Last summer, we started the Southeast Kansas Takedown League in Burlington to help wrestlers in southeast and east central Kansas. Our goal was to allow wrestlers to improve their technique on their feet and compete in a variety of takedown competitions.

We had 25 wrestlers (sixth through twelfth grade) from West Elk, Eureka, Chanute, Iola, Burlingame and Burlington included in the group were several high school and club level state qualifiers, state placers and state champions. I can list them later if interested.

League Nights are Tuesdays from June 2nd to June 30th for 5 weeks from 6:30 to 8 p.m. We are hoping to have between 40 and 50 wrestlers this summer on 3 mats. Here is the PDF file with our league information:
http://www.usawks.com/invites/090602Burlington.pdf

Contact the Burlington Wrestlng Culb at 620-364-2054 if you would like more information!

We have started getting applications already for our 2nd Annual SEK Takedown League.

We are also excited to announce that Eric Luedke (Kansas HS State Champion, Colby CC National Champion, University of Iowa All-American, and USA Nationals Runner-Up) will be our special clinician on Tuesday, June 16th's Takedown League Night!

Also, look for some exciting news about a possible Takedown Dual between Team SEK and Team NEK....more details to come!

We need more guys for Team SEK to make the dual with Team NEK work. This could be an exciting part of this year's Takedown League!

Please e-mail dougvanderlinden@hotmail.com if you are planning on attending but have not gotten your registration form in the mail!

Thanks!

Doug, how much more room do you have for registration

We still have plenty of room. I have either gotten registrations, e-mails or talked to about 20 wrestlers/parents. We will have room for 40 to 50. We plan to have almost 3 full mats down in our wrestling room this summer!

Also, I had an e-mail about the boundaries of Southeast Kansas. We are NOT restricted to any kind of boundaries. The name Southeast Kansas Takedown League was more about branding than about a geographic limit!!

We are open to draw wrestlers from all over 60 to 90 miles from Burlington. We are open to Emporia, Topeka, Silver Lake, Lawrence, Kansas City, Ottawa, Olathe, Marion, Hillsboro, Burlingame, Eureka, West Elk, Chanute, Fredonia, I could name lots more towns, but I think you get the hint that we won't turn you away just because you don't live in "southeast Kansas."

We want to give wrestlers in our region a chance to get better on their feet by: 1) learning technique, 2) drilling takedowns, 3) competing live against different wrestlers from all over, and 4) more importantly getting a chance to compete in different events to keep a "summer focus" on "winter wrestling!"

24 days until Summer Takedown League....The North and The South squads are starting to gear up for the showdown on June 30th!

We are gearing up for the Start of the League on Tuesday, June 2nd. We have about 20 signed up right now. So the league is a GO!!!

Call us at 620-364-2054 or e-mail me at dougvanderlinden@hotmail.com if you have more questions or to get signed up!!

We have a good mix of MS and HS guys. Here are just a FEW of the guys signed up so far with several of these guys being HS & Kids State Qualifiers, State Placers and Brute All-Americans:

Tanner Weber (West Elk)
Tyler Lowe, Brandon Ray and Cody Ray (Eureka)
Wyatt Jones and Dylan Padgett (Burlingame)
Stephen McDonald (Iola)
Michael Vander Linden, Colt Skillman, Josh Hoch, Billy Dickinson, Matt Garbe (Burlington HS)

Chuckie Schmidt (Eureka MS)
Colby Johnson and Nathan Vander Linden (Burlington MS)

Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
Doug Vander Linden
Burlington Wrestling

Applications and E-mails keep coming! You can bring registrations with you the first night. However, we would like to plan ahead as much as possible so please e-mail or call us to let us know that you are planning to attend.

Here is our update as of Wednesday, May 27th. We have a good mix of MS and HS guys. Here are just a FEW of the guys signed up so far with several of these guys being HS & Kids State Qualifiers, State Placers and Brute All-Americans:

Tanner Weber & Miguel Zargoza (West Elk)
Tyler Lowe, Brandon Ray and Cody Ray (Eureka)
Dylan Padgett, Kyle Harris and Wyatt Jones(Burlingame)
Anthony Gonzalez (Fredonia)
Stephen McDonald (Iola)
Andy Shipman (Marion)
Michael Vander Linden, Colt Skillman, Josh Hoch, Billy Dickinson, Matt Garbe (Burlington HS)

Chuckie Schmidt (Eureka MS)
Luke Plummer (Fredonia MS)
Colby Johnson and Nathan Vander Linden (Burlington MS)

I am starting to study up on my Civil War history. We are gearing up for 4 great weeks of Takedown Work followed by the first ever battle of the North vs. the South on Week #5!

Doug Vander Linden
Burlington Wrestling
dougvanderlinden@hotmail.com
620-364-2054

We are right around 30 wrestlers right now. Hope to get several more right up until tomorrow night. Thing are really looking good!! Here is the updated list:

Tanner Weber & Miguel Zargoza (West Elk)
Tyler Lowe, Brandon Ray and Cody Ray (Eureka)
Dylan Padgett, Kyle Harris and Wyatt Jones(Burlingame)
Elias Parenti and Chris Coover(?) (Ottawa)
Anthony Gonzalez (Fredonia)
Stephen McDonald (Iola)
Andy Shipman (Marion)
Brock Ditto, Trevor Kraft, Michael Vander Linden, Colt Skillman, Josh Hoch, Billy Dickinson, Brent Sturgeon, Tanner Taylor, Andrew Monge, Zach Lee and Matt Garbe (Burlington HS)

Chuckie Schmidt (Eureka MS)
Luke Plummer (Fredonia MS)
Caleb Parenti, Jared Parenti and Mason Turner (Ottawa MS)
Storm Pracht (Anderson County MS)
Gus Farthing, Kendall Jeffers, Taylor Withers, Colby Johnson, RJ Hoyt and Nathan Vander Linden (Burlington MS)

Doug Vander Linden
Burlington Wrestling
620-364-2054
dougvanderlinden@hotmail.com

9 hours to go....