable in the same way that football programs all across the country accept huge donations to facilities. With private donations people can spend their money any way they want. Telling someone their spending too much money on my wrestling program would be absurd. It's already built and being used. The only fishy thing is that you wish you had this facility.

BCP wrestling!

I'm not from Edwardsville, but it seems to me it is a privately owned wrestling center that will allow the high school to use their facility. Plus, I never knew it was illegal for school to accept private money. Any school would love to have someone build a facility like this in their town.

I'm just as jealous of this facility as the next guy, but think about how good this is for wrestling. If people are doing this at the youth and high school level it is only going to help wrestling in the future and give other school something to strive for.

I find it funny that you think anything is fishy. These guys are passionate about wrestling, I think it's great and can't wait to see the facility. Mark and the rest of the Edwardsville staff are stand up guys. What a great facility.

THE NICEST WRESTLING GYM PERIOD

After watching all of the vid's it looks like it's not just the money that made this place happen it's the support of the Super a congressmen and it looks like many more. They have set the bar for high schools to dream to strive for. Congrats Edwardsville, I guess we'll see some National Champs coming out of this facility soon with Pat on board.

Unbelievable!
Raising the bar of wrestling.

This facility is a fitting tribute to Jon Davis. For as long as I can remember, Jon was a 144 hour/week contributor to youth wrestling in Illinois, his name on that facility means a lot to a lot of people.

im transfering. :)

this facility is ridiculous. how do you raise that much money for a HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING FACILTY!!! The only "wrestling only" facilty i can think of thats better than that is penn state...

WOW. i cant even get a new mat at my high school.. this is nice

i might just moved to edwardsville for this facility alone

That is a "price is no object" facility, good luck with it, puts most colleges to shame.

That is amazing!!! I was wondering if you knew of or had any info on maybe corporation's that donate to schools. I coach at a school with one of the worst facility's in maybe the country. Thanks

Wow, that is crazy. Most colleges don't have those kind of digs.

is this for the high school or college?

P MAC is the man!

where's the steam and sauna rooms? plus aerodyne and ellipitals.

That facility is insane. The snackbar with the ability to watch the matches, outstanding. Can I get a $3.5 mill donation for my team please?

great job Edwardsville, still never lost to you though

I have videos and interviews explaining these things. THey will be up tonight or tomorrow. Sorry it is taking a little longer than normal.

Unreal facility. I am assuming the HS has some affiliation with it and its not a private facility. If so that is even more insane. Thanks Joe.

is this all for wrestling?

That's a nice wrestlig facilities I wish we had that down here in Texas but were getting there but slowly

http://www.illinoismatmen.com/
at least a lil answer

This is why IL wrestling is the BEST

It was donated from one person. $3.5 mil

Hell thats better than most college rooms. Someone putting some serious dough into that program.

WOW!! What a facility.

This is an amazing facility for wrestling! How was it funded? Who maintains it?How involved was/is the school district with this facility? Realy incredible.

that's one sick wrestling room! and seperate from the school itself??? edwardsville must love it's wrestlers!