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JUNIOR HIGH WRESTLING AS A FEMALE IN IOWA

If you tuned in last week, and the week before, you know how I got to this point. After I had been going to practice for a while, my parents agreed to let me go to some tournaments. My coach, Mr. Macki, advised that my parents sign me up as R. Watters instead of using my first name. This way there wouldn’t be any bias when I was put into a group, just in case. This was great advice, but it only really worked for a while and for farther away tournaments. People eventually caught on that R. Watters was that girl from Ballard. I don’t remember noticing much sexism at elementary tournaments, but it became very clear to me that some people didn’t agree with what I was doing once I was in junior high. By that time, all of my male teammates were used to me. It wasn’t weird to them anymore that I was the only girl in the room. My coaches were that way as well; I had been consistently going to practice for two years and working my butt off. I was finally in the advanced group at practice, and I think had won over most of the people in my area, but this was still a new thing for basically the rest of Iowa. The first tournament I received a forfeit I didn’t think anything of it, because other guys on my team got forfeits too. Farther into the junior high season, we had a tournament and my coach came up to me and said, “They aren’t going to wrestle you.” I was confused. Why not? My coach was livid. This was one of the first times I really felt like maybe I shouldn’t be there. At a tournament a couple of weeks later, I wrestled a kid and beat him pretty handily, but it was a good match. I went over to shake his coach’s hand, which was customary in junior high wrestling, but the coach refused. Similar things continued to happen in junior high and my second year was even worse than my first. I had the same amount of people forfeit to me as those who would wrestle me. Some boys in junior high figured they would rather forfeit than wrestle a girl. By my second year, I was used to it. At first these forfeits tore me down, but as I grew older, all they did was fuel my fire. I had something to prove. I wanted people to know I was serious. I was a wrestler. Tune in next week for my blog about how I almost quit wrestling because of puberty.

f you tuned in last week, you will know how I ended up going to my first wrestling practice. If you missed last week, you can check it out here. https://myhousesportsgear.com/blog/how_i_got_into_wrestling/

To prepare for wrestling practice, my mom took me to Scheels to get some wrestling shoes. Actually, still to this day, I have my Nike Speedsweeps that I wore to my first practice. I can fondly remember sitting in my room trying on my shoes, unable to contain my excitement for my wrestling practice the next day.

The following day, I couldn’t sit still in school waiting for 6:30 to roll around that night. The practice was held at the high school, and when I got there high school practice was still going on, so I waited outside in the hallway with my fellow elementary wrestlers. Finally, it was time for practice to start; we started by running and I slowly started to realize that I was the only girl there. All of these thoughts soon washed away when we started “playing” Fox and the Hound. I put playing in quotes because our coaches called it a game, but we thought it was terrible. In order to play the game, you first need to decide who the hound is, and then the rest of the players are foxes. The foxes start on one side of the room and the hound on the other. The game is only over when one fox passes the hound or when the hound passes all of the foxes. As you can imagine, this game took forever and required you to sprint for a long period of time. I know that this game may sound terrible, I distinctly remember pushing myself so hard that I puked afterward on multiple occasions, but it is one of the things that made me buy into this sport. I had never had to push myself so hard, and for so long, in any other sport. This made wrestling stand out for me. After we were all exhausted from fox and the hound, it was time to stretch and start technique. Before we started the technique portion of the practice, we were split into three groups by skill level. I was, of course, put in the first group for beginners. However, my friends that were my age were all in the most experienced group. This lit a fire inside me that I still have at the age of 21. I eventually did make it to the experienced group, but not without a ton of hard work and proving people wrong.

Stick around for next week’s blog where I talk about the controversy I overcame as a junior high female wrestler.

I get asked a lot how I got into wrestling. An interviewer once asked me if I had any older brothers who wrestled, not quite. In my family, I am the oldest of three girls. I think having three daughters freaked my dad out. He practiced Jiu-Jitsu since before I was born. My dad signed me and my sisters up for Jiu-Jitsu at a young age, so that we could defend ourselves in the future if need be. I don’t think he knew what these classes would ultimately lead me to later in life. I liked Jiu-Jitsu practice and even did a tournament or two, but soon I found another sport that would steal my heart.

