Crestview High School
presents:
The 4th Annual
“Dawg-POUND Classic”
wrestling tourney
To: All interested schools!
From: Jeff Fowler, Head Coach Crestview High Wrestling
Re: “Dawg-POUND Classic” (varsity wrestling tourney)
When: Friday & Saturday, December 16 & 17, 2005
Where: Crestview High School
1250 N. Ferdon Blvd.
Crestview, FL 32536 (right off of I10 50 minutes east of Pensacola)
Times: Friday: Weigh-in: 7:30 am
Start time: 9:00 am
Saturday: Weigh-in: 7:30 am
Start time: 9:00 am
Cost: $190 per team (teams must be able to fill at least 10 weight classes)
($5 ea person @ gate for fans, $1 for 7 & under, per day)
Contact: Coach Fowler, Tourney Director and Crestview Head Coach
Home: 850-585-5806
Fax: 850-689-7332 (attn. Coach Jeff Fowler)
E-mail: cjnxmfowler@cyou.com
Hotels: Comfort Inn: 850-423-1200
Hampton Inn: 850-689-2378
Days Inn: 850-682-8842
Econo Lodge: 850-682-6255
Jameson Inn: 850-683-1778
Super 8: 850-682-9649
(All hotels/motels are within 5 miles of the school and right off of I10.)
Airports: Okaloosa Regional Airport (VPS): 30 minutes south of Crestview
Pensacola Regional Airport: 50 minutes west of Crestview
Coaches:
This is the fourth year for our tourney and each year we get bigger and better. We’ve tried different ways to maximize opportunities for teams and I think we’ve come up with an awesome way for you and your teams to get a lot of wrestling in a very short time and all before the Christmas break and for very little money.
We will be looking to host 32 teams over two days using 8 mats. We will have 4 mats at Crestview High School and 4 mats at Davidson Middle School (right behind Crestview High). Both schools will have plenty of seating and fully active concession stands and hospitality rooms for coaches and officials.
This tourney will feature 4 round robin groups of 8 teams and then a team bracketed tourney (we will wrestle to place to 32). The Dawg-POUND Classic is formatted to get all 32 teams 10 duals over two days!
Last year we had 22 teams, losing several because of the hurricanes and also sanctioning by NFHS against non-state association teams in some other states. We had four states represented and the talent level was higher than the previous year (our tourney gets tougher each year). Our field boasted the Wisconsin state champs (Wrightstown) and Kentucky runners-up (Wayne County). Bob Jones from Alabama finished 7th in their state with two state finalists and three placers. Shaler Area, from Pennsylvania, finished 3rd in sectionals. Florida teams represented well too: Cape Coral finished 9th with two state placers, Lincoln finished 10th with three state placers and Marianna, Bay, Mosley, Rutherford, PCA, Pace, and Ft. Walton Beach, all boasted state placers and nearly every other team had district and regional champions in their lineup.
As of the mailing of this letter, we have interest from all over the state of Florida. Teams from Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania have also expressed much interest.
If we can work out the details, these are the things that will separate this tourney from others:
-The hospitality room is TOP NOTCH!
-We hope to have mats and score clocks lined up for use from national companies.
-We hope to have live video feed of featured team and individual match-ups going from one school to the other.
-We hope to have announcements of results and upcoming match-ups made to both schools.
-Experienced (and hopefully adult) scorekeepers at each mat.
-We hope to have discounts lined up at area hotels/motels and restaurants.
(Crestview has several buffet, fast food, and nice sit down restaurants ranging
from Chinese, Seafood, Italian, and Steak, to simple American cuisine)
-We have a website up and running and will be getting it updated ASAP (our teams website is www.eteamz.com/crestviewwrestling and the tourney website is: www.dawg-poundclassic.com
We will have custom medals for wrestlers (gold for undefeated, silver for one loss, and bronze for two losses, wrestlers must wrestle at least 3 matches) and custom trophies for the top 4 teams. We will also have awards for Most Pins Least Amount of Time, Fastest Fall, Most Valuable Wrestler Lower Weights, and Most Valuable Wrestler Upper Weights.
Here’s the deal, I need to know ASAP if you are interested. If you are, please send back the contract signed and this will guarantee your team a spot. Money will need to be in by November 1, 2005, unless you’d like to send it now. All checks are to be made out to Crestview Wrestling. You can use the self addressed and stamped envelope that is included in the packet. Again, Coaches, I need to know very soon so I can begin making all the arrangements and lining up all the EXTRAS listed above.
If you need more information, please e-mail me: cjnxmfowler@cyou.com
Thanks for your consideration and see you in the gym!
Jeff Fowler
Crestview High Wrestling Coach
