Welcome to Donegal Elementary Wrestling! We are excited for your child to join our youth wrestling program. The program is for kids grades 1 through 6. Girls and boys are all welcome to join us for an exciting and rewarding experience on the mat. Get ready to develop new skills, grow stronger, and form lasting friendships. We're looking forward to having you with us!

6 Characteristics of a Great WRestler:

Position

The stance and body alignment a wrestler maintains to stay balanced, defend against attacks, and set up offensive moves.

Motion

The movement a wrestler uses to create angles, set up attacks and stay in control during a match.

Technique

The proper execution of wrestling moves, such as takedowns, escapes, and pins learned through practice and repetition.

Intensity

The level of effort, energy, and focus a wrestler brings to practice and competition.

Discipline

The commitment to training, follwing rules, and maintaining a strong work ethic to improve wrestling.

Attitude

A wrestler's mindset, including confidence, perseverance, and sportsmanship, which impacts performance and growth.

Donegal Elementary Mat room Rules:

  • Use the bathroom before practice or during water breaks.  Bathroom breaks will not be allowed during instructional periods, drilling, warmups, or live wrestling.
  • NO gum, candy, food, or drink except water.
  • NO jewelry may be worn by wrestlers during practice.
  • Fingernails must be kept short due to causing injury and spreading germs.  If nails cause injury to other team member they will have to cut their nails or sit out of practice until nails are trimmed by parents or verbal permission is given to coaches to trim nails.
  • NO fighting or foul language, no bullying.
  • NO street shoes on the mats.  DO NOT wear wrestling shoes outside.  Come to practice with them on covered by crocs, slides, old socks, etc.
  • ONLY the wrestlers, coaches, and team mom are allowed to remain in the wrestling room during practice.  Parents may re-enter the DIG 10 minutes before the end of practice.
  • If a wrestler is disruptive at practice, the wrestler will be asked to sit or suspended depending on severity of behaviors until it is deemed wrestler can act in appropriate manner.
  • Take all personal belongings with after practice.
  • This club reserves the right to expel or otherwise bar (either permanently or temporarily) any offending individual and wrestler/parent, etc. affliated with the offending individual, from participating with the club, if rules are continually violated.
  • COME TO PRACTICE WITH THE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND READY TO LEARN.