In fifth grade, I was a very talkative and outgoing kid. I would tell anyone who would listen about my Jiu-Jitsu classes. One day, I happened to mention it to my elementary guidance counselor. Thinking back, I am very glad I did. Mr. Macki, the guidance counselor, was also one of the club wrestling coaches. He quickly invited me to a wrestling practice that next week at the high school. I was beyond excited to go and try it. I didn’t know much about wrestling at this age, but that didn’t keep me from being stoked for the next week to roll around.

After school, I asked my mom if I could go. At my age, I was always running and playing football with the boys. I don’t think my parents thought there would be much harm letting me try a wrestling practice, especially since I was only 11.

Stick around for my blog next week to see how my first practice went!Posted  By 

Rachel Watters

Not many athletes get the opportunity to compete on the world or Pan-American level. Many wrestlers and wrestling fans set alarms for the middle of the night to watch their favorite team compete against the best in the world. Some spectators just wait to see the results pop up on their Twitter feed, but overall many people wonder what it is like to compete internationally. I get asked that question a lot. Whenever I mention that I have competed for Team USA overseas, people immediately want to know what it is really like. Let me take you through what it entails to compete at an international event for Team USA.

First of all, many times Team USA has a training camp before every international event especially world events. The athletes fly either to the Olympic Training Center or an acclimation camp somewhere in the same time zone as the event. I remember for Junior Worlds in 2017 we spent just about two weeks at the Finnish Olympic Training Center, before busing down to the capital to compete. If there is no pre-event camp, all members of Team USA fly overseas together. Teammates come from all over the USA, but we meet up in a common airport before making the big international flight. Let me tell you, cutting weight on an eight-hour flight is a different kind of terrible, but it does make you cherish the airplane food on the way back even more! When you first land in an airport overseas, it is a bit of a shock for those that haven’t been out of the country. When waiting for your bag, you notice that everyone around you is speaking in another language. The airport is a good place to start though, because most airports have a little English on their signs.

Next, Team USA gets on a bus to the hotel. Almost every other team will be at your hotel. The hotel also provides three meals a day and normally has wrestling mats and scales set up in a ballroom or conference room. I never thought I would be able to say I wrestled under a chandelier, but check that off the bucket list! Athletes will walk into breakfast and see the person they are competing against later that night eating at the table next to them. It is a weird, but very cool dynamic. It makes you realize that, no matter what part of the world you are from, everybody is just there to wrestle.

From the hotel, there is a bus that takes you to the venue and you pile in with all your competitors. It is normally an interesting drive down narrow streets. Weigh-ins are done behind a curtain with two officials and you must remember your passport. After weigh-ins, it is warm up time. When it is your time to wrestle, the staff will find you and will give all of your belongings to a kid with a box. Normally, these kids are wrestlers themselves and they volunteer because they are huge fans who want to see everything up close and personal. You are then escorted to the stage you will be wrestling on, hearing them announce your full name and country. Once you get on the mat, everyone is just trying their best to wrestle to their fullest ability.

It is definitely hard to keep the nerves at bay when you are competing on the world stage, both figuratively and literally. Just keep in mind that the clocks count up and not down. Another interesting thing to note about international tournaments is the elimination process. In the United States, tournaments are typically double elimination, but not at international events. They are single elimination with repecharge. This means that once you lose, you are out of the tournament, unless the wrestler you lost to makes it to the finals. One more interesting thing to note is that two people get third place at international events. Besides these small differences, at the end of the day, it is just a wrestling tournament and everyone is trying to be the best. No matter what country is announced with your name, it all just boils down to who is left standing victorious on the mat.

If you have never made the journey up to Fargo, North Dakota in the middle of July then you are missing out on the main event of High School Freestyle and Greco Wrestling. The United States Marine Corps/ USA Wrestling Freestyle and Greco Nationals are known to most by the city it is held in; Simply Fargo. When athletes show up to this event they immediately see the size of the arena they are competing in. The Fargo Dome not only houses North Dakota State University’s events, but it is also home to a minor league football team and huge name concerts. As a middle or high school wrestler, it is a huge opportunity to compete in such a gigantic venue. The staff at the Fargo Dome make the wrestlers enter through a separate entrance than all of the spectators. This gives these athletes a sense of importance. This dome that can hold 25,000 people and has a special entrance for athletes are not the only attributes that make this venue special. Unlike any other National freestyle or Greco tournament, athletes compete individually in the event, but they represent their team (which is their state).

