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Wasatch Youth & Jr. High Open

Saturday, January 9^th 2010

Wasatch High School

We will be running two separate tournaments back to back.  Morning:  5^th-Jr. High, Afternoon: Elementary Pre K- 4^th grade.  The purpose of these tournaments is to give each wrestler quality matches where they are not sitting in the gym all day waiting to wrestle.  ALL WRESTLERS WILL RECEIVE A MEDAL.  No League card required but recommended.

Cost:               $10

Format: Four man round-robin based on age and weight. All wrestlers in the 4 man bracket will wrestle each other and get 3 matches.  All Wrestlers will receive a medal.

Procedure: The wrestlers’ brackets are called to the staging area then sent to a mat.  The entire bracket is wrestled and wrestlers will immediately pick up medals.  Since 3-4 other brackets will be on the same mat, the wrestlers will have sufficient rest time.

Wrestlers will be divided by:

Grade:  Will try to keep grades together, but will only move one grade if needed.

Exception: Jr. High:  7^th grader could wrestle a 9^th grader

Weight: The wrestlers do not need to make a specific weight.

The wrestler will be put into a group of four wrestlers that weigh approximately the same weight.  (not to exceed 5 lbs. difference in smaller wrestlers & 10 lbs in larger wrestlers) Exception:  Parent/Coach approval

Ability:   When possible we will try and separate the advanced and the beginner wrestler.  Coaches need to determine the ability/skill of their wrestler on a scale of 1-5 (1 being a low skill/ability wrestler and 5 being a high skill/ability wrestler).

5^th-Jr. High Grade

Weigh-ins:       Thursday or Friday only, at own site by the wrestling coach

Email weights to:  wade.discher@wasatch.edu

Must email by 6:30 pm, Friday

Check-in & Pay 8:00-9:00

Wrestling Begins:  9:30 am

PreK-4^th

Weigh-ins:       Thursday or Friday only, at own site by the wrestling coach

Email weights to:  wade.discher@wasatch.edu

Must email by 6:30 pm, Friday

Check-in & Pay by 11:30

Wrestling Begins:  12:30 am

Include on email: Use the excel file.  Include Name, School, Gr., Wt., & ability/skill level

Questions:  wade.discher@wasatch.edu or 435-654-0640 (ext. 3790)

First I want to say congratulations to our team. As was expected, we were able to win both trophies at the Salt Lake Slam. This is a national level tournament and we were, as a club able to win both of the older division championship trophies.

Another busy week for everyone.

Monday, Regular practice for Jr. High and Club. During club portion on Monday and Tuesday we will have the more experienced Spanish Fork wrestlers in our room with us to help us get ready for the Delta Duals.

Tuesday, same as Monday. Regular practice times.

Wednesday: Regular early start, but ending practice early. Practice will end at 4:30 PM to get ready for wrestle till you drop for the younger kids.

Wednesday night I will need 7-9 grade officials to officiate kids matches. I will need five officials that night from 5:00 till 9:00. They will be paid.

Thursday is a short practice again due to the high school dual meets. Maple Mountain is wrestling Springville at Springville. 5:00 JV and 7:00 Varsity. I would like everyone to be there if possible. You must wear your team t-shirt that night to get in for free.

Friday. Coach Killian and I will both be at the high school tournament on Friday. We will have practice on Friday for sure. It will be for those wrestlers who are traveling to Delta this week. They will be in charge of moving mats to the stage after practice, and they will need to make weight. A Coach (whomever runs practice that night) will need to weigh in each wrestler during Friday’s practice.

The tournament on Saturday at Delta is for those that make the varsity and JV teams. I will be willing to take some extra kids in case of injury, or in case there are extra spots on other teams.

Spanish Fork will be filling in some of our weights and we will be filling in some of their weights so we can collectively take more guys.

If you are in 6th grade and below, I suggest you wrestle at Spanish Fork this weekend. register on trackwrestling.com like every other week. $10.00. You will put in your own honest weight. No weigh ins at Spanish Fork.

The Delta meet is also $10.00 per boy. If you make the travel team, you need to bring $10.00 to coach LaMont.

Car pool will meet at 5:50 AM on Saturday for Delta. Leaving the lot at 6:00 AM.

Craig LaMont

craig@telosrtc.com

Coaches,

Just a couple of FYI’s. For those coaches that practice at Springville high school, I have been going down to the high school every Tues and Wed and finding a janitor to open the wrestling room for you guys. We DO NOT have a key. They rekeyed the room at the end of the year last year so we do not have a key any more. SHS wrestling practices have started now and we have asked their wrestling coach to please leave the room open on Tues and Wed after their practices. He obviously forgot that Wed night. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will remind him again. But my suggestion would be, if you are the first practice of the night down in the room, show up 10 or 15 minutes early to see if it is open and if it is not, then go hunt down a janitor cuz that is all I would do.

Those who practice at Memorial Hall, who ever is last to practice there, please make sure that the bathroom doors are left open. There is a door underneath the building and with the weather getting colder they worry about the bathroom pipes freezing. So please prop the doors.

What ever facility you practice in, please make sure that they are picked up so we can keep good relations with the city.

I noticed at some of your practices that some teams numbers are low. Do not hesitate that if you are missing some kids to call them to let them know you missed them and to see why they were not at practice. You may want to do that before tonights dual. It doesn’t make for competitive duals if you only have 4 kids show up on your team.

Thanks for all you do.