The Kell Wrestling Booster Club-Longhorn Wrestling exists "to promote interest in the wrestling program at Kell High School, to lend moral and financial support to all phases of the wrestling program at Kell High School, to cooperate and work, in all possible ways with the Coaches and Staff, and to promote excellence in all Scholastic and Athletic endeavors at Kell High School and the surrounding community."
Announcements!
News of the Week for 2/8/2010
Congratulations to the Longhorn wrestlers whose journeys continue into the West Sectional tournament in Tifton this coming weekend. We have 7 wrestlers continuing. Good luck to Michael Abraham - 189, Paul Amend - 171, Yousef Ali - 160, Matt McCrory - 152, Andrew Stringer - 135, Alec Stringer 125, and Steven Summey - 119.
First and foremost, a big "thank you" to those parents, brothers, sisters, and high school volunteers for all your help this weekend helping Kell Wrestling remind folks in our region how to run a first rate tournament. We received, as we have in the past, many thanks and "atta-boys" for our well-run tournament. And we owe it to our families. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Here's what's happening! High School Wrestlers:
- For those wrestlers continuing on to the West Sectionals, practice continues throughout the week. Coach Lattizori will detail the schedule.
- We wish each of you all the best as you continue on to the State Tournament at the Gwinnett Center.
The West Sectional brackets are attached below, as a WORD Document.
The West Sectional Tournament is held this year at Tifts County High School in Tifton, Georgia. This includes schools from regions 1,4,5, and 6. The School address is below:
Tift County High School
1 Blue Devil Way
Tifton, GA
Click here for Google Map Directions
The schedule is below:
| Friday, February 12, 2010 | ||
| Weigh-Ins | 2:00-4:00pm | |
| Coaches Meeting | 4:15pm | |
| Round of 16 | 4 Mats | 5:00-8:00pm |
| Quarterfinals | 4 Mats | 8:00-9:30pm |
| 1st Round of WB's | 4 Mats | 9:30-10:30pm |
| Weight-outs | Immediately following completion of their weight for 1 hour | |
| Saturday, February 13, 2010 | ||
| 2nd Round of WB's | 4 Mats | 8:30-10:00am |
| Semifinals and Consolation Qtrs. | 4 Mats | 10:00-11:30am |
| Consolation Semi's + Semi's for 9th | 4 Mats | 11:30am-1:00pm |
| 9th Place Matches | 4 Mats | 1:00-1:30pm |
| All Finals Matches | 4 Mats | 1:30-4:00pm |
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| 5A west sectional.doc | 161 KB |
More News
Lattizori honored for 400th Win as Longhorns defeat Lassiter
Coach Steve Lattizori was honored last night at home, receiving a commemorative plaque, marking his milestone 400th career win. Gordon Pritz, Associate Superintendent and a former wrestling coach himself, presented the honor to Coach Lattizori.
Following the honors, the Longhorn wrestling team engaged Lassiter's team in a heated, back and forth dual meet. With 4 weight classes to go, Kell was down 25-24. But following three pins in succession and a technical fall, Kell ended the night on top, winning 47-25.
Ultimately, Kell recorded six (6) pins and won nine of 14 weight classes over Lassiter. Pin falls were recorded by Michael Lattizori, Andrew Stringer, Benjie Grifenhagen, Matt McCrory, Brady Hull and Zach Wade. Yousef Ali picked up the win via technical fall, while Alec Stringer and Mustafa Ali won by decision respectively.
Next on tap for the Longhorns is the County Duals this weekend at Sprayberry.
Get your wrestling photos
Most photos found in our photo galleries can be purchased as prints (small prints up to poster sized), tee-shirts, bags, wall-clings, even postage stamps. If you would like to place an order, click here.
Please note: all proceeds from your orders go directly to benefit Kell Wrestling and our boys.
This is also a work in progress. If you don't see photos that you'd like, as time permits, more photos will be added.
For more information, please contact Stuart Grifenhagen at 404-643-9467.
Attention Longhorn Wrestlers & Supporters:
This year, the Longhorn Wrestling Booster Club will spend $560 per high school wrestler, assuming the team is made up of 32 boys. This money does NOT come from the school but comes from you, the parents and supporters of the wrestlers. As such, you have two choices: 1) write a check for the full amount or 2) participate in our various fund raising activities to raise the amount above or some portion thereof. If you write a check, we not ask you to do anything other than show up and watch your son wrestle.
If you participate in our fund-raisers, we need an initial deposit from you of $225.00. All checks should be made out to "Kell Wrestling" to get the year started. If you succeed in earning the entire $560 then the $225 will be given back to you
Now using Twitter and SMS!
The Kell Wrestling Booster Club now has the ability to communicate with our members using both Twitter and SMS (text) messaging!
Messages that are sent via Twitter (known as tweets in the vernacular) appear with in seconds in the scrolling message box on the right side of the Wrestling website. Below each message you can see the age of that particular tweet.
We also can now send text (SMS) messages to our members who have chosen to receive those messages. If you wish to receive text messages from the Booster Club, please register with the website.
Click on the Twitter Info link at the left for more information
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