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Saturday July 26, 2003 Scarborough hosted it first Annual Summer Wrestling Tournament at the middle school. The middle school was used since the high school is under construction. The tourney was an all day affair that started at 7am and concluded at 4.30pm. This was the first opportunity for Scarborough residents to witness a wrestling match in their town.
PLANNING
But the work and planning the Scarborough Wrestling Boosters needed to complete began this last February. Those involved in planning and executing the plan included Kevin Cox (SWB Treasurer) acting as the Tournament Director, Nancy (SWB Treasurer) and her husband David Blanchard who handled all the concessions, Peter Gordon who organized the scorers and timers for the day, and Doc Halliday (SWB President) handled security. Other critical roles included Laura Gordon as medical attendant, Jason Hill as the interface to Town Rescue and Beryl Cole who sold t-shirts and water bottles. We also had parents like Bruce Publicover who worked on the timers and scorers tables while Michael Knight worked concession, security and provided transpiration for the wrestling mats. Justin Rinfred (the dad) assisted with security, scoring, and any task that was needed during the day. Young Justin, who also wrestles, but was out with an injury, helped with the scorers tables for the day. Megan Fagnant who is the high school team manager, assisted Kevin Cox and also helped with team scoring. Paul Sullivan who was last years coach, kept match score and supported the Scarborough wrestlers. Ginny McLaughlin and Laura Ouellette created all the wrestling direction signs that were placed around the town. Finally, for the enjoyment of all, Ginny McLaughlin who played the key role as Tournament Announcer, and is a member of the Royal River Choirs, sang a duet of the National Anthem as the Colors were escorted into the gym by Andy McLaughlin, Shaun Johnson (USN), Jared Knight and Nichole Lemay of Litchfield.
WRESTLERS
The 4 female and 85 male wrestlers who competed hailed from four New England States (ME, VT, CT, MA), 41 different cities and towns, 10 of which were in Southern Maine. There were 6 divisions that included K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, high school and Open. In total, competition in 18 weigh classes yielded 216 wrestling matches. Every wrestler was guaranteed to have two matches.
INJURY
In amateur wrestling, the injury that is most common is a bloody nose. We had a few of these but a wrestler-coach from Ellsworth suffered what we think was a broken ankle. Scarborough rescue was notified by Jason Hill. What everyone noticed was how quickly rescue had the injured wrestler on his way to medical care. And Andy McLaughlin in the high school division landed on his leg in an awkward position and injured his leg. Other than these two incidents, the day was uneventful.
BOOSTERS
The boosters did very well their first year and many people that included coaches and parents commented on the organization and fun everyone had. The tournament was delayed about 30 minutes due to some wrestling officials that did not show up as planned. However there were three board certified wrestling officials present. Dennis Bishop president of Maine's wrestling officials board (MIWOA), Dennis Hanson of Dixfield and John Cole of Scarborough were able get the meet underway. And one interesting opportunity SWB offered was "ref for a day" where anyone over 18 could ref a few matches under the guidance of the board officials. There were four of these folks. Shaun John (USN) who wrestled men's open was one of these people who enjoyed the first time experience. Originally Shaun grew up in Ft Laudable FL, wrestled in high school, and is now stationed at NASB with his wife.
FIRSTS
The tournament marked several firsts for Scarborough: 1st wrestling meet, 1st tournament, 1st time Coach Ted Reese could coach his wrestlers in live competition, and 1st time we had wrestlers that medaled in home competition. John Publicover took a 1st in the grade school divison, Jared Knight took a 4th in the high division, Ryan Hutchins took 1st in the men's open light weight class and John Cole took a 2nd in the men's open heavy weight division. Scarborough high school wrestlers included Geoffrey Blanchard, Sean Hill, Colin Susca, Mike Perry, Jared Knight, and Andy McLaughlin. The grade school wrestlers included John Publicover, James Publicover, Justin Halliday, and Eric Leinonen. We also had former Scarborough wrestler, now a Windham student Kyle Hillock competing.
