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LATEST
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Penn Wrestling Coaches & Kids Clinic featuring Olympian Steve Mocco ...and Penn Wrestle Offs Featuring 2008 US Olympic Team and NCAA Champion STEVE MOCCO
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Blair Academy
Blairstown, NJ
Coaches Clinic Only
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
ALSO FEATURING:
Jeff Buxton Head Coach, Blair Academy
Zeke Jones 1992 Olympic Silver Medalist, 2004 US Olympic Freestyle Coach
Rob Eiter Penn Assistant Coach, 2008 Junior World Coach, 1996 US Olympian
Jim Steel Head Strength Coach, University of Pennsylvania
Click here to download complete flyer.
Wrestling Community to Host Fundraising Event for Former Blair Academy All-American Adam Frey
Event on August 16 Will Help Wrestler With Cost of Chemotherapy Treatments in Battle Against Germ Cell Cancer WHO: Adam Frey is a junior wrestler at Cornell University who was diagnosed with germ cell cancer after undergoing a routine CAT scan following a car accident in March 2008.
As a college freshman, Frey was the #2 ranked wrestler in America and is a two-time NCAA Division I qualifier for Cornell. A graduate of Blair Academy in Blairstown, N.J., Frey was a junior national champion in 2005. WHAT: The local wrestling community is joining forces to host a fundraising event that will benefit The Adam Frey Fund and help pay for Frey’s upcoming chemotherapy, stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
The event will include live music, raffles and games for children and adults of all ages. The event entry fee is $50 and is all you can eat and drink. Free admission will be given to children under 17 years of age. Event attendees will be entered for a chance to win the following prizes: a 37" flat screen television, a $250.00 gas card or a gift basket filled with assorted wines. WHEN/WHERE:
Saturday, August 16, 4:00 p.m.
108 Coutelyous Lane
Somerset, N.J. 08873“Everyone who does something (collectively) can make a big difference and I am truly grateful for the support I’ve received from family and friends. I am ready to battle this thing until it is completely gone.” – Adam FreyFor more information on Adam Frey’s story or to make an individual donation, please visit: http://adamfrey.us
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please Contact Bob Acosta at 908-239-2826
Kellen Russell Named Regional Winner of Dave Schultz HS Excellence Award
www.themat.com Five Regional winners were selected from the 48 state-by-state winners announced last week. Each State and Regional winner is invited to attend the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Leadership Camp at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, June 18-21, 2007.
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Jared Platt Continues to Show Promise After Winning Northeast Regional
www.themat.com by Craig Sesker USA Wrestling
Spend a few minutes speaking with Jared Platt and you would never guess he’s a senior in high school. Spend a few minutes watching him wrestle and you might think the same thing.
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Maryland’s Hudson Taylor Honored by ACC
www.themat.com
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Maryland’s Hudson Taylor is the Atlantic Coast Conference Wrestler of the Week for February 19 after pinning two opponents last week. The freshman is currently ranked 15th in the nation at 197 pounds (as of February 13 rankings).
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Blair Wrestling on SI.com
Its streak is broken, but a wrestling power stays on top
By E.M. Swift
The absurd winning streak -- six years and 45 tournaments -- had to end sometime, and for Blair Academy (Blairstown, N.J.), it was the second tournament of the season, the Walsh Ironman, a 53-school competition held in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that had the wrestlers most concerned. "Everybody's tough [in that one]," says Blair's Kellen Russell, a two-time National Prep champ who wrestles at 130 pounds. "And everybody wants to beat us."
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The High School Wrestling Scene Blog
Giving you all the big news, reults, and rankings for high school across the nation. Serving the fans, coaches, and wrestlers. See what it has to say...
Blair Wrestling Pins Down Hunger
For the third year, Blair wrestlers are raising money for the Community Food Pantry of Blairstown. The team is soliciting per pin pledges from faculty, students, family and local businesses. Each pledge will be multiplied by the total number of pins that the team receives during the National Prep Championships on February 25 and 26, 2005, at Lehigh University. While trying to raise money for the Food Pantry, the team is striving for their 25th consecutive National Prep Championship title. In the past, the wrestling team has collected over $2,500 with their Pin Down Hunger campaign. The Community Food Pantry is a local organization that is composed of four local churches: St. Jude Church, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, The First Presbyterian Church of Blairstown, and the Blairstown United Methodist Church. The Community Food Pantry operates year-round and sees to the needs of the residents of Blairstown and surrounding areas.
For more information, or to make a pledge, please contact Coach Paul Clavel.
Purchase Blair Wrestling Apparel Online
You
can now purchase Blair Wrestling sweatshirts, sweatpants and t-shirts
online at Blair Academy’s Miss
Ellen’s Bookstore. Click
on the “Sports” link on the left side of your screen
once you enter the secure online store and choose from a variety
of options!
Dr.
Joseph Casella Offers Nutrition and Skin Advice to Blair Wrestlers
Dr.
