From injuries, to top-tier competition, Indian Land Warriors wrestling coach Rondale Truesdale sees each obstacle as a building block for his team’s ultimate goal: individual state championship honors.
While serving as Indian Land High School’s assistant wrestling coach last year, Rondale Truesdale received word that he would helm the program to finish out a rebuilding season.
However, with new faces leading the way and two key players missing, the Warriors will have to wait and see what the season holds for them.
After a scintillating 6-0 start to the season, opposing teams found the formula for stopping the Indian Land offense, leading the Warriors to stumble to a 1-3 record down the stretch.
It was more of the same for the Warriors, as the backfield tandem of Rondreas Truesdale and Trey Eaves slashed their way to six combined rushing touchdowns. North Central’s offense clicked in fits and spurts, but two costly fumbles were converted by the Warriors into two touchdowns to quickly overpower the Knights.
Rondreas Truesdale’s game breaking speed and instinctive big play ability was kicked up a notch in Saturday’s 48-39 home-opening win for the Warriors.
On Thursday evening, Indian Land hosted a track meet featuring two fellow Region 4-AA schools (Buford and Andrew Jackson) and two Region 1-A schools (Lewisville and Great Falls) and dominated the competition.
Indian Land's baseball team had some chances, but lost to fall to 1-5.
In Indian Land, hosting their first home playoff game in 13 years, it would be understandable if there were some pregame jitters on the part of the Indian Land Warriors boy’s basketball team.
The Indian Land Lady Warriors took care of business in the first round of the Class A playoffs Monday night against Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (HKT) with a 60-45 win.
Football coaches measure improvement from game to game, but for Michael Mayer, the head man for the Indian Land High Warriors, it was tough to calculate where his team stood on a weekly basis last season.