Category: Middle School

Practices Start Tomorrow!

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Tomorrow marks the official start of our wrestling season! Practices begin for all age groups.

Middle School and High School practices will begin immediately after the regular school day ends.

Youth practices will be Mon/Wed or Tues/Thurs depending on age.
Monday & Wednesday from 7:00PM – 8:15PM for ages 7+
Tuesday & Thursday from 7:00PM – 8:00PM for ages 4-6

Youth practices will be in the Middle School auxiliary gym. Please use the back entrance by the athletic field to enter the building.

All parents & siblings must wear a mask at all times while inside the school.
Parents may be permitted to remain in the cafeteria and wait for practices to conclude, provided they remain seated in the cafeteria and ensure that any other children or siblings do the same.

Any questions or concerns about practices should be directed to the appropriate coaches:
Tom McConnell (HS) – mcconnell@gloucesterwrestling.com
Chad Zearfoss (MS) – zearfoss@gloucesterwrestling.com
Kevin Dougherty (Youth) – coachdoc@gloucesterwrestling.com

Youth Wrestling Season Has Ended

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The youth and middle school winter wrestling season has officially ended.

I want to thank all of the parents, wrestlers, coaches, administrators, and supporters for sticking with us through an odd and volatile season. Despite having to deal with the global pandemic, constantly changing lists of ever-increasing new rules and regulations, match attendance restrictions, and all the other challenges we’ve had to overcome, we still managed to make it work.

At times, it was annoying and inconvenient, I know. Not being allowed to attend some of your child’s wrestling matches, not being allowed to watch from the stands and cheer them on, was almost painful. Having to wait outside in your vehicle in the parking lot of some other school and use your phone to watch a tiny, shaky, sometimes blurry video feed, was infuriating. Not knowing if your kid was getting a match made it even worse.

Yet, you all still came. Despite the hurdles, the confusion, and the annoying prohibitions, you continued to bring your children to practices and matches. For that, you should be commended and I thank you all for your patience, flexibility, and understanding. What a long, strange trip it’s been…

We will be in touch in the near future to arrange for collection of singlets, headgear, and/or other items that need to be returned.

We also plan on having additional, continuing practice sessions for those wrestlers who want to participate. The logistics have not been fully worked out, but I’ll keep you apprised as things progress.

Keep checking the news feed here for updates (or, even better, sign up for the automatic updates if you haven’t already). Again, thank you all for helping us to provide a season for our youth and middle school wrestlers!

Middle School Match on Tuesday 4/13

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Our middle school duals team has a match this afternoon, Tuesday 4/13 at 4:00pm.

Our Lions will be wrestling against the Haddon Heights Garnets.

The match will be held at the Haddon Heights High School. Meet there at 3:20pm as usual.

Per the Colonial league rules this season, only parents of the home team will be permitted to attend.

The match will be streamed live via the Garnet Athletics YouTube channel.

Middle School Match on Friday 3/26

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UPDATE: It was a tough match and everybody wrestled well. If you weren’t able to watch it live, you can view the entire stream on the West Deptford Middle School’s YouTube page.

You can also watch the stream recording of today’s high school match on the WDTV08 YouTube channel.

Our middle school duals team has a match tomorrow, Friday, March 26th at 4:00pm.

Our Lions will be wrestling against the West Deptford Eagles.

The match will be held at the West Deptford Middle School. Meet there at 3:20pm.

Per the Colonial league rules this season, only parents of the home team will be permitted to attend.

The match will be streaming on the West Deptford Middle School TV YouTube channel.

Middle School Match on Monday 3/22

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UPDATE: Today’s matches were tough for both our middle school and high school wrestling teams. Our wrestlers gave it their all, but we weren’t able to defeat the Red Raiders this time.

If you weren’t able to watch the live feed of the middle school and high school matches, you can watch them at any time by visiting the Paulsboro High School YouTube channel.

You can view the stream recording of the middle school match HERE and the high school match HERE.

Our middle school duals team has a match tomorrow, Monday, March 22nd at 4:00pm.

Our Lions will be wrestling against the Paulsboro Red Raiders.

The match will be held at the Paulsboro High School.

Per the Colonial league rules this season, only parents of the home team will be permitted to attend.

The Paulsboro Athletic Department will be streaming the match on their YouTube channel.

UPDATED: Match on Saturday 3/6

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This Saturday 3/6/21 will be a youth wrestling match at the Clearview Junior Wrestling building.

Clearview is only permitting one parent per wrestler and no siblings. This means that even if parents have wrestlers in different sessions, only those scheduled to wrestle during the current session are allowed inside.

Masks must be worn by everyone at all times. Wrestlers do not need to wear masks while actually wrestling.

No parents are permitted on the mat. There will be a viewing area for the parents. Matches will also be streamed on Facebook live. Everyone must remain seated while waiting for their match.

If a session runs longer than expected, we will ask the next session participants to wait in their vehicles until the building clears out, but we donโ€™t anticipate running behind.

They will be selling light concessions in one of the rooms. Food and drinks will only be permitted in that room.

The Bantams age group has been split into 2 groups. The names of our wrestlers in those groups are at the bottom.

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Tots4-68:00 AM
Bantams A7-810:00 AM
Bantams B7-811:15AM
Midgets9-1012:30PM
Juniors11-122:00PM
Intermediates13-142:00PM

Bantams group A:
Dominick Dutton
Evan Beauchamp
Jordan Arenz
Ryan Moore
Jackson Brown

Bantams group B:
Elijah Grant
Jaxon Busan
Jack Cattanea

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This coming Monday, March 1st, marks the official start of the 2021 wrestling season.ย 

If you signed up your son or daughter for our youth wrestlingย program, practices are already scheduled and we encourage you to bring them out.ย 

Practices, matches, and other calendar events are always visible on our Schedule page. We also recommend using the Follow GCYWย button to sign up for news feed updates so you’ll never be out of the loop.ย 

Middle School Practice Update

Start time for middle school practices (Mon, Tues, Thurs) has been moved up to 4:30PM.

All other practice times remain the same.

Parents, please remember that you cannot drop off or pick up your child from the side street. This is very important. If you want to walk your child up to the building, you must park your vehicle in the parking lot and walk to the entry door.

Also, remember that parents and siblings are not permitted to remain in the building during any of the practices. Once you have brought your child to the room, you must exit the building. You cannot return until practice has concluded.

We appreciate your understanding and flexibility as we continue to strive for a safe and functional practice environment.

Practice Starts Next Week

We are in the process of finalizing practices and making arrangements so we can get started next week.

Keep an eye on our Schedule page. The calendar there will be updated with practice times.

For health and safety reasons, we must break into multiple groups. Practices on the calendar will be labeled accordingly. We will inform you which group you are in later this week.

Registration Is Now Open

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Great news for our wrestling family — registration for the 2021 season is now officially open!

You can fill out and submit all necessary forms, and pay registration fees, right here on our website.

Visit our Registration page and follow the steps to submit the forms and pay the registration fee. The process is easy, and you can do everything from your computer, laptop, tablet, or phone.ย 

In the off chance that you do run into any difficulty, send us a message and we’ll help make sure everything gets taken care of properly.

2021 Season Update

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We will have Youth and MS wrestling this year. Anyone interested in coaching, please let us know. We’re hoping to go K-8th. All 5th-8th grade parents, please let us know if your child is interested in wrestling. Spread the word.

Season Feb 1st through April 26th (around there) as long as the Governor allows it. Look out for our post next week when Registration Opens.

You will be able to register online here at www.GloucesterWrestling.com just like in previous years. Any questions or concerns, let us know.