Joseph Casella, the team physician for the Blair Academy wrestling
team, gave a lecture on nutrition geared toward the needs of wrestlers
in the Dubois Theater in the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the
Arts on Wednesday, November 13th.His
helpful charts and graphics helped illustrate a healthy, balanced
diet needed to maintain weight and energy to be a successful athlete.
He also spoke about good skin hygiene and how to recognize and
treat various skin disorders common to wrestlers. Click
on the link below for a helpful chart on caloric intact by weight
class:
MS
Bike Tour a Big Success
The
Blair wrestling team and seven other members of the
Blair community participated in this year's MS
Bike Tour in New York City on Sunday, October 20th. Over 5,000
people participated in the bike tour around Manhattan. The Blair
effort netted over $3,000 for the fight against MS.
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Everyone
seemed to have an enjoyable experience, even freshman Kyle Turner
who had a minor wreck and finished his loop around the island
in a bus. Alex Berardi ('04) earned the respect of all with an
amazing top 10 finish among the 30-milers. Ed Gibbons managed
to cross the finish line despite riding for the final six miles
on a bicycle with a broken frame. Brandon Palmer, a postgraduate
from North Carolina, led a group of shirtless teammates across
the finish line wearing only a freestyle singlet (yes, it WAS
cold). Kelsey Strub ('03), Kira Randolph ('03), Joanna Weber ('03),
and Mrs. Fleckman were the only female Buccaneers to make the
trip. Joanna and Kira enjoyed a complimentary massage at the end
of their journey to help them unwind. Coach Buxton learned some
of the finer points of the parking rules in lower Manhattan from
one of NY's finest in blue. And of course, shortly following the
race, Coach Burroughs took a well deserved nap.Special
thanks to Mr. Connors and Mr. Lunger who made the trek into Manhattan
at 4:30 in the morning and provided invaluable mechanical troubleshooting
expertise. Thanks also to Ms. Holly Newcomb, Mr. Browse, Ms. Gorski,
Mr. Wright and to all who lent bicycles or equipment to the cause.To
see a nearly complete roster of all who participated, and/or to
donate to the MS Society, click here.
Our
participation in the event is one of two planned community service
projects that our team will partake in during the 2002-03 school
year. The other event will be our Pin Down Hunger fund
raiser for local charity in Blairstown.Several
people in the Blair community including two on the wrestling team
have family members who have been affected directly by MS. The
following is a description of multiple sclerosis from the New
York chapter of the National MS Society Web site:“Multiple
sclerosis is a lifelong and sometimes disabling disease of the
central nervous system that affects nearly a third of a million
Americans. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages
of 20-50, just when they are beginning careers and families. MS
symptoms are highly individual and vary enormously in severity
and duration. They may include at one time or another abnormal
fatigue, impaired vision, loss of balance and muscle coordination,
slurred speech, tremors, stiffness and, in the most severe cases,
partial or complete paralysis.”TOP
Blairstown
Kids Wrestling Website
Click
here
for a link to the Blairstown kids program to find out all the
latest on the local younger wrestlers’ progress.
Gimp’s
Web Site
 Gary
Brownell, better known to wrestling aficionados as Gimp, has developed
a Web site to post tournament results and brackets of wrestling
competitions that are run using his software. Gimp runs several
of the tournaments that our teams attend including The Beast of
the East, The Bethlehem Holiday Classic and the Wilkes tournament.
Gimp is the foremost authority on running tournaments (he has
run the Olympics, the NCAA’s and several other competitions)
and has been a trailblazer in the development of technology for
the sport of wrestling. Click here
in order to access his site and then bookmark it for future reference.
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How
do I get to Blair’s
next big match?
To
obtain directions to an upcoming competition venue get the street
address of the competition site and then click below to use MapBlast.
MapBlast is an interactive mapping tool that will give you directions
to any street address from any street address. Once you click
onto MapBlast you should click on “Driving Directions,”
and then follow the prompts to create a map from your home or
location to Blair's next meet. MapBlast
“Info
Buttons”
In
an effort to facilitate better communication with parents, a feature
of the Blair Wrestling home page is the “Info Button.”
If you click above on the menu bar on “Schedule and Results”
you will be taken to the schedules for the college, prep and high
school teams. You then need to click on the team whose schedule
you are interested in viewing. When you get to the actual schedule
you will notice a column of round buttons  under
the title “Info” to the right of each competition listed.
If you click on one of those buttons (note: not all of the buttons
are active as of this time, but the intention is that they will
be by the beginning of the season), you will be taken to a detailed
itinerary of the team's travel plans for each respective event.
Information such as the time we will depart and the time we will
return is listed along with hotel accommodations and the street
address of the venue of the competition (which you can then use
with MapBlast above to generate a detailed route for you to take
from your home). As
most parents already know, there will DEFINITELY be changes made
to the various itineraries, so check often and double check with
your child if you need exact times or need to confirm any
of the information. We hope that this will be a time-saving tool
and will help everyone to make their planning easier.
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