Beat the Streets USA Wrestling E-Newsletter
June 26th, 2009 by admin
Beat the Streets- Milwaukee
announces a commitment from the Milwaukee Public Schools to begin an eight-week program for five middle schools in the fall of 2009.
The City Kids Wrestling Club has officially joined the USA Wrestling Beat the Streets. The organization will be following the model created in New York City of expanding wrestling through the middle schools providing after school team building connecting to existing high schools.
The Summer Program has expanded their day camp program to 5 weeks. The first camp had 38 High School and Middle School boys and girls with wrestling experience.
Dark Water divx The program are for boys and girl’s ages 7-18 with one of the camps hosting a wrestling tournament for all grades and skill levels.
Valley of the Dolls buy For more information regarding camps and the Milwaukee Program, go online to www.citykidswrestling.org Fire in the Sky film
Beat the Streets – Hampton Roads, VA
World’s Greatest Dad move will be hosting their second annual Beat the Streets summer wrestling camp. Co-chairman Randy Forrest and Jim Lee have been developing elementary and middle school programs the past two years. They are working on expanding the effort through the entire Hampton Roads community, no stranger to the sport of wrestling.
Beat the Streets – Detroit announces an inaugural middle school model program for the fall of 2009. They have been apprised that their application for a 501C3 not for profit organization has been accepted by the IRS.
Co-Chairman Mike Rodriguez and Mark Churella have secured a location that will serve as the model for the program. The plan is to actively recruit boys and girls at the 28 middle schools in the Detroit school district.
They have begun creating posters, mailings and flyers to be distributed throughout the summer at Recreation and Parks programs announcing the program.
It is a city that recently announced the closing down of 27 schools because of the economic downturn at General Motors. The past few years the Detroit Public Schools website reports that over 60,000 students are leaving the city. In the 2008 report they have over 100,000 high school students with 37 high schools.
It is hard to imagine a city of over 2 million people and 100 schools without one wrestling program, yet there are two major universities with national prominence in the sport of wrestling one hour away.
Beat the Streets USA Wrestling has also made contact with a sister city not too far away in Flint that is organizing a program to work closely with Detroit. Another economic tragedy in a city that has received national attention throughout the media winning national awards for the programming.
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For more information regarding the Beat the Streets USA Wrestling program please contact:
Tony Black- tblack@usawrestling.org.
USA Wrestling recently created an “Awareness” DVD that was professionally produced through Media Place Productions in New York City. It is designed for selling wrestling to administrators and athletic directors.
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