New York, May 8, 2012 - Beat The Streets, the New York City-based not-for-profit organization that has brought wrestling to thousands of middle and high school students in New York City, along with USA Wrestling and the New York City Department of Education, today announced that for the second straight year, an international freestyle wrestling match featuring some of the world’s greatest Olympic-class wrestlers, will be held in Duffy Square in New York’s Times Square on Thursday, June 7.
The United States freestyle team will face one of the top wrestling nations in the world as the featured competition for the 2012 Beat the Streets Gala and Benefit, which will be held following the dual meet at Roseland Ballroom. Included in the Gala is the Beat the Streets Reception and Awards Ceremony.
The athletes competing for the United States team are the men’s freestyle champions at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, who will represent our nation in the London Games in August. The details on the international team are being finalized and will be announced shortly.
See the rest of the press release on TheMat.com
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Emin Aliyev, from Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, broke out a 5-point throw at the Journeymen Duals in Albany, NY this past weekend. Flowrestling caught it on video:
Watch more video of Journeymen Freestyle Duals on flowrestling.org
This is the beginning of an article posted on the NY1 website. There is a video there, and you can see the beginning of the article below as well as some screenshots from the video. Congratulations, Ahmed!
Ahmed Elsayed: Wrestling Star Positions Himself For Academic Success
By pushing the limits with the founding of a new math class and winning city championships in his sport, the latest Health/Plus NY1 Scholar Athlete of the Week earned a spot at an Ivy League university. NY1's Jon Weinstein filed the following report.
Ahmed Elsayed was out of options after his junior year at the High School for Public Service. He had taken and mastered every math class the school offers. But he wanted to learn calculus. Ahmed did the only thing he could think of.
To read the rest of the article and watch the video, click here.
It's War! Only the strong will survive! Rather - only the strong did survive. On Friday April 6th and Saturday April 7th at the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwood, NJ, Junior League State placewinner David Berkovich took 3rd place at the 9th annual SJWA War at the South Jersey Shore Folkstyle National tournament.