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Welcome to the Lake Zurich Middle School South Wrestling page. Here at South our program is the best conditioned team in our conference. Wrestling is also the hardest sport in our school. It's basically the Marine Corps of sports. So when you come to practice, be ready to work your butt off for the next hour and a half. Our regular season lasts from early December to late February. In this time our team participates in about 12 to 15 dual meets and up to 6 tournaments, these are Gemini, Holmes, Conference, Regionals, Sectionals, and State. Conference and Gemini are varsity only tournaments. If you're good enough to get to Regionals which takes place in the last weekend of February, you can get to Sectionals, and if you're really good you can get to the State Tournament. The State Tourney takes place in early March, so, if you're good enough, your season can last until then.
During a match, there are three periods of wrestling, in which the wrestlers either try to out-score or pin the other. The first period is one minute and the second and third periods are a minute and a half. In the first period both wrestlers take a standing position called neutral. From here wrestlers are to try and take their opponent down and get control of there opponent on the ground. At the start of the second period the ref flips a coin and whichever wrestler wins the toss gets to choose to either go on top, bottom, neutral, or they can defer, which means to let the other wrestler choose. This repeats at the beginning of the third period. If the wrestlers are tied in score at the end of the third period the match goes into overtime. This fourth period lasts a minute with the wrestlers in the neutral position. Whichever wrestler scores first is the winner. However, if neither wrestler scores it goes into double over time in which one wrestler takes top and the other takes bottom. The object of the wrestler on top is to keep control of the bottom wrestler for 30 seconds, if he does he wins. The object of the bottom wrestler is to escape in 30 seconds. Once again, if he can accomplish this, he wins. Throughout this four to five minutes of wrestling, both wrestlers are going all out at 110%.
In a match there are several ways to score. These are, taking your opponent down for two points, escaping for one point, back points for 2 or 3 points. Also, if one wrestler commits a penalty, points may be given to the other wrestler. How many points are given depends on the penalty. Some penalties have a warning the first time, after the warning is given it becomes one point. These are stalling and intentional violence. Other penalties such as, locked hands, illegal moves, full nelson and slamming are immediately one point. If you commit three penalties you are then disqualified. But, for locked hands, you get 4 times before you are disqualified.
| Penalty | Description |
| Locked hands | Locking your hands while on your knees. |
| Slamming | Picking your opponent up and throwing him down or literally slamming him. |
| Full-Nelson | Putting both hands under your opponents arms and on the back of his head from behind or from front. |
| Stalling | Not improving your position or just running out the clock. |
| Intentional violence | Intentional illegal violence; hitting, biting, arm twisting, chicken winging. |
| Illegal moves | Illegal and dangerous moves; Scissors lock, figure-four on the head, camorra. |
On our wrestling
team we usually have enough people to have a varsity and a junior varsity.
Varsity is made
up of the best wrestler from each weight class. Their matches count to the teams
overall score during a meet against other schools. Junior varsity wrestles
exhibition matches that do not count to the teams overall score. Most of the
time JV will have a match, but its not a guarantee. JV is made up of the rest of
the wrestlers who are not on varsity. They are also organized by weight class
for the most part but you may face someone lighter or heavier than you, it just
depends on whose on the other team. The weight classes are; 65, 70, 75, 80, 85,
90, 95, 100, 105, 112, 119, 126, 135, 145, 155, 167, 185, 215, and heavyweight
which is 275. Our program also has a relatively new program that allows 5th
graders to wrestle JV or even varsity in our school matches.
| Requirements | Rules |
| Have a physical on file. Link to Physical Form | No unexcused absences at practice, if you were in school your going to practice. You get two and you're off the team. |
| Pay the athletic fee. | 3 detentions and you're off the team. |
| C- or better grades when you join. | Maintain a C- or better grades throughout the season, you get 2 weeks to get your grades up. |
| Parent approval signature on info packet (receive when you attend the meeting) | Make our team look good, wrestlers in general get a bad rep, so let's make our school, our team, and our program look good. |
| Buy, headgear, wrestling shoes, and a mouth guard if you have braces. | Respect your coaches and your teammates. |
| Have any inhalers/meds you need to stay healthy during strenuous work. | Work hard in practice and at meets. |
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| Website | Description |
| www.illinoismatmen.com | Illinois wrestling site; news, pictures, forums, rankings. |
| www.victorysportssupplies.com | wrestling gear |
| www.themat.com | wrestling site, news, rankings, gear, and camps |
| www.iesa.org/activities/bwr/index.asp | IESA wrestling homepage. |
| www.wrestlingusa.com | wrestling USA website, magazine, rankings |
Our conference consists of 9 teams including us; Hawthorn North and South, Matthews, Barrington Prairie and Station, Lake Zurich North (rival), Wauconda, and Grayslake. These are teams that we will face for sure. We see them at least twice because we face them in a dual meet and at the Conference Tournament.
Page Sponsor; Mr. David Gardner, Principal
Author; Tyler B.
Webmaster; Mr. Aloysious Willer
Created; March 2009