Many teams travel together and have athletes from all over the state representing their state’s name on their singlet. Sometimes athletes on the same team can be from 3 hours apart, but this is the beauty of Fargo. Not only making friends with teammates from all over the state you live in, but the ability to compete against the best wrestlers in the United States of America and Puerto Rico. For many middle and high school wrestlers, this is the BIGGEST and HARDEST tournament they have EVER competed in. 

I remember personally walking into the Fargo Dome for the first time as a first-year Cadet and noticing that the event had 27 mats. It was a HUGE difference from my previous biggest high school tournament that had only consisted of four mats. Not only is the atmosphere different from any other tournament, so is the wrestling. For many athletes including myself, Fargo is the first tournament they compete in that is Freestyle or Greco. As a Fargo coach, I am often faced with the question, “What if I had never done Freestyle before?”, but that is the point of Fargo to expose an athlete to international styles of wrestling. But wait, there is more. It doesn’t just stop with wrestling. Many times when athletes are done competing they make their way outside to the “market”. On the stretch of sidewalk outside the athlete entrance, wrestlers set up gear for other athletes to buy. Wrestlers from every state try to sell and trade wrestling gear to get the coolest gear from that year and the years past. Not to mention, rare wrestling shoes, headgear, calendars, and even backpacks are for sale. When you get sick of the “market” you can always head across the street to Buffalo Wild Wings. A treasured meal after competing is done.

When Fargo is over athletes pile back up into vans, buses, and even airplanes to get back to their state. They bring with them gear from Fargo that will not only make all of their teammates back home jealous but also the ability to say that they went and competed in Fargo.

Korina Blades, Reese Larramendy, and Kennedy Blades with their National Champion from Wyoming Seminary representing their state.

Father’s Day is around the corner! MyHOUSE Sports Gear has a Father’s Day Contest for the chance to win 14 FREE custom singlets! Who doesn’t like free things? If you are interested to win free singlets follow these rules down below!

• Dad’s, grab your kids, everyone put on a singlet and make a video nominating 3 other Dads to do the same or donate $25 or more to Beat the Streets NYC.

• Post your video to Facebook and make sure to tag our page, MyHOUSE Sports Gear and use the tag #MyHOUSEDads. Make sure, you are NOT private. The video only counts if we can see it.

• If you chose to not make a video and want to donate to be entered in the contest, head over to  https://www.btsny.org/donate and donate at least $25. Under  the “Billing Address” section, check the box next to “Make this gift on behalf of an organization” and type “MyHOUSE Sports Gear” in the box.

• The Dads who make a video following all of the rules will be put into a random drawing to win 14 free fully custom singlets for their kid’s team.

• The Dads who make a $25 or more donation must show proof by emailing us at shanice@myhousesportsgear.com, they will be put into a 2^nd  random drawing to win 14 free fully custom singlets for their kid’s team.

• YES, you can make a video and a donation to be entered into both drawings!

• The contest will end on June 13^th at 11:59 pm est. We will choose the winner LIVE on Rise & Grind on June 14^th!

More than enough time to enter this contest, HAVE FUN & GOODLUCK!

Spring has sprung! While it still may feel like winter outside (at least in NEPA), we have a bunch of new gear for men, women, and baby that’ll get you ready for the warm weather.Our MyHOUSE designers have been busy creating new designs just for you. Check out our brand-new MyCrib singlets, women’s leggings and quarter zips, and men’s singlets and shorts.We’ll be designing and creating new gear for you all spring and summer. Keep a look out and check our online store and social media pages for new items.Can’t find something in our store that you NEED? Send us a message and you just might see gear influenced by you pop up.

