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@ Coach Knepper, thanks for the info, I will give you a call Sunday evening if thats ok?

Still looking.... spread the word....

Lions pride grappling is looking for 2-3 more coaches to help with the upcoming Freestyle season. We have 3 locations and currently have 3 coaches. We need to have more coaches that want to help build the wrestling program in Middle TN. You will need strong wrestling credentials, previous coaching credentials not neccissary but preferred, must pass a background check for USAW, and take the USAW coaching syllabus to become a bronze certified coach. Lions Pride will pay for all testing and your coaching card. You will be asked to work with kids from ages 5-22. 75% of the program is made up of grades 8-12. You will be expected to take turns with the coaching staff attending tournements thoughout the state of TN, IN, GA, and IL. LPG will pay for all travel and expenses. Lions Pride Grappling should exceed 100 kids this season for Freestyle and Greco Roman and we are working on becoming the largest program in the state. We are consistently producing state champions though USAW and we are consistently producing High School State medalists. We need a few coaches to step up and join us in making Middle TN the hot bed of wrestling in the state and to start putting some Middle TN wrestlers on the National Map. Our plan is to have coaching rotate one practice one week, and two practices the following. You will be in a different location each practice so you will get an opportunity to work with all 3 locations every 2 weeks. Confirmed locations at this point are Beech HS in Hendersonville and Mcgavock HS in Nashville. Possible 3rd location is Mt. Juliet HS and I am working on a possible location in south Davidson county or north Williamson. This is a paid coaching job. Please contact me Coach Petricca ASAP if your interested. Current or recent college wrestlers would be a plus. coach@lionspridegrappling.com 615-498-0700

We had an ok turn out, considering the Beech had their football game televised and about 20 of their kids were there. We had I believe around 20 total at Mt. Juliet. Monday will be large as we have everyone at Mt. Juliet for the UTC minicamp. We expect the entire group around 60 to be there. Coach Trick

Lions Pride will plan on having around 40 wrestlers competing as we will be in our 4th week of our intensive training camp. Looking forward to a well run tournament by Coach Hatcher and his team.

I can confirm practice was intense, and the heat will get turned up as the weeks progress. As far as Jonathon and Josue..... I can neither confirm nor deny that statment. However, I can say at one point as I was wrestling I did see Josue end up on his back next to me with a one "Jonathon Roberts" on top of him. Josue better pick up the pace if he plans on standing on the podium at state this year, and it looks like Jonathon is on the right track to see his first state podium

We had a great first day turnout for registraion, we had 55 registered betweeen 2 locations. We are expecting around 25-30 more at least over the next 2 practices. For those that are still keeping up, you have time to get your kids into the program. We will take registrations through this week. See you out there. Coach Trick

CAMP STARTS TONIGHT

Updates on guest speakers. September 28th • Mike Hatcher from University of Tennessee Chattanooga will be Instructing/Training and talking about a number of things. As you may or may not know Mike Hatcher trained under the ultimate coach, MR. DAN GABLE for 4 years at Iowa. His 2 hour session will be invaluable to our wrestlers. We are honored to have Mike attending our Lions Pride Camp and we look forward to his session. October 6th • Jamar Landrom a former NFL standout playing for the Pittsburg Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars will be talking conditioning and teaching speed drills, conditioning, plyometrics. He will conclude with diet, nutrition and what it takes to be a top performing athlete to get into college, how to excel in college and beyond. October 13th • Harold Lercius, a former 4 year football standout for Vanderbilt University as a strong safety. Harold is a personal trainer and is an expert in diet, nutrition, and how to obtain the maximimum performance while being lean. How to train to be lean, and how to train for explosion power. Harold will also talk about what is required to be a top performing athlete in high school in order to go onto college. October 20th • Coach Jared Swint Head Coach for Cumberland University. He will be running a full 2 hour camp covering everything we do from conditioning, to instruction, drilling, and what college coaches look for in recruiting wrestlers. We hope to see everyone at registration on Monday and Tuesday at both Mt. Juliet and Beech High Schools. We are pleased to be able to provide some invaluable instruction, motivation, and role models for Lions Pride wrestlers to have at their disposal. We hope everyone takes advantage of the opportunity. Thanks Coach Trick

