Vestavia Invitational tournament

Parents,

 

Attached are the team results.  We had 86 kids wrestle and 32 placed 1-4.  The results will also be posted on our website later this afternoon.

 

Tournament:

 

Thank you to all of you that helped with this big undertaking.  I know I cannot thank everyone by name but we had several teams of people that made this the best run tournament of the year.  I had several coaches and parents from visiting school that come up to me and personally thanked Vestavia for running such a great tournament.  All of you should be very proud of the job you did we continued to represent the community of Vestavia with excellence.  I have been doing this a long time and I have never hosted a tournament were we were cleanup and home by 9:00.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

1)      Team Allyson McLean, Mark Hamilton and Susie Mullions:  Thank you for all your organization and preparation.

 

2)      Concessions team:  Thank you for all your help keeping our guest feed.

 

3)      Registration Team:  Thank you for being so dedicated to sit near the very cold door all day. 

 

4)      Team Lisa Boland for managing the hospitality room.  Keeping all the coaches and volunteers feed is not an easy job.

 

5)      Coach Adams, Liberty Park parents, Liberty Park wrestlers, Liberty Park staff:  All of you were awesome.  Coach Adams did a tremendous job of helping us run this tournament, his dedication and leadership allowed us to make this one of the most efficiently run tournaments.  All of you represented Liberty Park Middle School very well and you should be proud of the job you did hosting your first wrestling tournament.

 

6)      The mat grew:  Thanks to Lee Yielding, Pat Boland and Dean Paugh for coordinating the transportation of the mats. – This is no “light” task.

 

7)      Parents:  Thank you to all of you who are always so welling to help on whatever is required.  We could not do this without your time and energy.

 

8)      Coaches:  As always, you did a great job of coaching our kids and did whatever is asked to help make this tournament great.

 

 

These tournaments are one of our primary fundraisers for Vestavia Wrestling.  The proceeds from the tournaments we host help offset the cost of running our program.   This allows us to keep the youth registration cost at a fair price so more kids have the opportunity to wrestle. 

 

We will be hosting one more tournament the weekend of January 30^th at VHHS.  We will need everyone’s help and support again.  Please mark your calendars for this weekend.

 

David

 

 

 

 

 

wrestling help with mats

Calling all dads,

 

This weekend is our wrestling tournament at Liberty park.  This is the first time we have hosted a tournament at Liberty Park so I am planning extra time to make sure we can get mats setup in the gym.

 

We have 3 teams helping us  move mats on Friday afternoon and I need several strong backs to help us move mats and setup the mat at Liberty Park Middle school.  If you can help please contact the person below.  I have attached their email address.

 

Team Paugh:   dmpaugh@bellsouth.net

 

1)      Picking up 2 mats from the church and bring to Liberty Park by 2:15

2)      Need 4 volunteers

 

 

Team Yielding:   lee@houseofthreads.COM

 

1)      Delivering our brand new wrestling mat and picking on mat up at Pizitz Middle School and delivered to LP by 2:15

2)      Need 4 volunteers

 

 

Team Boland:  Pat Boland (pboland2@gmail.com)

 

1)      Picking up the 2 practice mats at VHHS and delivering to LP by 2:15

2)      Need 4 volunteers

 

 

We cannot get into the LP gym until 2:15.  The LP middle school wrestling team and PE classes will be available to help move the mats into the gym.

 

 

 

Liberty Park wrestling tournament details for this weekend

Parents,

 

Attached are the detailed times for our tournament.

 

You can click on the link below to let us know of you are planning to attend.  We will use this link to help the coaches know if  you are planning to attend.  We need everyone to tell us yes or no every week so we can plan for coaches.  This does not eliminate the need to register at each tournament this is used for our purposes only.

 

http://www2.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=wrestlersmasterlist

 

 

 

Vestavia Hills Invitational Wrestling

Tournament at Liberty Park

A USA Team Alabama Youth Wrestling Tournament

For more information contact: Christian Staylor 757/362-2005

 

Where: Liberty Park Middle School

17035 Liberty Parkway Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35242

 

When: January 9, 2009

 

Weigh ins: Friday: January 8, 2009

5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Liberty Park Middle School Gym

 

Saturday, January 9, 2009: see Weigh Ins below for times

 

Weight and Age Brackets with Approximate Start Times

 

BANTAM AGE GROUP BORN 2002-2003 WEIGHTS: 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 90

BANTAM REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 6:00 – 7:00 AM WITH WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 8:30 AM

 

INTERMEDIATE REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 10:00 TO 11:00 AM WITH WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 12:00 PM

INTERMEDIATE AGE GROUP BORN 2000 –2001 WEIGHTS: 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 87, 95, 103, 112, 112, 120, 140

 

NOVICE REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 1:30 TO 2:30 PM WITH WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 3:30 PM

NOVICE AGE GROUP BORN 1998 – 1999 WEIGHTS: 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 120, 130, 140, 165

 

SCHOOLBOY REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN 5:00 – 6:00 WITH WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 7:00

SCHOOL BOY/MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE GROUP BORN 1996-1997 WEIGHTS: 70, 77, 84, 91, 98, 105, 112, 120, 128, 136,

144, 152, 160, 175, 190, 210, 235

 

Entry Fee Entry Fee: $10 per wrestler

Each wrestler may compete up in another age group for an additional

$10 (only one weigh in required)NO REFUNDS

Registration • Registration at the door only

 

• WRESTLERS MUST HAVE THEIR USA CARD AND

TRACKWRESTLING NUMBER TO COMPETE

• Seeding not used. Wrestle back to second place

• Only coaches with visible USA membership card to be allowed on mats and in

hospitality room. Strictly enforced.

