Registered: January, 15 2008 Posts: 354 "What do the schools have to do to receive funding? Is there an application or something they have to do?"
There is a LOA - Letter of Understanding that gets mailed to the colleges in April every year. It should be mailed out to the active college programs in April. The Kansas College Wrestling Fund (KCWF) is in a transition period and Mike Juby is the Treasurer of that committee. The KCWF has funds saved over the last five years. I believe some clubs and individuals are still donating to the fund. I have had some contacts with clubs that donated $1 per entry fee from their tournament. I told them to just mail it to Mike Juby as they have in the past.
Dear Friend of KCWF, October 15, 2016
The Kansas College Wrestling Fund was authorized and established by the USA Wrestling, Inc.-Kansas nearly five years ago in the summer of 2011. It is the mission of the KCWF to provide financial support for Kansas Colleges and universities with active college programs. In the past five years you have been a donor to this fund. Thank you for your past financial support!
Your donations have benefited the 13 Kansas colleges & universities. This number will grow to sixteen programs (womens’s programs are among the 16 currently) this year with the additions at Central Christian College, Saint Mary College, Cloud County CC These wrestling programs have benefited many former Kansas youth and high school wrestlers in the past five years. This past year there were approximately 160 former Kansas youth and high school wrestlers on the thirteen active Kansas colleges wrestling rosters.
There have been several Kansas wrestling All Americans and Academic All Americans at these Kansas colleges over the past five years.
Twelve years ago there were only 6 college programs in Kansas with wrestling. At that time there was 1 four-year college and 5 community college programs. The 2016-17 school year in Kansas will have a total of 16 schools with collegiate wrestling in Kansas. There will be 9 four-year colleges and 7 community colleges around the state providing opportunities for these young student athletes.
You have helped all of these young wrestlers further their wrestling careers in college and more importantly, their academic and career pursuits with your generous support. Over the last five years, the Kansas College Wrestling Fund has generated $91,600 in revenue, paid distribution checks totaling $43,000 and had $11,500 of total 5 year operating expenses. The projected remaining endowment balance should be approximately $42,700 after the annual distributions are sent to the colleges – in September/October of 2016. During the first five years, 180 individual donors, 30 businesses and 268 clubs, KS USA Wrestling and other wrestling organizations contributed to this effort. We are hoping that you will donate again this year. And, we hope to add each year to the number of our donors and the size of our distributions to each college.
Please help these Kansas colleges/university wrestling programs and the young wrestlers of Kansas by donating again this year.
Thank you,
Sean McCarthy Chairman Kansas College Wrestling Fund
Tax ID Number: 48-0981221 / 501(c)(3) tax deductible
