The NCWA was
created to fill a gap in today's wrestling community. Many
institutions have lost their varsity wrestling programs due to
outside influences such as budgetary cutbacks or response to
governmental legislation. Although participation interest
among students remains high, many schools have been forced to
offer their students fewer opportunities. The NCWA has stepped
forward to help provide this opportunity to the increasing
number of high school seniors searching for continued
wrestling competition.
Despite the fact
that wrestling is the fastest growing male interscholastic
sport, colleges and universities have been unable to offer
wrestling opportunities for these incoming students within
their athletic departments. The NCWA helps to build programs
under the student services or club sports departments of the
schools. We provide a national governing body for competition,
communication and promotion of wrestling at the college level.
The NCWA is
committed to a vision that has at is very core the increased
athletic opportunity for all students. We hope to provide a
spawning ground for new wrestling teams, teams that draw
students who will choose an institution of higher learning for
its academic excellence. With college wrestling at its limited
level in history, and more wrestling athletes graduating from
high school, many wrestlers are left to choose between
continuing the sport they love and their first academic choice
for schooling. The NCWA is designed to help solve this
challenge.
Since the school
is not adding members to its athletic department but rather to
its club sports department, it can properly balance
opportunity ratios and because NCWA teams are primarily funded
by the students themselves and by outside resources, there are
fewer budgetary concerns.
If and when a
school does have room for athletic expansion, it is hoped that
since the NCWA wrestling program will be up and running and in
compliance with NCAA rules, that wrestling will be a first
choice for ultimate inclusion into the school's athletic
curriculum.
The NCWA was
founded with the student-athlete in mind. We are composed of
non-paid volunteers who are committed to helping our young
people accomplish their goals and dreams and to reach for
excellence in everything they do. Through athletic endeavors,
club leadership responsibilities and community involvement,
NCWA students will leave their college life to meet a
competitive world head on. They will have been equipped
through their academic involvement and athletic success to
take the competition to the mat, score and emerge as a
Champion.
We encourage you
to take the next step in expanding the way your school sees
student involvement in club athletics. Join us in changing
lives.
Jim Giunta
— Executive Director/Founder of NCWA
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