FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Boys and Girls grades K-3 make up our FUNdamentals program. While all athletes grades 4-8 make up our advanced/dual team.
Go to our Membership page and complete the required registrations or come on in and sign up in person during one of our practices hosted at MHS.
This year’s Folkstyle session (Nov 3 – March 4) prices are $200/Individual or $300/Family. This includes approximately 4 months of skills development and coaching at tournaments. This years Olympic wrestling session (March 6 – June 13) prices are $100/Individual or $150/Family. Rates include approximately 4 months of skills development and coaching at tournaments. In addition, there is also a mandatory membership to USA Wrestling/Indiana State Wrestling Association which covers a number of liabilities issues and insurance, and is necessary for competing in all sanctioned tournaments in Indiana. The cost of this additional membership is $40 and is good for a calendar year.
Wrestling, particularly Folkstyle Wrestling, is a Winter sport. We typically begin practices in late November and carry through to the ISWA Folkstyle State Finals in mid March every year. Our practices are usually Tuesday/Thursday and last an hour and a half. There are intermittent breaks in our practice schedule due to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years holidays, and we may also be required to cancel practices at times due to inclement weather or circumstances out of club control. Our competition schedule consists of tournaments nearly every weekend, almost all of which are on Sundays. Our coaches are committed to representing our club and cornering your wrestlers at these tournaments. Most tournaments are within a 1 hour drive of Mishawaka, with the ISWA State Championships in Indianapolis being a notable exception.
All wrestlers must have a current USA wrestling card. They are $40 and can be applied for at www.usawmembership.com prior to the start of club practices. Wrestlers competing in Michigan tournaments will also need to be registered with Nuway / Myway. This registration is $18 and can be applied for at https://www.nuwaymembership.com.
For all practices and tournaments, wrestlers with longer hair need it pulled back and/or to utilize a hair treatment/covering that integrates with headgear. Also, all wrestlers need to have fingernails trimmed neatly and tight to the finger. Wrestlers are required to have wrestling shoes for practices and tournaments. (we have plenty of extra shoes if needed for practice) Headgear and mouth guards are required for tournaments, though some choose to use them for practices as well.
Attire for practices can range from shorts and a t-shirt, sweatpants, tights, compression shirt, or even a singlet (though most do not wear a singlet for practices). For tournaments, a singlet or approved compression shirt/shorts combination is required. Nearly all wrestlers, especially youth wrestlers, still prefer a singlet. However, compression competition wear is growing in popularity.
Club practices take place in the Historic Mishawaka Wrestling Room of the legendary MHS West Gymnasium at:
1202 Lincoln Way E. Mishawaka, IN 46544
Tuesdays and Thursdays with beginners/FUNdamentals (K-3rd) at 5:30 – 6:30 pm starting Tuesday November 4, 2025.
Tuesdays and Thursdays with advanced/dual team wrestlers (4-8th) at 6:45 – 8:00pm.
Mishawaka Wrestling Club competes in tournaments throughout Indiana and Southern Michigan. In the beginning of November a flyer will come home with the wrestlers indicating which tournaments we plan on attending.
No, tournaments are not mandatory. A flyer will go home from club practice in the beginning of November indicating which tournaments the club will be participating in / what tournaments we will have coaches present at. From there each family can chose which tournaments they will attend.
Your child’s age division is determined by the calendar year of their birth, which will slot them in a 6 and under (6U), 8 and under (8U), 10 and under (10U), etc. division. For more details, here is a link to the USA Wrestling page on age divisions and weight classes.
Our team of communications volunteers post a full season schedule on our website and try to send weekly updates on tournament information and schedules. As a general rule, though, Michigan tournaments on our schedule will be registered through the NUWAY website and most Indiana tournaments will be registered through TrackWrestling or USA Wrestling website. These websites allow you to keep up with match numbers and bracket progression for wrestlers throughout the events.
Absolutely. Our practice and competition schedule allows for participation in other sports. Hundreds of our past and present wrestlers have also been involved with football, soccer, basketball, swimming, gymnastics, baseball, softball…etc It is worth noting, though, that conflicting practice schedules which result in excessive absences could very well have a detrimental impact on your wrestler’s development.
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