Wrestle Gulf Coast

14/09/2024

Parents - Don’t miss out on our Parent Meeting coming up. Mark your calendars and meet us at Bayside Academy on the 29th to discuss the 2024-2025 season!

We are SO excited to get back into the swing of things and hope you all join us. 🤼🤼🤼

11/09/2024

Thank you to one of our Coaches, Caleb Hall, for his dedication to not only our community but our country as a whole, and for raising awareness on such an important day in history.

We are grateful and lucky to have such great role models like Coach Caleb involved in our program.

United States Marine Corps Sergeant Caleb Hall spoke to Upper School about patriotism and about his call to serve our country. He reminded our students that every time they hear the national anthem, or each morning when we say the Pledge of Allegiance, to think about the freedoms we experience everyday and the people that fight for those freedoms.
We are grateful for Calebs service and we remember those who were impacted by the events of September 11th.
Caleb was a geospatial intelligence supervisor with the United States Marine Corps for nearly nine years. He served on a combat tour in Iraq and is proud of his country and his team for their sacrifice. Caleb is our Facilities Director, the varsity wrestling head coach, football assistant coach, and father to Jonathan Benavides ’30.

29/08/2024

06/08/2024

We welcomed some new members into the Gulf Coast family for the weekend at Deep South National duals and had such a great time. We had some crazy matches and memorable experiences doing so. This was the most fun I’ve ever had at a duals tournament and hope we can continue bonding and competing with all who came in. Good job Gulf Coast, let’s continue to grow this sport and elevate the level of competition out there!

16/06/2024

Happy Father’s Day!

11/06/2024

This week’s updates! Please note the calendar change for this weekend. We want all of our wrestlers to enjoy quality time on Father’s Day this Sunday… therefore we will hold all practices on Saturday.

Tumbling is here! And will be free for all gulf coast members! See you this weekend!

10/06/2024

Some of Gulf Coast’s youth wrestlers headed up to Gatlinburg, TN this weekend to compete with some of the best across the country at Bootleggers National tournament. 🙌🏽💥🤼

We are bringing home a combined 5 national placements, 7x all American status, an 8U duals champion title and a 10u duals runner up title!

We are continually putting Alabama on the map as a force to be reckoned with 💪🏽 Don’t sleep on us!!

09/06/2024

‼️REMINDER… there is NO practice today due to a busy tournament weekend! See everyone soon

24/05/2024

Last chance to sign up for the Mizzou camp! We start tomorrow at 9:00am finishing 4 sessions later on Sunday afternoon! 3x top tier D1 wrestlers in the same room hosting each session! Come learn, ask questions, practice hard!

13/05/2024

12 days until the Mizzou Crew makes another trip to Gulf Coast to host an amazing wrestling camp! These wrestlers impressed us so much last year. Not only do they have impressive wrestling accolades but they are well-spoken and effective at teaching! We have athletes of all ages and skill levels already signed up! Noah reached a top 3 ranking in the nation during the regular season, Connor has graduated and is helping the coaching staff at Mizzou and Alan has been a great contributor to the successes of the High School team he is helping coach!

12/05/2024

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mat Moms out there from Gulf Coast Wrestling! Especially our club moms… we couldn’t do it without you all. 🩷

09/05/2024

🚨DEEP SOUTH DUALS 🚨
8/3-8/4 Birmingham, AL

Wrestle Gulf Coast is bringing 3 teams to battle with the best down at Deep South Nationals. (K-4, K-8, HS) Grab your spot now…

✖️ Paid spots
✖️Duals spots are available as listed below
✖️Deadline for ordering singlet is 6/23

05/05/2024

Congrats to our youth wrestlers who battled it out at the Gator Cup III- Arnold! 🐊🏆

Mason placed 1st in 10u
Hayden placed 3rd in 12u
Gaines placed 4th in 12u

04/05/2024

Gulf Coast walked out of the tournament this weekend with 3 Fargo qualifiers! These were the most competitive brackets I have seen in a single tournament all year. State champs and placers in every single bracket.

Alex: 16U Freestyle and Greco State Champ!

Noah: 18U Freestyle 3rd and Greco 3rd in State!

Londyn: 16U Freestyle 2nd in State!

28/04/2024

Congrats to our youth wrestlers that competed in Florida at Poseidon today!

Roman 2nd place (8u 60lb) 3rd place (8u 64lb)
PJ first tournament debut 3rd place (6u 36lb)
Mason 4th place (10u 84lb)

28/04/2024

Congrats to our youth wrestlers that competed in Florida at Poseidon today!

Roman 2nd place (8u 60lb) 3rd place (8u 64lb)
PJ first tournament debut 3rd place (6u 36lb)
Mason 4th place (10u 84lb)

27/04/2024

Montevallo Freestyle/Greco open! We only took two today but those two came to battle!

Alex took first in Greco and second in freestyle!

Ben took second in Freestyle!

24/04/2024

Register ASAP! Price goes up on May 5 and we are only accepting 30 more wrestlers! 3x NCAA D1 Wrestlers running 4 practices. We have hosted them before and on top of their amazing technique, they are extremely good at communicating and remaining professional.

16/04/2024

Gulf Coast Wrestling went to Swamp Donkey this past weekend to compete in Freestyle, Greco, and Folkstyle. We had high school, middle school, and youth wrestlers competing in one, two, or all three styles of wrestling. This was our first time competing in Freestyle and Greco. The wrestlers came to battle and we found areas to continue improving. Overall a great weekend! Way to go Gulf Coast!