COACH REESE
As Scarborough residents and students are learning this summer, Coach Reese has been conducting wrestling clinics every Tuesday and Thursday at the high school cafe. These young wrestlers all competed in the Saturday tournament which tested their knowledge and skills. Other schools have discovered that Coach Reese was the summer clinician and have enrolled their kids in the community services sponsored program to get the exposure to Coach's knowledge and technique. Presently, wrestlers from Portland, Biddeford, Kennebunk, and Hyde have joined the Scarborough wrestlers as they learn from the best in Coach Reese. Every wrestler that has been attending these sessions now knows what it means to be able to complete just one of Coach's pushups, not to mention such moves as The Russian, Special nelson, and Shultz's ankle. And just recently Coach introduced a strength building routine known a Sticks. It so happens many wrestlers who have been coached by Coach Reese have this one very intense activity in common and immediately have a family like connection. For example a wrestler from the 1985 Bonny Eagle team was happy to share his memories of Sticks with some of our high school wrestlers who competed at the Noble Midnight tourney a few weeks ago. At that Tourney, Mike Perry placed 4th while demonstrating just how much improvement in his technique he had made since February of this year.
SPORTS CROSSOVER
During the day, parents could be heard discussing how the tourney was progressing, certain matches or how wrestling has tremendous cross-over of athletic skills for sports like cross country, football, track, and rugby. Mostly, as the parents pointed out, it has to do with improving intensity, balance and presence of mind. Parents who have children in football and wrestling have noticed a marked positive change in their overall skills as athletes because of what they learn in wrestling and the benefits a wrestler gets from sports like cross country, football and rugby.
WHAT IS NEXT
The SWB learned a lot about handling a tournament and conducting a meet which will happen at the high school level this coming winter season. First practice for the high school season starts November 18 at the high school cafe.
What is next for Scarborough Wrestling Boosters? In August they will participate in the Scarborough Summer-fest event, will be at Wal-Mart over Labor Day weekend selling food and washing cars, and finally for 2003 will be holding a bottle drive.
If you missed the fun, mark your calendar: July 24, 2004 for the 2nd Annual Scarborough Summer Wrestling Tournament.
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Scarborough Wrestling Boosters are please to announce a Canadian nation medallist will be holding a 12 session clinic in Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling this summer at Scarborough High School cafe.
Robert Valdmanis wrestled for Victor Zilberman, the Canadian Olympic Wrestling Coach, and Concord University wrestling coach.
While training with Zilberman, Robert won:
Won 5 Quebec Provincial Wrestling championships
Recipient of teams most improved wrestler
Won 3 Canadian intercollegiate Athletic Union team championships (CIAU)
Won a Bronze medal (Greco-Roman) Canadian Junior Wrestling championships
Placed in top 5 in 3 Canadian championships
Robert will be visiting his mother in Scarborough this summer, training at a local heath club, and has offered to clinic our kids in Greco and Freestyle while he maintains a light training schedule.
We are very pleased to have Robert join in our ranks as we begin the Summer Rec Wrestling Season.
For more information on enrolling in the program, contact Scarborough Community Services at 883-8427 for enrollment forms.
Since we have to cap the number of wrestler who participate, please get you application in ASAP to ensure a spot.
Cost for residents is $50 / non-residents its $60, includes 12 sessions over 6 weeks. First session starts June 25 and ends on August 1st. The session starts at 6pm and ends at 7.30pm every Tuesday and Thursday in Cafe.
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| Boosters: Sanctioning and Funding meet
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June 14 our two committees met to discuss sanctioning and funding. We reviewed statistics
from the POLL and the PITITION drive. We assigned wrestlers the task of gathering
student POLL and PETITION statistics. This will be due by June 21st. We discusses
and agreed to start the detail planning process for raising funds to meet our goals.
We also discussed the Firday Forum planned for June 21st at 7pm. The summer rec program
was briefly discussed and an announcement was made about our visiting clinition from
Canada. We wrapped up our meeting by setting June 18th to hold the next combined
Sanctioning and Funding committee meeting at Peter Gordon's home at 7.30pm.
Many thanks to all for attending our working session.
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| Summer Rec Program offered this summer
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Scarborough Comminity Rec is adding a new program to their offerings: amateur wreslting.
