Anthony Flatt named USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year
Anthony Flatt of Lawrenceville, Ga. was named USA Wrestling State Chairperson of the Year. This award honors a USA Wrestling State Chairperson for service and leadership within the organization.
The announcement was made during USA Wrestling’s annual State Leaders Conference, held at the Cheyenne Moutain Conference Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. last week.
Flatt has served three years as the State Chairperson in Georgia, and was Kids Director for the three previous years.
“This is fantastic. It is a great honor,” said Flatt. “I am not sure I personally deserve it. Team Georgia is a group of dedicated individuals. It is the effort of many people in the state that has led to growth within Georgia. It is their efforts that make things happen.”
During his tenure, Georgia has hosted the Southeast Regional Championships the last three years. The event has grown to the largest Junior Regional in the nation, and combined with the Kids divisions, is one of the most successful in the nation. Georgia is also very active in helping present the Georgia Grind, one of the Folkstyle Tour of America events.
Under Flatt’s leadership, Georgia has developed a strong and active state association, utilizing a number of innovative programs that has led to growth in many areas.
“My background is in technology. I have been in computer sales my whole life. I had dabbled with web-based technologies. I believed online registration would work well here. We took what was working with our events and improved on it. We can start tournaments faster, get the brackets posted faster and run better events. We have the wrestlers’ contact information and are able to communicate with them. We get information out quickly to our members. I serve as a catalyst, but our wrestling community has embraced the concept that wrestling is for everybody,” said Flatt.
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Central Regionals Recap
Well 1,000 miles and 15 hours of driving, but 11 young men and 4 coaches are back from a productive weekend seeing great competition. First I would like to thank the kids who came on this trip and were the perfect representatives of themselves and the state both on and off the mat. Second I would like to thank the Lutz's, Porter, and Mr. Climmons for covering kids, and making sure that these kids were able to compete.
Now for the recap. It was a great weekend and whenever you see Nationally Ranked kids as well as kids like Tsirtsis, Ness, and Brill (8th grade STUD) you know you are in for a good day of wrestling. Everyone made weight on Friday night and Saturday morning and came ready to wrestle on Saturday. We started with freestyle and here are the final results.
Cadet:
Dallas Brown - 2nd (125)
Jeremiah Lutz - 4th (125)
Brooks Climmons - 1st (160)
Junior:
Eric Sheppard - 4th (112)
Tyler Smith - 4th (285)
Tyler Askey - (145) (Lost out due to criteria in the round robin of the bracket - Should have went to placement)
Then on Sunday Greco started and here are the results.
Cadet:
Madison Martin - 3rd (119)
Jeremiah Lutz - 2nd (125)
Dallas Brown - 4th (125)
Tyler Askey - 1st (145)
Glenn Climmons - 1st (160)
Juniors:
Eric Sheppard - 2nd (112)
Walter Leyva - 4th (125)
Tyler Smith - 4th (285)
Now for the tournament trip awards as voted by the van:
"You get what you ask for" Award - William Hope (he said he could wrestle with Ness, then got paired and 5ptd by him)
"Now we're even" Award - Jeremiah Lutz (First match of Freestyle his opponent gets DQ'd for visious illegal headbut from partere position, Then they wrestle in Greco finals and Jeremiah gives him one back.)
"I got screwed by the ref" Award - TIE (Toby Crittenden and Dallas Brown) Both so bad calls in greco that ...Read Full Blog
Georgia State Games
GEORGIA GAMES WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
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April 25 = Free & Greco Styles
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• Weigh Ins: Friday, April 23 - 6:00pm-8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24 - 7:30-8:00am
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