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Elementary State Tournament is on March 7th at Fern Creek High School in Louisville

RAIDERS YOUTH TOURNAMENT DATE Saturday January 10, 2009 LOCATION Gray Middle School-Union, KY TIMES Weigh-ins and Registration need to be completed and forwarded by Wednesday January 7, 2008 preferably in Excel format emailed to stanmms@fuse.net Hospitality room for Coaches and workers Championship round FACEOFF Considered by many to be the best ran tournament year after year. We have a 400 wrestler limit so please register as early as possible. NO REGISTRATION AFTER JANUARY 7!!! Wrestling will be from 9:00-5:00, with a half hour break at approximately 12:30. We are dividing the age brackets up and wrestling half of the kids from 9-12:30 and the other half from 1-5. The 2000/2001 age group, as well as the 2002/2003 age group will wrestle at 9:00. The other two groups-1996/1997, and the 1998/1999 bracket will wrestle at 1:00. AWARDS Awards for the top 3 finishers in each weight class ( man brackets AGE GROUPS Born in 1996 through 2003 Every attempt will be made to keep the wrestlers within 1 year and 5 lbs of each other with 8 man (maximum) brackets. Less than four in a bracket will be a round robin format. If we cannot accommodate this guideline we will notify the coach prior to the tournament. NO MIDDLE SCHOOL WRESTLERS!!!! ENTRY FEES $10 per wrestler (pre paid

Feb. 28th Correction: River City is hosting the Louisville Regional, Fern Creek is hosting State

Meeting rescheduled for October 26th at Fern Creek High School 12:30-2:00

The Youth wrestling meeting is scheduled for October 5th at 12:00, Fern Creek High School in Louisville. We will be discussing State meet scoring and team building. We have been able to grow youth wrestling by huge amounts in just a few years. Please come to the meeting ready to share your ideas of what has worked and not worked to grow your programs. Thanks, Stan Martin stanmms@fuse.net

If you are in the Cooper High district you have the option of joining the Ryle Youth Wrestling club. We practice at New Haven Elementary usually on Wed. and Thurdays from 6:00-7:30. We have approximately 80 kids join the team in grades 2-6th. I can be reached at stanmms@fuse.net with any further questions. We always welcome new kids.

Please read the following. I had to leave out the phone number as it is not for public record. I would highly recomend any Youth program in Ky. to join the CYW. 300-1200 kids per tournament wrestle every weekend in multiple tournaments. The tournaments are extremely well ran and the mat experience is invaluable. Visit cyw.org for more information. The regional rep for KY is Stan Martin from Ryle. I can be reached at stanmms@fuse.net See the following. Hello, it's that time! The regional rep meeting will be at Jim Dandy's on Sharon Road, Monday September 22 at 6PM. Food and drink will be provided. If you can't make it please let me know. If you are no longer going to be involved with CYW or a regional rep please let me know ASAP. I can be reached at this email Final plans for the scheduling meeting have not been done. I will let you know in the next few days. Thanks Ellie

********CHANGE OF VENUE FOR SPRING MEETING*********** Our spring meeting will be held at HOOPS, an athletic facility in Louisville instead of St. X. Below are directions from NKY. Hoops Sycamore Station Pl. Louisville, KY 40299 TIME 9:00-11:00 If you want to be heard you must be there. We are proposing several changes to the bylaws including but not limited to the following: 1. Elimination of set weight classes. Explanation: Starting with the smallest weight kid, (8) man brackets will be formed with no more than a 10% differential from the lightest wrestler to the heaviest up to 100 lbs. Above 100 a 15% differential will be used. 2. Regionals would become qualifiers for state. 3. Complete redistricting. 4. The same location for the state tournament each year but still hosted by a different team. 5. Changing OT rule to parallel high school rule. Start at: Walton, KY The meeting will start promptly at 9:00 and end at 11:00 Directions to Hoops > 1. Head southeast on N Main St toward Church St - 0.5 mi > 2. Slight right at Mary Grubbs Hwy - 0.6 mi > 3. Turn right to merge onto I-75 N - 1.4 mi > 4. Take exit 173 to merge onto I-71 S toward Louisville - 68.3 mi > 5. Take exit 9A to merge onto Gene Snyder Fwy/I-265 S/KY-841 S - > 9.3 mi > 6. Take exit 25B to merge onto I-64 W toward Louisville - 1.6 mi > 7. Take exit 17 for Blankenbaker Pkwy S - 0.4 mi > 8. Turn left at Blankenbaker Pkwy - 0.6 mi > 9. Turn left at Bluegrass Pkwy - 0.4 mi > 10. Turn left at Lakefront Pl - 0.2 mi > 11. Turn right at Sycamore Station Pl - 0.2 mi > > Arrive at: Sycamore Station Pl Louisville, KY 40299 > > This email was sent to you by a user on Google Maps (maps.google.com) >

Pursuant to bylaw 3 of the KSYWA our meeting will be held the third weekend in May. Place: St. X high school in Louisville Time: 9:00-11:00 a.m. The following issues are up for amendment. 1. Weight classes 2. OT rules 3. Bylaw 5 age requirement 4. Fee schedule 5. Middle school state placers wrestling in the State youth tournament. 6. Regional qualifier for state. 7. New geographical boundaries for regionals. Any questions regarding these issues should be addressed to the Region Reps and forwarded to myself at stanmms@fuse.net

Date should be 05/17/2008

The Youth meeting is tentatively scheduled for the third weekend in May. As soon as I receive confirmation on the place I'll post on this forum.

