2012 Cowboy Wrestling Camp featuring Oklahoma State Head Coach & 2x Olympic Champ John Smith on July 9, 10, 11 at Island Trees High School!!!
Click on brochure for printable application!
2005 NCAA Champion & 3x All-American Zach Esposito will also be a clinician at the Cowboy Camp. 2011 NCAA Champion Jordan Oliver & 2010 All-American Alan "Z" Gelogaev will be in attendance as counselors.
** Please do not miss this experience!!! This is a rare opportunity to learn from the Oklahoma State coaching staff, the most successful wrestling program in NCAA history.
If you need any additional information, please feel free to contact me via email craig@ascendwrestling.com or call 917-449-6098.
Hope to see you there.
Craig
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Ascend placed 2nd in both the Cadet Freestyle & Junior Greco-Roman divisions and placed 3rd in the Junior Freestyle Division!
Special Congratulations to Dylan Palacio & the Long Beach coaching staff for Dylan winning the 2012 State Title Triple Crown - Folkstyle, Freestyle, & Greco-Roman!
Palacio Triple Crown Article
Cadet Freestyle Individual State Champions:
100 lbs Chris Donnelly (IT)
106 lbs Jose Rodriguez (ESM)
126 lbs Tom Reina (GC)
145 lbs Nick Vines (Wantagh)
Junior Greco Individual State Champions:
160 lbs Dylan Palacio (LB)
285 lbs Dante Salkey (Uniondale)
Junior Freestyle Individual State Champions:
Dylan Palacio (LB)
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Ascend won Bronze at the 2nd Annual Journeymen Duals up in Schenectady, NY. Our team went 2-2 for the day. Ascend beat Team Ontario 44-24 & Journeymen Gold 48-18 to win their pool & put them in the winner's bracket against Shamrock/Wyoming Sem & Journeymen Black.
We got drilled by Shamrock 48-14 & then lost a heartbreaking 33-28 to JM Black.
Wrestlers Steven Bulzomi & Tyler Grimaldi (we figured we'd borrow Tyler -- thanks Coach Patch! -- since he hurt our kid last week) each went 4-0 for the weekend.
Thanks to Frank Popolizio for the invite & all the wrestlers (esp. the ones who made the trip upon short notice) & parents who made the trip.
My friends at Flowrestling covered the event. Full coverage can be found here
Chris Araoz had (2) 5 pt throws in the event. Here's one in the final seconds.
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NASSAU ALL STARS VS SUFFOLK ALL STARS
FREESTYLE WRESTLING
APRIL 24, 2012
BAY SHORE HIGH SCHOOL
SUFFOLK 32 - NASSAU 31
100 Jesse Dellavecchia (S) over Chris Donnelly (N) in 3 periods
106 Alex Tanzman (S) over Jose Rodriguez (N) by fall
113 Krishna Sewkumar (N) over Joe Calderone (S) in 3 periods
120 Mark Raghunandan (N) over Eric Orellana (S)
126 Mike D’Angelo (S) over Jack Reina (N) in 3 periods
132 Chris Araoz (N) over Connor O’Hara (S)
138 Jacob Restrepo (S) over Quinn Knauer (N)
145 Justin Paradiso (N) over Thomas Dutton (S) by fall
152 James DeKrone (S) over Lou Hernandez (N) in 3 periods
160 Tyler Grimaldi (S) over Dan McDevitt (N)
170 Dan Tracy (N) over Zak Mullen (S) in 3 periods
182 Gio Santiago (S) over John Luxmore by fall (N)
195 Chris Loew (N) over Zach Connor (S)
220 Andrew Cole (N) over Ken Drew (S)
285 Dante Salkey (N) over Mike Hughes (S)
Nassau Team coached by Paul Gillespie & Craig Vitagliano.
2012 Nassau All-Stars
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The tournament was a success. Just about each team got 4 matches against top notch competition. Thank yous go out to Mike Patrovich & Ray Pickersgill of 631 Elite, TJ Hill of Technical Edge, and Frank Popolizio of Journeymen for putting teams together to make the event competitive.
Special thanks to Coach Gillespie who divided his time to help coach our first & second teams, Matt Fiala for rounding up the officials, Mike Patrovich for supplying 2 mats on short notice, and Kim Leo for helping me organize the tournament and keeping it run smoothly throughout the day and especially to Frank Labate for taking care of everything on the administrative end.
Ascend went 4-0 for the day with wins over 631 Elite 45-16, Technical Edge 27-17, & Journeymen 33-27.
Some very good individual matches but probably the highlight of the day was Ascend 2x All-Americans Dan McDevitt & Chris Koo both dropping close bouts to All-American & State Runner-up Tyler Grimaldi of 631 Elite.
Next weekend Ascend will be heading up to Albany for the Journeymen Freestyle Duals which will feature teams from New York City, Westchester, Syracuse, as well as PA (Wyoming Sem) & 2 teams from Canada, eh?
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On Saturday 4/14 Ascend headed out to PA to wrestle in the SemRock Duals at Wyoming Seminary College Prep. Ascend went 2-1 for the day, defeating Shamrock Pittston and a combined team of Worldwide/Veritas before falling to Sem 42-20.
Nick Vines (132) & Justin Paradiso (152) went undefeated for the day.
Thanks to all who wrestled, especially those who made the trip upon short notice. Most know that this week was especially tough with vacations, ACTs, and/or kids who just wanted some time off after VA Beach.
Special thanks to Head Coach Scott Green for the invite!
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Ascend with 2 National Champs!!!
Senior Dylan Palacio, 152 (LB) & Junior Chris Araoz, 120 (Wantagh) each won their respective weight classes at the 23rd Annual 2012 NHSCA High School National Wrestling Championships held in Virginia Beach, VA on March 23-April 1.
Ascend captured 7 All-Americans honors at the tournament, the best showing yet for the Hicksville based club.
Read recent article about Chris Araoz in New York Wrestling News!!
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2012 Ascend All-Americans
Junior Division
Chris Araoz (Wantagh) 1st place, 120 lbs
Dan McDevitt (Wantagh) 5th Place, 138 lbs
Chris Koo (GNS) 7th place, 152 lbs
 
2012 NHSCA National Junior Champion, 120 lbs Chris Araoz
Senior Division
Jimmy Gill (SJB) 7th place, 106 lbs
Mark Raghunandan (LB) 5th place, 113 lbs
Dylan Palacio (LB) 1st place, 152 lbs
 
2012 NHSCA National Senior Champion, 152 lbs Dylan Palacio
Middle School Division
Zachary Ancewicz (John Glenn) 7th place, 100 lbs
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Also to save time please print and fill out downloadable form at the bottom of the membership section of our website. http://www.ascendwrestling.com/membership.html
Wrestlers must have a valid USA Wrestling card.
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Who trained at Ascend this season??
2 NHSCA National Champions
07 NHSCA All-Americans
07 2012 NYS place-winners.
6 Nassau County Champions
1 Suffolk County Champion
1 CHSAA State Champion
2 At-Large Nassau County wildcards
14 out of the 30 Nassau County finalists.
2 Suffolk County finalists.
27 All-County Nassau wrestlers.
4 All-County Suffolk wrestlers.
1 New York State Private School Champion.
You can be next! NEXT SEASONS BEGINS NOW!!
See you at registration.
- Coach Craig
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Real Talk with Coach Craig at the Journeymen Classic 10/3/11
Here Coach Craig demonstrates proper position once you get extended off of a shot.
Here Coach Craig talks about Ascend Wrestling
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