Hawkeye Report posters have made sure that, for the past three seasons, Wrestling for Life has been able to provide free tickets to at least one group of 20 members of kids' wrestling clubs, middle school teams or youth organizations to every Hawkeye home wrestling event. We are well on our way to a fourth consecutive season. They have also helped us with Middle School Wrestling Night at UNI and the NCAA Division III Championships. By my calculation, since 2009 my friends at HR have been responsible for about 2,500 kids experiencing college wrestling - most for the first time and many in Carver Hawkeye Arena.
Last season a couple of HR interlopers and lurkers stepped up and helped us send 50 kids to the Iowa/Rutgers dual and 40 members of Beat the Streets - Baltimore to the Iowa/Maryland dual.
Off the top of my head, I can recall fans from Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio State and Illinois posting here. Those posts are frequently confrontational so I'm throwing down a gauntlet. Can you be as good a fan for your school and as big a supporter of kids wrestling as our Hawkeye Report friends?
Make a donation to Wrestling for Life in the name of your school and we'll set aside your gift and use it to buy tickets to a dual meet at that school. We would like to receive enough total donations for each school to cover at least 20 kids. If you get close, but don't quite make it, Wrestling for Life will make up the difference. I'd like to help youngsters get into at least one meet at every Big Ten and Big XII school. If your school is like Minnesota and already has free dual meet youth admission (thanks, in large part, to WFL friend, Rod Frost) we'll apply your donation to single session tickets for the respective conference championships. All donors will receive a copy of the ticket purchase receipt and contact information of the group(s) receiving the tickets.
To jump start this effort, the first five people who give at least $95 to answer this challenge will get a copy of Gable's, "A Wrestling Life". You can donate online at http://wrestlingforlife.org/index.php/donate. If you prefer to write a check, you can send it to
Wrestling for Life
c/o Jim Brown
130 24th St NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-4936
Thanks in advance.
Last season a couple of HR interlopers and lurkers stepped up and helped us send 50 kids to the Iowa/Rutgers dual and 40 members of Beat the Streets - Baltimore to the Iowa/Maryland dual.
Off the top of my head, I can recall fans from Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Northwestern, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio State and Illinois posting here. Those posts are frequently confrontational so I'm throwing down a gauntlet. Can you be as good a fan for your school and as big a supporter of kids wrestling as our Hawkeye Report friends?
Make a donation to Wrestling for Life in the name of your school and we'll set aside your gift and use it to buy tickets to a dual meet at that school. We would like to receive enough total donations for each school to cover at least 20 kids. If you get close, but don't quite make it, Wrestling for Life will make up the difference. I'd like to help youngsters get into at least one meet at every Big Ten and Big XII school. If your school is like Minnesota and already has free dual meet youth admission (thanks, in large part, to WFL friend, Rod Frost) we'll apply your donation to single session tickets for the respective conference championships. All donors will receive a copy of the ticket purchase receipt and contact information of the group(s) receiving the tickets.
To jump start this effort, the first five people who give at least $95 to answer this challenge will get a copy of Gable's, "A Wrestling Life". You can donate online at http://wrestlingforlife.org/index.php/donate. If you prefer to write a check, you can send it to
Wrestling for Life
c/o Jim Brown
130 24th St NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402-4936
Thanks in advance.
