WrestlingGear.Com - Get Ready for the Mat
08/17/2003
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In this newsletter you will find a variety of information. We plan to feature a Title IX article every month. We are going to be giving a percentage of our sales to savingsports.org - You can find more information about their organization by reading the article in this newsletter. Its important that if you have the ability to contribute to this cause to do so. As a company, we are going to make it a priority to give back to the wrestling community.
Also, we will include an article about the World Team to get you more familiar with the wrestlers on the team. Let's pack Indianapolis next year and show our wrestlers our support to bring home Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals.
Keep us up to date of what is going on. If you have a website, let's exchange links or banners. Send us any comments you'd like mentioned in this newsletter.
We started a new message board and would like to hear your comments about the message board. Follow the link and post a message on the board. We want this to be a place where wrestlers can go and interact with other wrestlers. Only rule is no advertising of summercamps or other businesses. If you have a wrestling tournament you want to promote, feel free to post it so wrestlers from around the nation can find out about it...
Take care and start to "Get Ready for the Mat..."
Jeff
New Message Boards - Post a question? Respond to a Question
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Follow the link below to visit our message board. We are implementing a new message board.
Come check out the message board and leave us a message. We feel this message board will be easier to use and most importantly it will be faster for you our visitor to our sites.
Submit your wrestling news. Ideally we will have information from through out the nation. Send us your state's rankings, results from tournaments, information about your high school wrestling team. We look to build a resource for people through out the nation to find out about your wrestling team.
Click here to Visit our New Message Board:
http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/249738
Find out more about Wrestling Cards...
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If you are interested in wrestling cards, here is a site to check out. At this site you will find most of the available wrestling - both pro and amateur wrestling cards. This is a great source if you ever thought about collecting cards from your wrestling heroes.
I have just started collecting some of the wrestling cards featured in this site. If you have any information you'd like me to feature in this newsletter about the cards or other topics, drop us a note...
Find out more about Wrestling Cards: http://www.x-titles.com/wc/index.html?wgc
Surveys and other information...
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Each month we are going to include a fun survey or a survey about improving your experience with WrestlingGear.Com
The last survey was very helpful and ideas learned from your feedback have already been implemented. You will also notice improvements and changes to the site to improve your shopping experience with us being implemented for the up and coming season.
Since I am a former wrestler,current coach and parent, I want to make sure what we are providing you is what you are looking for. If there is something we can change or products that we can add, we would love to hear from you. Follow the link below there are 11 questions and it should take you between five and ten minutes to complete.
Take this months survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?7A1RYNHHKSTAB4BE4YD57V4H
Click here to look at the Suggested Products
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If you are interested in wrestling cards, here is a site to check out. At this site you will find most of the available wrestling - both pro and amateur wrestling cards. This is a great source if you ever thought about collecting cards from your wrestling heroes.
I have just started collecting some of the wrestling cards featured in this site. If you have any information you'd like me to feature in this newsletter about the cards or other topics, drop us a note...
Visit our suggested products:
http://www.wrestlinggear.com/suggestedpurchases.html
Coaches Launch Renewed Legal Challenge to Title IX
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08/15/2003 Jim McCarthy (202) 296-0553 College Sports Council
College Sports Council to Confront Department of Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 15, 2003 - The College Sports Council (CSC) launched a two-pronged legal offensive in federal court today against the Department of Education. Following the Administration's refusal to accept the recommendations of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, the legal action sets the stage for a final showdown over the enforcement of Title IX.
"The government refuses to protect students from the ongoing elimination of athletic opportunities, so the coaches, parents and kids are going to stand up for themselves," said Eric Pearson, CSC Chairman.
"Reasonable people from all corners of education, including the Administration's own Title IX Commission, have been pleading for common sense reforms. We will not be deterred by politicians and gender quota activists who stand in the way of fairness."
Press Conference by Phone
WHO: Eric Pearson, Chairman, College Sports Council; Larry Joseph, Lead Attorney
WHEN: Friday, August 15, 2003 - 12 Noon, Eastern Standard Time
HOW: Call can be accessed by dialing (800) 493-3979 Access Code: "College Sports Council" or "Title IX"
Details of the Legal Action
First, CSC asked the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to summarily reverse a district court decision in June to dismiss a challenge to a January 1996 Clinton Administration policy re-interpreting how the Department of Education enforces Title IX.
Second, CSC filed a new lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge a July 2003 Bush Administration decision not to repeal the earlier policy. The new district court lawsuit also challenges the Bush Administration's release of, and reliance on, a report prepared by the Secretary Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which rests on deeply flawed statistics.
The CSC, a national coalition of coaching associations that includes track, swimming, golf, gymnastics, wrestling, and baseball, seeks to eliminate the "three-part test" used to enforce Title IX. The "three-part test" includes a quota that has caused the arbitrary cutting and capping of thousands of athletic programs for men and boys at schools across the country, costing student-athletes both scholarships and their dreams of competition. The CSC seeks to restore Title IX to its original intent - providing equal opportunity without discriminating against any student-athlete of either gender. "We want to stop cuts in opportunities for men and boys, but our campaign supports the continued growth of athletic opportunities for women and girls," Pearson said. "More teams were added for women and girls without the "three-part test" than were added when it was in force."