The PIAA State Team Championships kicked off on Thursday, February 7th. Thirty-two of the best teams from high schools around PA gathered in the Giant Center in Hershey, PA to compete. Families, friends, and high school cheer teams came out to support their favorite wrestlers all weekend. FloWrestling was even there to stream for all of the fans that couldn’t make it out.There was not a dull moment in Hershey. The roars of cheering could be heard all throughout the Giant Center and MyHOUSE was there to witness it all.Being the official apparel sponsor of the PIAA, MyHOUSE showed up in a big way. All weekend, the MyHOUSE team hosted contests, photo ops, and sponsored the t-shirt cannon.We brought out the 5lb Hersey bar and let fans and wrestlers pose in front of the Address of Champions wall to win some pretty sweet wrestling gear.Chocolate Town, USA served up some great wrestling all weekend. We want to say congratulations to all of the teams that came out. Your hard work and dedication to wrestling does not go unnoticed. Congrats to the AA winner, Reynolds, and the AAA winner, Bethlehem Catholic. If you want to watch recaps of the weekend, head over to FloWrestling to tune in.We’re looking forward to next month at the PIAA State Individual Championships. Our team will be there with more chances for giveaways and more fun! Make sure to stop by our booth if you’re at the Giant Center.

MyHOUSE is getting out of the cold Pennsylvania weather and heading to Boca Raton, Florida for the 5th Annual MyHOUSE Invitational. The tournament will be held Friday, February 1st through Saturday, February 2nd at Olympic Heights High School. Last year’s champions, Fleming Island, came in with 282.5 points. Can they reclaim their title? Who will be this year’s MyHOUSE champion? Check out our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for winners, shenanigans and more.

Happy New Year!New year, new MyHOUSE. We’re in the process of revamping everything over here. Get ready for some awesome new contests, photos, sales, and products throughout the year.In case you missed our exciting December, we’ll catch you up. We started the month off by attending the Wyoming Valley Conference where wrestling coaches held their inaugural Media Day with 12 of the 13 teams in the conference. MyHOUSE was there in full force to support and deliver goods to the athletes in attendance.In December, we had some amazing sales for women in wrestling and also the men too! We’ll let you in on a secret, if you missed out on those, don’t worry, the sale is ongoing! Head over to grab some great practice gear today!On December 15th and 16th, we hosted the MyHOUSE X-Calibur with Wyoming Seminary at Wilkes University. There was an amazing turn-out with a ton of MyHOUSE athletes taking the podium. Our very own Alison was even there to hand out medals and awards.We celebrated Christmas by thanking our staff for an amazing year. We cut the day short and had an Ugly Christmas Sweater party! Check Facebook to see all the sweet sweaters our staff sported.Lastly, we rounded out 2018 with the MyHOUSE Trojan Wars and Powerade Tournament. We had so much fun cheering on all the amazing wrestlers and can’t wait for next year’s tournaments.Looking forward to 2019, we can’t wait to grow our relationship with our customers. We thank you for continually choosing MyHOUSE to provide for your wrestlers. Just wait to see what else we have up our sleeves for the new year!We want wish everyone a happy and healthy new year!

It’s the busiest time of year here at MyHOUSE! Along with spending countless hours creating gear and making sure it’s perfect for all of our amazing teams, we hosted a tournament, made it out to a couple of wrestling events, and celebrated our amazing customers with a ton of sales. Time flies when you’re having fun and our MyHOUSE family was loving every minute of it.November 10th – November 11th we hosted the Journeyman/MyHOUSE Northeast Duals & Collegiate Classic. Nationally ranked wrestlers from across the US traveled to New York to compete. It was a grueling competition, but 10 athletes came out on top and received The Hammer! Congrats to Nick Farro (Lehigh), Ben Thornton (Purdue), Chance Marstellar (Lock Haven), Jordan Kutler (Lehigh), Dom Demas (Oklahoma), Justin Oliver (NC State), Lucas Weiland (Army), Nick Reenan (NC State), Rocco Caywood (Army), and Jordan Wood (Lehigh).Last month, we released our very anticipated Ugly Christmas Singlet! Our “Seasons Beatings” singlet was designed by our designer Mark and it was a hit! We kicked off the sale with the singlet selling for only $25! We didn’t stop there. We had such a good response to the singlet that we decided to drop the price even lower for our Cyber Monday sale. Some very lucky customers got to snag our Christmas singlet for only $20!With Thanksgiving just behind us, we like to reflect on what’s been going on the past few months. We want to thank our customers for choosing MyHOUSE to outfit your wrestlers. We take pride in each and every piece of gear we create for you. Thank you for a great kick off to the wrestling season! Don’t forget to check out our December events – X-Calibur December 15th & December 16th, MyHOUSE Trojan Wars December 28th & December 29th, and The Powerade Tournament December 28th & December 29th.

