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Best Practices for Improving the Recruitment & Retention of Student Wrestlers (ages 6 through 18)
Overview: While we have never, in the history of wrestling, had more students competing at the youth levels, we’ve also never had more forfeits at the high school level. Approximately 25% of all individual dual meet matches at the high school level are forfeits. An argument could be made to solve the challenge by eliminating weight classes at the high school level. But remember, for every weight class we eliminate, we eliminate about 10,000 opportunities for young aspiring student-wrestlers (10,000 varsity and 10,000 future varsity). The NWCA is committed to increasing the number of student-wrestlers at all levels. We command the absolute belief that the students are where they’ve always been…walking the hallways of their schools. What needs to change is how the coach recruits and retains them. This 45 minute online course is designed to help the youth, junior high, and high school wrestling coach understand the following principles:
• Best practices for motivating student-wrestlers at various ages.
• Concepts for keeping wrestling “fun.”
• Ideas on how to provide student-wrestlers with constructive feedback.
• Recognition of when and how to introduce students at various ages to competition.
Link: For more information
http://www.nwcaonline.com/NWCAWebSite/coachingdevelopment/recruitment.aspx