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Welcome to the Capilano Wrestling Club

The Capilano Wrestling Club is a non-profit, volunteer organization, which promotes and coordinates Olympic Freestyle Wrestling across the North Shore of Vancouver's Lower Mainland.  The Club seeks to work in cooperation with the elementary and high school programs in the region and helps to develop all levels of wrestling, from a Kids' Wrestling Program to those individuals with ambitions to achieve provincial, national or even international experience.

The Club normally practices Monday nights at 6 p.m. in the Wrestling Room at Balmoral Junior High School in North Vancouver, beginning in early October and concluding in early April with the Canadian National Juvenile/Cadet Championships.  Special events, such as preparing for the B.C. Summer Games or hosting visiting teams from around the world, also take place periodically outside this time frame, mostly in the Summer months.
 
2011/2012 Capilano Wrestling practices update

There will be no practice Monday Nov. 28 due to the Senior tournament at Sentinel Secondary School.

Practices will resume the following Monday, December 5.

Practices are all hosted in the small gym at the Carson Graham Secondary School - South Campus.  Practices start at 6:30pm.
 
Cam Thorpe - Most Outstanding Junior Development Coach 2010/2011
Our very own Cam Thorpe was recently declared as the Most Outstanding Junior Development Coach for the 2010/2011 season by the B.C. Wrestling Association.  This award was to recognize his work with the Capilano Mat Rats and Capilano Mat Mice wrestling programs.  Congratulations Cam!
 
2011 Western Canada Summer Games
Cholena, Arielle, Victoria and Ryder at WCSG
Description:  The four Capilano wrestlers in the picture above are, from left to right:  Cholena Horne (56 kg.), Arielle Marsel-Mackenzie (52 kg.), Victoria Gonzalo (43 kg.), and Ryder McCarville (80 kg.).  Our four representatives were all members of Team B.C. as they battled it out at the Western Canada Summer Games in Kamloops in August, 2011, featuring the four western provinces and three territories.  As a team the B.C. Girls won a bronze, losing very close and exciting dual meets to both Alberta (23-20) and Saskatchewan (22-21).  It could so easily have gone the other way... In the individual results Cholena went undefeated throughout the tournament and brought home the gold, while Victoria and Ryder both finished with silver, and Arielle picked up a bronze.  

This Cadet tournament was an outstanding example of the quality of inter-provincial rivalries in our country, with the prairie provinces exhibiting superb parental and fan support.  The atmosphere, at times, was loud, raucus and elecric!  It was a great venue, well organized, and a superb learning environment for our athletes.

Well done Girls!
 
2011 Cadet & Juvenile Nationals Results

2011 Capilano Wrestling National's Team
The Capilano Wrestling Club sent a contingent of eight athletes and two coaches to the 2011 National Cadet/Juvenile Championships held April 7-10 in Windsor, Ontario.  Participating athletes were Arielle Marsel-Mackenzie, Cholena Horne, Oscar Bulaqui, Dallan Bhatti, Mathew Cheung, Tom Scott, Martin Adamec, and Abdul Mohammad.  The accompanying coaches were Kate Walker and Jamie Young.  

In one of the most competitive National tournaments seen in years (the future looks promising for Canadian wrestling!), our Capilano wrestlers battled their way to three top six performances.  Leading the charge was Juvenile wrestler Abdul Mohammad at 63 kg. who took silver in the Freestyle and gold in Greco-Roman.  He now joins his brother Taj as one of the most successful wrestlers in the Club's elite high school ranks, Taj having won bronze in Freestyle and gold in Greco in the 2010 tournament.

Our other two wrestlers who placed top six were Dallan Bhatti, fourth in Cadet Freestyle at 54 kg.; andTom Scott, sixth in Juvenile Greco-Roman at 58 kg.

Click here for more pictures from the 2011 Nationals.
 
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