[Michael Beard]

When I was a kid, I heard that there were no kids getting into the sport. I guess we're not "kids" enough anymore, but just at Atlanta there was me, Craig Marshall, Emily Volkman, Drew Allen, Jake Sealey, Brandyn Phillips, Kaitlyn Atkinson, Jimmy Hidalgo Jr, and probably others I missed... Candies? Some young guns in the Index classes too.

Just because every high school or college kid isn't running S/SS classes right this second doesn't mean that there isn't new blood coming into the sport. Look around you. Would we like to see even more? Certainly, and we should work to help newbies along, but there's not as much of a drought as we tend to think, either.