MyHOUSE is proud to announce that we are now supporting Girl on the Mat!

Girl on the Mat is a non-profit organization, based in Orange County, California, founded by female wrestlers, in support of female wrestlers. Their goal is to empower girls to step on the mat, provide equal opportunities for them and to help grow and promote the sport of women’s wrestling.

Former female wrestler, Monica Serratos, along with her husband and their 3 daughters, are motivating more girls to try wrestling. Since starting Girl on the Mat earlier this year, they have already made an impact. The young and knowledgeable Serratos sisters have a YouTube channel where they review women’s cut singlets, shoes, and clinics. They have done everything from being guests on podcasts to conducting their own interviews. Fernando Serratos hosts girls only wrestling practices, teaching the next generation of female wrestlers all the tips and tricks to help them succeed.

Girl on the Mat provides you with up to date information on the ever-growing female sport. Not only do they provide you with the best wrestling gear, they also give information on monthly battles and tournaments across the United States.

If you would like to support Girl on the Mat in their journey to educate about female wrestling, please follow this link to donate: https://girlonthemat.org/donate/

To learn more about Girl on the Mat, visit their website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or Instagram pages.

https://girlonthemat.org/

Some claim to be the first, but in 2014 we created the first women’s racerback singlet! With women’s wrestling becoming more popular, we wanted to give female athletes a choice and give them something to compete their best in. MyHOUSE Director of Operations, Elke, created the first singlet of its kind. Our women’s racerback singlet is specially designed for the female body, comfortable, and form fitting. Since 2014, we’ve been listening to our female wrestlers to get our women’s singlet perfect! We’ve improved our design over the years to give you the best quality. The difference is in the detail.

October was full of excitement for the MyHOUSE family. We had the privilege of being the official wrestling brand for 23 countries in the Senior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Tim Pane, got the chance of a lifetime to travel to Budapest to watch and support all of the amazing wrestlers there. He even got to stay with the wrestlers from Team Jamaica for a night, thanks to our friend and Jamaica coach, Aurelio Valdez.

MyHOUSE athletes earned a total of 5 medals while in Budapest. Yowlys Bonne from Team Cuba, earned gold to become a world champion! Team Cuba also scored bronze with Alejandro Valdes Tobier, Frankie Maren, Lianna Montero Herrera and Oscar Pino Hinds! Special shoutout to Alejandra Romero Bonilla from Team Mexico. She came out to Budapest, by herself, to compete in worlds. She killed it and placed in 5^th! All of the wrestlers were amazing and put up a tough fight. Congratulations to everyone. You all looked pretty sick in your MyHOUSE singlets too.

Check out highlights on our social pages.

Have you been following us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter? Tune in for all of the latest info on MyHOUSE.

  We wanted to make your experience designing custom team gear a breeze.

Our newly modernized MyHOUSE Design Studio is better than ever.

  Don’t have a laptop on hand? Not a problem!

Our MyHOUSE Design Studio is compatible with desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices.

  We have also expanded our custom team wrestling gear Design Studio apparel options.

You can now design our Mirco Peach Wrestling Shorts, Singlet, Compression Top (with 3-inch tail),

Quarter Zip, Embroidered Gear Bag, Sublimated Gear Bag, Sling Bag, and more!

MyHOUSE Design Studio Features

   Want to see what you created on a different template? You got it! You can switch from template to

template while retaining previous colors, logos, and clip art used in your original mock-up.

Well, what are you waiting for?!

 Start designing your custom team wrestling gear today!

Get Pumped for Journeymen Wrestling / MyHOUSE Sports Gear Northeast Duals & Collegiate Classic going down this weekend!

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017 – Duals Shenendehowa High School :

Participating teams: Castleton University – D-3, The Citadel, Hofstra University, Ithaca College D-3, Kent State University, Long Island University – D-2, North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma University, Purdue University, Rutgers, Sacred Heart University and the University of Virginia.

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017 – High School All-Star Showcase featuring nationally ranked wrestlers.

