About Us
Published by SIon King
Aug 30, 2020
Prosper Wrestling Academy is a new youth club, founded by the Prosper High School Wrestling coaches. A need was recognized for the youth in our community to be trained up in the way of our High School wrestling system. If this need is met in the most efficient way, our young athletes will be well prepared for the high school level and beyond!
METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT
Young wrestlers from K-8 grade are physically and cognitively growing and developing. We want them to enjoy the sport first! If it becomes too monotonous or intense, it will become a labored experience (more like a job) and we will lose our young athletes by the time they arrive at the high school level. With our K-6th grade, we really aim at putting a greater emphasis on developing their balance, coordination, and gaining a very basic concept of wrestling movements/positions. We accomplish this through everyday warm-up exercises and movement drills to help them gain mat awareness without getting too technical and overwhelming them. Wrestling games are also implemented to teach the body/mat awareness and proper positioning.
The academy will begin to add a little more of the technical side with the 6-8 grade wrestlers without compromising the fundamentals of wrestling.
PHILOSOPHY
We have found that high school athletes put a tremendous amount of pressure on themselves to win and it can negatively affect their performance!
In an effort to prevent this issue, coaches will help to develop a good mindset in our athletes. We will stress effort and execution of wrestling technique at competitions, whether they win or lose. Winning is a result and reward of an athlete's diligent hard work and effort. Losing gives the gift of exposure to one's mistakes. Coaches will use the knowledge from their losses to teach the athlete and help them improve their ability! Athletes will learn to see the value of their hard work in practice and begin to relate that to their performance in competition.
OVERALL MISSION
The high school coaches and youth coaches will work together to teach the Prosper High School system. The ultimate goal is to use wrestling as a tool to help along the development of young athletes into great servant leaders of this community!
METHOD OF DEVELOPMENT
Young wrestlers from K-8 grade are physically and cognitively growing and developing. We want them to enjoy the sport first! If it becomes too monotonous or intense, it will become a labored experience (more like a job) and we will lose our young athletes by the time they arrive at the high school level. With our K-6th grade, we really aim at putting a greater emphasis on developing their balance, coordination, and gaining a very basic concept of wrestling movements/positions. We accomplish this through everyday warm-up exercises and movement drills to help them gain mat awareness without getting too technical and overwhelming them. Wrestling games are also implemented to teach the body/mat awareness and proper positioning.
The academy will begin to add a little more of the technical side with the 6-8 grade wrestlers without compromising the fundamentals of wrestling.
PHILOSOPHY
We have found that high school athletes put a tremendous amount of pressure on themselves to win and it can negatively affect their performance!
In an effort to prevent this issue, coaches will help to develop a good mindset in our athletes. We will stress effort and execution of wrestling technique at competitions, whether they win or lose. Winning is a result and reward of an athlete's diligent hard work and effort. Losing gives the gift of exposure to one's mistakes. Coaches will use the knowledge from their losses to teach the athlete and help them improve their ability! Athletes will learn to see the value of their hard work in practice and begin to relate that to their performance in competition.
OVERALL MISSION
The high school coaches and youth coaches will work together to teach the Prosper High School system. The ultimate goal is to use wrestling as a tool to help along the development of young athletes into great servant leaders of this community!