This weekend results

Attached is a pdf with the results from this weekend.  They will also be posted on the website later today.

 

We had a smaller turnout this weekend but the ones that were there continued to improve. 

1.       We have several wrestlers that are improving each weekend and had some big wins this weekend. 

2.       The coaches are continuing to see our wrestler try the new technique and successfully execute the moves in competition. 

3.       We have a handful of wrestlers ready to make the jump to the next level but just need to focus on the details.  This group is really close to making a big jump forward.

 

We need everyone coming to practice this week and next week so we can continue to improve and be ready for the State tournament.

 

David

 

 

 

 

State Tournament wrestling update

Parents please read carefully.  I have several items to cover.

 

1)      State tournament-registration

2)      Seeding meeting and your help

 

State tournament-registration

 

The state wrestling tournament is February 19 and 20^th at Hoover High School.

 

We need everyone registering for the state tournament.  This is the only tournament that has team point and awards a team state championship by age division and overall.  The more wrester we have the more points we can score.  I need everyone to register and wrestle at the state tournament.

 

The state tournament is different than any other tournament.  The state tournament requires you to preregister using the Track wrestling website by Wednesday, February 10th.  You must register and pay for the state tournament on line.  The cost is $15 per wrestler.  You must have your track wrestling number and USA Wrestling number in order to register.  Please go ahead and register today there will be no extension on the deadline.

 

Rules for state and registration:

 

1)      For Bantam, Intermediate and Novice you must have wrestled in the specific weight class at least once to qualify for that weigh class.

2)      Once you register you cannot change weight classes.  You must wrestle in the weight class you register to wrestle.  There will be no exceptions. 

3)      Bantam, Intermediate and Novice will receive a 1 lb growth allowance for the state tournament.  So if your son wrestled at 55 he will receive 1 lb and will be allowed to weigh 56.

4)      Middle school will receive 2 lbs and there is not pre-qualification rule for MS weight classes.

 

Use the below link and then select Pre-register now option on the track wrestling website.

 

http://www.twnode4.com/opentournaments/MainFrame.jsp?sport=wrestling&TIM=1265555501976&pageName=&ie=false&frameSize=583

 

 

Seeding meeting and your help

 

The state tournament is the only tournament were we seed wrestlers. Seeding means we rank wrestlers 1-4 based upon a set criteria.  Sometimes we will seed up to  8 spots in a large weight class.  The seeding allows us to separate the best wrestlers in each bracket.

 

We will have the coaches seeding meeting this coming Sunday and will need the below information by Thursday so we can make sure your son is seeded correctly.

 

This is very important.  If your son has placed in any tournament I will need your help with the following:

 

1)      I need your sons wrestling record by age division and by weight class and overall record.

2)      I need a summary of each place your son has taken at each tournament by weigh class if he has wrestled in more than 1 weigh class.

3)      I need a listing of key head to head opponents and overall record of key opponents. The more the detail you provide the better.

4)      If he has wrestled outside of Alabama I need overall record, tournament and placement summary.

 

All of the above information is stored in track wrestling.  Track wrestling can be a little cumbersome to understand so be patient and start gather this information now.  I have assigned a coach to each age group and you will need to bring them this information and give them this information in an organized and neat manner so we can use this information in our coaches meeting.

 

This is information is due this Thursday at practice.  Please start on this now and have it complete by Thursday.  We will not have time to handle any late information. 

 

Bantam – Christian Staylor

Intermediate – Chris Smith

Novice – Phillip McCallum

Schoolboy- Dean Paugh

 

If you have any questions please contact the assigned coach or myself.

 

David

 

 

FW: Alabaster Tournament RSVP needed

Please not the schoolboy is wrestling Friday night not Saturday.

 

David

 

 

From: mcleanteam@charter.net [mailto:mcleanteam@charter.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:18 AM
To: mcleanteam@charter.net
Subject: Alabaster Tournament RSVP needed

 

VWC Team,

Please go to this link and let our coaches know if your son will be attending the Alabaster Tournament this weekend:

http://www2.mysignup.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?datafile=wrestlers020610


Here is the tournament information:

2010 AWC INVITATIONAL
February 5th & 6th, 2010
Thompson Middle School
1509 Kent Dairy Road
Alabaster, AL 35007

YOU AND YOUR TEAM ARE INVITED TO THE 2010 AWC Invitational to be HELD ON February 5th and 6th AT THE THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM.

