Okay, I've read enough! This topic has gotten so out of hand. STA is in my opinion, is the best kids club in Kansas City. I've personally been part of this group for seven years now and you can not find a better group of coaches: Sean Mc Carthy, Joe Cisper and Mark Roos and all the numerous others. Sharon Henes, the best team manager around and the many awesome families that we have been so blessed to get to know whether Catholic or not( and it is a very diverse group). We've cheered each other on to individual victories and triumphed as a team with 12 & 14 under team wins. All along the way, there have been many high fives and lots of hugs from the coaches when the little ones lose. We are for the most part a well-mannered group of fans and take pride in that. I think that it is a compliment to the club that we attract the most experienced wrestlers, to even the first year novice ones to our club. Our practices are filled to the max and every fall we just can't believe that the wrestling room can hold them all, but it does and the boys keep learning. It is sad every spring when we graduate another group of wonderful boys out of the club, knowing that the only contact we may ever have with them again will be a listing in the sports section updating us of their progress at the various high schools that they now attend. And I'm sure the coaches would love to be able to watch all of them compete in those golden STA headgear, but the reality is, there's not enough pairs to go around. So I have no doubt that Joe, Sean and Mark, all derive some satisfaction in knowing that there is another whole generation of boys who will grow up loving the sport of wrestling because these men gave so much of themselves to build STA to what it is today. And yes, that is why Aquinas has developed into such a great program. And we are proud to be a part of the STA family and I'm sorry that you will never be able to understand.
By the way, you left out O'Hara High School in that secret society of KC Catholic schools, they've got the #1 Basketball recruit in the city and both O'Hara's Varsity Basketball & Soccer teams beat Rockhurst this year. So there's at least one more Catholic school out there to contend with and O'Hara does it with only 500 students!
