Kansas Wrestling Forums General Discussion Kids Folkstyle Burlington Mat Cat Wrestle-Off

1-1-03 Update: We are almost at 300 wrestlers as of today. We have received entries from Caney, Fredonia, Eureka, Coffeyville, Gardner-Edgerton, Burlingame, Fredonia, South East Kansas, Wyandotte County Kids, Trailhands, Altamont, Parsons, DeSoto, Wellsville, Viking Kids, Anderson County, Circle Jr, Elk County, Osawatomie, Pittsburg Kids Gorillas, Emporia (1), Wichita Wrestling Club (1), Thunderbirds (1), Lyndon (1), and Burlington.

ALSO, we will post our results on the USA Wrestling Web Site as we have for the past 2 seasons including the Fastest Pin Results and the Club Championship Standings!!

You can contact us about faxing or e-mailing your entries to us if that would be easier. Please contact either Doug or Michelle Vander Linden at (620)364-2054.

Finally, I want to share a few things about our tournament that might be appealing to wrestlers, coaches and fans alike.

1) Fastest Pin Award in each Age Division
2) Low entry fee - $10 per wrestler
3) No Admission Charge for fans
4) Seating for about 2,000 fans with a great view of the mats right from your seat.
5) GREAT concessions, breakfast and lunch that is reasonably prices.
6) Club Championship Trophies based on 2 kids per age division. Even a small club can compete for one of the top 3 trophies.
7) Every 6 year old earns a medal!
8) Neat medals from Hasty Awards with neck ribbons.
9) Qualified, Certified Officials. 3 of our officials worked High School Regional Tournaments last season.
10) We might not be in a big city. However, we will treat you to a well organized tournament, great competition (More than 60 state qualifiers competed in our tournament last year), and a healthy dose of small town hospitality!

We will be bracketing on Thursday evening. Thanks for the entries from all the clubs involved! Please call if you do not see your club name in the list above, and you are planning to come to Burlington.

We are looking forward to putting on a good tournament for the 300 USA Kansas Wrestlers that are coming to Burlington!

See you Saturday!

I would like to congratulate the Burlington wrestling on a well-run tournament. It was one of the few tournaments we have been to that started on time, and everyone running the tournament was friendly and helpful. The introduction was an excellent was to start it all off. I would like to commend you on a great tournament.

Travius

Coach Vander Linden, great tournament, It was ran smoothly. After seeing Matts match how is he doing, he looked sore even in the following matches.

Jeremy

Travius & Jeremy -

Thanks for the compliments. I am glad that both of your clubs were with us. It is good to see young coaches involved in the sport in a positive way.

The credit for the way both of our tourneys (Saturday and Sunday) ran off goes to our wrestling parents and club coaches. They worked really hard to put together two great events that were focused on kids first. I am very grateful to have many great parents involved in our club.

I was also impressed with the sportsmanship displayed by both the wrestlers and the coaches throughout both days. We put that out as an expectation that we would have good competition and great sportsmanship. All 460 kids that competed in Burlington last weekend and coaches from over 40 clubs did a great job in making that happen. I wish all kids tourneys set high levels of sportsmanship as a key factor of tournament success.

Jeremy - Thanks for asking about Matt. He was banged up pretty good. He played a middle school basketball game on Monday and was still a little sore. He was at club practice last night going pretty strong. He will be back in action pretty quick.

Thanks to all the wrestlers, coaches and parents that travelled to Burlington last weekend. You made it a lot of fun for a lot of kids!

- Coach Vander Linden