Hello my fellow coaches. I'm a coach in the Kansas City Kansas area at Coronado Middle School and I have alot of kids that are looking to come out for wrestling. The problem is that they can't afford shoes. The shoe supplies everything but shoes. Does anyone know where we can get inexpensive shoes ranging from a kids 6 all the way up to a man's 11? An help would be appreciated

Blue Chip has a lot of shoes on clearence right now from $19 and up. The link below will take you directly to the clearence section of their web site.
http://www.bluechipwrestling.com/CLEARANCE-C42.aspx

You can practice in PE/gym shoes. Not the most comfortable or best thing in the world. If they are fortunate to have two pairs of the above, tell them to leave one at school and use them only for wrestling practice -- (helps keep the mats cleaner).

Can they go bare-foot for practice? I don't know. Others would know. MMA goes bare-foot all the time.

While doing all the above -- maybe they can have a car-wash or rake leaves or some other thing to earn the money needed for the shoes.

Leave your address here and I bet you will get a few checks in the mail. If each of us that are able can send a check for a buck or two - we can help these kids. I'm in. I just need the contact info. The wrestling community tends to be generous, especially to its 'own'.

Thanks.

I'm in, too.

Thanks for the offer peeps. Our address at the school is
1735 N. 64th Terr.
Kansas City, Kansas 66102
Coach Dorian DeBose
913-627-6328
Thank you

The best thing that we have done in the past is ask wrestler to leave last years shoe's in room . This starts in middle school , on up . With the example of new kid in the sport might not come out due to the cost of shoes . We have over 30 set's of shoes from just the last 4 year's . I know that won't help this year send them out in sock's . It's wrestling don't let money come in as a factor . Good luck this year

Cool/wise tradition PLHSCOACH!

I was looking at shoes on Blue Chip's site and in the clearance section they had some shoes for $20 and they were smaller sizes. You might check there.

Ya it works for use thanks for the comp. dwelsh I just hope wildcat debo kids found a way to be on the mat . Wow H.S. starts in a week good luck to all .

I have forty wrestlers and only about ten have shoes. We need all the help we can get.
God bless all those who help.
"Special people do special things."

Coach Talbott
Wichita West High School
820 S. Osage
Wichita Kansas
67213

Please help these kids they desirve it.

I want to thank everyone that helped us out with the shoes. After posting on here about the situation, I brought it up to the faculty during one of our Wednesday meetings. I was able to raise 200.00 dollars in donations from the rteachers in the building and purchase 11 pairs of shoes. Since then my principal has taken it upon himself to order 15 more pairs from SUPLAY.com. Now we have shoes for every wrestler on the team. For awhile we were trading out shoes before matches. If my 100lber wore an 8 and my 155 wore an 8 then my 100 would gie his shoes to my 155 after his match. Now we don't hae to do that anymore. We are currently in the middle of our season and we are tied for first place with a record of 4-2. Open weight classes hurt you. Our next dual is Dec 1st at West Middle School here in Kansas City. If we win then we will have to beat Sumner Academy to claim a portion of the league title. Again thank you for your support and I will keep you posted on the final results