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017 – Youth Duals: Featuring 8 top-tier east coast clubs

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017 – Clinic with World Bronze Medalist Nick Gwiazdowski

Sunday, Nov 12, 2017 – Round Robin Individual Tournament at HVCC, Troy NY:

Participating teams: American University, Army, Castleton University – D-3, The Citadel, Hofstra University, Ithaca College D-3, Kent State University, Lehigh University, Lock Haven University, Long Island University – D-2, North Carolina State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Virginia and Virginia Tech University.

Hope To See You All There!
*Also Broadcasting Live on Flowrestling*

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With Fathers Day right around the corner, MyHOUSE wanted to do something a little special. Join in on celebrating all of those Wrestling Dads out there with our #MyHOUSEFathersDay Contest.

How To Enter:

1. Must LIKE / COMMENT / SHARE this image.

2. Wrestlers, you must send us a picture of yourself and your Wrestling Dad, as well as give us a written answer to, “What Does Your Wrestling Dad Mean to You”.

3. Wrestlers, Email Entries to shanice@myhousesportsgear.com along with your social media user name so we can tag you in your image.

4. We will post #MyHOUSEFathersDay Pictures to our Facebook wall when we receive them via Email.

5. All entries must be in by Thursday June 15, 2017 – Noon Eastern Time.

6. Once contest has closed, our MyHOUSE Crew will go through all the entries and choose 1 lucky winner.

7. Winner will be announce Friday June 16, 2017 on our Facebook Live!

Winner will receive their choice of one MyHOUSE Singlet, and also win one of our new specialty Wrestling Dad T-Shirts for their Father. Make sure you follow all of the rules and Remember, To Submit Your Entries,

Email: shanice@myhousesportsgear.com

When discussing the importance of purchasing the right wrestling gear, there are some that may consider it a waste of time. The general misconception is that all wrestling apparel is the same. Well, that’s just not the case. There is a variety of wrestling gear out there, depending on ones comfort preferences as well as their skill level. A very important piece of wrestling gear, that some may over look, are wrestling shoe. Yes, wrestling shoes. I know, a shoe might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you looking for wrestling gear.

 What you need to look for in a Wrestling Shoe:

Comparing wrestling shoes with every other shoe and calling them same is one thing that will piss your wrestling coach more than anything else. Not every shoe is same, and not every shoe is a wrestling shoe. Wrestling shoes are specially designed to support wrestlers feet and ankles while they play. The soles of these shoes are tract focused to avoid any chances of slipping for the wrestlers, which again you won’t find in every other shoe.   

 1. Traction focused soles: Most of the wrestlers fail to cope up with one similar issue and that is slip and fall due on the floors while in a match or practicing. The reason being lack of proper wrestling shoes that fail to focus on traction. So, whenever you are shopping for shoes make sure you consider traction as one of the primary evaluation factor, unless you want to fall deliberately.

 2. Go for high top ankle shoes: Normal low ankle shoes fail in protecting your ankles while your feet makes contact with your opponent’s body during the game. Most pro wrestlers go for high ankle shoes that cover their ankles which helps decrease the chance of an injury.

How many types of Wrestling Shoes are there:

Depending on the comfort level, there are two types of wrestling shoes:

• Split sole shoes: Split soles shoes are divided into two parts and each part of the sole is made of different rubber. The advantage of these shoes is that these are more comfortable and mimics the feel of walking barefoot.
• Non-Split soles: Non-split shoes are lighter in weight compared to split soles and are made of one single rubber. These shoes provide less flexibility to the feet restricting them to stay straight. One advantage of non-split sole shoes is that these are more durable compared to split soles.

