Clark Wrestling

Congratulations to the Clark Wrestling team! Clark's wrestling team started this year with a victory at the Eastside Invitational @ Clovis East. Congratulations to the three champions Xesus Velarde, Adrian Salas, & Nick Nevills. Thanks to Coach Martinez & Coach Flores for the great job you guys have done with the boys. Good luck next week at the Kastner Shootout!

Team Score:
1. Clark
2. Reyburn
3. El Capitan

Thanksgiving Week Update

Just because school is out, practice is not. As is always the case, Clovis Wrestling will practice during Thanksgiving week on every day but Thanksgiving Day. Monday, Tuesday & Friday, practice will be at the standard time – 4:30-6:45pm. On Wednesday, we will practice from 9:00-11:00am in order to accommodate families traveling out of town for Thanksgiving Day. Plan to attend practice EVERYDAY during the Thanksgiving school break. All Fall athletes on the wrestling team that have completed their season by Sunday, November 23rd are expected to attend ALL practice days over the school break.

We will also do our first team runs of the year after practice on both Monday & Friday. Bring your running shoes and sweatshirt (if needed) to practice on running days!

In addition, the Clovis East JV Tournament will run all-day Friday at Clovis East High School. We will be sending available 9th and 10th graders to compete in this first official competition of the year.

First Event Weekend

The first weekend of wrestling has arrived for the 2008-2009 year, albeit still in the pre-season phase.

On Friday, Clovis will host an Elementary Takedown Tournament with schools throughout Clovis Unified participating. Clovis High School wrestlers will work the tournament and provide support the future of our sport.

On Saturday, Clovis will host our inaugural High School/Junior High Takedown Tournament. All Clovis wrestlers are required to be at the boy’s locker room at Clovis High School promptly at 7:00am for the start of weigh-ins. We will both work the tournament, compete, and clean-up. Plan on all day Saturday. Wrestlers will ONLY be allowed to leave the tournament at the conclusion of tournament clean-up.

On Sunday, all team members are welcome to travel up to UC Davis to watch the Aggies take on the visiting Northwestern Wildcats. The match is scheduled for 6:00pm in the ARC Pavillion. Team members wishing to travel up for the match will meet at Coach Tirapelle’s house on Sunday at 2:00pm. We will travel up, watch the match, and return that night. This is an opportunity to see some of the best wrestlers in the United States as Northwestern boasts returning NCAA Champion Jake Herbert (184lbs) as well as highly ranked wrestlers #4 Brandon Precin (125lbs), and #10 Keith Sulzar (141lbs). Also wrestling for Northwestern in his true freshman year is former 3x California State Champion #16 Jason Welch (157lbs) of Las Lomas HS. This level of wrestling is not available very often on the West Coast, so take advantage of the opportunity!

"Team Gear" Available!!

Hooded Light Weight "Got 8" Sweatshirts - $25.00
"Got 8" Tshirts - $10.00
Clovis Wrestling Stadium Chairs - $40.00

We are also gathering up the "old" sweatshirts & tshirts that Steve may have stashed in his garage and will be selling those Friday & Saturday at discounted pricing. Great for workouts!

Clovis wrestlers and parents have first priority on the "Got 8" clothing, we will start selling to the Jr High kids/parents in a couple weeks so get your gear early!! Please make check payable to Cougar Wrestling

Thank you,

Meet & Greet A Success

Wanted to thank all that attended the 1st Annual Meet & Greet last Saturday! Nice to see so many parents! Looking forward to a very rewarding year on and off the mat! We have a great group of parents and your support is vital to the success of this program! Special thanks to Skip & Rhonda Dieter for putting the food together!

If you have not been contacted yet about volunteering Friday & Saturday.. please contact Kerri Nevills @ 260-5092 ASAP!!!