Current Wrestling Team Events

Parent Meeting - Thursday 11/19/09 - 5:30pm 

The team held a start of the season parent meeting 11/19/09 in the Roosevelt Commons. The yearly parent meeting is a great time to meet the Coaches and other parents and get updated on the teams plans and expectations. 

Hygiene.

Wrestlers need to shower with soap as soon as possible after each and every practice or match. Bacteria, and other little nasties need a moist warm place to grow. Showering with a good soap scrub will deny them a place to breed and grow. Ringworm and staff are the two most common infections. During the season referees and coaches will be checking wrestlers for obvious infections. If your wrestler has a skin rash that is not contagious, you can have your doctor fill out a WIAA form to show the meet officials and they will be allowed to wrestle. 

Practices

Practice time starts 25 minutes after school gets out and goes on for 2 hours. Normal practice time is 3-5pm. On days that school gets out early, we have practice early at 1-3pm. Wrestlers should bring CLEAN shorts, T shirt, wrestling shoes, big water bottle every day. Coach likes kids to stay in the room and not be running out to fill up their bottle every few minutes. Practices are every day during the season. No practice on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New years day, Sundays, days that we have a tournament or a match.  8:30-10:30 AM for Saturday and vacation practices. 

We do practice on the day after Thanksgiving, the day after Christmas, winter vacation days, etc. Coach doesn't hold grudges but he does like his team to be at practice. Wrestlers who show up to practice are more likely to move up the depth chart. Coach mentioned the winter break period as an especially crucial time for wrestlers to attend practice and where a lot of great learning and growth take place. If the family is out of town during the holidays, then so be it, but Coach mentioned that just like any other varsity sport, he expects wrestlers to be in the gym during the season. 

RHS Sports Boosters

Frank Leeds, the wrestling team booster representative, explained that the RHS Sports Boosters is a non-profit  organization dedicated to supporting sports at Roosevelt.  Donations made to the boosters with wrestling written on the check will be credited to the wrestling team's account with the boosters. 

The Boosters provide invaluable support for the wrestling team, helping us purchase uniforms, scoring devices, interval clocks, etc. Items purchased by the boosters are school property so any uniforms etc. purchased with booster funds must be returned to the school at the end of the season.

Being a member of the Boosters brings two major responsibilities; the Spring Booster Sports Auction and taking our turn manning the concession booth for basketball games. Frank will have more on these topics at a later date. 

Roosevelt Takedown Tournament November 28th, 2009

Roosevelt hosts an early season Takedown Tournament in the main gym on Saturday November 28th, 2009.

In a Takedown Tournament, points are given for take downs and subsequent falls and then the wrestlers are stood backup and go after a takedown again.  The pace is fast and wrestlers get a great chance to practice this critical skill.  10 teams from around the region will be in attendance and three mats will be filled with action.  Wrestlers will be put into groups of 4 and everyone will wrestle  3 - 2 minute matches with 45 minutes between match.  

Takedown Tournament Bake Sale Fundraiser

The Takedown Tournament is our major wrestling fund raiser for the year and a large part of our profits come from the bake sale.  All RHS families should bring baked goods to sell at the bake sale. Roosevelt volunteers will be needed to run the bake sale table, help with scoring tables and cleanup.

Bake Sale -Volunteers are needed to take shifts selling the baked goods from 8:00am throughout the day.

Scoring Table - Volunteers are needed to take shifts running the clock and score board.

Hospitality Table – Volunteers are needed to keep the Hospitality Table for visiting coaches stocked with coffee and treats through lunch.

Laura Strauss  ( Laura@nlwinc.com ) has graciously agreed to coordinate the takedown tourney volunteers. Please contact her and sign up to help with the Takedown Tournament.