About Us

Our mission is to provide a two-fold wrestling program. We hope to introduce more children to the sport of wrestling and teach them the fundamentals through challenging workouts as well as plenty of games and play times. We also strive to keep our wrestlers for the long haul - we hope to see them as high school standouts and collegiate All Americans. This is done by focusing on fun and fundamentals at the youth level.

We also offer a more fast-paced program for those wrestlers with several years experience who are more serious about the sport. Two to three nights a week, we hold practices for this group only, going over harder moves and creating more challenging workouts to help build better wrestlers. In addition, this year, we hope to host several competitive dual meets and compete at a team level at several open tournaments to offer competitive matches and help fine-tune our wrestlers before the final tournaments.

We also wish to strengthen the Medina Wrestling Program by teaching our wrestlers strong basics, challenging them with innovative moves and combinations and giving them a taste of success to keep them coming back!

We discourage weight cutting at this level, as our athletes, should they begin wrestling in 1st grade, hopefully have a 16+ year career as a wrestler ahead of them. Would anybody like to diet for 16 years?!?! Nope!!

Youth wrestling began in Medina 13 years ago with the Raiders, a product of the hard work and dedication of Rick and Tracy Wasmer. Hundreds of boys and several state place-winners later, in early 2001, with their youngest son approaching high school, the Wasmer's were ready to direct their support at that level. Needing a new head coach, Mr. Wasmer approached Coach Ken Arend with the idea of turning the program over. Immediately, Coach Ken met with several dedicated Medina wrestling families, a Board of Directors was created and "Medina Youth Wrestling" was formed...