Beat the Streets- Philadelphia
Philadelphia launched its inaugural program in 2009 with one wrestling team. They will begin this year with an ambitious expansion of wrestling. The organizing group has a tremendous group of people and sponsors to help expand wrestling in the City of Brotherly Love.
Benjamin Franklin would have been very proud of what began in 1774 when he wrote the thesis for the City of Philadelphia Education Proposal to the City leaders. What foresight the man had……..
Wrestling was to be one of the sports for kids to participate in building strength and endurance.
America Truly Needs Wrestling especially in today’s current economic crisis. Leaders usually rise during hard times!
BTS Philly Youth Clinic prior to 2011 NCAA Division I Championships
Beat the Streets Wrestling Program Philadelphia has partnered with the NCAA and the 2011 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Local Organizing Committee to sponsor a youth clinic to be held at the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday March 17, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. This clinic will be geared toward promoting the benefits of participation in the sport of wrestling in addition to specific instruction from a number of well known clinicians. This will be an opportunity for many youth within our sponsored programs to learn from individuals that have realized the benefits of the sport through firsthand experience.
Daniel Gould, Ph.D., is scheduled to provide an interactive lesson with the youth in attendance to emphasize the life lessons that can be obtained through participation in the sport. Dr. Gould is a professor at Michigan State University and is the director of the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports.
Brandon Slay, Matt Valenti, Doug Umbehauer and Adam Derengowski are slated to participate in the clinic and provide specific instruction to those in attendance. Brandon Slay was a 2x NCAA Runner-up for the University of Pennsylvania, an Olympic Gold Medalist and the current Freestyle Resident Coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Spring, Co. Matt Valenti was a 3x All-American and 2x NCAA Champion for the University of Pennsylvania where he is the current Assistant Wrestling Coach. Doug Umbehauer was an All-American while competing for Rider University. Adam Derengowski was also an All-American while competing for Rider University.
The combination of Dr. Gould and the group of scheduled clinicians will create an event that allows youth wrestlers that are part of programs sponsored by Beat the Streets Wrestling-Philadelphia to not only increase their technical knowledge of the sport, but also the transfer the mental skills they learn from wrestling to every day challenges.
For more information: www.btsphilly.org
NCAA Youth Clinic article- http://www.btsphilly.org/story/2010/11/08/bts-philly-youth-clinic-prior-to-2011-ncaa-division-i-championships/
Photo Galleries- http://www.btsphilly.org/photos/default.aspx
For more information: contact Al Bevilacqua-
Chairman- Beat the Streets USA Wrestling Program
631-598-2281
Los Angeles is the next “big” “kahuna”!
Any takers….hundreds of high schools with no wrestling in the Unified School District of Los Angeles…what a waste of human potential.
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