The club was organized for the 2010 season at  a November 3 meeting, held at Salt City Machinery.  This will be the 28th season for the organization,  which remains committed to helping Section 3 wrestlers improve there wrestling abilities , gain experiance with the best competiton available and have fun participating in the "worlds greatest sport".

THE 2010 BOARD:  Don McGee president,  Bob Rose vice preident,  Rick Spicer vice president, Tom McGee vice pesident,  Mike Costello treasurer,  Laurie Regan secretary,  Penny Letcher coordinator,  Cindy Moss coordinator,  Bev Wormald board member,  Peter Finocchairo board member.

CLINICIANS 2010:  Derek Bigford,  Ben New, Eric Rose, Trevor LeBlanc, Paul LeBlanc

REGISTRATION CHANGES:  All 2010 members wil register for their USA Cards on-line with USA Wrestling at: themat.com, they will pay with credit card when registering.  To join the club, members must have their USA Card and register with Mohawk Valley.  The cost will remain virtualy the same as last year at $120.00.  However, there will be no mandatory CANDY SALE fundraiser this year.  The only fundraiser will be an optional lottery ticket sale.   Wrestlers will be encouraged to register prior to the start of the Club, to ensure that their names will appear on the 2010 club t-shirt.  Registration  forms will be avaiable during the season.

SCHEDULE:  Begins with the Mohawk Valley Festival on March 6-7.  Super Six follows with an overnight in Niagara Falls.  The club will compete in the Brockport Tournament and the NYS-USA junior-Cadets in Binghamton in May.  A Qualifier will be set at Holland Patent in April.  The Club Cup will be scheduled in May.  This year the club will also support in some way, wrestlers competing in the Nationals in Virgina Beach put on by the NWCA.  The Empire Games qualifiers will be held on June 12-13.  The State Fair Challenge will be in August.  Other events are pending.  It will remain club policy to pay entries to all Club recognized events.  Additional events are pending.

 INTERNATIONAL EVENTS:  This year the Club hosts KSV Holzgerlingen(Germany) on May22-May 31.  Housing will be needed.  Penny Letcher will chair the organizing committee.  The Spring trip on Spring break is undetermined.  The club has an invite to return to Puerto Rico to train with a former Cuban Olympic Greco coach for 3 days, followed with a Greco Tournament in Carolina PR.  A suggestion was also made for a trip south to the Carolinas and Georgia, were the club has some contacts for several dual meets and a possible tournament.  A decision will be made in December.  The Club will also participate in the Canada Cup on July 4 weekend.

The Club begins practices on February 25 at Chittenango.  We will begin at the Middle School and move to the High School in April.

On Saturday October 10,  in Salinas Purto Rico with 21 wreestlers the Club defended a title they have held for the past several years in the prestigious Cadet(high school ) division.  This was the largest division and has traditionally been the most competitive.  MVWC was first, Carolina(Puerto Rico) second and North Carolina third.  MVWC had 3 individual firsts, 4 seconds and 2 thirds.  Most wrestlers won at least a match or several, which added to the team title.  This years team was young and only included 3 seniors.  However the younger wrestlers pulled together for a good performances, to overcome some surprising loses in several divisions.

Gold:  Cody Carbery,  Dylan Kavanaugh, Brian Ervin

Silver Barney Prince, Brandon Delmonte, Lon Palmer, Greg Williams

Bronze:  Ian Colican,  Aaron Prichard

On Friday the Schoolboy division was contested. This is for those born 94-95.  The Club was second to Carolina  PR. 

Gold;  Anthony Finocchairo, Brian Irvin    Silver:  Matt Fisher      Bronze: John Regan  4Th  Alex Potts, Alex Moss.

The Club was also represented by Jeremy Brodfuehrer in the Junior division (18-20).  He finished fourth.

The MVWC team that will be traveling To Salinas, Puerto Rico are preparing to defend the wins in Both Schoolboy and Cadet(high school) divisions.   The team is very young this year, with many members who will be traveling overseas for the first time.   However there are several defending Section 3 champions who are on the trip.  Competition for the Schoolboys is held on Friday October 9,  with the Cadets competeing on Saturday, the 10th.

Along with the very good competition, the MVWC wrestlers will experiance the sights and Culture of Puerto Rico, with trips to Ponce and SanJuan.  There also will be "Beach Time" and weather permitting a trip to the rain forest.

SCHOOLBOYS:  Cody Carberry,  Alex Potts,  Anthony Finocchairo,  Matt Fisher,  Alex Moss

CADETS:  Dylan Kavanaugh, Barney Prince, Brandon Delmonte, Mike Sardo, Gregory Bagiryan, Alex Wenham, Ian Coolican, Nick Laflair, Lon Palmer, Gunnar Brooks, Aaron Prichard,  Mike Vreeland, John Regan, Greg Williams,  Brian Ervin 

JUNIOR:  Jeremy Brodfuehrer

Schoolboys who place in Fridays tournament will also wrestle in the Cadet tournament on Saturday.