ALABAMA USA STANDARDS WILL BE USED FOR WEIGHT CLASSES AND AGE DIVISIONS.
COACHES MUST MAINTAIN A VISIBLE USA MEMBERSHIP CARD TO BE ALLOWED ON MATS AND IN THE HOSPITALITY ROOM. THIS WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
ONLY TWO COACHES ALLOWED MAT SIDE DURING A MATCH. THIS WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
WRESTLERS MUST HAVE THEIR USA CARD AND TRACKWRESTLING NUMBER TO COMPETE.
REGISTRATION FEE PER WRESTLER PER AGE GROUP IS $10
EACH WRESTLER MAY ONLY COMPETE IN ONE WEIGHT CLASS PER AGE GROUP.
EACH WRESTLER MAY COMPETE UP IN ANOTHER AGE GROUP FOR AN ADDITIONAL $10. ONLY ONE WEIGH IN REQUIRED.

OPTIONAL WEIGH IN ON FRIDAY FROM 6:15 TO 7:30 PM FOR BANTAM, INTERMEDIATE AND NOVICE AGE GROUPS.

FRIDAY NIGHT February 5th, 2010
SCHOOL BOY/MIDDLE SCHOOL AGE GROUP BORN 1995-1996 WEIGHTS: 70, 77, 84, 91, 98, 105, 112, 120, 128, 136, 144, 152, 160, 175, 190, 210, 235

REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 5:00 TO 6:00 PM (FRIDAY NIGHT) WRESTLING: 7:00 PM

SATURDAY February 6th, 2010
BANTAM AGE GROUP BORN 2002-2003 WEIGHTS: 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 90
REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 6:30 TO 7:30 AM WRESTLING: 8:30 AM

INTERMEDIATE AGE GROUP BORN 2000-2001 WEIGHTS: 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 87, 95, 103, 112, 112, 120, 140
REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 10:00 TO 11:00 AM WRESTLING: 12:00 PM

NOVICE AGE GROUP BORN 1998-1999 WEIGHTS: 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 120, 130, 140, 165
REGISTRATION AND WEIGH IN: 2:00 TO 3:00 PM WRESTLING: 4:00 PM

SEEDING WILL NOT BE USED. WE WILL HAVE A WRESTLE BACK FORMAT TO DETERMINE A TRUE SECOND PLACE FINISHER.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT GLENN ALBARADO 205.337.1732 or NORM LATONA 205.288.1371.
ALABAMAWRESTLINGCLUB.COM

DIRECTIONS TO THOMPSON MIDDLE SCHOOL:
FROM THE NORTH TAKE I65 SOUTH TO THE ALABASTER/SAGINAW EXIT 238 AND MERGE TO THE RIGHT (0.6 MILES)
TURN LEFT ON AL-119/MONTEVALLO ROAD (1.9 MILES)
TURN RIGHT ON KENT DAIRY ROAD (0.6 MILES) SCHOOL IS ON THE RIGHT
FROM THE SOUTH TAKE I65 NORTH TO THE ALABASTER/SAGINAW EXIT 238 AND TURN LEFT (0.7 MILES)
TURN LEFT ON AL-119/MONTEVALLO ROAD (1.9 MILES)
Turn RIGHT ON KENT DAIRY ROAD (0.6 MILES) SCHOOL IS ON THE RIGHT

VWC wrestling update and Rebel Challenge results

Parents,

 

Tournament:

 

Thank you for all your help this weekend.  This weekend was one of the best run tournament I have been a part of in 5 years.  There is no way we could run a tournament without your help.  Thank you.

 

I know I cannot thank everyone by name but we had several teams that made a great contribution.

 

1.       Allyson Mclean who help lead our volunteer assignments, concessions and hospitality

 

2.       Kim Smith, Lisa Boland and Amy Hamilton who lead the hospitality.  I also want to thank Pat Boland for cooking 90 lbs of BBQ  for the hospitality room.  It was gone in 10 minutes.

 

3.       Lee Yielding – Moving mats

 

4.       Jeff Segars and Chad Merrill from VHHS who lead the staging area.  What a great job.  Thanks to both of you and all the high school students who worked at our tournament.

 

5.       Coaches- Again great job!  We have the best coaching staff of any club.

 

Wrestling:

 

Our kids did very well this weekend.  We had 97 VWC kids participate in this weekend’s tournaments.  The results are posted on our website.

 

The coaches are seeing progress made every week.  We are seeing wrestlers execute new moves with success, we see kids winning their first match, we see kids getting more pins, we see kids not getting pinned, we see kids winning multiple matches, we see kids getting mentally tougher and we see more kids starting to place in each tournament. 

