Welcome!

 

Summer Wrestling Begins Monday, June 22

Summer Wrestling sessions will start Monday, June 22 and go throuigh Wednesday, August 13.  Practices will be from 6PM to 7:30 PM Mondays and Wednesdays.  These summer sessions will be held at our new location in the CrossFit-SWAT gym.  They are geared toward high school and experienced middle school wrestlers.  Our summer wrestling program is FREE for wrestlers who registered for Fall, Winter, or Spring programs.  New Wrestlers fee is $70.

 

Our New Partnership 

The Capital City Wrestling Club will begin practicing at the CrossFit-SWAT training facility located at 8411 Garvey Street, Suite 121, off of Durant Road in Raleigh.  This partnership will give our wrestlers a great opportunity to enhance their strength and conditioning as well as their wrestling skills in the same facility.  Beginning with our High School Summer Sessions on Monday, June 22, all of our practices will be held at the CrossFit SWAT gym.

 

Enhance your strength and conditioning with a membership at CrossFit SWAT.

 

 

 

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

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!

 

“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

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