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Jeffrey Pape
WrestlingGear.Com, Ltd.
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WRESTLINGGEAR.COM TO TURN JUMPS INTO SMILES
Franklin Park, IL - April 20, 2006 - WrestlingGear.Com, Ltd is working with The Smile Train to help kids with cleft lips. A cleft lip is a condition where the top of the lip does not form properly during pregnancy. A cleft lip can be corrected with surgery. WrestlingGear.Com is putting together a Jump-Rope-A-Thon to help raise money and awareness for cleft lips.
“We are looking forward to helping kids who were born with a cleft lip that might otherwise have to live with this fixable facial birth defect. With our National website we can help bring awareness about cleft lips and help raise money to help children who otherwise might not have their cleft lip fixed,” says Jeff Pape, owner of WrestlingGear.Com, whose son was born with a cleft lip.
WrestlingGear.Com is looking forward to working with wrestling club coaches and leaders and rewarding them with wrestling and non-wrestling related prizes for participating in the fund raiser. WrestlingGear.Com and its vendors have pledged the following prizes:
Grand Prize: $1,000 team makeover to be raffled off to those teams that raise $1,000 or more. Teams will receive raffle tickets for every $1,000 raised. The $1,000 can be used to purchase Matman wrestling uniforms. Matman wrestling is a Gold level sponsor for this event.
Other Prizes: The first 25 coaches who sign up their team and raise $500 will be given a $100 gift certificate to WrestlingGear.Com. Also, each wrestler that raises $50 will be given a free shipping coupon with WrestlingGear.Com. Brute, adidas wrestling, Championship Productions, First String Sales and Suples Bulgarian Dummies, will provide additional prizes that will be divided up to participating teams.
Each team can set their own date for the Jump-Rope-A-Thon, but are encouraged to hold all fundraisers in May or early June.
WrestlingGear.Com has designated the month of May as “Cleft Lip Month” and will be giving a portion of its sales during May to The Smile Train.
For more information, please contact WrestlingGear.Com’s owner, Jeff Pape, at 1-800-565-0995. A registration packet along with brochures, posters, and pledge forms will be sent to teams who wish to participate.
About WrestlingGear.Com:
WrestlingGear.Com, Ltd is one of the most visited wrestling websites in the country. Started in 1998, it now offers products from adidas, Asics, Brute, Championship Productions, Cliff Keen, Matman, Suples, Tanita and other major wrestling companies. Every year, more wrestlers “Get Ready for the Mat!” with WrestlingGear.Com.
About The Smile Train:
The Smile Train is a non-profit organization that provides services and programs in more than 60 countries — including the United States — has helped provide free surgery for thousands of children as well as free training and education for more than 15,000 surgeons and medical professionals. Additionally, The Smile Train is sponsoring major research projects that are searching for a way to prevent clefts. For more information visit: http://www.smiletrain.org
