Hello Andover Wrestling Family!

I want to thank EVERYONE that was able to help at the Andover Tournaments this weekend.  Thanks to everyone that signed up on signupgenius. Most of the spot were filled for the event. If you were unable to help this weekend, we will have something available for you at the next home matches.

We had 8 High School teams on Saturday and 420 Youth Wrestlers on Sunday. We raised a good amount of money for the wrestling club, but most importantly to me at our events is that we had many happy wrestlers and families. We received many compliments on how smoothly the events were run.

Thanks to all of the Andover coaches for coaching all the kids this weekend. Keep up the great work! Thanks to all the high school wrestlers, managers and coaches for helping throughout the weekend.

I would like to call out a few more people that went the extra mile. Owen Braaten helped codirect the tournament with me this year.  Gina Houle and Scott Reynolds stepped up to lead the concession stand this year. Thanks to everyone that helped them in the concession stands all weekend. That seemed to be busy at all times. Thanks to Staci Winter who lead the Hospitality room and all the others that worked back there to help Staci. Thanks to Jason Strasser for announcing the High School Tournament. I want to thank John and Julie Peterson and Scott Olson the bracketing and running trackwresting for the high school event.  This year everything went completely perfect.  Also a big thank you to Elise Seburg for kicking off both events with singing our Nation Anthem. 
 

Thanks to all the kids and parents that worked the tables and on the mats this weekend. Thanks to Kate Watson, Lori Wadel and Julie Beberg for running trackwrestling and getting all 420 wrestlers bracketed on time. There is so much work that goes into getting the kids entered and bracketed in the back room. I say “that is where the Magic happens.” We also had great help form Carrie Learn from MN/USA at our event this year. Thanks to Ken Olson and Jeff Board and the others that helped getting the kids to the mats. We setup a plan and try to improve it every year.
 

Thanks to Julie Beberg on both days leading the admission table. There is a lot of cash we take in over the weekend and a lot of worry goes into handling all that cash. Thanks everybody that work up at the admissions table.

I want to thank my wife Staci Winter for letting me have so much fun with our extended wrestling family. There were many late nights for me getting ready for the weekend. She also drove our daughter Addison to basketball on Saturday night and then again on Sunday for her team to win the championship game.

I truly love the excitement of the weekend. We are always looking to make the event better each year. Please let us know if you have any changes that could help for next year. I already have a few in my spreadsheet. We will log all comments and consider them next year. Please save the date December 12 & 13, 2020 for next year’s our tournament weekend.

Good luck with the rest of the season.

#Andover Wrestling is “ON THE RISE!”

Steve Winter, Andover Wrestling Club

President@andoverwrestling.org

p.s. Thank you to baby Schlotfeldt for not arriving during tournament weekend.    

2019-2020 Concession Stand signups

We are in need of concession volunteers for three JV/Varsity home matches this season.

Friday, December 6 vs ELK RIVER & COON RAPIDS (Alumni Night) *Tournament set-up to follow

Thursday, January 23 vs ANOKA (Youth Night)

Thursday, January 30 vs. CENTENNIAL (Senior & Parent Night)

Volunteers get in free to the event. Thank you!

Save the date: Sections are being hosted at Andover on Friday, February 14 - Grab your Valentine and plan to watch some wrestling (or volunteer together :-)

Please CLICK HERE  

The 2019-2020 registration site

for Andover Youth Wrestling IS NOW OPEN!!

Please click HERE to register for the season.

PRACTICE TIMES, PARENT MEETING AND SINGLETS

Practices will be Tuesday and Thursday nights.  Tournaments that coaches will be at are listed on the Youth Team page.   

The regular season runs from Nov. 12 through February 4th. 

Pre-K to grade 2nd or 3rd grade 5:45-6:45  (new wrestlers)

3rd grade to Age 14 7:00-8:30. (experienced wrestlers or check with Coaches)

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At least one parent must attend the youth parent meeting  on November 19th from 6:30 to 7:30 at Andover High School.  Cafeteria-North

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New for 2019-2020.  The club purchased new singlets.  You will be able to check out  a singlet with a $50 deposit check.  You must bring a check to the parent meeting to check out  a singlet

Thank you everyone that has used smile.amazon.com.  Please see the email below we got from Amazon.

10-09-2019    Dear STEVEN M. WINTER,

This is your quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification. Your charity, Andover Wrestling Club, recently received a quarterly donation of $55.16 thanks to customers shopping at smile.amazon.com.

To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of:

• $187.33 to Andover Wrestling Club
• $144,958,582.84 to all charities

Thank you for supporting Andover Wrestling Club by shopping at smile.amazon.com. You can track your impact throughout the year at your My Impact page.

The 2019-2020 registration site for Andover Youth Wrestling IS NOW OPEN!!

Please click HERE to register for the season.

Parent Registration

• Andover Lanes
• Applebee's (C.R.)
• Beck's Auto
• Beef O' Brady's
• BRIO
• Chanticlear Pizza (Andover)
• Cold Stone Creamery (C.R.)
• Dunkin' Donuts (Andover)
• Fix A Dent (DoMyDents.com)
• Invictus Brewing
• Jet's Pizza (Anoka)
• Jon Smith Subs
• Joy Kitchen
• Oak Roads Grille and Bar
• Papa Murphy's (Andover)
• Sports Clips (Andover)
• Sweet Toppings
• The Tipsy Steer
• The Refuge Golf Club
• Urban Air Adventure Park

If you or your business would like to be on the Andover wrestling website or the  Print Program please contact:                    

Mike Nowlan @ 763-486-7368 or email fundraisingdirector@andoverwrestling.org

• Hoffman Weber Construction
• Adhue Graphics
• Andover Football Association
• Bebergs Landscape Supply
• Blue Chair Bay
• Ceiling Solutions
• CJ's Used Marine Parts
• Dave Perkins Contracting, Inc
• Fix A Dent
• Greater Midwest Realty/Chad Kenning
• Huntley Concrete
• Keller Williams/Darcy Board
• McKay Collision
• MEI Elevator Solutions
• Plateworks Plus
• The Borg family
• The Rooney family

• Anoka Ramsey Community College
• Hoffman Weber Construction
• Keller Williams/Darcy Board
• American Family Insurance/Mary Weigel
• Bebergs Landscape Supply
• Rensch, Becker, and Iwen Orthodontics