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3015 Barrow Drive
Raleigh, NC 27615
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Welcome!

Our Mission

The Capital City Wrestling Club is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide our youth with a positive experience in the sport of amateur wrestling in a fun and competitive environment, and to help them become successful people, students, and athletes.

 

We strive to teach our wrestlers valuable skills important in life such as good sportsmanship, TEAMwork, discipline, work ethic, self-motivation, and confidence to be Champions in all that they do!

 

We are committed to enhancing the overall fitness level and developing the wrestling skills of all of our wrestlers, from our first year wrestlers to our most experienced wrestlers. We will offer programs for a wide variety of ages and skill levels to provide our wrestlers with the opportunity to be as good as they want to be


Our Values

1. Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in our TEAM!

2. Provide a fun environment that also challenges our wrestlers to be the best that they can be in whatever they do.

3. Positively influence character development by emphasizing good habits and attitudes.

4. Enhance the overall fitness levels of our youth by developing their strength, agility, balance, flexibility, and wrestling skills.

5. Foster a sense of personal achievement by helping wrestlers set goals and work towards meeting these goals.

6. Prepare our wrestlers to become more competitive as they mature, and provide them the skills to succeed on the local, state, and national level.

7. Provide qualified adult leadership and a safe and healthy environment for our TEAM.

8. Provide coaches who have been successful at a state, national, and international level, and who volunteer their time to develop our youth of all ages.

9. Provide an atmosphere that encourages parent/family involvement in the club.

10. Be Champions in all that we do!


Some Favorite Quotes

 

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
-Aristotle

“Don't give up, Don't ever give up.”
-Jim Valvano


"Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has."
- Cael Sanderson

"Unity of purpose in life seems to be the greatest secret to success."
- John Adams

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
-Vince Lombardi

 

"We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it,  because nothing is perfect.  But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.  I am not remotely interested in just being good."     

-Vince Lombardi



“Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.”
-Dan Gable

“We don’t deserve anything; we must work for everything.”
-Tom Brands


Why Wrestle?

Wrestling is a unique sport that anybody can compete in, regardless of how tall or short, thick or thin, fast or slow you are. It is one of the best sports to enhance your overall fitness level since it emphasizes the development of strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and agility. Wrestling helps develop many qualities that help you succeed in life, including self confidence, independence, and discipline. The following is a short list of former wrestlers who have used many of the skills they learned through wrestling to become Champions in life:
 
  • Former U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge
  • Authors John Irving and Tom Sullivan
  • Actors Michael J. Fox, Jay Leno, Robin Williams, Tom Cruise, and Kirk Douglas
  • U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Jim Scherr
  • Numerous Pro Football Players

 

 

 

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Coming Soon...

 

High School Pre-Season training will run Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 PM to 8:30 PM through October 22

Prepare to be a Champion this season!  

 

2008-09 Middle School, and Elementary Program information and on-site registration will be Sunday, October 19 and Sunday, October 26.  Practices  will begin Wednesday, November 5.  See our Programs section for more details.

 

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