Tidbits: 

– PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL REGISTRATION STEPS: 1.) USAW CARD 2.) 25/26 TBT season registration form and payment.  REACH OUT WITH QUESTIONS

– Snapshot for practice packs was taken from paid registrations on Tuesday but I can still sneak in extras until Friday when all business logos are due for sponsors. REACH OUT WITH QUESTIONS

– Spirit Wear Store and Sublimated Gear Store is slated to open this Friday.  Spirit Wear will be a standalone website that will remain open and ship on demand.  Sublimated gear will be on the TBT website and will have a deadline of Wednesday the 19th @ 8am and hopeful delivery date just before Christmas.

IMPORTANT Practice Reminders:

Getting your child in the proper room is a must!

Monday/Wednesday Early Practice – TBTWC Novice is defined as 1st and 2nd year wrestlers in grades K-4.  5th/6th grade and up SHOULD ATTEND OPEN

Tuesday/Thursday Early Practice – TBTWC Open is defined as 3rd + year wrestlers in any grade OR 5th grade and up no matter years of experience.  NEW YOUNG KIDS SHOULD NOT BE IN OPEN.  BRAND NEW OLDER KIDS SHOULD BE IN OPEN NOT NOVICE.

Monday/Tuesday/Thursday Late Practice – TBTWC Elite is defined as 3rd grade and up 3rd + year wrestlers OR MS(7th/8th) and HS age wrestlers.  IF YOU DON’T FIT THIS CRITERIA YOU NEED A COACHES CONSENT TO BE IN ELITE PRACTICE  

Wednesday Late Practice – TBTWC Open/Elite Mixed night is just as it sounds.  This is a chance for the Open wrestlers to get a taste of the speed/expectations of the Elite room.

Wednesday 1st practice – TBTWC little hammers should be all first year pre-k wrestlers or SOME kindergarten first year wrestlers.  LH’s is only meant to be enrolled in for 1 season.

Please ensure your child is in the right practice and reach out with questions. 

We will continue to reach out to parents with recommendations when we find a kid in a room that is not fit for their age/maturity/skill level/attention span/etc.  THE BEST CHANCE YOUR CHILD HAS FOR SUCCESS IN WRESTLING WILL COME FROM THEM BEING IN THE PROPER PRACTICE BASED OFF OF OBSERVABLY REALITY OF THE ABOVE STATED AGES/SKILLS/FACULTIES.

LASTLY AND IMPORTANTLY

We are guests @ USD 437.  We only rent the wrestling room so we have no rights to the gymnasium.  TBH if I was a coach, paying to rent the gym to run my practices, I would not be thrilled with parents and kids along the side of the gym making even a peep let alone a ruckus.  That being said most of the groups that use that gym are very kind to work with us(or at least not outright complain) and it is important that we have keep those relationships workable and on good terms.  We do run CLOSED PRACTICES outside of little hammers.  If there is room in the gym with a group that we won’t be interfering with, we are welcome to overflow there.  If not please wait in your cars or come back after practice is over to pick up your child.

WE WILL START MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE EACH PRACTICE STARTS ABOUT THE ROOM BEING CLEARED BY ANYONE EXCEPT PARTICIPATING WRESTLERS AND COACHES BY THE TIME OUR WARMUP IS DONE.  Warmup usually lasts 5 minutes or more so that should be plenty of time to get in and out and shoes on shoes off.  We have a limited amount of time to teach your children this sport and a distractonless room is a room where we can utilized every last minute to get better.  Little Hammers is the only exception to the closed practice rule although if they can do without you in there, that is the way to do it!  

As always, Contact me with any questions and I am happy to help.