This Week...

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This week we will be having practice as scheduled, Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 pm.

As of right now, we don't have a tournament scheduled for this weekend. We will update this site on Wednesday morning if we find one to go to.


***12/2/15 UPDATE*** We will not be doing a tournament this weekend.

Caleb Williams Results, & This Week's Schedule

Congratulations Wrestlers for a job well done at the Caleb Williams Tournament! This tournament is one of the toughest in the state, and you all did great!

1st Place: Kelan
                Nash

2nd Place:  Braygen
                  Kaden
                  Durke

3rd Place:  Jake
                 Braxton
                 
4th Place:  Cody
                 Jerrit

This week is Thanksgiving, so we will only have one practice, on Tuesday from 5-7 pm. We do not have any tournaments this weekend.

We hope you all enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday!

                 

Good Luck Wrestlers!

We want to wish our Kindergarten wrestler Kaden GOOD LUCK at the Caleb Williams tournament today! He wrestles at 7:30 pm.

The rest of the team will wrestle tomorrow, starting at 8 am. GOOD LUCK Nash, Durke, Braxton, Cody, Jerrit, Kelan, Kannin, Jake, & Braygen!

We will post results Monday morning. Good Luck Team Takedown!

This Week & North Sevier Results

Congratulations Wrestlers! We had an AWESOME weekend at North Sevier!

1st Place:   Braygen
                  Jerrit
                  Durke
                  Kaden
                  Jake
                  Braxton (1st Grade)
               
2nd Place:  Cody

3rd Place:   Kelan
                  Braxton (3rd Grade)
                  Jaxon
                  Kannin

4th Place:   Nash
                  Bronsen

This week we will have practices as scheduled. Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 pm. Our tournament this weekend is Caleb Williams in Spanish Fork. You MUST have a USA card to participate! If you haven't purchased one yet, click here. After you purchase your card, go ahead and sign up on Track Wrestling. We will do weigh in's at practice on Thursday and the coaches will enter your weights for you.

Caleb Williams is running a two day tournament this year. Pre-K and Kindergarten (along with 1st grade true beginner) will be on Friday, and 1st-9th are on Saturday. Click here for the tournament flyer showing the schedule. The cost is $15.

Good Luck Wrestlers!

We want to wish our wrestlers GOOD LUCK at their first tournament tomorrow at North Sevier!

Kelan, Bronsen, Kaden, Nash, Durke, Braxton, Jaxon, Jerrit, Cody, Kannin, Jake, and Braygen!

If you haven't registered yet, you still have time. Online registration closes at NOON today, or you can travel to North Sevier tonight and weigh in/register in person. If you decide to do that, you need to be at North Sevier High at 5 pm. They are officially closing all registration at 6 pm.

Good Luck Wrestlers! We know you'll do great!



This Week & RINGWORM!

This week we will have practices as scheduled, Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 pm. We have our first tournament on Saturday! It's at North Sevier. To register, please go to trackwrestling.com. You will be responsible to put in your child's weight when you sign them up. PLEASE BE HONEST!   Registration closes on Friday evening. It's always best to register early, just in case they change the deadline.

One big concern we have as wrestlers is ringworm. Our mats are disinfected before each practice, so please do your part as parents to avoid your child getting it and spreading it to other kids. Your wrestler needs to shower after every practice, and his practice clothes need to be washed (not re-worn for pj's or for the next practice). Bedding needs to be washed weekly, and you need to wash their singlets after each tournament. Headgear can be wiped down with alcohol and a cotton ball.

If your child has signs of ringworm, or any red patches of skin on their body (almost resembling eczema), that won't go away and/or seem to get bigger, please see your doctor right away. You will need some anti-fungal cream or oral medication.

A worthwhile read...

 For The Longest Time - I Got It Wrong

I thought the ultimate achievement in wrestling was to win a State Championship...It is not.

The ultimate achievement in wrestling is to prepare a young man for his life by having him become the best person he can become by acquiring the "Qualities of a Wrestler" while in pursuit of a state championship.

Acquiring these qualities is more important than winning a state championship.

They are what is needed to become happy and successful in life.

These qualities are acquired during the pursuit and not in the winning.

It is in the pursuit that a kid transcends into a man.

It is in the pursuit that a kid is prepared for what life will bombard him with when he becomes a man.

It is in the pursuit that this sport is at its finest.

Winning a state championship doesn't teach these things.

The pursuit does.

It is setting a goal that is more than you think you can ever achieve and then achieving more than you thought you ever could.

It is in overcoming any and all obstacles that may be in your path in pursuit of that goal. 

It is in the agony of learning how to "figure it out" on your own. 

It is in making the necessary adjustments even after "You figured it out." 
 

The hard adjustments which will require supreme sacrifice that will only make a small difference.

Which will happen to be the difference between winning or losing. 

It is in working endlessly and seeing no results; and still continuing to work because your will is stronger than everyone else's doubt.

It is in failing miserably and very publicly in front of your peers and everyone who is important to you only to attempt again, even when the above average human would just quit, so he would never have to feel that humiliation ever again.

It is in not achieving your desired goal, after a very long hard season, one in which you bled to do so. To then make a personal decision to work even harder for another season with absolutely no guarantee of success.

It is in the knowing that you did everything that you could to achieve your goal and the understanding that sometimes that will be enough, and sometimes it won't.

You can't control that. 

All you can control is to be as best prepared as you can.

It is in the understanding that when it magically is enough, that you are humble because you know the feeling of being on the other side of the win.

And when it is not enough you know to dig down and inspect and analyze your performance because there is something within the loss that you need to learn to help you achieve a future bigger goal.

And you find it.

And you turn a weakness into a strength.

And you keep doing that until you have no more weaknesses.

This is the process of becoming a man.

Many wrestlers who went on to win a state championship are now jerks.
 

Many wrestlers who took 2nd, 3rd or never even placed have become great people.

So it is not winning the state championship that is the difference.

It is what you take away from this great sport that is the difference.

It is in the pursuit.

If ones idea of achievement is to win a state championship then logically there can be only 1 winner per weight class throughout the state.

There is not.

Because the real winners in this sport are the wrestlers who acquire the traits which will be necessary for their success and happiness in life.

And those traits all can be found in the pursuit.

~ JohnA Passaro

This Week

This week we will have practice as scheduled. Tuesday and Thursday from 5-7 pm.

We do not have any tournaments this weekend. As previously mentioned, our first tournament will be at North Sevier on November 14th. We will let you know when they open registration so you can all get signed up.

Have a great week! See you on Tuesday!