PA Wrestling Club looking to build off big year

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Between the two high school wrestling programs at St. Mary’s, which Richards also coaches, and Carlton, there has been a lot of success over the years through high school competitions in the winter. The Prince Albert Wrestling Club operates year-round with wrestlers from both high school programs, and that leads to great competition during practice. 

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That calibre of practice has led to success in the big tournaments and a proud wrestling community in Prince Albert. 

“We have some of the biggest teams in the province right here, right? As far as calibre, if you were to look at the national results or even the club provincial results. Unfortunately, we’ll never beat Junior Huskies because of the sheer size of their team, but we’re usually second. We’re a very solid team, and we’ve been in existence since the mid 60s. So we’re one of the older clubs in the province as well.” 

Richards said that it’s typical for them to send an athlete a year towards the University of Saskatchewan’s wrestling program, but three in one year is special. The only problem is, over the last two years, they’ve graduated 17 athletes on to other programs. 

As a result, there will be less wrestlers to train the next group coming up. 

“A lot of athletes are leaving, so we want to keep them coming in, and we don’t really have a little young kid program. We don’t have enough coaches for that. So right now we’re looking at nine and up so we can have them for a couple of years before they enter high school. So they’ll be ready to go at the high school level.” 

That said, the success of Prince Albert wrestlers moving on to other programs has Richards excited to see those athletes come back to help the next generation. 

“It’s encouraging to see that they don’t want to stop. Right now on the Husky team, we have half a dozen athletes from PA that are wrestling now, that are the Huskies now. So they come back after they’re done their finals and they come train with us again and it’s good mentorship for the younger athletes to see them and see them come back and support them.” 

The next wrestling season starts in September.

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nick.nielsen@pattisonmedia.com