The Garretson Youth Wrestling program will again be hosting a Wrestling Camp July 19-20. This year’s wrestling camp involves ages k-12, with two sessions dividing ages k-5 and 6-12. Cost for the camp is $50 per athlete.
Coach Brady Schleuter estimates approximately 40-45 athletes will participate in this year’s camp.
"This will be the second largest camp we have hosted since we started doing this camp," he said. "The goal for this camp is to get the kids some mat time for a couple days, make friends, and compete a little bit. I know summer gets busy with other activities so this is a great opportunity to learn from one of South Dakota's best, Robert Kokesh. He will be our head clinician and he has a pretty good resume in the sport, competing at all levels in youth, high school, and college. Before attending Nebraska Robert was a 3x state champion in South Dakota."
Kokesh is currently Assistant Coach at University of Nebraska. His college honors/awards include: Three-Time NCAA All-American (3rd, 174, 2013; 4th, 174, 2014; 3rd, 174, 2015); Four-Time NCAA Championships Qualifier (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015); Two-Time Big Ten Champion (174, 2014; 174, 2015); Nebraska 100-Win Club; Second-Most Wins in School History (144); Nebraska Most Outstanding Wrestler (2012-13, 2013-14); Nebraska Granite Award (2013-14); NWCA All-Academic Team (2014); Two-Time Academic All-Big Ten (2014, 2015); Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2014, 2015); Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2014, 2015).
"This will be Kokesh's third year at our camp and we are lucky to have him here thanks to our Garretson youth wrestling club," said Schleuter.
When asked about the summer open mats that have been held over the past month, he commented, "Our summer open mats have been good so far. Like I mentioned earlier about goals for camp, our open mats are to get kids mat time and have them better themselves on what they struggle with and to get better everyday day. Wrestling is a sport where you can't take too many days off, so we've been hitting it hard this summer. It's tough with all the other activities the kids are involved with so we are just trying to take advantage of the days we get!"
To register, fill out the form via the Garretson Blue Dragon Wrestling-High School Team on Facebook. The deadline is July 16.