The team will leave from the Syracuse airport at 7:10 on Thursday morning October 8, returning on Monday, October 12 at 9:26.

Coaching the team will be Tom McGee and Mike Letcher.  Going as the clubs referee is George Peavey.  There will be practices held in September and early October to prepare for the Competition.  Those will be at Chittenango HS and any MVWC wrestler may attend.

Seven wrestlers from the Club  traveled to Guelph on July 4-5 to compete in the prestigious Canada Cup.  This is a FILA recognized international event on the World Wrestling Calender.  In the Senior division a number of Olympians were in the competition, including the entire USA womens National team with Gold Medalist, Clarrisa Chun.

The club has entered a high school team to represent Central New York consisting of Brandon Delmonte, Ian Coolican, Wesley Blanding, Dustin Moss, Sean Hennigan, Matt Rees and Alex Meyers.  In this years tournament, they competed against the Best in Canada, as well as another USA team representing New England and the Korean National Junior team.

The Club was lead by Dustin Moss who took the Silver Medal in th 76k class, losing to one of Canadas top wrestlers from Alberta.  Alex Meyers placed third with a Bronze Medal in the 85k class.  Sean Hennigan place fourth,  Brandon Delmonte was 5th along with Matt Rees at 5th.  Delmonte in the semis lost a compettive match with the current FILA Cadet World Champion.  Coolican and Blanding did not place.  The competition was on a very high level, with the local MVWC wrestleras representing Central New York well, with an overall good performance.

A small group of Club wrestlers travelled to Nyak to compete at the annual championships in Freestyle and Greco, on May 16.   The tournament although small, had some quality wrestlers entered from the state.  The Club members represented CNY well with some great finishes.  RESULTS:

Lane Frost  152#    1 Freestyle    1 Greco

Gage Patry  160#    1 Freestyle    2 Greco

Zack Lagler 175#   2 Freestyle    2 Greco

Carter Kimball 220#  2 Freeztyle   2 Greco

The last event for the spring season will be the Northeast Regionals for Kids-Cadets in Binghamton on May 30-31.

Thirty-two wrestlers from the Club traveled to Binghamton for the annual State championships.  Many of the Clubs experianced Junior wrestlers were not able to compete due to proms and year end testing.  However the Juniors and Cadets that went, represented the Club well, with some fine results.  RESULTS:

CADET GRECO

GOLD:  Anthony Finocchairo 125#,  Nyquan Pringle 145#,  Brian Ervin 285#

SILVER:  Cody Carberry 91#,  Wesley Blanding 130#

Bronze:  Mike Sardo 112#

fourth:  Gregory Begaryian 119# 

Sixth:  Tial Thang 135#

CADET FREESTYLE

GOLD:   Anthony Finocchairo 125#

SILVER  Cody Carberry 91#,   Wesley Blanding 130#,  Nyquan Pringle 145#, 

BRONZE   Nate Walts 145#,  Pat Nasoni 189#

fourth  Tial Thang  135#,  Brian Ervin 285#

sixth  Gregory Begaryian 119#, Zach Baslow 152#

JUNIOR GRECO

GOLD:  Dustin Moss 171#

SILVER: Dan Walts 125#

fourth Josh Evanciew 145#

fifth   Lamont Flemming 152#

sixth:   Todd Hagger 152#, Greg Williams 171#, Mike Miescowski 215#

JUNIOR FREESTYLE

GOLD  Dan Walts 125#

SILVER  Todd Hagger 152#

BRONZE  Dustin Moss 171#

fifth  Talon Sotherdon 130#, 

sixth Jason Semararo 285#

The very tired members of the Club returned from Turkey on Monday night at Midnight.  The trip overall was a great success.  The team wrestled in competition 2 times, while practicing daily during the 10 day trip.   The wrestlers had the opportunity to learn technique from some of Turkey's top coaches, including a former World Champion.  They also had the opportunity to see some truly amazing sites while visiting 5 cities.

Culturally, there are few countries that can rival Turkey.  The country is a cradle of our civilization and the team were able to experiance that history.  The team began the stay in Milas, an ancient city in the mountains which has a strong wrestling history. It is not a great tourist destination so the wrestlers had achance to experiance "real Turkey".  They traveled to some small villages in the mountains where the were more donkies and horses used than autos.  Based in Milas for 3 nights the team also trvelled to the resort city of Bodrum, where they visited a Crusader Castle/Mueseum.  After wrestling a match in Milas on Monday the team left Tuesday for The great site of Ephesus.   Ephesus is one of the worlds most renowned acheological sites.  It was a high point for the trip.  The city is in ruins, but the ruins are magnificent.  While in Ephesus, the team also had a truly moving experience with a visit to Mary's last home, in the mountains out side the ancient city. 

