I am pleased to announce that Millard South will be a training site for wrestlers in Eastern Nebraska intrerested in taking Freestyle and Greco to the National Level. The training will be rigorous training to make wrestlers ready for Regionals, Cadet and Jr. Duals, and Cadet and Junior Nationals. The resident coach will be Roye Oliver and the program development specialist will be Jay Meneely (Junior Director). Part of the funding for the program will come from Huskerland Wrestling as Huskerland has a great committment to the improvement of wrestling in Nebraska. For those interested in attending this site, you can contact me at ddenson@hotmail.com

We are looking to establish at least 5 sites across the state. As of now, Jeremy Moore will have a site at GICC, and we hope that Coach Manning will make good on his promise to start a site in Lincoln. If we can get a two more Western sites established, we will have our five.

How did you guys come up with these sites and can anyone do this?

Knock yourself out! The more training we can get our kids, the better they will be Nationally. My intention is that we train our kids at the intensity level of say Oklahoma, Minnesota, etc. These guys train hard and they train to win. Their system makes for successful national teams.

Doug,
How often will they meet?
When do they start?
Shannon Gocke

So what is or how much is Huskerlnd throwing in to get things going?

Right now we are looking at 3 days a week for 2 hours. I am thinking Mon, Tues, Thurs. from 6 to 8. Then in the summer we are training 4 days a week to include aerobic training, weight lifting, and of course wrestling. I am still working out the details, but we will be ready to launch the first week in April.

And for the person asking about Huskerland funding. It is unknown at this time until we do the spring and summer budget. I know that last year I put nearly $10,000 into spring and summer wrestling that went directly to kids and to events. This year, I want to put more into coaching and training so as to make it an even split if I can. Of course all this has to be approved by the Huskerland board, and we have to have a good Huskerland tournament in order to fund aggressively. Part of the finances will fund wrestling for anyone in the state, and part has to go to those who actively support or have been involved with Huskerland.

I don't want to be considered a National Team training site, however, I will be hosting open mat sessions at in the Columbus High School wrestling room each Tuesday & Wednesday evening from 1900-2100 hours for any wrestlers interested in attending. The wrestlers will refresh folkstyle technique and clinics will be conducted to emphasize Freestyle & Greco technique.

When is columbus having this...now or in the summer? I wouldnt mind coming in.

Huskerfan, your certainly welcome to drop in anytime. We started tonight. We'll run every Tuesday & Wednesday evening until after our YMCA Youth club finishes Huskerland and then we'll re-evaluate what days work out best for a majority of our kids. Your welcome to drop in tommorrow night.

next week, and ill bring a few of my teamates. Thanks

What are some of the tourneys this group plans on competing in and will there be a team,teams,or will you be hitting just afew tourneys

hey brandl are u going to be in colombus on tuesday just wondering

Yes, I am going on Tuesday. I want to get as much mat time as I can. Who are you STC Wrestler?

rob mcmickell i wrestled 103 until i broke my hand in 2 places and was done for the wrest of the season and i want a ton of mat time also

You should have went to AAU Ironman today. It was a good tournament. What are you weighing? Also Coach Moore from Grand Island Central Catholic is holding freestyle and greco practices at his school. Are you going to Midwest Classic this year?

i didnt wrestle iron man cuz i couldnt get cleared yet but yea im gonna go up to gi for the practices i weigh around 112 or 115 i was hopin i would be able to practice and wrestle around with u in gi but i want sure if u were doin it or not but its good to hear that u r and yea im goin to midwest classic im still deciding what weight and if i should wrestle both 18 and under and 15 and under but i dont wana have 2 matches at the same time so i will most likely wrestle 18 and under

i saw that u wrestled 119 is that what u weigh or did u just not wana cut to get to the bracket below and r u gonna be goin up to clombus any time im going to until april when gi starts having there practices

Friday I got down to 114.6... but then I had pizza and pop for supper so I wrestled 119 Saturday. The highest I've been since after state is about 119.4. I'm not sure how many practices I will make in GI but I'll try and make a few at least.

[This message was edited by Dru on March 09, 2003 at 10:15 PM.]

How much will it cost for each wrestler to attend these workout sessions. Who decided which coaches would be running these sites. How much will the coaches be paid. An Example, Omaha has several very qualified individuals that could run these camps, all who have been or are current nebraska usa coaches. Why was Oliver chosen over the others. Do those who attend the camps have an advantage of participating on the Cadet and Junior teams.

I always thought little Beav was the kid to ask all the questions. Boy was I wrong. Anyway, you have some good questions. Anyone can train anywhere they want when it comes to this USA wrestling. Just because there is a training site doesn't preclude a lot of issues surrounding USA wrestling in Nebraska. For instance, you still need to qualify for Cadets and Juniors at the Regional or State level. All we want is to qualify as many as possible, train them as well as we can, and make sure they represent Nebraska well. Last year, we only took 22 kids out of a ton of slots that we could have taken. I don't think there will be a run on positions. As far as coaching for each of the teams, that is up to the Junior director and the Cadet/kids director. I would refer you to each of these representatives (Jay Meneely and Chuck Sherer). As far as Millard South, I chose Roye Oliver because he has a quality background and has worked with kids on the National Level year in and year out. Cost - basically we want to keep the cost down but it is going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of about $75 for the spring and $75 for the summer to train. Also must have an active USA card. We hope to get as diverse a population as we can in order to make the training the best it can be