This past weekend saw many of the Maryland’s high school teams competing in tournaments throughout the state. Fortunately the MPSSAA has allowed teams to make changes to their schedules after the season has started so dropped tournaments and matches can get rescheduled. While much of the state has moved to dual meet tournaments many bracketed tournaments remain. As the season goes on I will post as many of their results as I can gather on the 2022 brackets and results page. One bit of news was Gilman School winning their own dual meet tournament for the first since since 1987.

The new year has started with more delays, closings, and restrictions on athletics. While most have not been as draconian as last year, they are influencing this years events. One for certain end of year change will be in the National Prep tournament, which for the first time in memory will not be held at Lehigh University. Unless some changes occur it may be a rough go to have a full fledged event in DC as the City is ratcheting up their restrictions and requirements as well.   Closer to home Harford County is restricting athletic events to contestants only.

The 2022 wrestling season is underway and for the most part, it has been going as planned. Recently however some Covid outbreaks in several counties have led to what are now temporary suspensions of activities. Howard County has suspended winter activities till the new year and several other schools have had outbreaks that have led to school-specific suspensions. Going into the Christmas break it will be interesting to see how many Christmas tournaments are held and how many teams are able to pick up canceled duals and tournaments. As the season goes on please send any completed brackets and results

The 1994 season was an important one in Maryland high school wrestling. It was the last year of the MSA conference– which had included most Baltimore area private schools and all the Baltimore City public schools. The MSA tournament went as the previous 18 had gone with a Mount St. Joseph team title. The Baltimore City public schools did not travel to Lehigh University for the National Prep Tournament but Dunbar’s Bruce Pendles took Outstanding Wrestler honors as the City schools ended their run with the privates. The National Prep results had not been available for this year but Maryland

I spent a little time looking over some old brackets for the National Prep tournament and it is remarkable how Maryland schools dominated in the 1980s. Mount St. Joe started a run there with a National Prep title in 1980, took a year off, and then won two more in 1983 and 1984, and closed out the decade with a title in 1989. That is a pretty remarkable run of success but Mount St. Joe’s four titles would be equaled by four titles from Bullis, who was able to run off a pretty incredible run of four consecutive titles in

As it looks like there will be a full high school sports season for 2022 a little time has been spent updating the website with new information and fixing some mistakes and oversites from years past. The tweaks are going in reverse chronological order but the first big oversite has been found and corrected. McDonogh School Muraji Nakazawa has been recognized for his 1975 National Prep championship. Rick Romeo of Mount St. Joseph placed 4th in the 1977 National Prep Tournament. There will be more errors that need to be corrected as time goes on and if you notice one

Return to wrestling for 2021 is a mixed and uncertain bag. The Corona-19 virus has had devastating effects on the country, the state, and high school sports. As we enter the last week of 2020 we would have expected to see a number of duals and tournaments already that have taken place. So far none of that has taken place as both the private schools and public schools have suspended or delayed the beginning of the winter sports season.The MPSSAA has set a winter sports season that can begin with practice and conditioning from February 1-21; and have a competition season from

On January 5th an actual high school wrestling match took place. In Carroll County who briefly and in a limited fashion returned to athletics had a dual meet between South Carroll High School and Winters Mill High School. Carroll County is wrestling an abbreviated schedule of in county matches only. South Carroll won the dual 50-15. Other Carroll county matches scheduled for the day were cancelled/postponed due to Covid-19 concerns. Then shoes began to drop around the state. Howard County cancelled their winter sports season.   Baltimore County Cancelled its winter sports season   And then the Bayside Athletic Conference

Baltimore County to resume sports, but it may be too late for the high school wrestling season. TOWSON, MD — Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski today issued an Executive Order stating that amateur sports events, including high school, youth, and/or recreational games, clinics, skills sessions, scrimmages and practices, may restart effective Monday, February 1, 2021. Outdoor Sports Attendance at organized amateur sports events held outdoors is limited to: Players; Referees and/or officials; Trainers, coaches and staff; and One parent or guardian per participant. No additional spectators are allowed.  Face coverings are required at all times for: Players not in the field of play; Referees and/or officials;