Saratoga Youth Wrestling

Saratoga Wrestling Club Summer Camp is back! Looking for some structure for your kids this summer? Register them for Saratoga Wrestling Club’s 10-day summer camp. This camp is great for all experience levels and fun for all ages. **Open to the first 50 to register. If you wish to register online, please send a direct message or see the contact information on the flyers below.

****UPDATE**** We have met our goal in just a matter of hours! Thank you to everyone who donated to help send Lorenzo to National Duals in May. We have an amazing wrestling community that continues to grow and support our wrestlers. Let’s go TOGA! Let’s go Lorenzo! ... Thanks once again. ************************ Saratoga Wrestling Families, One of our former youth wrestlers and current high school wrestlers, junior Lorenzo Palleschi has been invited to compete in the prestigious NHSCA National Duals. This is a major event and a great opportunity for Lorenzo. We are raising money to help offset the costs of his travel, hotel stay, and tournament fees. OUR GOAL IS TO RAISE $500. Please consider donating. Any amount will help and would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to donate, please venmo @SaratogaWC If you would prefer to send a check, please send a direct message and I will forward you the address to send it. This is a major opportunity for Lorenzo and we would love to see him compete in Virginia Beach! https://nhsca-events.com/national-duals/

Saratoga Wrestling Club is ready for some wrestling today at Queensbury! Good luck to Maksim , Tyson, Rocco, Jacob, Ricky, Nico, Mary, Keelan, Sammy, Brendan, Jayden and Ray! #saratogawrestling

Saratoga had 26 youth wrestlers on the mats today from ages 5-14. The program hit a minor speed bump due to covid-19 but we are picking up some serious momentum from the winter and spring sessions. Guest clinician Taylor Beaury gave a helping hand to the youth crew. #saratogawrestling

Saratoga Youth Wrestling brought home a lot of hardware today at the Ballston Spa Tournament. Jacob, Mary, Brendan, and Teddy all took first place today. Every wrestler fought hard and had fun! Thank you to Ballston Spa for hosting a great tournament. Next up- Queensbury next Saturday. #saratogawrestling

Best of luck to the 8 Saratoga Wrestlers who will be competing at the Journeymen NY State Championships tomorrow. They’ve put in a lot of work and are ready to put it on display. #saratogawrestling

Today’s live stream of Saratoga vs Guilderland. Let’s go Blue Streaks https://youtube.com/channel/UCg2GMcZ8gFn2_WYltxgBBWg

Saratoga Wrestling travels to Burnt Hills to take on the Spartans. Click the link below to watch the live stream. Wrestling begins at 6:00pm. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGhoxLatZ4wuOcuRgrUE0Ag

Saratoga Hosts Ballston Spa at 6:00pm. #Saratogawrestling https://youtube.com/channel/UCg2GMcZ8gFn2_WYltxgBBWg

Saratoga JV and Varsity host their first home match of the 2021 season. Check out the link below and look for the live stream for tonight’s home match vs Niskayuna. More than half of the wrestlers in the lineup have come up through our youth program!... Go Toga! https://youtube.com/channel/UCg2GMcZ8gFn2_WYltxgBBWg

High School wrestling is officially back. Saratoga competed at Averill Park last night in an exciting battle. There were 15 former Saratoga Youth wrestlers in action last night. You can watch the matches by clicking the link below. https://youtu.be/QJVQJ96ilLI

Saratoga’s Griffin Biviano will continue his wrestling career at Oswego. Congratulations Griffin! Anthony Biviano

What are you doing to get better today? There’s no excuse for not improving your fitness level and wrestling skill each day, especially during this quarantine. You either do the work or you don’t. Training many wrestling skills can be done with little or no equipment. Strength, mobility and many other physical abilities can be improved at home without even needing a training partner. ... Here are some things you can do at home to work towards becoming a champion. running, bike riding, hiking jump rope stance/motion drills mat drills such as hip heists, cut-aways (flare-outs), wall walks, shoulder rolls, stand up hops, forward and backward rolls, head stands, front and back bridges, sit-outs and base drill. Greco-Roman (no leg attacks) with a sibling Plyometrics (jumping or hopping) ***Watch Wrestling! - watch an Olympic, world championship or NCAA championship match, a technique video or clinic.*** What are you doing to get better today?

We hope our Saratoga Wrestling family is doing well. Here’s a great bottom technique video from my college coach, Tom Ryan. Best wishes and hope to be back on the mats soon, Coach Polcare... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NWKEcBlKo

Push-up challenge Varsity Head Coach Coach Zanetti challenges you to do as many push-ups as you can today. Have your parents post your result and be honest. Let’s have some fun and challenge ourselves while we are riding this thing out.

Here is a great video on stance and motion drills. These can be done without a mat or a partner. Oklahoma State Coach and 6-time world champion John Smith explains the effectiveness and importance of mastering these fundamental drills. We use these drills in our practices often for warm-ups, skill acquisition, and conditioning. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IMwQI_zt4

Informational video for beginning wrestlers and their families Here are a few instructional videos with arguably America’s greatest wrestler of all-time, Oklahoma State Coach and 6 time world champion, John Smith. One of the easiest, yet most underutilized ways that wrestlers can get better is watching wrestling. We will be periodically uploading several technique videos and matches for kids to watch and learn from. ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Sw5UBdLD4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1jRARJoVg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZs0uyr6EEE