Dakota Wrestling Club
                                                  Who We Are

    The Dakota Wrestling Club gives kids 7 to 14 an opportunity to learn and compete in
    amateur wrestling. We practice at Dakota High School. We compete in the Metro
    Region of the Michigan Youth Wrestling Association MYWA for Folkstyle wrestling
    and USA Wrestling for Freestyle and Greco wrestling. We are a feeder program for
    Dakota High School and our club consists of kids between 7 and 14 that attend a school
    that feeds Dakota High School.

    Our inaugural season was the 2008/2009 season. The club's Middle School team
    finished 4th in the MYWA Middle School Team State Championship. Four club
    members were MYWA state placers including a State Champion during the folkstyle
    season and one of the club's members won a USA Greco State Championship.

    The club is completely run by parent volunteers and parent volunteer commitments are
    mandatory for a child to participate in the club. We stress sportsmanship and
    fundamentals while teaching kids to love the great sport of wrestling.

    We teach the Jordan System of folkstyle wrestling as developed by Jeff Jordan and
    taught at his popular State Champ Camps in Urbana, Ohio. This system teaches moves
    that are complimentary to each other instead of just a random group of wrestling moves
    that have no relationship to each other. The club instruction will emphasize an
    aggressive, physical, offensive  style of wrestling. We believe that a great wrestler is not
    determined by the amount of technique they know, but how hard they are willing to
    work and how well they execute their technique. Our practices stress hard work and full
    speed drilling of technique until it becomes a reaction, not a deliberate action.

    The goal of the club is to teach kids the great sport of wrestling and provide experienced
    wrestlers to the Dakota High School Wrestling Team. Our coaches have all completed
    the USA Wrestling Copper Coaches Certification for youth wrestling.

    We practice Monday and Wednesdy evenings. Younger, inexperienced wrestlers will
    practice from 6pm to 7pm. Older and more experienced wrestlers practice from 7pm to
    8:30pm.

    Even though we are a team, wrestling is an individual sport. Individual wrestlers and
    their parents decide how many and which tournaments they compete in. Wrestlers are
    not required to compete in local wrestling tournaments.