Participants of the program will learn various takedowns, escapes, and pins as well as how wreslting
is scored. The focus will be on folkstyle with some freestyle and greco-roman fit in during the
summer. The program runs from June 25th to August 1st on Tuesday and Thursday frm 6.00pm to 7.30pm
at the High School cafeteria. Grades K-12 are invited to join in this exciing new program.
COST: $50.00 per person.
Contact Scarborough Community Services to enroll in the program.
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| Booster Sanctioning Committee meeting May 21th
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The committee to get our program sanctioned kicks off by meeting with AD Frank Spencer at the
high school on May 21st at 6pm in Rm 131. The committee will gather the steps needed to make our
program come alive and enable middle and high students to complete and be ready for the coming
winter season.
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| Booster's announce officers and committees
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A regular meeting of the Scarborough Wrestling Club was held at Scarborough High School cafeteria on Monday, March 25, 2002, at 6:30 PM.
Click to see minutes
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| Next Meeting MARCH 25 6.30 HS CAFE
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Agenda
OLD BUSINESS
Election of Officers
Confirmation of Directors
NEW BUSINESS
Summer Rec Offering
Scarborough Wrestling Club per USAWrestling
All other new business open to all
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The Scarborough Wreslting program is now known as Scarborough Wrestling.
We are operating on a CLUB
basis, with a PRIORITY THREE schedule for community servies, and are
working to be recognized by the town of Scarborough which includes the Community
services and the school system.
Our goal all along has been to become a sanctioned sport. We know this will take time and
by operating as a club we will have our own insurances
by USA Wrestling and coordinate with the community services
and athletic director of our school system.
We may have to step back and ensure that all scheduling and knowledge of request for facilities
are in proper order. This will be sought and comlpeted ASAP to be complinant with proceures.
We had planned for use of the high school cafe and to date that facility may be used by other groups.
We will be working out a plan to address a practice location. More to follow this subject.
Until we get approval and are sanctioned which we are not yet, we will be known as Scarborough
Wrestling Club. Any use or reference to RedStorm is an error on my part and no way associated
with others and or the school system. Please accept my appologies and we will pursue
correcting this item.
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| Boosters Meeting Feb 5th 6.30pm HS cafe
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AGENDA
HS and Middle School Status
Equipment- update and plans to buy
Identifying coaches for meets
Transportation by parents to meets on weekdays and weekends
Setting date for prototype meet at Cafe
Funding - update, setting funding groups and goals
High School Program
We have been hold practices on Tuesday and Friday with the idea of going to a third day and that will
happen after the State Meet on Feb 9th. The wrestler are learning the ways of proper mat protocol and
the technical nature of the sport. We're have a lot of fun and this bunch of young men are very eager
and a pleasure to work with and coach. Our goals remains the same: the HS wrestlers will be coaching
assistants. And to fill their need to compete there are tournaments we'll look at attending. Also we
just beginning to discuss joining the Down East Stormers that wrestler out of USM. These are middle school,
high school and college wrestlers that have a very enjoyable time of being on the mat. The USM
coaching staff is present and often other coaches attend. So our plans is to link with these guys and
get into the folds of fellow wrestlers. This will happen after New Englands in March.
Middle School Program
Sam Cafone and John Cole attended the SMAA Middle School Leage coaches meeting Jan 24 at Massabesic HS.
What we set and agreed to at the meeting is allowing Scarborough Meddle School wrestlers to join into
tri-meets making them a double-dual (often called a quad) with four teams. We have five and potentially
six meets all of which will be at Westbrook Middle School or the Portland (Deering and Portland HS).
We also have two tournaments that we will enter. The entry fee per wrestler is $6.00.
We also are looking into uniforms and will agree at our meeting to the purchase of a reversable
singlet that is red and blue. The keep with our team colors and will have no lettering.
Please keep in mind these are TENTATIVE dates and have to be approved by the home Atheltic Directors.
Click to see SCHEDULE
John Halladay will update us on the team shirst and sweat-shirts. This will include costs and
clothing options.
One of our next steps is to promote the enrollment for the middle school wreslting program.
Our plans include intro sessions with mat time and discussions for students. This looks to be over a
few days and will happen the first of Feb. We have no date set and will advise when this occurs.
Just what will a middle school student and family need to provide for monies:
Click to see FAMILY EXPENSES
In order to be able to complete, these items need to be ordered and availabe ASAP so we'll jump on this
by informing student during our informational meeting that we'll have at the middle school.
