Amen to what Coach Nunamaker and Coach Crowell are sharing about the importance of DUALS in building this sport!!

The sport can clearly be divided into:
15% - great and elite level wrestlers
65% - average and good wrestlers
20% - novice

Our 15% is better than they ever have been. We spend more money and more energy on the 15% as well. More than ever before. Break down the USA Wrestling State Budget to see that first hand.

Our numbers are declining in the 65% and 20% groups at the Kid's, Middle School and High School Levels.

"Sometimes kids in the bottom 2 tiers NEED the sport of Wrestling more than Wrestling needs them!" Coach Doug Vander Linden 2014

More to come on this topic in a later post.....

Respectfully,
Doug Vander Linden
Burlington Wrestling