Dear Parents,

I want to take a minute to welcome you to Chelmsford Youth Wrestling! Wrestling is a great sport that your child will benefit from greatly. To name a few, it teaches discipline, confidence, toughness, self-resilience, speed and balance. We are excited to announce that our program has welcomed a few new coaches. Our team now encompasses a high level of experience from division one college wrestlers, to high school and college coaches as well as wrestlers who graduated from our program. Our head coach Dave Grundy wrestled Division 1 at Pitt and is involved with coaching the MIT Wrestling Team. Our program is truly lucky to have all these experienced athletes volunteering their time to coach our children.

Our K-4 program will practice every Tuesday from 6-7:30 at the Parker School. Parents are welcome, but we ask that you keep noise to a minimum so the coaches can work with the athletes. If you bring other children, please, have them play out in the hall to keep noise to a minimum. The primary focus for this age is to teach the children the basic fundamentals of wrestling. We want to encourage the children to participate and learn about the great sport of wrestling. We do not require any wrestlers to participate in tournaments until they feel confident. Currently, we have one scheduled scrimmage that we encourage all our wrestlers to participate in. The scrimmage is December 14th from 8:00-10:00am at the Parker School. Our scrimmage is a glorified practice that includes wrestlers and coaches from all the surrounding cities and towns working together to help the athletes gain experience, without the pressure of a tournament.

Our 5^th-8^th program will practice every Monday and Wednesday from 6-8:00 at the Parker School. This is a closed practice. We ask parents to either drop off or wait outside the gym, in the hall, to help us keep distractions to a minimum. The focus at this is age is to teach the basic fundamentals to our new wrestlers, as well as work on skill with our more experienced athlete. We do not require any experience to wrestle and we will work with our wrestlers according to their skill. Just like our K-4 program, we do not require any wrestlers to participate in tournaments until they feel confident. Currently, we have one scheduled scrimmage that we encourage all our wrestlers to participate in. The scrimmage is December 14th from 8-10:00am at the Parker School.

CYW will be sponsoring tournaments. You can find the tournaments we will be going to on our website and clicking the Tournament Tab. All, K-8, parents will have an option to sign their child up with our Tournament Director, Bob Brown. We will have more information, to follow, on our website and at practice.  If you have not joined our email list, please, do so. Don’t forget to join us on Facebook! We want this to be a positive experience for all who have joined our wrestling family!

Things Your Child Needs 

*Wrestling Shoes- we do not allow anything else on the mat because we do not want to transfer stuff from outside of the gym, onto the mats. We want the kids to change into their wrestling shoes at practice. You can find wrestling shoes at places like Dicks Sporting Goods or Olympia Sports. We also have a shoe box where we collect used shoes from wrestlers. Wrestlers that donate a pair of shoes have the first right to a new pair in the box for free. Your wrestler will need Head Gear, Water, appropriate gym clothes and their nails cut. The CYW Board will be providing all the kids with practice shorts and shirts.

  Tournament Wrestlers Uniforms

All wrestlers who are participating in tournaments will be provided with a uniform from CYW and they are FREE. All we ask is that you give us a credit card to secure the uniform. We are just trying to keep our inventory up so, we are able to always give the uniforms, for free, year after year. More information to follow.

CYW Tournament

The Chelmsford Youth Wrestling Tournament is our biggest fundraiser and we need your help! We have 700 wrestler, plus friends and family joining us. We try to keep the cost of wrestling to a minimum. We have been able to do this in the past by the parent support at our tournament. We allow all our wrestlers to participate in the CYW tournament for FREE. All we ask is for your help! We need volunteers for the day of the tournament as well as any food donations, raffles etc. More information will follow. Your help is greatly appreciated. Please reach out and let us know if you’re willing to help.

 “Get Some,”

DANA

Any questions or concerns please contact me at danadulongcyw@gmail.com

Tournament Director- Bob Brown  bbrown7168@gmail.com

Website: https://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=chelmsfordyouthwrestling

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