Mike Porsch is the new coach and he is a class act. Given time and support, he'll get the ship back on course. He was a terrific wrestler for Hoxie in the late 80's and has been learning from Baker as an assistant coach for the past 15 years +/-.

Likely their best chance to qualify was lost to injury before regionals.....and if you look at the wrestler's records who did compete at regionals, it should come as no surprise that they didn't get anyone through.

Declining enrollment numbers have hurt.....but past success has also hurt. If you were a freshman choosing between wrestling and basketball a few years back and saw Farber, Baker, Schippers, Schippers, Gilliland, Campbell.......all as underclassman on the wrestling team (and all competing for state honors as underclassman), most would choose basketball because they wouldn't see the light of day for three years in the varsity wrestling line-up - and also note that Hoxie's b-ball team has done fairly well in recent years.

There are some decent 6th and 7th graders in the pipeline (although not the quantity of kids Hoxie is used to).....just give it some time and Mike will get it going again. Perhaps will never have enough kids on the team to compete for a team title, but I bet you'll see some of them on the awards stand at the end of the tournament.