Anthony Flatt named USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year
Anthony Flatt of Lawrenceville, Ga. was named USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year. This award honors a USA Wrestling State Chairperson for service and leadership within the organization.
The announcement was made during USA Wrestling’s annual State Leaders Conference, held at the Cheyenne Moutain Conference Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. last week.
Flatt has served three years as the State Chairperson in Georgia, and was Kids Director for the three previous years.
“This is fantastic. It is a great honor,” said Flatt. “I am not sure I personally deserve it. Team Georgia is a group of dedicated individuals. It is the effort of many people in the state that has led to growth within Georgia. It is their efforts that make things happen.”
During his tenure, Georgia has hosted the Southeast Regional Championships the last three years. The event has grown to the largest Junior Regional in the nation, and combined with the Kids divisions, is one of the most successful in the nation. Georgia is also very active in helping present the Georgia Grind, one of the Folkstyle Tour of America events.
Under Flatt’s leadership, Georgia has developed a strong and active state association, utilizing a number of innovative programs that has led to growth in many areas.
“My background is in technology. I have been in computer sales my whole life. I had dabbled with web-based technologies. I believed online registration would work well here. We took what was working with our events and improved on it. We can start tournaments faster, get the brackets posted faster and run better events. We have the wrestlers’ contact information and are able to communicate with them. We get information out quickly to our members. I serve as a catalyst, but our wrestling community has embraced the concept that wrestling is for everybody,” said Flatt.
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Team Georgia Iowa Preseason Nationals Trip Info
After a successful year in which Team Georgia saw 10 Fargo All-Americans, 3 Fargo Finalists and 1 Champ/OW, Junior Duals 7th Place, Cadets 5th Place Team Fargo, and 8 Folkstyle All-Americans, now is the time to start building for this coming years success stories.
Team Georgia is looking for 50 wrestlers youth-High School who want to travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa and wrestle in the USAW Pre-Season Nationals
This tournament takes place on Oct 30 at the UNI Dome on the campus of The University of Northern Iowa.
Team Georgia will be taking a Charter Bus and will be leaving on Thursday Oct 28 around 7pm and will return Sunday Oct 31 time TBD. This means kids will only miss Friday for school.
Cost for this trip is 0 it includes your bus ride, hotel, and training for the event. All you need to do is bring a singlet, headgear, and make sure you get registered through http://www.preseasonnationals.com/. Locations of practices are coming, as well as a detailed itinerary.
Apparel packages will be available also for and will be used on all Team Georgia Trips excluding Duals and Fargo. These packages will include a singlet, T-shirt, and Shorts.
Get on board early to secure your seat and test your skills against some of the nations top wrestlers, and states such as, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and of course Iowa. This trip is open to all ages youth-high school and you can check below for more details.
Register for Tournament and Tournament Information (Registration opens Sept 1)
http://www.preseasonnationals.com/
Make Payment for Team Georgia Trip and get your Seat on the bus
http://www.teamgeorgiawrestling.com/store/
Central Regionals Recap
Well 1,000 miles and 15 hours of driving, but 11 young men and 4 coaches are back from a productive weekend seeing great competition. First I would like to thank the kids who came on this trip and were the perfect representatives of themselves and the state both on and off the mat. Second I would like to thank the Lutz's, Porter, and Mr. Climmons for covering kids, and making sure that these kids were able to compete.
Now for the recap. It was a great weekend and whenever you see Nationally Ranked kids as well as kids like Tsirtsis, Ness, and Brill (8th grade STUD) you know you are in for a good day of wrestling. Everyone made weight on Friday night and Saturday morning and came ready to wrestle on Saturday. We started with freestyle and here are the final results.
Cadet:
Dallas Brown - 2nd (125)
Jeremiah Lutz - 4th (125)
Brooks Climmons - 1st (160)
Junior:
Eric Sheppard - 4th (112)
Tyler Smith - 4th (285)
Tyler Askey - (145) (Lost out due to criteria in the round robin of the bracket - Should have went to placement)
Then on Sunday Greco started and here are the results.
Cadet:
Madison Martin - 3rd (119)
Jeremiah Lutz - 2nd (125)
Dallas Brown - 4th (125)
Tyler Askey - 1st (145)
Glenn Climmons - 1st (160)
Juniors:
Eric Sheppard - 2nd (112)
Walter Leyva - 4th (125)
Tyler Smith - 4th (285)
Now for the tournament trip awards as voted by the van:
"You get what you ask for" Award - William Hope (he said he could wrestle with Ness, then got paired and 5ptd by him)
"Now we're even" Award - Jeremiah Lutz (First match of Freestyle his opponent gets DQ'd for visious illegal headbut from partere position, Then they wrestle in Greco finals and Jeremiah gives him one back.)
"I got screwed by the ref" Award - TIE (Toby Crittenden and Dallas Brown) Both so bad calls in greco that ...Read Full Blog
Folkstyle Nationals Recap
I would like to thank all the kids, dads, and TGA for making this trip possible. It was a great time by all and the kids really seemed to enjoy it. It was a great chance for our guys to see some top competition and compete with them. When ever you go into a state (And on this trip we went through a few extra but that is a different story MOSS!!!!!) like Iowa you know there are studs waiting to greet you.
Just to recap some of the best from the weekend here we go.
First Darshawn, Marshawn, and Brooks are animals on the mat and looked like it this weekend. They were controlled on the mat when they needed to be and exploded for big scores when they could. These guys are always up for a good time and by the time the finals came Brooks knew he would have to hear it from Darshawn if he did not get his stop sign.
Second Ethan Blackstock, he is truely a great kid at heart and a competitor on the mat. If he would have been smarter in his quarters there is no doubt he would have been in the finals. And it takes a lot of guts to get back up wrestle the match to get in, break your hand in the first period, and beat that beat from Wisconsin in the rideout overtime.
Third Hemmings it is never easy to win a match on the National Level no matter the tournament. This guy won 6 of them before loosing out a round too soon. After an early loss I got the pleasure of being in his corner and watching him wrestle back until he was so tired he did not even realize we were back at the hotel. This guy you need to keep your eye on.
Now for the little guys.....
First Will Moss is as good on the mat as he is funny off of it. He and Caden probably spent as much time on their DS systems as on the mat. He hit a couple tough kids and wrestling up in weight, but still came through with a 6th place finish and probably the sweetest looking Belt I have ever seen. Charlie you need to post a pick of that thing.
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All Interested Youth Wrestlers
Team Georgia will be conducting a wrestling practice to prepare for the upcoming Rhino Xtreme Tournament in Fayetteville, NC. All wrestlers interested in representing Team Georgia are encouraged to attend.
When: January 10, 2010
Time: 2:00-4:00 PM
Where: Mountain View High School – Wrestling Room
2351 Sunny Hill Road
Lawrenceville, GA
Thanks,
Jerry Hennebaul