Coaches, Parents, Wrestlers, Cursory numbers appear to be around 30-40 wrestlers for the Mt. Juliet Practices and around 60-70 for Beech. We will be asking wrestlers to come to the once practice EVERY OTHER WEEK at the opposite school to get the entire group in one facility for the guest speakers/trainers, and for a very large practice and mini dual meet. Monday September 28th Mike Hatcher from UT Chattanooga will be Instructing/Training and talking about a number of things. As you may or may not know Mike Hatcher trained under the ultimate coach, MR. DAN GABLE for 4 years at Iowa. His 2 hour session will be invaluable to our wrestlers. We are honored to have Mike attending our Lions Pride Camp and we look forward to his session. Coach Trick

I understand we have around 6 coming from Hendersonville and a decent group from Rossview. Glad to see East Lit coming, was wondering if they would send anyone as they have a pretty good team. McGavock is sending a few. Any other coaches, parents, or wrestlers, please let us know of anyone from your schools coming.... Coaches, also if you didnt get your email please check your "junk" folder as my domain (lionspridegrappling.com) seems to get filtered there with a number of people for some reason.

Lions Pride will be there

Coaches, We are trying to get an approximate head count for the upcoming Lions Pride Pre-Season 15 Day Intensive Training Camp. Flyers were sent to about 40 High Schools throughout Middle TN and we are do an cursory headcount.. Coaches please let me know how many kids you think you may be sending to the camp… Remeber registration is Monday (21st) at Tuesday (22nd) at Mt. Juliet HS and Beech HS. Camp is 15 sessions for a total of 30 hours... This is primarily for the Middle TN Schools, only because of its locations Coaches, if you didnt get your email please check your "junk" folder as my domain (lionspridegrappling.com) seems to get filtered there with a number of people for some reason. you can get your flyer online at http://www.lionspridegrappling.com. Thanks Coach Petricca

LIONS PRIDE will be bringing approximately 20-30 wrestlers to this tournament.

SharpShooters will have about 15 wrestlers according to one of the coaches. Great program over there with some good coaching. Lions Pride will have about 80 wrestlers between the 2 locations of which 70% are high school age and the rest a middle school and lower.

Most of the ones is TN are going to be 300-400 wrestlers due to participation changes for all TN tourneys by ALL TN USA clubs. This includes ALL divisions, kids through Open. The southern Indiana Grizzly Iron Man is about 600 strong and the Purdue University one is about 1000. In order to compete at the Southeast Regionals in Atlanta you hve to have done the TN State Championships. Last year they did not offer Open at this. Not sure if the SE Regionals even has Open. Typicaly the open division is not real strong in the south and they will bump some age divisions around if participation is low. But up north in Indiana you will find some university studs who will be on the mat. Anyone want to field that one???

well said, now if TSSAA could just get the point. They have definitely got to much power these days and they throw it around way to much. TSSAA always goes back to that they are looking out for the interest of the child in that they want to make sure a coach does not monopolize a kids time with one sport. The reality is that they want to level the playing field and reward those that don't do the extra work to be better. Nothing like trying to get a scholarship, or be pro athlete. Everyone is equal and everyone gets a trophy and a ribbon. Its the most apathetic organization around. It in fact rewards mediocrity and it is slowly strangling individual drive for accomplishment.

I am a club coach only now and formerly a HS coach who had a club team with a private facility OFF campus. TSSAA has a tendency to flip flop allot on interpretation and on who you speak to about it. The last I understood there can be NO OPEN FACILITY during the dead perios that has wrestling involved in TSSAA, regardless of the coach or club coach. Your kids can practice OFF site at a NON TSSAA governed location, but there can be NO TSSAA sanctioned coach present. Coaches, you can not call up and "retire" your title for the off season, TSSAA referees to this as yo yo-ing. You can be striped of your coaching credentials for doing this. NOTE: In dead periods other HS coaches can coach your kids in an offsite location that is not a TSSAA facility. They just CAN NOT come in contact with their own kids, talk to their own kids, instruct, watch, or be in the presence of their kids. They even get as vague as saying that a coach on the premises of a non TSSAA facility while kids are practicing on a club team is in violation. Just a word to the wise, you had better safe than sorry. I also understand that penalties can not just affect your wrestling team but they can extend the long arm of TSSAA into other sports and penalize them for wrestling violations. BE CAREFUL