 

We need to keep improving on this momentum for the next 2 tournaments.  Please help us by making sure your son is at practice and he comes prepared to work. We can make great progress in the next 3 weeks if we continue to work hard.  Remember our competition is also getting better.

 

The State wrestling tournament is February 20^th.  We only have one more tournament before the state tournament which is the AWC tournament February 3rd.  Let me encourage everyone to continue to participate in both the AWC and State tournament.  Competing is one of the best ways to keep improving. 

 

Also the more kids we have wrestling the more points we can score as team.  The state tournament is the only tournament that has team awards.  At the state tournament they will give a team trophy for 1^st-4^th for the following:  Bantam, Intermediate, Novice, Schoolboy and Overall.

 

Let’s keep up the hard work and focus on the next 3 weeks.

 

David

 

 

 

wrestling schedule

Parents,

 

Attached is the wrestling schedule for tonight and tomorrow.  Also please review the staging process with your son one more time

 

Rebel Challenge Wrestling Tournament

A USA Team Alabama Youth Wrestling Tournament

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

 

Please note:

• Friday weigh is at Pizitz Middle School not VHHS due to high school basketball game.  Wrestling Saturday will be at VHHS.
• Bantam and School Boy divisions are combined and will wrestle at 8:30
• We will run this tournament with a staging area.  We will not assign a weight class to each wrestling mat; instead wrestlers will be called to a central staging area and given a mat assignment for each bout.  We expect that by using a staging area we can reduce the wrestling schedule by @ 2 hours.  Attached is a document discussing the staging process please review with your wrestlers.

                                               

Where:			Vestavia Hills High School 2235 Lime Rock Road  Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216
When:			January 30, 2009
Weigh ins:			Friday:   January 29, 2009 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Pizitz Middle school 2020 Pizitz Drive  Vestavia Hills, Alabama 35216
	Weight and Age Brackets with Approximate Start Times
	BANTAM AGE GROUP BORN 2002-2003 WEIGHTS: 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 90 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 ·         WEIGH IN: 6:00 – 7:00 AM ·         COACHES MEETING @ 8:00 AM ·         WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 8:30 AM   INTERMEDIATE AGE GROUP BORN 2000 –2001 WEIGHTS: 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 87, 95, 103, 112, 112, 120, 140 ·         WEIGH IN: 9:30 – 10:30 AM ·         COACHES MEETING @ 11:30 AM ·         WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 12:00 PM   NOVICE AGE GROUP BORN 1998 – 1999 WEIGHTS: 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 120, 130, 140, 165 ·         WEIGH IN: 12:30 – 1:30 PM ·         COACHES MEETING @ 2:00 PM ·         WRESTLING TO BEGIN AT 2:30 PM
	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.

Staging process:

 

Coaches

 

This will be the gym setup for the Vestavia youth tournament. (See attached pdf) To try to be more efficient, we are planning on staging the wrestlers.  This will help by having less down time on each mat and allow us to run a faster tournament.

 

In order for this to work, we need all coaches to cover the staging process with their wrestlers and parents before the tournament starts. When a wrestler's weight‐class is called he should report to the staging area. He will then be assigned a mat (1-8) for his match. We will have VHHS varsity wrestlers escort the wrestlers to their mat.  Just to be clear a wrestler will not be on the same mat for every match.

 

Process:

 

1. The staging director will call an entire weigh class to the staging area and assign each match to a mat.
2. We will run all weight classes through the championship finals before we start any consolation matches. 
3. When we make announcements for wrestlers to report to the staging area, we will distinguish between championships and consolation brackets to clarify which wrestlers need to report to the staging area.  This way wrestler will know if they need to report to staging when their weight class is called.  In the event of a wrestle back this process will also allow the 2^nd place wrestler time to rest.  Please communicate to your wrestler the difference between consolation and championship brackets.  When a wrestler loses he does not need to report back to staging until we start calling consolation matches.
4. Round robin brackets will be assigned to a specific mat and the round robin will be run from the table.
5. The staging director will keep 3 matches at a mat at all times.  1) wrestling, 2) on deck and 3) in the hole
6. We will have table worker assigned to each table to keep the called wrestlers at the mat.

 

Please go over the staging process, where the staging area is, and where all the mats are with your wrestlers.  We hope this makes for a much faster day.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

 

 

Liberty park practice Thursday

There will be no wrestling practice at Liberty Park this Thursday.

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Alex city results

Parents,

 

The results from this weekend are posted on our website in the news and information section.

 

www.vestaviawrestling.com