I can go on and on about how great MyHOUSE’s custom team gear is, but then again I work here. So instead of hearing from me ramble on about how MyHOUSE has the best wrestling gear and team apparel on the market… I think it might be best to take a look at what our customers had to say about us…

We love the singlets.  They turned out great.  We wore them as a team for our 1st ever state duals appearance.  We got a team picture with them on after our first dual we won down there. I will likely go your way for all future singlet purchases.  We really liked the material you used as well and the price was very affordable.  Also, thanks for getting them done so quick for us.  You were the only place that could do it that quick.  I tried my normal places I have used in the past first and they all told me they couldn’t do it. – Big Reds Wrestling ~ Coach
 
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First of all…the bags came out amazing!  Got them in last week.  The kids are going to go nuts! I love the hoodies too! – Joliet West High School ~ Coach
 
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The kids LOVE them! Thank you guys so much! Not sure how you guys pulled it off with the expediting request and the bad weather, but you certainly delivered another batch of quality gear for our kids. I’ll tell everyone I can about how great you guys have been. Once we get done with our tournament this weekend I will need to start coming up with ideas for next season. You will most definitely be getting my business again. – Fortuna Youth Wrestling ~ Coach
 
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I’ve dealt with many textile and design companies with the wrestling program and
through work.  I must say that your attention to detail, promptness, and overall
AWESOMENESS is so appreciated. It has been a pleasure working with you and
MyHOUSE. – Gordon Lodge ~ General Manager
 
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A big shout out to MyHOUSE and my Rep. Our new singlet’s and warm up’s look awesome! Prices were great and items were delivered when they said they would be. If you have a wrestling team I would recommend going with MyHOUSE. You won’t be disappointed! – SC Wrestling ~ Coach
 

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Shanice L. Wadell
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These wrestlers nowadays seem to keep getting younger and tinier!

That’s why MyHOUSE is introducing its newest addition to our apparel line…. The MyCRIB Singlet. Available in sizes 12 Months – Youth XXS for your tiniest future wrestler. The MyCRIB singles are super comfortable and durable for your little wrestler in training.

And get this… If you are ordering Custom Team Gear for your Club or Team, you can include a custom MyCRIB singlet as part of your minimum order of 18!

Check Out Our MyHOUSE Stock MyCrib Stock Singlets!

MyCRIB USA Stars and Strips Baby Singlet – Click Here To Order

MyCRIB Home of the Brave Baby Singlet – Click Here To Order

Also, keep a lookout for New MyCRIB Singlets Designs —- Coming Soon! 

Do you wish to go back in time and ask your parents to let you join the wrestling, team? Don’t worry you’re not alone. There are many who wish they had pursued a wrestling career. Getting involved in wrestling builds character, strength, willpower, responsibility, mental toughness, and teaches the fundamentals of respect.

Did you know:

• Wrestling stands at No 6 in the list of popular high school sports in the USA.
• Considering popularity, wrestling is way ahead of cross-country, golf and swimming, to name a few.
• 10 out of 16 current UFC champions are high school wrestling champs and former wrestlers
• Wrestling builds determination, diligence, and perseverance… A reason why wrestlers are known for their work ethic.
• Since 1994, the number of women who wrestle in high school nationwide has grown from 804 to over 8000
• Since 1994, the number of women who wrestle in high school nationwide has grown from 804 to over 8000
• Since 2002-03, the number of high school wrestlers has grown by over 30,000.

These are more than enough reasons to convince someone to give wrestling try. Let’s take it a step further and give you the 7 basic facts every wrestler or up and coming wrestler needs to know to be successful in the sport.

1. Be consistent and don’t miss your training: Consistency displays your dedication towards the sport. This consistency and dedication not only helps you improve and grow as a better athlete but also helps you achieve success in wrestling and in life.  
2. Don’t ignore the potential worth of your safety gear: Wrestling gear is the motive of protection. When you stay safe, you wrestle longer.
3. Learn to follow the rules to avoid mishaps: No matter how successful you become, you should always follow the rules. Rules define how you should take on the sport. Play fair and don’t imply any unfair methods.  
4. Induce discipline in your behavior: Discipline is what differs a professional and dedicated wrestler from an amateur. Those who correctly plan out their Pre-Season, Peak Season, and Postseason, will strive.
5. Be passionate about fitness: Fitness will take you to higher levels of success, both in wrestling and in life. Try to stay fit and active so you can last longer in your match.
6. Increase your mental toughness: You have to be mentally tough to stay in the game. If you stay tough mentally and maintain your physical strength, nothing can bring you down.  
7. Respect your fellow wrestlers: Respect your fellow wrestlers and they will respect you. Respect your mates irrespective of their gender, race, ethnicity, and color. Wrestling is one of the most diverse sports in the world and provides opportunities to athletes worldwide with almost 200 nations participating.