I am a club coach only now and formerly a HS coach who had a club team with a private facility OFF campus. TSSAA has a tendency to flip flop allot on interpretation and on who you speak to about it. The last I understood there can be NO OPEN FACILITY that has wrestling involved in TSSAA regardless of the coach or club coach. Your kids can practice OFF site at a NON TSSAA governed location with NO coach that is registered as a TSSAA coach. Coaches, you can not call up and "retire" your title for the off season, TSSAA referees to this as yo yo-ing. You can be striped of your coaching credentials for doing this. They even get as vague as saying that a coach on the premises of a non TSSAA facility while kids are practicing on a club team is in violation. Just a word to the wise, you had better safe than sorry. I also understand that penalties can not just affect your wrestling team but they can extend the long arm of TSSAA into other sports and penalize them for wrestling violations. BE CAREFUL

It doesnt get much better than a guy like Zeke telling you why you should freestyle. Pole the tope 4 placers in nearly every weight class at state and will bet that most have wrestled freestyle.

April 2009 Pat Nailen Classic Date(s): April 11th Location: Germantown High School 7653 Old Poplar Pike Germantown, TN 38138 Tournament Format: Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament Age Divisions: Bantam, Intermediate, Novice, Schoolboy, Cadet, Junior, and Open Weigh-ins: TBA April 2009 Lions Pride Invitational Date(s): April 25th Location: Wilson Central HS 419 Wildcat way Lebanon, TN 37090 Tournament Format: Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament, & SUBMISSION GRAPPLING Age Divisions: Bantam, Intermediate, Novice, Schoolboy, Cadet, Junior, and Open, Veteran (all) Weigh-ins: 7:30 AM May 2009 High Calling Wrestling Club Tournament Date(s): May 9th Location: Jones Wrestling Center 850 Raider Drive Cleveland, TN 37311 Tournament Format: Freestyle and Greco-Roman Tournament Age Divisions: TBA Weigh-ins: TBA

If you want to make a trip one day a week up to Lions Pride, we have kids freestyle.... www.lionspridegrappling.com

What area of the state are you from? You can go to my site (www.tennwrestling.com) to see tourney schedules. You will need your USA wrestling card of course to compete and I would suggest getting connected with a freestyle club. There is also a list of clubs on the TWF site that you can get to... There was no pre-qualifiers last year for State But the big season ending tourney in Atlanta required you to have wrestled at your state championships. There currently are 3 major tourneys in TN but my club is going to about 4 in Indiana and a 1000 wrestler tourney up at Purdue University. We are taking a day trip. If you are a state runner up you should come train at my facility, you wont be runner up next year. We also have the TNT (Tennessee National Team) duals and we go to either in Kansas, Missouri or Iowa. We take a duals team that is the best wrestler in Freestyle in the state in each weight to compete against the best duals team from across the USA. Its a great experience to get some national exposure. Coach Trick Lions Pride Grappling

True, Lions Pride Grappling is starting another Freestyle & Greco Roman Season. USA Wrestling season begins in March and runs through the end of June. We practice and train 3 days a week and hit tournaments on the weekends here in TN and a few other states like Indiana, Illinois, and Georgia. We have multiple locations this year due to the large response and we want to accommodate every wrestler we can get into the program. If you are a first time wrestler or a seasoners veteran we have the training to get you to the next level. We train kids from 5yrs old to adults. Coaches who want to learn and get some training are welcome to come and roll for FREE. We have 2 locations for registration this year, March 2nd at Mt. Juliet HS and March 3rd at Beech. Spend one Freestyle season with us and we will give you 2 years of training in 3-4 months. Come test your skills against some of the best wrestlers in the state... There is nothing like the speed and flashiness of freestyle. See you at registration Coach Trick www.lionspridegrappling.com

Coach, go check you gmail, I sent you my roster. I only say that because for some reason my email domain gets caught by gmail and I get dumped into your spam folders. Please check your spam folder for our roster. If you could, please confirm you recieved it by emailing me at coach@lionspridegrappling.com. Thanks Coach Trick