USA Wrestling Connecticut

Girl's & Women's Wrestling March & April 2006

The following is a listing of information for girls, women and their families that are interested in participating in the sport of wrestling. Contact information is provided for a number of clubs that have explicitly offered wrestling training opportunities for girls and women. Following that some up coming women's wrestling events are listed.

We are encouraging all girls to train regularly at the most convenient location for them. We do want to arrange to have as many girls as possible meet at a common training location on a regular basis to meet other girls that are wrestling and to help build a CT team for some of the bigger events that are coming up. If you are interested in going to the USGWA Nationals, the largest girl's / women's wrestling event in the USA, please let me know. We would like to help generate a Connecticut 'presence' at the event if we can.

I encourage all of you to make and effort to meet each other, to train together and to go to and compete in as many of the women's wrestling events as you can. If you have received this, you have already demonstrated an interest in the sport of wrestling. The opportunities for young women to compete in wrestling are greater now than they have ever been and are continuing to grow. Those of you that choose to participate will find that you are noticed and have great opportunities to receive scholarships to colleges and universities. It is also realistic to expect, with hard work and dedication, to achieve a national standing and compete for a position on the US World and Olympic teams.

If you have any questions or would like additional information, please contact me. I will be contacting you again in the near future about additional wrestling opportunities.

Roger Shaw
Director for Women's Wrestling
USA Wrestling CT
Office: 860-439-0203
Fax: 702-442-8976
Mobile: 860-961-0763
Home: 860-442-8974
RogerShaw@myeastern.com
www.usawct.org

TRAINING LOCATIONS:

Listed below are the clubs that responded, to date, to a request for sites where girls would be welcomed to train. There may well be many others that would also welcome you that I have not heard from yet. For Connecticut, there is a listing of all the USA Wrestling CT clubs on our web site, http://WWW.USAWCT.ORG

TOURNAMENTS and CLINICS

The following are wrestling events for girls and women.

USGWA New Jersey Girls State Wrestling Championships (All states welcome)

Saturday, March 18, 2006

Mansfield Township Elementary School

200 Mansfield Road East, Columbus, New Jersey 08022

May be closer for girls in western CT, Just south of Trenton, NJ

USGWA New England Girls Wrestling Championships (All states welcome)

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Nashoba Regional High School, Bolton, Massachusetts

12 Green Road, Bolton, MA 01740

About an hour north of Hartford (NW of Worcester, MA)

Northeast Elite Girl's Wrestling Clinic

Saturday, March 25^th from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Clinic to be presented by Elana Pirozhkov from the US Olympic Training Center

Contact Dan Rollet, E-mail: Dararay@aol.com, Phone: 860-668-6817

Clinic will be at the Northeast Elite Training Center

72 Shaker Road
P.O. Box 8
Enfield CT 06083

USGWA New York Girls Wrestling State Championships (All states welcome)

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Longwood High School, Middle Island, New York

100 Longwood Rd, Middle Island, NY 11953

About 1 hour from Orient Point Ferry

About 1/2 hour from the Bridgeport / Port Jefferson Ferry

9th Annual USGWA National Championships
Saturday & Sunday, April 1-2, 2006
Lake Orion High School,

Lake Orion, Michigan

If we have enough interest for the Nationals, we can arrange round trip per person travel by van for about $100 / person. There are still some relatively inexpensive hotel rooms in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills (which are very close to Lake Orion) for about $80/night. Please contact Roger Shaw (contact information on previous page) if you are interested.