York College Wrestling Quarterly YORK COLLEGE WRESTLING QUARTERLY Fall 2011 Volume 2 Issue 1 COACHES CORNER Notes from the York College Wrestling Coaching Staff: Coach Kessler provides a 2011-2012 outlook. The YCP Wrestling team is ready to hit the mats after a very successful season last year. Leading the team this year will be returning All- Americans Chris Albright and Alex Martocello. Returning starters Chuck Glatz, Chris Gugliotti, Matt Heisey, Kyle Minogue, and George Saliba make this team very deep in experience. Albright, Martocello, Heisey, and Saliba have been named the Captains for this years squad. Also back this year after seeing quality time on the mats last season are Taylor Boyd, Sergo Grigorian, Victor Signorelli, Lucas Bragg, Trent Bond, and Albert Gleichauf. Other returners this season are Dylan Giandalia, Jim Strusowski, and Sal DiSimone. The season's future looks bright as this team has set some very lofty goals to attain in the 2011/12 season. This year recruits will be expected to step in and contribute immediately to any team success. Leading the incoming freshman will be Pat Cassidy (DE State Champ), TJ Demetrio (6 th AAA PA ), Mike Monarque (7 th NJ ), Nick Rea (3x VA placer), Matt Swiger (3 rd MD), John Allenson ( 8th National Preps), Joey Giaccio ( 2x NJ qualifier), Jim Ciampi (NJ qualifier), Drew Spector (NJ qualifier), Jake Siegfried (NJ qualifier), and Justin Lorber (MD qualifier). Adding to the list of this years incoming freshman are Cody Ambrose, Landry Badman, George Baker, Sam Bulagay, Dominick Detore, Bill Dress, Matt Zippilli, and transfers Greg Ciampi and David Goldenberg.
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York College Wrestling Quarterly
YORK COLLEGE
WRESTLING QUARTERLYFall 2011
Volume 2 Issue 1
COACHES CORNERNotes from the York College Wrestling Coaching Staff: Coach Kessler provides a 2011-2012 outlook.
The YCP Wrestling team is ready to hit the mats after a very successful season last year. Leading the team this year will be returning All-Americans Chris Albright and Alex Martocello. Returning starters Chuck Glatz, Chris Gugliotti, Matt Heisey, Kyle Minogue, and George Saliba make this team very deep in experience. Albright, Martocello, Heisey, and Saliba have been named the Captains for this years squad.
Also back this year after seeing quality time on the mats last season are Taylor Boyd, Sergo Grigorian, Victor Signorelli, Lucas Bragg, Trent Bond, and Albert Gleichauf. Other returners this season are Dylan Giandalia, Jim Strusowski, and Sal DiSimone. The season's future looks brightas this team has set some very lofty goals to attain in the 2011/12 season.
This year recruits will be expected to step in and contribute immediately to any team success. Leading the incoming freshman will be Pat Cassidy (DE State Champ), TJ Demetrio (6th AAA PA ), Mike Monarque (7th NJ ), Nick Rea (3x VA placer), Matt Swiger (3rd MD), John Allenson ( 8th National Preps), Joey Giaccio ( 2x NJ qualifier), Jim Ciampi (NJ qualifier), Drew Spector (NJ qualifier), Jake Siegfried (NJ qualifier), and Justin Lorber (MD qualifier). Adding to the list of this years incoming freshman are Cody Ambrose, Landry Badman, George Baker, Sam Bulagay, Dominick Detore, Bill Dress, Matt Zippilli, and transfers Greg Ciampi and David Goldenberg.
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Coach Kessler’s Season Outlook ContinuedThe coaching staff is very excited for this years possibilities and the excellent mix of upper class and incoming wrestlers. We hope to see you at a match this season as we open up November 5 at the Monarch Tournament. Be sure to check out the New Standard Corporation Invitational at York College on December 3 as we now have 11 quality teams coming in. See you in the gym!
