Parents, if your wrestler is in middle school, please have him/her visit the link below and complete the brief questionnaire. One of our biggest benefactors, Beat the Streets, has asked that our wrestlers answer these questions for statistical purposes and to determine where they fall on the “Grit Scale.”

If you’re unfamiliar with the Grit Scale, here’s how it was described in an article last summer on Curiosity.com:

In every classroom, there are the “naturals” for whom the subject comes easily, who seem to barely study and breeze by on their inborn ability. Then there are the “grinders”: the people who study for hours, ask most of the questions, and fight tooth-and-nail to get a good grade. Those people are high in what researcher and MacArthur Genius Grant winner Angela Duckworth calls grit. It’s this quality that experts say is an essential predictor of success.

The questions are easy and it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. If you or your wrestler have any questions about this, don’t hesitate to let us know.

Here’s the link:  https://btsphilly.org/grit-scale/