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#88194 07/30/06 02:32 AM
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I know it has football, but Butler Community College has a heavy amount of Wrestling influence running around that campus and in that county in general. Shawn Silvis and Chris Saferite were DII National finalists for UCO were from Augusta. El Dorado always produces great wrestlers, and just look at half the guys they get to play football. They added soccer (for the women)since I graduated in 2000, so you never know, they might buy into something like women's wrestling training center too, and with Wichita down the road...EASY SELL to local talent.


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#88195 08/01/06 08:47 PM
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Let's meet in the afternoon of August 12th. Where?????


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#88196 08/02/06 10:07 PM
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I'm not too familiar with Central Christian but it looks to ba good candidate. Does anyone have any thoughts.....


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A long time back when i was in the Leavenworth County area there was some talk of St. Mary's there possibly pursuing wrestling on the NAIA level. Since then they have added football, basketball and baseball--there is a great wrestling base in that area--

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Let's meet in the afternoon of August 12th. Where?????
Jeff,

I tried to send you an e-mail this morning. Did you get it?


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#88199 08/03/06 08:37 AM
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A long time back when i was in the Leavenworth County area there was some talk of St. Mary's there possibly pursuing wrestling on the NAIA level. Since then they have added football, basketball and baseball--there is a great wrestling base in that area--

Klint
Good idea. It could draw interest from the Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City areas, too.


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There were some very preliminary talks about the St.Mary's possibility--at that time i know we were told that we would need to secure a "sponsoring" entity to raise funds. I know just brainstorming at that time, Sprint and the US Army were mentioned.



Mike Macholz of Missouri Valley would be a good contact on starting any NAIA program. I know he has volunteered his assistance in the past to anyone wishing to start a NAIA program

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you don't mean barclay, do you? If so have you been to haviland?
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Mike Furches
I graduated from Tabor College and while going to school their some of us guy's that wrestled in high school went to the A.D. and tried to get wrestling, he told us that it would interfere with basketball. We tried for 2 years and the same song. I still have some contacts at Tabor if you want I can get in touch with them. The only problem is that I have moved to the Toledo Ohio area. Tell Nate Congrats on Fargo. Take Care


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#88203 08/16/06 03:56 AM
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There were some very preliminary talks about the St.Mary's possibility--at that time i know we were told that we would need to secure a "sponsoring" entity to raise funds. I know just brainstorming at that time, Sprint and the US Army were mentioned.



Mike Macholz of Missouri Valley would be a good contact on starting any NAIA program. I know he has volunteered his assistance in the past to anyone wishing to start a NAIA program
If it's like Saint Mary's Academy (the private school that is non KSHSAA), then they might add it...that non high school was told that they couldn't play any KSHSAA schools because of forfeiting to a team with a girl on the football squad. They are all about the men there! LOL


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#88204 09/17/06 06:38 PM
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We started an advocacy group about 14 months ago for the purpose of bringing NCAA Division I wrestling to our three traditional D-I schools, KSU, KU and WSU. Ted Witulski of the national USAW organization convinced us to join forces with him to pursue that effort. We recruited well over 500 Kansas volunteers for that effort in a volunteer effort that ended with the Kansas Kids State tournament. Ted has not contacted all the volunteers yet with an action plan. Ted has established a non-profit entity and is in the process of working on a website to serve as a base for this effort. Mike Juby is planning on putting an updated letter from Ted in October on the Breaking News section of this website. Mike decided to wait until then since we would have more activity on the site then.

Personally I am still committed to Ted Witulski's plan for bringing Division I wrestling to Kansas. I know that several people are frustrated with the progress of this effort so far. I understand that but I believe that we will eventually see benefits from Ted's plan. I believe direction and assistance from the national USAW group will be very worthwhile in the long run.

That being said I am not opposed to the idea of working towards bringing wrestling programs to junior colleges and small colleges in Kansas too. I would like to see wrestling at all the schools mentioned at the beginning of this topic.

I would personally really like to see both Johnson County Community College and Kansas City Kansas Community College start teams. The Kansas City area really needs a wrestling program at one or both of these schools. If we are trying to get a wrestling league of Kansas junior colleges, I think it would be good for one or both of these schools to be a part of it.

Anyway I am willing to meet next Saturday or the Saturday after with a group of interested people. We could have the meeting in the Kansas City area or somewhere else in Kansas. If there are people who are interested I am willing to meet. I definitely willing to go to Wichita for this meeting if there is a Wichita group interested in this meeting that Jeff has suggested. A small group met last year in Overland Park so it might be good to have the meeting in Wichita or another Kansas location. I guess the first thing to determine is who is interested in meeting either Saturday August 5th or Saturday August 12th?
Ted Witulski grateful for opportunity at USA Wrestling

09/14/2006

Dear Friends,

Recently, I was given the opportunity work with the Real Pro Wrestling team on building wrestling coverage for a nationwide television audience. Though I love the work that I am doing at USA Wrestling as the NCEP Manager, the opportunity was too good to pass up. I believe in the vision that RPW has and I wanted to take the shot at being involved in something that I feel all of America’s wrestling community should get behind.

Friday, September 15th is my last day working at USA Wrestling. I will continue to expect the best for the sport of wrestling from the leadership at USA Wrestling and I want to say thank you to so many great people that I have been able to meet through our national organization.

Over the past seven years I have learned so much about the sport of wrestling while working in the national office and my pride in the greatness of the sport of wrestling has only grown as I have met on a personal level the athletes that I still continue to believe are our real wrestling heroes. It has been a tremendous privilege to work for USA Wrestling and I will fondly remember so many great wrestling moments that I experienced as an employee there.

Because much of my work with RPW will involve organizing wrestling in the field I expect our paths will cross as we continue to grow the great sport of wrestling nationwide. I know I don’t want to lose touch with so many of you. I hope you’ll take the time to email me at my new account: ted@realprowrestling.com.

Fortunately, I will continue to live and work in Colorado Springs as Real Pro Wrestling organizes the regional qualifier and super qualifier focused towards the television shows beginning in the spring of 2007

Thank you for your friendship and good wishes as we continue to work to bring wrestling to the entirety of America.

Sincerely,

Ted Witulski
Real Pro Wrestling
Director of Field Operations


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#88205 09/18/06 04:53 AM
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Richard:

I was informed about Ted Witulski's job change over the weekend by Sean McCarthy. I really do not know what this means concerning his effort to lead the Kansas NCAA Division I advocacy group. I sent him an e-mail on Saturday asking him that question. I will let everyone know what he replies to me as soon as I hear. It will be a disappointment if he is unable to execute the plan that he proposed to us last Fall. Perhaps Ted is still planning to lead the group from his Real Pro Wrestling position. He did do a lot of preliminary work in getting a non for profit entity set up and preliminary work in setting up a website for the group.


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