In addition to Title IX, the CSC also seeks to enforce the Data Quality Act, which went into effect on October 1, 2002, and requires federal agencies to ensure the quality of the data that they disseminate and rely on for administrative actions.
When the Administration's Title IX Commission finished its report, CSC immediately filed a Data Quality Act appeal to challenge the report for overstating the gains in women's sports and understating the losses in men's sports. "Incredibly, the Administration relied on the Commission report to justify the "three-part test" while we had pending a Data Quality challenge to the Commission report," said Larry Joseph, attorney for the CSC.
The Commission report relies on an earlier General Accounting Office report, issued before the Data Quality Act went into effect. The reports claim a small net increase (36 teams) for men since 1980, without recognizing that 134 schools (with hundreds of pre-existing teams) joined the survey group after 1980. "Just like some of the recent corporate accounting scandals, these reports mask persistent, significant losses with false gains from mergers," said Pearson.
With the Administration backing out of the reform process it started by convening its Title IX Commission, the CSC has determined that litigation is the only way to save athletic opportunities. "School administrators everywhere know that the only way to be 100% safe under the current Title IX regulations is to comply with the quota," said Pearson. "This is why the Title IX Commission recommended reform."
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Olympic World Team Trials
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May 21 to 23 Make sure you are in Indianapolis that weekend. If you plan to attend the Olympic World Team Trials, you should start to make hotel arrangements. There is a major convention in town that weekend and I understand this is the last weekend for the Indy 500 Qualifiers...
This is an incredible weekend of wrestling. I have attended the past two Team Trials and it has been absolutely amazing. If you have the chance to make it, it will be a great chance to see the top Freestyle and Greco Wrestlers in the USA.
We will put some information about the wrestlers who we expect to see wrestling that weekend.
The current Freestyle team is:
55 Kg - Stephan Abas - CA (Sunkist Kids)
60 Kg - Eric Guerro - OK (Gator WC)
66 Kg - Jamil Kelly - OK (Gator WC)
74 Kg - Joe Williams - IA (Sunkist Kids)
84 Kg - Cael Sanderson - IA (Sunkist Kids)
96 Kg - Daniel Cormier - OK (Gator WC)
120 Kg - Kerry McCoy - PA (NYAC)
The current Greco team is:
55 Kg - Brandon Paulson - MN (Minnesota Storm)
60 Kg - James Gruenwald - CO (Sunkist Kids)
66 Kg - Kevin Bracken - CO (NYAC)
74 Kg - TC Dantzler - CO (NYAC)
84 Kg - Brad Vering - CO (Sunkist Kids)
96 Kg - Garret Lowney - WI (Minnesota Storm)
120 Kg - Rulon Gardner - CO (Sunkist Kids)
Vote for your favorite Freestyle Wrestler. Follow the link below to our home page and cast your vote.
Visit our Home Page to Vote: http://www.wrestlinggear.com/?survey
Considine named USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year
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8/10/2003
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling Use with permission
Jim Considine of Carol Stream, Ill. was elected USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year. USA Wrestling is the National Governing Body for amateur wrestling in the United States.
He was selected for this honor by his peer State Chairpersons during the USA Wrestling State Leaders Conference held in Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 6-9.
Considine has served as USA Wrestling State Chairperson in Illinois since 1999. Illinois has over 10,000 USA Wrestling members, second only to California in the number of registered members for the organization. The Illinois association has the largest Kids wrestling organization within USA Wrestling.
He has served as the President of the Illinois Kids Wrestling Association (IKWF) since 1993, and has been on the IKWF Board since 1985. He has run an IKWF kids club, the Villa-Lombard Cougars, since 1983.
Considine is an assistant wrestling coach at Glenbard North High School, one of the most successful high school wrestling programs in the nation. Two of his sons, Augie and Andy, competed at Glenbard North. Considine was a wrestler at Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Ill.
He gives special credit to his wife Alicia for all of her efforts on behalf of the USA Wrestling state association and the youth club, as well as support for his wrestling activities.
I am surprised and honored to win this, said Considine. It is an award won by the state organization. I have a great Board, and that is why Illinois wrestling is doing so well.
Considine has worked for 29 years in marketing for Motorola.
State Chairperson of the Year
1978 - Leroy Evans, California
1979 - Dave Dozeman, Michigan
1980 - Frank Rader, North Carolina
1981 - Ted DeRousse, Illinois
1982 - Dave nd Bobby Schneller, Connecticut
1983 - Mick Pickford, Iowa
1984 - Bill Crum, New Jersey
1985 - Tom Canavan, Pennsylvania
1986 - Kay Lacher, Minnesota
1987 - Jack Harcourt, Virginia
1988 - Mark Scott, Wyoming
1989 - Leroy Evans, California and Charlie White, Colorado
1990 - John Welch, New Jersey
1991 - Dave Mellon, North Dakota
1992 - Bob Labat, Minnesota
1993 - Al Kastl, Michigan
1994 - Chuck Elvin, Kansas
1995 - Haswell Franklin, Sr., Maryland
1996 - Archie Randall, Oklahoma
1997 - Fred Lehrke, Wisconsin
1998 - Bob Walker, Florida
1999 - Mike Dowden, Indiana
2000 - Paula McGahee, Georgia
2001 - Tom Shaw, Washington
2002 - Dave Black, Wisconsin
2003 - Jim Considine, Illinois
IN CLOSING
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