12/04/2024

We our super excited to announce our annual Mizzou Camp has returned! Three D1 Mizzou wrestlers coming to our club to run another amazing 2 day camp with 4 sessions. Noah reached a top 3 ranking during the regular season, Connor has graduated and is helping the coaching staff at Mizzou and Alan has been a great contributor to the successes of the High School team he is helping coach! Last year was a lot of fun and not only did they bring a lot of great techniques but they also excelled in helping wrestlers to understand the complexities and ex*****on. Sign up before May 5th to get a $25 discount. Absolutely the best quality camp you can get for the price!

06/04/2024

Successful day for the Gulf Coast Wrestlers today at Nuway Nationals in Michigan! Liam took first place in his age bracket and wrestled up, winning that bracket also! Roman won his first national title and placed wrestling up an age division. Dominic returns an All-American! 3 National champ brackets coming back to Alabama. Great job wrestlers!

24/03/2024

Congrats to our youth wrestler Levi Stanley for going out and representing Gulf Coast with a third place finish in the ! Good job Levi!

17/03/2024

We had one wrestler today at Battle of Bama but he represented well! 7 state qualifiers and a state champion in his bracket and he battled through to end up second! He had to defend his title in a true second match and got the job done. He displayed the mental toughness, resiliency, and never give up mentality that we value so it is no coincidence he performed so well!

11/03/2024

Meet the Gulf Coast Coaches (Part 2)!

Left: Coach Brent - High Level Illinois Wrestler (offered D1 scholarships), 55x State Champions, Top 2 Youth Team in Alabama State. Currently youth regular season head coach, off season involvement with youth and high school!

Right: Coach Josh - High Level Pennsylvania Wrestler, Former PA club coach and Alabama Youth Coach. Military Veteran. Current involvement with High School Off-Season!

10/03/2024

Second best winning percentage in Louisiana (of teams that had more than 1 wrestlers)! We usually strive for 70% but with the addition of many new wrestlers to the club that are learning and working hard, this is a great accomplishment for us. Congrats to all wrestlers who competed at Panther Paw in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today!

Champs 🥇
Roman (8u and 10u)
Logan (8u)
Liam (10u and 12u)
Levi (12u and 14u)
Jonathan (14u)

2nd 🥈
Jonathan (16u)
Nate (16u)

3rd 🥉
Ryan (14u)
Alex (16u)

4th
Cruz (16u)
Ashton (16u)
Nate (18u/open)

10/03/2024

Second best winning percentage in Louisiana (of teams that had more than 1 wrestlers)! We usually strive for 70% but with the addition of many new wrestlers to the club that are learning and working hard, this is a great accomplishment for us. Congrats to all wrestlers who competed at Panther Paw in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today!

Champs 🥇
Roman (8u and 10u)
Logan (8u)
Liam (10u and 12u)
Levi (12u and 14u)
Jonathan (14u)

2nd 🥈
Jonathan (16u)
Nate (16u)

3rd 🥉
Ryan (14u)
Alex (16u)

4th
Cruz (16u)
Ashton (16u)
Nate (18u/open)

04/03/2024

Some great shots of a few of our wrestlers from the tournament this weekend 🤼‍♂️👏🏽 to see!

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04/03/2024

A lot of fun updates from this weekend …

Firstly, Today was our official start of the Wrestle Gulf Coast off season for both youth and our high school wrestlers. We have a ton of talented kids in the room and expect even more as the months go on. We are excited to put the work in and build up these wrestlers to be the best they can be. 💪🏽

Secondly, we attended the Battle on the Bayou 2024 tournament which is always a fun one. We had a GREAT turnout and couldn’t be more pumped up for the kids.

We left with a greater than 70% winning percentage and had the following results:

Champions:
Axl 🥇
Trent 🥇
Henry 🥇
Roman (8U & 10U) 🥇🥇
Liam🥇
Levi Sheff🥇
Tristan🥇
Alex🥇
Braden🥇

2nd Place:
Logan 🥈
Trent 10U🥈
Liam 12U🥈
Levi Stan🥈
Mason🥈
Luke🥈
James🥈
Jamison🥈
Jackson🥈

3rd Place:
George 🥉
Nathan🥉
Max🥉
Jackson🥉
Ben 🥉
Gaines 🥉
Ryan🥉

4th Place:
Hayden
Ewan

We also had a GCWC wrestler win the Most Outstanding Wrestler award for the 8U division - Roman Rodriguez 👏🏽

Congratulations to all - we are excited to get back to the battlefield at practice this week and our tournament this weekend!
Let’s go Gulf Coast!

29/02/2024

This week’s schedule for you all!

Sunday (Both): Coach Brent, Coach Ed
Monday (HS): Coach Brent, Coach Josh
Tuesday (Youth): Coach Caleb
Wednesday (HS): Coach Christian, Coach Josh

Saturday (3/9): Panther Paw Open (Brusly, LA)

Don’t forget to register for club online! Send us a message if interested!

29/02/2024

Meet the Coaches (a couple of them)! Two of our main High School coaches for the off-season in Gulf Coast will be Coaches Ed and Christian. Both of them former High school coaches in other states.

Coach Ed: 14 years High School Head Coach in Pennsylvania, involvement with Young Gunz wrestling club in PA.

Coach Christian: Former Washington High School coach!

Both incredibly eager to help the development of Alabama wrestling. It won’t be easy, but it WILL be worth it!