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Post by crusader on Jan 4, 2007 12:56:08 GMT -5
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Mike
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Post by Mike on Jan 4, 2007 13:13:40 GMT -5
I cut and pasted the article since the link wasn't working, bottom line, crap, crap, crap. Good luck to him for the duration of his career. He is a great wrestler.
Jantzen is ineligible
Shoreham-Wading River's defending state Div. I champ ruled out by NYSPHSAA
BY GREGG SARRA
Newsday Staff Writer
January 4, 2007
Shoreham-Wading River's Corey Jantzen, the defending state wrestling Division I champion at 125 pounds, has been declared ineligible to participate for the rest of his senior season by the state Public High Schools Athletic Association.
Jantzen, who competed as an independent, was disqualified from further high school competition after he violated state rules by his participation against collegiate wrestlers at the Midlands Tournament in Evansville, Ill. last week.
"We have a rule in the state handbook that is very clear and states student-athletes cannot compete against college athletes," said Ed Cinelli, the executive director of Section XI, Suffolk's governing body. "We don't give a waiver of a rule of this nature. I was never given any indication that he was competing in a collegiate tournament."
Jantzen, who has already accepted his admissions letter to attend Harvard, became only the fourth high school wrestler, and the first from New York, to compete in the Midlands Tournament. He finished seventh in the competition.
"We have a letter from my athletic director that states that Corey's participation in the Midlands will not affect his eligibility in high school," said his father and Shoreham-Wading River coach Don Jantzen. "We made every attempt to address this issue prior to Corey's participation in the Midlands and we thought the issue was addressed and resolved. We started the process one month prior to the tournament to make sure everything was done appropriately."
Cinelli, who contacted NYSPHSAA executive director Nina Van Erk on Tuesday, questioned Jantzen's participation against collegiate wrestlers and was told that the Shoreham-Wading River wrestler was ineligible. Cinelli then called Shoreham-Wading River athletic director Jim Cranmer to tell him that Jantzen was ineligible. Jantzen was forced to miss last night's Suffolk League VI dual meet against Mount Sinai.
"We could have a high school athlete go to a track meet at the Armory in Manhattan and there are college competitors there," Cinelli said. "But there is a difference in that the high school kids can only compete against the high school kids and the college competitors only compete against each other."
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
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Post by RYou on Jan 4, 2007 17:12:09 GMT -5
Maybe Harvard can enroll him for the Spring semester and put him out on the mat right away. If he's got the smarts to get accepted, I'm sure he's got the credits to enroll.
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Post by Big on Jan 4, 2007 17:55:52 GMT -5
And you wonder why high school kids take so long to adjust to college most of the time.
Too many stupid rules as usual.
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Post by scribe on Jan 4, 2007 18:06:01 GMT -5
Maybe Harvard can enroll him for the Spring semester and put him out on the mat right away. If he's got the smarts to get accepted, I'm sure he's got the credits to enroll. He would be burning a semester off his academic clock that he could use to be winning his 2nd or 3rd NCAA championship nearly 4 years from now. |
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Post by ideamark on Jan 4, 2007 23:26:31 GMT -5
Total lunacy.
I assume that the handful of other high schoolers who wrestled at the Midlands retained their prep eligibility. Alex Tsirtsis won yet another Indiana HS title after appearing at the Midlands.
Mark
BTW, pretty shameful that a major NYC paper could not correctly place the city that hosts the Midlands. I mean, I know it's flyover country, but, geez, it's NOT Evansville, but Evanston. Evansville is in the state of Indiana, which, is not the state of Illinois.
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Post by NoMoreLies on Jan 5, 2007 0:44:58 GMT -5
Tsirtsis had received a wavier to wrestle in the Midlands. Indiana does not allow participation in an event during the season without it.
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Post by Trusty on Jan 5, 2007 17:35:40 GMT -5
He should transfer to Blair.
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Post by DartSharkimus Prime on Jan 5, 2007 17:52:52 GMT -5
... and pay what, 20K for a semester of wrestling?
Pretty tall price to pay when he didn't do anything wrong.
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Post by Trusty on Jan 5, 2007 18:25:09 GMT -5
... and pay what, 20K for a semester of wrestling? Pretty tall price to pay when he didn't do anything wrong. I never said he did anything wrong? And you can believe if he wanted to do this, Buxton and the boosters would make sure Jantzen qualified for "financial assistance." |
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Post by lkwdsteve on Jan 5, 2007 20:04:55 GMT -5
EDs fans have been wondering which senior transfer Buxton will bring in just in time for the Blair-Eds dual (last year it was Mocco). This is one I wouldn't mind though, were it to happen.
If the frigid minds in NY are not forced, somehow, to allow him participate (we know persuasion won't work), then let him come to Blair, finish their schedule, do the national prep thing, senior nations, PLUS THE DAPPER DAN, and the NY powers-that-be can be damned.
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Post by Big on Jan 5, 2007 21:36:05 GMT -5
senior nations
Is that like senior citizens?
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Post by lkwdsteve on Jan 5, 2007 22:46:06 GMT -5
"senior nations"
Oops.
Well, I guess Russia would qualify as one.
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Post by osufan on Jan 8, 2007 0:28:33 GMT -5
this is a bunch of dookie. Never did like Nina Van Erk after the whole C.J. Rodriguez incident
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