Items will be purchased in bulk and must be pre-paid since we have limited funds.
Our middle school team has a manager and its Sam Cafone's daughter Samantha who attends the middle school.
She will be a great asset to our team since she already knows the process and several techniques of our
sport. Thanks Sam.
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| Minutes Boosters Meeting Jan 8th 2002
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The moral of our Booster and Students soon to be wrestlers is one of controlled focus and energy.
The students are highly motivated and most willing to undertake the work and tasks of making this
wreslting program mature and come to a fully qualified sport in our town.
The findings of the Steering Committee was sharred with the Boosters. We have tentative aggreement to
store mats in the auditorium and use the cafe for work out area.
We discussed implementation of the middle school program, training HS Students as volunteer coaches
and the need to have a middle school boosters identified to assist in the various aspect of making
our program come to life. e had several volunteer middl school parrents stepping up and
offering their time and resources. A special gathering of the middle school parents will be
definded so we may address teh special issues for middle school students and parents.
The HS students who have volunteered to coach-assist were introduced. These students will be meeting
after school from 3-4pm on Tuesday and Fridays for a few weeks prior to starting up the middle school
program. The nature of this training will include:
Starting with the basics being of a technical nature
Administration of matches and meets
Safty, nutrition, prevention, personal hygiene
Academics, being role models, citizenship, sportsmanship
The wrestling practice routine
Warming up, drilling, conditioning, weight training, cardio
Prior to our meeting earlier in the afternoon, the volunteer students extracted the mats from storage
and layed them out on the basketball floor. We inspected the mat and discovered the mat was in very
good condition. We do have a few spots that will require repair. We plan on having that done
before the middle school program starts up.
Rasing funds was also a hot topic. We have a number of parents with special connections to the
business community who we hope will help fund our programs. We agreed to set a special fund
raising meeting to being the process. We also has an account with Town and Country Credit Union
for our banking needs thanks to Kevin Cox.
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| Agenda: Boosters Meeting Jan 8th 2002 6.30pm HS Cafe
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Agenda:
Review Steering committee findings
Status of mats
Status of middle school wrestling
Status of HS wrestling
New item to focus
Fund Raising
Enrolling middle school wrestlers
Engaging other sports for cross-over benefits
And as always, ask your questions to help us define our future.
Many thanks for your great support.
Scarborough Boosters and Students
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| Wrestling Boosters is forming
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The Wrestling Boosters is forming and
We need your help!
Starting up any new sport takes a few folks that can devote some time to the cuase. The
majority of the next six months will be devoted to meeting short goals and supporting our kids.
If you feel you can help us, then please
click here and complete the CONTACT FORM
The Booster Agenda contains the following items:
- Defining and performing fund raising activities
- Seeking and securing Corporate Sponsors
- Building Program hand-out for home meets
- Planning for student summer camps
- Planning and long-term goal setting
- Problem Solving
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| Budget Estimate: Expenditures for Winter-Spring 2002
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Here is an estimate for Short Term Budget Goals for the Middle School Winter-Spring Season :
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| Budget Item
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| | Raising funds for used 40 x 40 foot mat
| $1,200.00
| | Raising funds for equipment
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| Assuming 30 students:
Singlet style uniform
| $30 each
| Wrestling shoes
| $35 each
| Hooded cotton warm-ups
| $35 each
| Head-gear
| $15 each
| | Sub-total
| $100 each
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| $3,000.00
| | Transportation (4 meets, $200 ea)
| $800.00
| | Officials (3 meets, $50 ea)
| $150.00
| | TOTAL
| $5,150.00
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| Budget Estimate: Revenue Sources for Winter-Spring 2002
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Some of these budget items can be absorbed by Family, some by the School system, and some by the
funds raised by the Boosters.
Several of these budget items are START-UP costs. These include
Here is an estimate for Short Term Revenue Sources:
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| Resource
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| | Corporate Sponsoes [Buy the mat]
| $1,200.00
| | Boosters Fund raising [Equipment]
| $2,000.00
| | School System [Refs, transportation]
| $2,000.00
| | TOTAL
| $5,200.00
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