Farmington Youth Athletic Association

Practices are held at the FHS wrestling room on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Practice will be from 6-6:55 pm for pre-K through 1st grade, and from 7-8:15 pm for 2nd through 5th grade. 

Late registrations will continue to be accepted; you may register online by clicking on the registration link, above.

For more details, please see our new website at:

http://www.farmingtonwrestling.com

6th graders who want to participate in wrestling should sign up for the Middle School program.

If you have questions about wrestling,  please click here for a list of board members, or click here to e-mail us.

Wrestling practice has been going well, in the room and at tournaments you can see that our guys are making good progress on being fundamentally sound, our singles and standups are looking really good when they use them! I was at the 9th grade state tournament last weekend and during the finals saw singles and doubles more than anything else, the basic skills these kids are getting will carry them far if they work hard on perfecting them.

MN/USA:
We had at least 15 Farmington wrestlers in Cannon Falls this weekend for an MN/USA qualifier and everyone wrestled very tough. MN/USA is one of the "post season" tournaments that we have talked about in previous emails, it requires a $30 membership, details for the folkstyle event can be found at: http://mnusa.wrestlingsystems.com/ We have 30 rooms booked at the "Best Western Soldier Field" in Rochester for that Friday and Saturday night. If you wish to use one call down there (507-288-2677) and tell them you're with Farmington wrestling and switch a room reservation to your name. Everyone who gets a room chips in for 1 extra "community" room so that people can hang out there without disturbing the wrestlers while they get a good night sleep. If everyone chips in it should be pretty cheap, I'm not sure on exact cost.

NYWA:
Another option if you'd like to compete in end-of-the-year wrestling is NYWA. Their program requires a $12 membership and their qualifying procedure is a little different than MN/USA. In NYWA you need to go to one of 20 district qualifying events where the top 2 at each make it to one of 6 region events where the top 3 (plus one wildcard to make a 16 person bracket) qualify for the state tournament. This is generally a well run tournament and one of the regions is in Lakeville but keep in mind that many of the coaches will be at MN/USA and the dates conflict so you may have to coach your own kids. More information can be found at: http://www.nywa-mn.com/

Board Meetings:
The Farmington Wrestling Club Board meets on the first Monday of every month at 8:00pm. We have been meeting at Celts in Farmington and will do so again this month. These are open meetings and can be a good way to find ways to help the club out. While kids are not specifically dissallowed given the time and place the meetings are held nobody brings them and it helps keep the meetings moving.