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March Newsletter from the C-RTC

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WRESTLERS IN CUBA

Two of our wrestlers competed in a UWW freestyle tournament last month in Cuba called the Granma y Cerro Pelado. Both David Carr and Kyven Gadson came away with Bronze medals.

On his way to 3rd place, David won a match against the wrestler who placed third in the Senior World Championships in 2018.

Kyven lost only on criteria to a 3-time world medalist from Cuba.

The C-RTC’s Nate Carr traveled with David and Kyven as their coach. “What was special and unusual was that our two guys got to practice with the Cubans,” said Nate. “You don’t often get to practice with your competitors. So that was fun because the Cubans are some of the best wrestlers in the world.”

In late April, we will take many of our wrestlers to compete in the UWW Junior National and Senior National freestyle competitions in Las Vegas.

C-RTC EXPANSION

The C-RTC is taking another big step in its mission to bring in more post-graduate wrestlers and win world championship and Olympic medals. This spring, we will acquire a 4-plex Townhouse unit in Ames. With a total of 14 rooms, this allows us to begin housing our post-graduate athletes as early as April.

We have been working on this project with HCS Builders (affiliated with Hunziker Associates), which has given us immediate access to the 4-plex. As part of our agreement with HCS, the C-RTC must rebuild a similar 4-plex Townhouse complex for HCS to sell.

Construction on the new 4-plex will start this spring.

This is where OUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS come in. We are now looking for donations of building products, services, and labor on this project -- as well as outright cash or check donations that we can put towards paying for parts of this project.

If you make a sizeable donation for this project we will put your name and/or the name of your business on a plaque at the front entrance to each unit. For years, athletes will be able to see who they can thank for building the Cyclone Regional Training Center House in 2019.

For more info contact Ben Durbin at: [email protected].

Stay tuned for pictures & video of the house.

SOCIAL SEASON IS COMING

Our social season is right around the corner. We have several planned in the Central and Northern parts of the state starting the end of May. We’ll let you know the schedule in our next newsletter. If YOU would like to help organize a social in your area – please email Robin at: [email protected]. Our socials are a fun opportunity to mingle and talk wrestling with our coaching staff, followed by a great dinner and live auction. All the proceeds go to the C-RTC.

DONATE ONLINE

Finally, in case you haven’t donated yet in 2019 -- I want to direct you to our website. This is a great time to get involved and make a one-time or recurring donation -- it will help us build the C-RTC House. Go here: https://www.cyclonertc.org/

Thanks in advance for your help!



Coach Dresser

#itsgonnatakeeveryone
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Consumer Cellular - Anyone Use This Service?

cyfanatic
My parents have asked me to do some digging about Consumer Cellular. They are tired of paying what they pay for their cell service and this sounds attractive to them. I have never heard of Consumer Cellular and was wondering if anyone on this board has any experience with this company? I would hate for them to fall for one of those companies that just seems too good to be true.

Any insights are appreciated! Thanks!
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WrestleStat Tourney Pool is now open!

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The postseason is here, and Tourney Pool is ready to go. There were quite a few enhancements this offseason, as well as a styling upgrade.

If you're not familiar with the rules, here they are:

1) select 1 wrestler at each of the 10 weights
2) wrestlers are weighted based on their seed
3) you have 1000 points to spend across your 10 wrestlers
4) there are 3 tie breaker questions to answer, based on the ACTUAL team results of the tournament
5) the wrestlers that you selected earn the points that they are awarded in the actual tournament

Users can join any public groups that exist. You can join a private group if you've been invited and know the password for the group. You can also create your own public or private groups.

There are 2 official WrestleStat groups already created, 1 for B1G tournament, and 1 for Nationals.

Quick note on seeds: Since have not been set yet, but you ARE able to make selections in the B1G group. I updated the top 8 seeds, based on Flo's recent article about their anticipated seeds. Once seeds have been officially release, WrestleStat will get them updated in Tourney Pool. If updating the seeds causes your submittal to go over the 1000 point maximum, it's up to you to change your picks so you can get down to the 1000 point maximum. We will send out friendly reminders prior to the tournament if there are still some submittals out there that are still over the 1000 point maximum.

You can join as many groups as you like; last year there were 3 users that were members of more than 20 groups.

Here's the link to get you started:

https://www.wrestlestat.com/tourneypool/welcome

Remember, all of this is a FREE service! If you'd like to help out WrestleStat, there's a green "Donate/Remove Ads" link at the top right of the page. Any amount is appreciated, $1, $5, $2499, whatever you want to do.

Thanks again everyone, have fun!
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Buzzer beaters

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Just had Wichita State/UConn on randomly and WSU hit a last second shot on a runner to win it.

It's March tomorrow. Arguably the best sporting event takes place in a few weeks, and even some of these late regular season and conference tourney games can get crazy.

What are some of your most memorable buzzer beaters in college basketball? Regular season or tourney.

I'll start with one that was posted in the JT thread.

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P12/B12 alliance?

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This is a concept, an alliance, that I've long favored. With the P12 being so weak, perhaps now's the time it will gain favor? It potentially would solve some scheduling and TV issues. Luring ASU and Arizona to the B12 is also noteworthy.

“This alliance of 22 universities from the Great Plains to the West Coast would provide the vital content of big-time football games that dovetail nicely with the new developing platforms of information.”

Wefald’s proposal calls for all 30 of the Big 12’s non-conference games and for 30 of the Pac-12’s 36 out-of-league games to be played against each other.

The matchups would be spread evenly across the season (10 per month) with the winners of each conference meeting at the end of the regular season for a championship game, which would rotate between the Rose Bowl and AT&T Stadium.

Gee called the proposal “brilliant,’’ according to Wefald, but declined to comment.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02...nferences-should-embrace-the-future-together/
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Taxes

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I was wondering if someone with a financial background could answer this for me. I have heard plenty of debate on if it is better to pay taxes or receive a refund. I always hear “giving the government a interest free loan”. What is the best option in your opinion?
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