Monday, December 28, 2009

Ryan Willis won Dixie Nationals U12 190 weight Class


Ryan fought through his weight class and took first place at the Dixie Nationals today at the World Congress Center.

Great Job Ryan

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Who is going to Dixie Nationals?

Just wondering? Also, could you post tournament placers on the blog so we can see who all is competitng and doing well. Continue the good work guys.
Thanks

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Harry Lester

2009-2010: Placed first at the U.S. World Team Trials (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
2008-2009: First place finish at the 11th annual David Schultz Memorial Open (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Gold medalist at the ASICS U.S. Senior National Championships (Las Vegas, Nev.); Named to the Winter 2009 All-Academic Team.
2007-2008: Finished third at the World Championships (Baku, Azerbaijan); Placed first at the Pan American Games (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil); Took fifth in the Ion Cornianu Memorial Tournament (Brasov, Romania); Named to the All-Academic Team; Was chosen by USA Wrestling for an unprecedented sixth-time as athlete of the semester; Silver medal at the Dave Schultz Memorial Tournament (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
2006-2007: Won the bronze medal at the Greco-Roman Senior World Wrestling Championships (Guangzhou, China); Placed second at Turneul International (Brasov, Romania); Captured championship honors at USA Wrestling's World Team Trials becoming the number one ranked wrestler in the nation at 66 kg (Sioux City, Iowa); Sawyer International Airports Elite performer of the month July 2007; Defeated World Champion Li Yanyan of China at the Chicago Cup (Chicago, Ill.)
2005-2006: Won the 2006 U.S. Senior Open Greco-Roman National Championships (Las Vegas, Nev.); Gold medalist at USA Wrestling's 2006 University Greco-Roman National Wrestling Championships (Evanston, Ill.); Claimed championship honors at the 2005 New York Athletic Club Christmas Tournament (New York City); Represented the United States at the 2005 Greco-Roman World Wrestling Championships (Budapest, Hungary); Captured a bronze medal at 2005 University World Games (Izmir, Turkey).
2004-2005: Captured the gold medal at USA Wrestling's 2005 Greco-Roman University National Wrestling Championships (Evanston, Ill.); Placed fifth at the 2004 University World Championships (Lodz, Poland).
2003-2004: Placed first at USA Wrestling's Greco-Roman University National Championships (Evanston, Ill.); Won the championship title at the New York Athletic Club Christmas Tournament (New York City, N.Y.); Named "Outstanding Wrestler" at the 2003 Sunkist International Open (Tempe, Ariz.) with a dramatic come from behind victory over Glenn Garrison of the U.S. Army in the gold medal finals; Member of the United States University World Team.
Personal: Likes to watch law and cooking shows on television, and cook. Has five siblings. He is a two-time World Team member (2005 and 2006) and hopes to be the best that he can be and live life to the fullest. Wants to run his own wrestling club and teach fifth grade. Born on September 30, 1983.

Great turn out at Winter break camp

We had several of our young wrestlers that attended this camp. This was a great 3 days and they met the current Heavy weight Greco Champ and got to train with Harry Lester. With a full house there was plenty of practice partners to trade off and learned a lot of new moves and wrestled with some of the best GA talent.

Hope everyone has a great Holiday

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Jefferson New Year's Classic

The Jefferson New Year's Classic will be held January 2, 2009 at Jefferson High School.

If you are in town, we encourage you to enter your Wrestler. Jefferson does a very nice job in running tournaments and usually draws in some very excellent wreslters.

The tournament Flyer is located at: http://www.teamgeorgiawrestling.com/uploads/2102454151_Jefferson_2010_Tournament_Flyer_in_pdf.pdf

Mapquest Directions can be found here: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=2400+Granade+Road&city=Conyers&state=Ga (address: 575 Washington St, Jefferson, Georgia 30549)