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2010-2011 YCP Wrestling Wins Leaderboard
Top 51- Chris Albright 34-32- Alex Martocello 32-63- Chris Gugliotti 24-114- Matt Heisey 23-165- George Saliba 21-2
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Martocello to OTC in Summer of 2011Being an All-American brings certain privileges and rights. Rising Senior and YCP Captain Alex Martocello was able to collect some of those spoils this summer, in what was nearly a missed opportunity. Alex received an invite to the U.S. Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs, CO. He also learned a lesson about checking his mail, a task most college students skip for fear or looking into a blank mailbox. Alex received the invite later than the letter required for R.S.V.P., but he was able to secure a spot to train with the U.S. Greco Jr. World team and he was also able to spend time training with international teams and former world medalists in his 21 day stay in the Rockies. Not native to Greco, Alex undertook a crash course in the week before he left for the OTC. During his time at the OTC Alex spent many hours training with wrestlers from all over the country and world in an enlightening experience. During his time in the OTC Alex set a few goals, but the most notable of these was being able to convert a backflip, which he nailed by the end of the week. During his trip Alex also had the chance to test his mettle when he ran the storied Cog Trail. The Cog is an abandoned shipping trail that runs the side of Pike’s Peak and runs at a nearly 50 degree incline. Alex commented in a phone interview that, “When I got to the top of the track and wanted to back off, I sprinted up the last part, maybe 50 feet or so, and the Finnish coach starts yelling, ‘Spirit! Spirit!’.” Alex’s time out west was well spent and he will take what he has learned; whether it was running the Cog, or wrestling with 2009 World Silver Medalist Mirko Englich to provide perspective for the current and future Spartans. Look for Alex to continue his hard work and expand on his solid career as he leads this team as a 3x captain.
MOLON LABE!
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NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY-MARCH
Nov 5 -- 9 A.M.King’s College Monarch Invite
Nov 12 -- 10:30 A.M.Duals at Hershey At PA Farmshow complex in Harrisburgv.Johns HopkinsShippensburgAmerican Internat’l
Nov 16 -- 7 P.M. At Lycoming College
Nov 19 -- NoonMessiah Quad w/ Lake Erie and Waynesburg
Dec 3 -- 9:30 A.M. New Standard Spartan Invite
Dec 7 -- 7 P.M.Home Opener vGettysburg
Dec 10 -- NoonWilkes Quad w/ Del Val and Muhlenberg
Jan 7 -- 9:30 A.M North South Duals at Ursinus College
Jan 13 & 14 -- 9 A.M.Budd Whitehill Dualsat Lycoming College
Jan 20 -- 7 P.M.High School NightCentral York v. West Yorkand YCP v. King’s
Jan 28 -- NoonMid-Penn Duals at Millersville Universityw/ Shippensburg and Thaddeus Stevens
Feb 4 -- NoonHome Quad w/ TCNJ/E-Town/Hunter
Feb 10 -- 7 P.M.Kutztown
Feb 17 -- 7 P.M.Alumni MatchMcDaniel College
Feb 26 -- 9:30 A.M.Metropolitan Conference Wrestling Championshipsat Elizabethtown
The York College Wrestling Program is excited to announce the introduc9on of the “Spartan Pin Pool”. The coaching staff at York is always looking for new ways to mo9vate our student-‐athletes. We are hoping that the Spartan Pin Pool will do just that; our wrestlers will know that each 9me they get the pin they are also raising money for the program. It’s a win-‐win for the program.
How this works:
Par9cipants pledge anywhere from $1-‐$100 (your choice) for each pin recorded for the en9re season. Each 9me one of our Spartan wrestlers records a pin your pledge goes into our year long pin pool.
Example:
You pledge $10 per pin.At our first dual meet we record 4 falls.You pledge $40 to the Spartan Pin Pool.
Pins 2010-‐11: (Duals, Metros, and Na9onals) = Total of 27 pins (so if you pledge $5.00 a pin = $135.00)
OpBons for ParBcipaBng:
1. End of the year (Pay in Full)
2. As they occur throughout the season
3. End of each semester
4. Sponsor individual wrestler or weight class
5. Patron Fund for a flat fee
Note:
Only Dual meets, Dual meet tournaments will be included for the pin pool. No exhibi)on matches will be
1. End of the year (pay in full)____________________________
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3. End of each semester ___________________________________
4. Patron Fund ___________________________________
5. Sponsor a wrestler or weight class ___________________________________
Thank you for support in motivating our Spartan wrestlers. Having them know that each time they pin an opponent that they are also raising money for the program.
You can count on my support for YCP Wrestling in 2011!
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Please mail this form back with payment, checks should be made out to York College Wrestling and mailed to: York College, c/o Tom Kessler, Wrestling Coach, Country Club Road York, PA 17405
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YCP Wrestling continues to evolve in our training. Last spring with the help of the generous patrons we were able to purchase bumper plates for the wrestling room to augment our outstanding array of training materials which include a full range of kettlebells, throwing dummies, plyometric boxes, tractor tires and sledgehammers. With a kind
donation York College of PA also looks to add Olympic Lifting Bars to the room to improve the training that already exceeds that in most rooms around the nation. If you are interested in sponsoring the team with the purchase of one or more of the six bars we hope to purchase please contact Coach Tom Kessler via e-mail at [email protected].
As always we are very grateful for your generous support and we will continue to put a quality product on the mat for students, families of wrestlers, and alumni to be proud of!