Coach, I have already put in phone calls to the Fern Creek Coaches. I will not let what you are describing at the Ourway tournament happen here. At the spring coaches meeting we will discuss some ideas from a Regional qualifier basis. If you have any ideas on this please call me I would love to discuss them.

Oz you say you've been to a couple. I'm referring to the GCYWA and I don't recall seeing any kids in the 100+ tournaments I've been to wrestle more than one bracket. We typically have one of the largest teams and NONE of my kids ever wrestle more than one wieght class.

Hundreds of suggestions have been made. Some adopted, some not. If you've ever been a part of ANY organization that's the way it works. Your suggestion might make perfect sense at some point in time, but maybe today isn't the time. Sense I don't know who you are I can't address your issues directly. Send me a PM and we'll talk.

The Youth organzation in Ky. is nowhere near being capable of filling enough weight classes on the Regional level to make them true qualifiers. WE ARE YEARS AWAY. There were 41 weight classes this year and there should have been 50. Put this in perspective. In order for a regional qualifier to work you would need a minimum of (4) kids per weight class per region in perfect balance across the weights. Otherwise you will have more than half the weights turned into round robins for the "no longer called state tournament". If I understand the posts on this site then wouldn't it be a complete waist of time to drive 3 hours for a round robin. Until we have the numbers to put on the type of tournaments people are suggesting then I would recomend signing your wrestlers up for the Cliff Keen style tournaments to supplement what we are able to offer them at this point in time. As more programs startup there will be more youth tournaments in the state. This year there were a total of seven that I'm aware of, 5 of those being regionals and state. I'm not saying go to Cliff Keen to be nasty. It's just a fact if you want more and better competition. Heavy83 hit the nail on the head by suggesting no published weight classes. We wrestle in Cincinnati every weekend of the season and they do exactly that. They wait until the rosters are in and group the kids accordingly. In the well over 100 tournaments I've taken my kids to I've never heard a PARENT OR KID suggest they weren't the true champion of their class that day because with this system there is only one "true champion" of that weight class. Another benefit of this system is there is absolutely no benefit to cutting weight, if there ever was one. In the heavily populated classes there are many times only 1 lb difference between the weight classes. The KSYWA must be doing something right to stir up this much passion. I hope we can channel this energy into starting even more Youth programs across the state than we did in the last year. Since the tournament I've already had (2) enquiries on how to start programs on this level. When the dust settles from this past weekend this should be everyones goal.

Exactly. Our purpose in starting this league was and is to create more involvement on the youth level not crown an all conquering state champ. Are their bugs, yes. Are we working on them, yes. 640 kids in one day is a good start.

I've requested all the docs from JC. When I get them I'll post. Thanks

Thanks also from me. You see the sacrifices you've made in Bryan. A terrific young man. I hope everybody reads and understands how absolutely true it is. Now that you're not traveling you should turn your attention to writing.

Weight check only on Friday night. At last years state we set a goal of 500 kids statewide to begin regional qualifiers. This will definitely be discussed and I hope approved.

Due to the unexpected turnout of nearly 600 kids we've made the decision to split the tournament into 2 sessions. This will keep kids from sitting at the mats waiting to wrestle for 5 or 6 hours. Ages 5-6 and 7-8 from 10-1 Ages 9-10 and 11-12 will start at 1:30 Scales will be open to check your weight at the High School after 6:00 pm on Friday night.

ONE weigh-in since alot of folks won't get there until Sat. morning. Weigh-ins scheduled from 8-9:30

State tournament registrations can be emailed or faxed to following. email james.matney@johnson.kyschools.us faxed 606-789-2547 below form must accompany registration KSYWA FORM WR2011 TEAM ROSTER SCHOOL/CLUB NAME________________________________ HEAD COACH______________________PHONE___________ *ASSISTANTS 1._____________________________ 2._____________________________ 3._____________________________ 4._____________________________ 5._____________________________ 6._____________________________ 7._____________________________ 8._____________________________ 9._____________________________ 10.____________________________ WRESTLER NAME AGE AS OF 08/01/07 ACTUAL WEIGHT ALL INDIVIDUALS MUST HAVE THIS FORM COMPLETED TO COMPETE. KSYWA FORM WR2010 ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION FORM SCHOOL/CLUB NAME___________________________ COACH ________________________________________ NAME___________________ PARENTS NAME______________________ EMERGENCY CONTACT NAME___________________________ EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER____________________________ ADDRESS_______________________________________ CITY____________________________________________ STATE, ZIP ______________________________________ BIRTHDATE_______________________ AGE AS OF AUGUST 1ST, 2007__________ COPY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE________ COPY OF LAST REPORT CARD________ *PARENTS SIGNATURE________________________________ *COACHES SIGNATURE________________________________ *Signature confirms that all above information is correct and copy of birth certificate and last report card are attached to this form.

That will be strictly controlled by time and availibility. If there's nobody at that weight then I doubt it.

Kid's registrations should be turned in Sat.

The results are in. Over 400 kids attending statewide regionals in just the first year. Thanks to Letcher County and Rex Frohnapel, River City and Efren Quirino, Loader Thomas and Union County, Lori Osborne, parents and coaches for Raider Wrestling. Thanks to everyone for their dedication to our rapidly growing sport. Let's keep the momentum going.