PAWL
"The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart." --Dan Gable
Phillipsburg Area Wrestling League 2024-2025 Novice Tournament: TBD @ Del Val High School. 8am **19 Senator Stoud Rd Frenchtown, NJ 08825 JV Tournament: TBD @ Voorhees High School. 8am **256 County Rd 513 Glen Gardner, NJ 08826 Varsity Tournament: TBD @ Voorhees High School. 12pm **256 County Rd 513 Glen Gardner, NJ 08826 | |
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Use this area to know what you should be looking to do during the different phases of the wrestling season.
The focus will change on the part of the season we are in.
Nothing like the fresh perspective of a new season to buckle down and execute!
Best of luck to your team this season. Take advantage of the newness of it all to dive right in.
Set your team delegates
Many hands make light work.
There isn't a limit to team delegates and past experience says having delegates who know what they are in charge of (and can be a back up for ) is the recommended way to go.
Here are some key concepts on delegates:
Set up your team rosters
There is nothing more important to the site. Frustration results from teams attempting to put results in and opponents have an incomplete roster.
For that reason, much effort has been exerted in making this task easier in every way.
Unless you are a new team this season, your roster from last year should already be in place. Your oldest wrestlers were eliminated at season reset.
All other grades have been bumped up.
Here are the tasks you can now focus on:
Manage your wrestling schedule
This is the time to communicate with coaches during meetings to see who is wrestling where and when.
If you want, the site has a broadcast message system that has a variety of ways to reach out to teams or individuals.
As an auxiliary benefit, the communication is stored in the broadcast message archive and you can refer back to what was proposed.
When you have some dates, head on over and publish those dates on the site events page.
Ticking the boxes the correct way not only adds the events to your MY TEAM PAGE, it also put them on the calendar AND the MY TEAM PAGE of the people you tick the box for.
Here is the list of things you should be considering now that wrestling has started.
Put in your first contests
Visit COACHES PORTAL | MATCHES | Match Entry to start inserting a match into the site.
Know that before you start putting matches in that not all teams are created equal. There will be teams who are not fully complaint yet. All wrestlers MUST have a seed weight put to allow them to appear during match entry. If the opposing team wrestlers have no seed weight set... they will not show on the roster. You will need to reach out to their delegates and prod them to finish that task before you can insert the match. There is a page on the site dedicated to putting in seed weights.
Review your team delegates - including your information
The site is designed to allow any delegate to manage details for their team. This includes updating information for all team delegates, granting delegate status to a new delegate and removing those who are not returning. This is done in the TEAM CONTROL PANEL via the MY TEAM PAGE.
Rosters.. rosters.. rosters!
Learn the site
Your league website is full of information and tools to help you accomplish a smooth season.
Take a tour now that results are coming in and find out how to capitalize on the information.
(by insuring you check these things off your list)
Main focus for this section is getting your rosters finalized. Much to absorb here. Some key points to understanding how things go.
Seed & Cert Weights
It is imperative that your rosters are managed.
Incomplete or incorrect rosters will create challengers or prevent match entry.
Now that wrestling is gearing up it is past time to make sure your rosters are in order.
Don't forget to complete weigh-in sheets
Mid season is time to leverage the power of the site to be informed, review stats entered and manage your strategy!
Review Broadcast Messages
Visit COACHES PORTAL | Broadcast Messages.
Look over current messages and see if there are any of interest or any specifically sent to your (or your team) that pertain to you.
Research Results
Get your completed matches into the system.
Look at error reporting
There may be error reports for matches that involve your team.
Visit COACHES PORTAL | Error Reporting and review any open error reports
Start planning your tournament rosters.
You can only have one kid per weight class in the varsity tournament.
As long as you're bylaw complaint you can move a wrestlers seed weight to put together the best roster.
Double check with your team treasurer and make sure the league dues are paid.
As the regular season is in full swing, now is about maintenance.
Get all of your matches inserted into the system.
Ensure entry accuracy
(especially for bouts inserted by others)
Start planning your tournament rosters.
You can only have one kid per weight class in the varsity tournament.
As long as you're bylaw complaint you can move a wrestlers seed weight to put together the best roster.
Double check with your team treasurer and make sure the league dues are paid.
Being prepared for the seeding meeting only takes a few steps. Ideally, all teams should complete these items at minimum 48 hours prior to the meeting date.
Confirm that all of your matches are in.
Check that all matches were entered.
To do that, visit:
WRESTLING RESULTS | Matches (By Team)
Review the match error reports
Visit: COACHES PORTAL | Error Reporting
Look over the error reports to make sure that your team is not the subject of one of them.
If you find an error, fix it and the edit the error status leaving a timestamp.
You may also want to reach out to the reporting person.
Set your tournament rosters
There is a tournament roster page dedicated to setting tournament seed meeting rosters.
PLEASE expand and read the instructions on that page before working on changes.
Here are some key tournament concepts:
You can find that Tournament Rosters Page here:
COACHES PORTAL | ROSTERS | TOURNAMENT ROSTERS
Research Seeding Ties
Look at your kids for each weight and see if they are tied. If so, use your bylaws criteria to break the ties and bring that information with you to the seeding meeting
Gather Printed Material for the meeting
Print any rosters: You can use the site to prepare for the meeting by printing team rosters.
It is great to have the information with you in paper so you can be a part of the discussion with the information in front of you.
The Team Rosters Page has the ability for you to print or export roster(s) to MS Excel.
End of year meeting prep
While things are fresh in the mind (especially after the seeding meeting) you should start considering what you can propose to make the league better. Perhaps a rule change or policy that is outdated. Spend some time reflecting on what you want to fix.
The end of year items include looking back on what did and did not work. Learn and plan.
Manage your team details
Use your team control panel to:
Leave your rosters alone!
Roster from this year will automatically be reset for next year. Upon new season setup, you will remove any wrestlers not returning and add any new wrestlers who are coming out for the new season.
Visit your league archive and reminisce
Your league has a rich history. The past is available for you in the league archives.
Matches, seeding and wrestler results as well as tournament and team championship matches are all there.
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