Mat Sports United Athletics Wrestling Leagues

MISSION is to introduce the sport of wrestling to elementary and middle school age kids of Marin County and the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. The primary purpose of the league(s) are to provide fundamental wrestling technique, show that wrestling is a fun sport to be a part of, and to provide a feeder system for the area high school teams. Our focus is on PARTICIPATION and EDUCATION in the world’s oldest sport.

Mission Goals:
• Introduction to the sport of high school style wrestling through league’s in San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area communities.
• Focus on participation, not match/tournament outcome.
• Provide even playing fields to the greatest extent possible with respect to age, weight, experience, and capabilities for the largest number of kids’ possible.
• To promote the community interest in support of their community teams.
• To teach fundamental wrestling skills.
• To provide guidelines for continued wrestling development.
• To cater to the beginning and advancing wrestlers.
• Promote and develop good sportsmanship.
• To have area youth teams eliminate/stop the promotion of weight cutting among youth wrestlers.
• To create more fans, adult volunteers and participants for the local middle school and high school programs.
• To encourage high school wrestlers to become kid referees and to provide them opportunities to develop/practice their refereeing skills.
• To develop a safe and healthy environment at all practices, scrimmages and member tournaments. To enact/modify rules that enhances safety of participants. (I.E. By minimizing/eliminates the effect of moves that promote choking, head/neck and shoulder injuries, etc)

League Meets
League scrimmages are typically held one day a week (TBD), usually in a tri-meet (3-team) fashion to introduce new wrestlers to live competition, as well as to provide competitive matches for experienced wrestlers. 

Match Pairing for Scrimmages
To promote a safe, objective, unbiased matchmaking standard across the league. All individual matches are paired based on age, weight, and experience level. League rules for weight is +/- 10 % maximum, and a maximum of 1 year difference in age. Experience levels are broken into skill levels (cooperatively defined by teams in the League) and are assigned to each individual wrestler by each team's designated official/squad leader.

 

Mat Sports

Administrators Agreement (Example)

___________________ now known as the SL (Squad Leader) and referred to as and Mat Sports now known as the LD (League Director) agree to operate under the following terms.

Each Squad in the League has individual rights that our not within the scope of this agreement and may exercise them , the Club agrees to operate and follow the direction of the League on all issues included within the scope of this Agreement.

The LD will set the Master Schedule in which all Inter-Squad Competitions, now known as ISC, are set.
Including but not limited to Group Practices, Camps, Clinics, League Duals and Tournaments.
Each Squad shall be responsible for scheduling their own practices.
The LD will be responsible for administration of all aspects of ISC’s .  Including but not limited to Referees and their certifications, Authorizing and Sanctioning the ISC Events, setting rules for the Events, Admission and Entry fees, and their distributions. Securing Venues and Supplies needed at each Events.

The LD shall be responsible to verify that each Squad is in compliance with the following:

Squad Members are covered by Secondary Insurance naming the Squad Leader and Mat Sports as Additional Insured. Acceptable forms of Secondary Insurance are AAU or a policy written by a School.
SL and their Coaches, Volunteers or other Persons having any direct or in direct contact with any minors in the program will submit to a background check. Any violation of this term will void this agreement, no person may work in any capacity without prior approval of the LD.

Schools authorizing participation - may not sign a waiver accepting responsibility and will not be allowed to host or participate in ISC’s under this agreement.

Any and all amendments to this agreement:
This agreement can be amended by the following:

The League Director and the Squad Leader mutual consent. Or by a vote of the following ( this option is limited to issues concerning the ISC)
The League Director and a majority of the Squad Leaders consent- Limited to only the Squad Leader participating ISC.

( ) ( ) INT SL

Term of Agreement Shall be until either party opts out, by giving 90 Days Notice, in writing:
Notice will be given by sending it the following:
 Coach@matsport.org for the LD and ______________________ for the SL
Notice via email is acceptable to both parties. It is the Responsibility of the parties to update their E Mail Address. An Email to any Sponsors can be sent by the moving party, provide it contain no information intended to recruit them or encourage cancellation of the Squad Leaders.
Should the Squad opt out they will be obligated to perform any and all commitments under the conditions agreed upon :
 Example: Squad A agrees to host a ISC at its home Venue on January 12th 120 days prior to the event Squad A gives notice and opts out, LD still retains the right to host the event in the Venue. Squad A may not with out the expressed written consent of the LD partner with any other group or host the event. After the January 12th event Squad A may sever any and all ties with the LD.
 Should the LD opt out he shall give any and all records concerning or collected for the Squad to the SL.
All parties agree that Squads that are formed under this agreement have a value and therefore are an asset that will remain with the Squad Leader. No attempt to induce any Sponsor or Participants (either Coaching Staff or Wrestlers) to abandon the Squad if Notice is given. LD agrees not to initiate contact with these groups. Squad Leader agrees that Sponsors and Participants have an absolute right to join, participate in other Squads. In forming their own Squads Coaches will be directed to observe the terms of this agreement in both principle and sprit. Sponsors wishing to enter into a Administration Agreement with the LD may without limitations to Sponsor or LD provided they conform to the following:

Contact initiated by Sponsor. (If notice to opt out is given by the LD Sponsor will be noticed)
No reduction in fee structure is offer to the Sponsor to induce them.
Nothing not offered every other Squad is offered to induce them.
No review of performance evaluation is offer to the Sponsor after the notice is given by either party.
SL is advised that of the Agreement and a 10 day waiting period is provided where all parties to the new agreement can cancel.

All parties agree that Clinics, Camps, Tournaments have a value and that any Trade Names used in the Venue will belong to and be the sole property of the League Director. No SL will attempt to use the Trade Name or run a competing event with in the same
parameters of a annual event scheduled at the SL venue.

( ) ( ) INT SL

Parameters Defined as the following example:


 The Mission Bay Classic is held annually at Everest Middle School on the 3rd Saturday of April. Mission Bay Squad gives notice. Timely notice is given, but the above provision would prevent the Mission Bay Squad from using the Trade name and would require them to choose another weekend, unless the LD allowed or released the date and name. Otherwise the Mission Bay Squad would have to choose another date and rename their event.