The team arrived in Izmir and Yamanlar school on Tueday night and would stay at the school for the remainder of the trip.  Day trips were made to the bazaar in Izmir, where the team played "let's make a deal" while shopping.  On Thursday they traveled to Manisa, where they visited an old mosque and briefly walked around the City before practice.  Friday was competition day.  The last full day for the team inTurkey, had the group at the Agean sea in the City of Cezme, where the wrestlers swam in Agean.  On Sunday MVWC sadly left Turkey where many friendships had been made both in Milas and Izmir.  The trip concluded with an overnight in Munich, Germany and a brief trip to the City center on Monday.

The Wrestling was outstanding with all the Turkish wrestlers and our fellow visitors from South Africa.  The opening competition was in Milas on Monday.  The Turkish team was made up of regional wrestlers from the area, many of whom had just returned from the Turkish Nationals.  The mvwc wrestlers prevailed winning 9 matches and losing 6.  The wrestling was exciting with an overflow crowd in the sports hall.  The crowd took the matches very seriously, making noice that some times was deafening.  The last weekend had the toughest competition.  Many wrestlers from the Turkish Junior-Cadet National made the trip to Izmir to take on the Americans.  The Turks were determined not to lose. The final tally for the exciting match was Turkry 10 MVWC 5. Most of the matches though were close, several MVWC lost and won decisions in the last few seconds.  After wrestling Turkey the team took on the South African team.  MVWC prevailed  9-2.   The teams Captain Ryan LeBlanc also led the team on the mat.  During the week he beat the National champion of both Turkey and South Africa.      Individual records will follow.

About 100 wrestlers from the club traveled to Niagara Falls to participate in the annual Tournament.  Results:

Open Freestyle:   132#  Steve Wile 2,  145.5# Gary Cook 1,  Tracy Norton 2,  163#  Dave Minney 2,   280#  Todd Luther 2,  James Chaplin 3

Schoolboy Freestyle:   84#  Connor Tine 2,  105# Jerrett Norton 2,  112# tyler Heggleke 2,  136# Spencer Norton 1,  144# Travis Reid 3,  152# Dalton Nyumah 1,  175# Alex Moss 1,  190# Zach Lagler 2,  210 Carter kimball 1, 

Cadet Freestyle:  91# Cody Carbery 1,  98# Ryan Cook 1,  105# Joey Shaheen 2,  112# Ian Coolican 2, JT Romangnoli 3,  119# Gregory Bagiryan 1, Alex Potts 3,  125# Kareeb Howard 3,  135#  Wesley Blanding 1, Akira Reid 2,  140# Tial Thang 2, Nate Walts 3,  152#  Dylan Perry 3,  160#  Sam Farfaglia 3,   171# Zach Zupan 1,  189# Pat Nasoni 1,  285#  Brian Ervin 1, Caleb Robinson 2 

Junior Freestyle:  112#  Mike Miranda 1, Anna Cummings 2, 125#  Anthony Finocchairo 1, Dan Walts 2, Talon Sotherdon 3,  135#  Mike Ferguson 1,  140#  Pat Cost 1, Josh Evanciew 2, Tyler Sirota 3,  145# Antonio Peck 3,  152# Todd Hagger 1, Lamont Flemming 2,  160# Dave Minney 1,  171# Dustin Moss 1,  189# Sean Hennigan 2,  215# Kyle Reeder 2, Nick Mieczkowski 3,  285# Jason Semeraro 2, Trevor Clement 3

Open Greco:  132# Steve Wile 2, Ryan Wile 3,  163# Dave Minney 2,  185# Aaron Sotherdon 3,  280#  James Chaplin 1, Todd Luther 2

Cadet Greco:   91# Cody Carbery 2, Arsen Bagiryan 3,  98# Ryan Cook 1, Joey Shaheen 2,  105# JT Romangnoli 2,  112# Ian Coolican 1,  119# Gunnar Brooks 1, Greg Bagiryan 3,  130# Kareeb Howard 2,  135#  Myquan Pringle 1, Wesley Blanding 2, 3 Mitch Howard 3,  140# Tial Thang 1, Nate Walts 2, Aaron Prichard 3,  145# Dylan Perry 1,  171# Zach Zupan 1,  Alex Moss 2,  189# Zach Lagler 1,  215#  Caleb Robinson 1, Carter Kimball 2,  285# Brian Ervin 1

Junior Greco:  105# Mike Davis 1,  112# Mike Miranda 1, 119# Talon Sotherdon 1,  125# Dan Walts 1, Anthony Finocchairo 2,   135# Pat Cost 1, Mike Ferguson 2,  140# Tyler Sirota 1, Josh Evanciew 2  152# Lamont Flemming 1, Todd Hagger 2, Dustin Cummings 3,  1603 Dave minney 3,  171# Dustin Moss 1, Greg Williams 2,  189# Sean Hennigan 1,  215 # Kyle Reeder 3,  285# Clancey Kemp 1, Jason Semeraro 2