 

wrestling update- goal setting and tournament reminder

Parents,

 

Attached are the results of the Tallassee tournament.  We had a small group of wrestlers but we had good results. (see attached)

 

Practice:

 

We will be back to our normal practice times the week of  Monday, January 4^th.  As a reminder our January 4^th practice will be used to training the parents on how to score a wrestling match.  Please see email sent by Dean Paugh last week.  It is also posted on our website in the news and information section.

 

Tournament:

 

We are hosting our tournament this weekend at Liberty Park Middle School.  We will need everyone’s help to make this successful.  You should have received emails from Allyson McLean regarding volunteer times and where to serve.  Please sign up today.  We have a lot work to do this week.

 

 

Goal setting:

 

I believe wrestling teaches our sons a great deal about life.  To borrow a quote from an article about wrestling:

 

“So what are these lessons of life that our great sport teaches you? I suppose they are infinite, but allow me to pinpoint a few: intensity, focus, discipline, goal-setting, determination and perseverance. To be successful on the mats, in school, or in the work place, you must possess these characteristics. I feel wrestling can teach you these better than any other sport.”

 

Now that we have 3 tournaments behind us and everyone has some expectations, I am asking each of you to discuss setting a wrestling goal with your son.  This is between you and him.  The goal can be at any level.  It can be to  win the state championship, win a match, place in a tournament, place in state, not get pinned, etc.  Attached is a goal sheet where you can write down one goal and 3 things your son is committing to do to reach his goal.

 

If your son fills out the sheet and turns the sheet in to me by Thursday, January 7^th, then if he accomplished his goal by the end of the season, he will be recognized at the end of the year team party for his achievement.   In order to keep up with his goals, I need your help.  Once your son achieves his goal please send your team mom an email that states your son has reached they goal that he has set.

 

Please turn in by January 7^th, If  you turn it in later than the 7^th it will not be recognized at the end of the year.  This is an administrative challenge to keep up with so please bring it on the 7^th if you want to participate.

 

Our team is doing great.  It is time to go to the next level.

 

David

 

 

 

 

wrestling - Tournament table training- Jan 4th

Team

 

As you know our own Vestavia Invitational held at Liberty Park is coming up on January 9th. The success of every youth wrestling tournament is largely  a function of parent help. One of the critical areas where volunteers are needed is table help. Each table will have a clock operator, scorer and bopper.

 

In the past we have set aside one night to train our volunteer table helpers on the mechanics of each duty. On Monday, January 4th we will use our normal 5:30 practice at the church to train table help on how to fill out score sheets and run clocks. The boys will wrestle live inter squad  matches while the coaches officiate and the volunteer  parents rotate score sheet and clock duties.

 

The unfortunate consequence of this needed process is that the boys spend much of the time watching while others wrestle. We will run as many matches simultaneously as space allows and attempt to get everyone at least one match. It would be helpful and appreciated if the parents who helped last year would assist  those learning during this process. I will bring score sheets, clocks and ankle bands.

 

If all parents that plan to help will find me before practice I will go over a brief explanation on how to keep score and then you can practice on a live match.

 

Thanks For Your Help

Dean Paugh

 

Liberty park wrestling tournament sign up

Team,

Our team is hosting a tournament January 9th at Liberty Park Middle school. We need EVERYONE to help out so our tournament can run smoothly. Below you will find 2 different links. One is for signing up to help run the mats ( scoring, timing, bopping, directing) the other link is for everything else (tickets, concessions, hospitality, etc.) Special thanks to Susie Mullins for setting this system up for us!

Please go to these links and sign up for a slot to help. Descriptions are on the links. This tournament will be coming very quickly after our holiday vacation, so start thinking about it now.

If you are interested in heading up concessions (purchasing items, getting vendors) OR hospitality ( planning meals, getting food donations) please let me know.

We will take any food donations from vendors for the hospitality room. If you have any connections, please ask how they can help us. We ARE tax deductable.

We also would like for EVERYONE to bring a case of bottled water for the hospitality room. BUT DO NOT BRING IT UNTIL THE DAY OF THE TOURNAMENT!
(it's not an easy task to carry around 50 cases of water!)

It's Christmas Eve, I hope you and yours have a wonderful time during this holiday season.

Rebels together,
Allyson McLean

to sign up to help in the gym during the tournament click here:

http://www1.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=vtrmat

to sign up for everything else click here:

http://www2.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=vtr


Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Clay Results

Parents,

 

Another good tournament.  We had small number of kids but the ones there wrestled well.

 

Please let your team mom no if you are planning to go to Tallassee on January 2^nd.  I need to know so we can have enough coaches at each section.  If we have a low turnout for bantam we may not send our bantam wrestlers to Tallassee.  So please let your team mom now as soon as possible.

 

 

Practice Reminder:

There is no practice today for the Club group.

 

Practice this week is as follows:

 

Below is the practice schedule for Christmas Break.  Below are the only practices that we will have while the boys are out of school.  We will resume our normal practice schedule on Monday, January 4^th.  All practices will be at the Crossroad’s Church.

 

Monday, Dec 21                                                 3:00-4:30

Tuesday, Dec 22                                                 3:00- 4:30 

Wednesday, Dec 23                                         3:00 – 4:30               

Thursday, Dec 24                                               9:00 – 10:30       

Wednesday ,Dec 30                                        3:00-4:30 

Thursday, Dec 31                                              9:00-10:30

 

 

Other key dates:

No Practice on December 29

Jan 2      Tallassee Tournament