2006 FALL NEWSLETTER 

October is here and wrestling rooms will be open in a matter of weeks!  At Olympic, we’re hard at work getting our wrestlers ready for the upcoming season.  We’ve had a full room all Summer, and now that Fall is here, we have many new and returning wrestlers.  We’ve expanded our hours to accommodate all our wrestlers and keep our program productive and safe.  Check out our website for specific nights and times.  Our room is full of tough kids covering all ages and weights.  Both Florian and I have high expectations for many of our guys this season.  We’ll be reviewing individual goals with all of our wrestlers over the next few weeks in order to align our expectations with their objectives.

 We want to mention a few items as we embark on our new season.  First, we’re proud of the premium Olympic puts on academic performance.  You’ve often heard Florian stress that academic achievements are even more important than wrestling achievements.  To underscore this point Olympic has established a scholarship program which will reward our most deserving high school senior scholar athlete with a $1,000 scholarship.  We have established specific eligibility criteria to qualify for this scholarship reward.  You can get this information from Scott.  We’re setting up a blue ribbon panel to evaluate our candidates and select the eventual winner.  Good luck to all who participate!     

Secondly, we’ve renewed our Recruitment Incentive Program.  The program is designed to reward members with free months in return for bringing in new wrestlers.  It works like this: for each new member you bring in who signs up for at least a three month membership, we’ll give you one month free.  If you bring in two guys you get two free months, and so on.  It’s an easy way to reduce the cost of your membership…and a good way to strengthen your wrestling team at the same time.  So, talk us up with your friends and teammates…and save some money!

Thirdly, again this winter Olympic will be offering a special Winter Plan to all grade school (through 7^th grade) wrestlers.  The plan will be similar to past years in that it is designed to work in conjunction with Rec programs so that junior wrestlers will be able to wrestle in their town programs and also work out at Olympic when it’s convenient for them.  The Winter Plan is available Dec 1^st – March 31^st.  Grade school wrestlers will be able to attend any 30 sessions at Olympic over this four month period for only $450.  See Scott or Florian for more details.                

In closing we wanted to mention that the Olympic Wrestling team competed in and WON the Long Island Knockout Summer Duals held last month in Rocky Point, Long Island.  We’re proud of our guys who wrestled in this tournament. 

Good luck to all our wrestlers this season!