Program areas at USA Wrestling
National teams programs:provided opportunities for more than three hundred fifty athletes, on the u15, u17, u20, uww u23, veterans and olympic levels, plus support staff, to participate in approximately seventy plus international tours, training camps, and/or tournaments. Assisted with the training expenses for more than one hundred wrestlers on the senior level national teams and an additional fifty plus highly ranked senior level wrestlers who performed well in various competitions.
Events and educational programs:provide opportunities to our 210,000 members of kids, cadets, juniors, uww juniors, u23s, veterans and olympic level to compete in approximately fifty international-, national-, and regional-level events. Also coordinated sports science research regarding Wrestling and educational programs available to our 36,000 Wrestling leaders.
Membership/state services:provided medical and liability insurance to cover approximately 210,250 wrestlers, 36,900 Wrestling leaders, 4,600 Wrestling clubs and 1,880 Wrestling events. Provided funds and instructional material to state organizations and member clubs.
Promotions/sport development/broadcasting:provided services, production, promotion, coordination and other expenses to increase media and public exposure and familiarity with the sport of Wrestling and to encourage participation. Promoted the sport by planning and promoting travel for Wrestling fans and wrestler families to the oslo world championships in october 2021. The plans for the championships were circumvented by covid protocols prohibiting most non-delegation participants, so very few costs were incurred on these vip packages.