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    30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers
    30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers
    30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers
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    30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers

    By Darryl S Ellrott

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    Have you ever wracked your brain trying to come up with a new idea for getting more kids to come out for your wrestling team? Have you ever pondered what motivated your wrestlers or how to get the best out of them? Have you ever doubted if you were doing the right thing? Let twenty-year Middle School coaching veteran and National Wrestling Hall of Fame member Darryl S. Ellrott answer those questions and more with his new e-book from Ellronté Press (Kindle version published by Big Rock Publishing)! In this no-nonsense survival guide for the wrestling recruiter, Coach Ellrott will entertain and inform you as he reveals over thirty of the principles and strategies he used to consistently recruit and develop large numbers of wrestlers year after year.

    Sample Topics:

    #1: Cultivate That Personal Relationship – Make Him Feel Wanted. 3

    #2: Understand the Middle School Mind. 4

    #3: Communicate Your Enthusiasm.. 6

    #4: Cement Your Bond Through Multiple Contacts. 7

    Reviews:

    “Where was this when I started 17 years ago? This book would have saved me a lot of heartache and probably a kid or two.”

    –Jeff Stowers, Head Wrestling Coach, Towns Co. High School, Hiawassee, Ga.

    “Coach Ellrott’s insight into the Middle School mind and his recruiting approaches are invaluable, whether one is a veteran coach or novice. He speaks from years of experience. Coach Ellrott offers us wisdom, humor and heart as he shares the lessons he’s learned from years of recruiting Middle School wrestlers.”

    — Sean Silver, Youth Wrestling Coach, Columbus Academy, Gahanna, Ohio

    Excerpts:

    “It’s only when we adults make the mistake of putting our wants ahead of their needs that we ruin things for them. Middle School kids just want to wrestle. It’s as simple as that. Give them matches, and then the boys will decide how far they want to take things. When the desire is coming from them and not you and their parents, then you will have achieved true success. Your wrestlers will come to practice every day with joy in their hearts and they will work like demons because the burden of adult expectations has been lifted. They will set their own goals and judge their own successes, and all a coach has to do is set the framework for achieving those desires.

    “Coach John Wooden says, “Success is the peace of mind derived from making the absolute and complete effort to do the best of which you are capable.” If you can understand these truths about the Middle School mind, you will know how to bring out the best in them.”

    Darryl Ellrott spent nearly twenty years teaching English and coaching wrestling before becoming an author, culminating in his 2009 induction into the Georgia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Darryl is now a full-time entrepreneur, editor and author. He has also published The New Southern Grappler newsletter and Rear Echelon, his first foray into fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Rock Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781612880334
    30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers
    Author

    Darryl S Ellrott

    Darryl S. Ellrott spent nearly twenty years teaching English and coaching wrestling before becoming an author, culminating in his 2009 induction into the Georgia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He has also published The New Southern Grappler newsletter and 30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers.

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      30 Secrets to Recruiting Middle School Wrestlers - Darryl S Ellrott

      Part 1: Fundamental Principles

      #1: Cultivate A Personal Relationship – Make Him Feel Wanted

      There is really nothing more important in coaching than the personal connection with the athlete. Enthusiasm is like a shot of nitrous oxide to the carburetor: it will make the car jump, but the personal connection is the key to all coaching and recruiting.

      My own coach as a teenager was a real blood-and-guts tough guy. The first head coach I ever worked for had a completely different personality. He was a laid back, friendly player’s coach. At first I had difficulty accepting his style, because I didn’t think it could possibly work. Yet through him I learned there is more than one way to skin a cat. My own coach was effective because of fear. This new coach was effective because of love. Players worked hard and achieved not because they feared his wrath, but because they loved him. He had formed that personal bond, and his boys would do anything for him.

      Your Middle School wrestler, who can sometimes seem so big and strong, is mentally and emotionally fragile on the inside. He needs that bond with the coach to survive and flourish. It’s not enough to be a demanding drill sergeant, which works fine with older boys who have had their egos shored up by experience. A Middle School child needs to know that Coach loves him through thick and thin. Then he will go out and pull down the moon for you.

      #2: Understand the Middle School Mind

      Most dads (and many coaches) can only remember as far back as their own high school days. They can’t remember what it was like to be eleven or twelve years old, but they remember clearly what it was like to be an eighteen year old wrestler. So what? It’s only a few years’ difference, right? Not so. Those years are a chasm, my friend. A twelve year-old and an eighteen year-old are completely different people. They don’t even have the same kind of brain. (Study your educational psychology, people. It’s called concrete operations and formal operations.) The point is this: the twelve year-old and the eighteen year-old are motivated by completely different things. Therefore, you cannot get the best out of one by using the methods meant for the other.

      This is the key mistake so many dads and young coaches make. They remember what it was like when they were in high school, so they try to duplicate that experience. They think it will toughen their kids up and secure the precious competitive advantage, but more than likely it will just make them miserable. For older boys, high school sports are a proving ground for their manhood. They want the hard-nosed, take no prisoners fight to the finish. High School athletes are physically and emotionally ready for the intensity of the varsity experience, but most Middle School boys just aren’t. Middle School boys are just looking to be with their friends, to find a place in the pack, and hopefully, to be successful. They lack confidence and need to know you are behind them. Having that positive relationship with

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