Getting Started🏠Our Programs at a Glance
The four youth groups side by side: ages, schedule, location and cost.
Getting Started🏠Questions to Ask Any Wrestling Club
USA Wrestling's club-vetting questions, answered before you have to ask.
Getting Started🤩Girls Wrestling at Mt. Lebanon
Why girls wrestle, how our girls program works, and the questions parents ask most.
Getting Started🎯Parent Questions, Answered Straight
Coaching, safety, communication and what we expect from families.
Practice🤼What to Bring to Practice
The gear checklist for every practice, from shoes to water bottle.
Practice🤼Your First Practice
What actually happens in the room: warm-up, drilling, live wrestling and conditioning.
Practice🤼Talk Like a Wrestler
Twenty words that let you follow a practice and a match.
Practice🤼The First Moves They'll Learn
The six techniques of a first season, and what "good" looks like in year one.
Practice🤼Daily Wrestling Journal
A daily journal for wrestlers to track their training and goals.
Matches & Scoring🥇How Scoring Works
Takedowns, escapes, reversals, near fall, and how a match is won.
Matches & Scoring🥇Reading the Ref
A cheat sheet for the referee's signals, so you know what just happened.
Matches & Scoring🥇The Three Positions
Neutral, top and bottom, plus the referee's position.
Health & Fueling🤼Everyday Fueling
In-season nutrition and hydration, and why we don't cut weight.
Health & Fueling🤼Sleep, Recovery & Getting Stronger
Sleep, work at home, playing other sports, and soreness versus injury.
Health & Fueling🤼Skin, Mats & Staying Healthy
Ringworm, impetigo, mat hygiene, and when to stay home.
Health & Fueling🥇NFHS Skin Condition Form
The form a doctor completes to clear a skin condition for competition.
Tournaments🥇Your First Tournament
The honest shape of a long tournament day, start to finish.
Tournaments🥇Tournament Packing List
Everything to pack the night before a tournament.
Tournaments🥇Competition-Day Fueling
What to eat and when, across a whole tournament day.
Tournaments🥇The Car Ride Home
How to talk to your wrestler after a match, especially after a loss.
Our Program💪The 7 Traits of a Mt. Lebanon Wrestler
The character we coach for, on the mat and off it.
Our Program💪Where This Goes Next
The off-season, freestyle and Greco, and the path to junior high and high school.