Download our Mobile App                  

  Search The Site
Top News Stories...
Actor Mark Ruffalo supporting Olympic Wrestling

USA Wrestling and CPOW are releasing a new set of PSA's to support keeping wrestling in the Olympics beginning with Actor Mark Ruffalo...

U.S. World Team Trials preview in Greco-Roman at 96 kg/211.5 lbs.

TheMat.com will be providing daily previews for all of the weight classes that will be contested at the World Team Trials on June 21-22 in Stillwater, Okla....

New website, KeepOlympicWrestling.com, launched to support effort to retain Olympic wrestling

USA Wrestling and CPOW have launched a new website to support the effort to save Olympic wrestling....

Roberts, Garr and Davis preparing for World Team Trials

Oklahoma City University wrestlers Brittney Roberts and Kristi Garr and coach Link Davis prepare for the 2013 World Team Trials in Stillwater, Okla....


Cal State Fullerton wrestling budget update from Coach Dan Hicks

By Dan Hicks Cal State Fullerton
07/14/2009

As the budget crisis in California deepens, we are going to be effected in a substantial way at Cal State Fullerton. I was able to buy us the 2009-2010 season by coming up with individual donations, support from CAGWA kids association, monies projected from our team camp and 3 tournaments. The total we have to raise is $60,000 plus any overage on scholarships, travel and recruiting. So probably about $80,000 this year 2009-2010.

In order to insure 2010-2011 and 2011-2012, we have been asked to raise $200,000 in cash by May 1, 2010 and $200,000 in pledges by August 1, 2010.

I believe we would then be able to be on a year to year plan. That would be my hope.

The positive for us is that we have time ahead to raise a reasonable amount of money. Most wrestling programs that have been dropped had little warning and were given a huge dollar amount as a goal. Examples would be Oregon and Fresno State. Some have had to raise money for a woman's team as well.

I believe as a wrestling community we can work together to get this done. It will take individual donors, kids associations, attendance at camps that return the money to the program, monies from tournaments, corporate sponsors and attendance at duals.

At some point we must find a way to stop the bleeding.

An article came out today highlighting the predicament at ESPN.com.

Programs in precarious position
By Graham Watson of ESPN.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4313320

I wanted to let you know before some may have stumbled onto the information. We are in the process of setting up a web page for donations and have already set camp dates for next summer between July 10-21 for coaches interested in getting behind our camps.

Feel free to call with questions:

Dan Hicks
657-278-2138
dhicks@fullerton.edu
Untitled Document
   
© Copyright 2000-2013 USA Wrestling, All rights reserved.
Contents of this site may not used without the expressed written consent of USA Wrestling.