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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.
 
2013 Cadet & Juvenile Nationals Results

2013 Cadet & Juvenile Nationals Results
The Capilano Wrestling Club took a contingent of "13 lucky wrestlers" to the National Juvenile/Cadet Championships April 4-7 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The Club had six different schools represented amongst the athletes and an accompanying array of five parents and grandparents to cheer them on.

And, wow, did they have reason to cheer! Capilano came away with three individual champions and the the Juvenile Girls Championship title.

Moreover, for the first time in the history of the Capilano Wrestling Club we also had a brother-sister combo with each sibling winning their respective weight classes. Congratulations to both Karah and Oscar Bulaqui for their tremendous performances.

With his win, Oscar now has the right to represent Canada in August at the FILA Cadet World Championships in Zrenjanin, Serbia.

The Club's top three results are listed below:

First - Karah Bulaqui (40 kg. Cadet Girls).
First - Adrienne Iu (80 kg. Juvenile Girls).
First - Oscar Bulaqui (46 kg. Juvenile Boys).
First - Oscar Bulaqui (46 kg. FILA Cadet Trials).

Second - Ciarra DiSalle (49 kg. Cadet Girls).
Second - Alex Radcliff (70 kg. Juvenile Girls).
Second - Marlena Woldring (90 kg. Juvenile Girls).

Third - Kai Sackville-Hii (58 kg. Cadet Boys)

Click here for more pictures from the 2013 Nationals.
 
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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