MRSA Notes

This is a bit of a sad statement, to say the least. Showers not “cool?” Since when did showers have a coolness factor anyway. This is what you do, for your health. We are the adults, we make the rules. If the wrestlers don’t want to shower, they don’t wrestle. Have we truly lost all sense of authority?

‘It’s just not cool to take a shower anymore’ | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
“If you mandate (showering) in wrestling, you’d lose kids,” Peterson said. “I know there are freshmen, if they were made to shower, they would not turn out. I’ve heard kids say it.

“I think there is such a strong pull in the other direction, that pull is almost stronger than (their personal safety). They see the benefit, but I don’t get why they don’t shower. We’ll tell them on a daily basis, within 30 minutes, you need to be in the shower and cleaning yourself. Yet, they will dress and go home and shower.”

It is a bit of a conundrum. In the high school athletics culture, wrestlers still offer the best example of hygiene the NFHS conceived in its protocol guidelines. But is it fair to ask wrestlers to be the example if their counterparts in other sports do not share the same practice?

“It’s just not cool to take a shower anymore,” Diehl said. “But we have to get back to good body hygiene. It has to change. As soon as we lose a football player or volleyball player because of some skin disease that could have been handled by a shower, we will be up in arms.”

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