Program Highlights:
Smithsburg Youth Athletics (SYA) offers co-ed wrestling for children ages 5-15 years old.
Youth wrestling provides numerous benefits including developing discipline, building physical strength and endurance, boosting confidence and self-esteem, enhancing mental toughness, teaching strategic thinking, improving coordination and body awareness, and fostering a sense of personal responsibility due to the individual nature of the sport; essentially shaping character and life skills through rigorous physical exertion and competition.
Wrestling can help improve athleticism and performance in other sports by developing strength, balance, coordination, and body awareness.
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📅 Season Details:
Practices start at the beginning of November and competition runs from January to the middle of March.
SYA competes in the Mid-Maryland Wrestling League (MMWL) which practices Folkstyle wrestling. Folkstyle wrestling is the style high school teams wrestle.
The season will consist of 7 multi-team wrestling meets hosted by the different teams throughout the league. Those meets are primarily held on Sundays.
After the 7 weeks of competition, there is an end of season MMWL tournament that our wrestlers are welcome to participate in. This tournament is split into two weekends:
- Qualifier weekend (league split in half) – awards for 1st to 4th place
- Championship for anyone that placed at both Qualifiers – awards for 1st to 4th place.
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