Members of the 2018 U.S. Men’s and Women’s World Team to compete in annual fundraiser to help raise money for youth non-profit Beat the Streets
NEW YORK– Beat the Streets Wrestling (BTS), the largest grassroots inner city wrestling program in the United States, and USA Wrestling announced today that the annual BTS benefit will be held on Monday, Mei 6, at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. This is the first time in six years that the annual event will be held indoors.
Beat the Streets, Inc. will invite select members of the 2018 U.S. Men’s Freestyle World Team, which placed second in the 2018 World Championships and won seven World medals, as well as select top USA women’s wrestlers. The athletes will compete in freestyle wrestling. Team USA’s opponents will be announced at a later date.
“When we decided to move the event indoors we knew there was only one place iconic enough to host it – Madison Square Garden,” said Beat the Streets Executive Director
Brendan Buckley
. “Thanks to the wrestling community, this event has really grown over the past few years and by having it at the Hulu Theater at MSG many more fans will be able to experience the event live in person.”
This year celebrates the 10th straight year of Beat the Streets Benefit competitions, which began in 2010 and have since become a major showcase of the best of international wrestling. This unique and electrifying annual event has helped Beat the Streets raise millions of dollars to support local youth wrestling programs which empower young people in New York City.
The first Beat the Streets Benefit was held on the U.S.S. Intrepid, een vliegdekschip aangemeerd aan de westkant van Manhattan. Sindsdien, the benefit has taken place at other notable New York City spots like Grand Central Station and Times Square. Team USA has faced off against teams from around the world including Japan, Cuba, Rusland en Iran. Vorig jaar, the competition was hosted at the new Pier 17 in the Seaport District and included the highly anticipated Burroughs vs. Chamizo match.
De 2018 U.S. World Team, which competed in Budapest, Hongarije, featured 2018 World champions Kyle Snyder, David Taylor and J’den Cox, 2018 World silver medalist Kyle Snyder, en 2018 World bronze medalists Joe Colon, Jordan Burroughs and Nick Gwiazdowski. Burroughs and Snyder are both multiple Olympic and World champions. Others on the USA team included 2016 World champion Logan Stieber, two-time World bronze medalist James Green and 2017 World silver medalist Thomas Gilman.
New York City’s Madison Square Garden is one of the most famous sporting and entertainment venues in the world. The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden is an impressive venue with the capacity to seat over 5,000. The theater has hosted notable wrestling events including the 1998 Goodwill Games wrestling competition and the 2017 Grapple at the Garden college wrestling event.
Ticket information and the final event schedule have not yet been finalized.
Over Beat the Streets
De missie van Beat the Streets is om het volledige potentieel van de stedelijke jeugd te ontwikkelen en de cultuur van het worstelen in New York City te versterken. BTS werkt rechtstreeks samen met het New York City Department of Education in een publiek-private samenwerking om de levensveranderende sport van het worstelen voorbij te laten gaan 3,000 Student-atleten in New York City om hen te helpen hun persoonlijke en atletische doelen te bereiken. Door het uitvoeren van worstelprogramma's op middelbare en middelbare scholen in de vijf stadsdelen, BTS en de DOE zorgen voor een kluis, positieve sfeer waarin kansarme en risicojongeren de essentiële levenslessen van grit kunnen leren, persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid en teamwork, fysieke fitheid en voeding, en levenslang leren. Het doel om sterk te zijn, goed afgeronde student-atleten worden geleverd door coaching, naschoolse programma's, workshops over levensvaardigheden, en zomerkampen. Meer informatie is te vinden op www.btsny.org.
Over worstelen in de VS.
USA Wrestling is het nationale bestuursorgaan voor de worstelsport in de Verenigde Staten en, zoals, is zijn vertegenwoordiger bij het Olympisch Comité van de Verenigde Staten en United World Wrestling, de internationale worstelen federatie. Eenvoudig, USA Wrestling is de centrale organisatie die amateur worstelen programma coördineert in het land en werkt aan interesse en deelname aan deze programma's te maken. Het is voorbij 230,000 leden over het hele land, jongens en meisjes, mannen en vrouwen van alle leeftijden, vertegenwoordigen alle niveaus van de sport. Its president is Bruce Baumgartner, en de uitvoerend directeur is Rich Bender. Meer informatie is te vinden op TheMat.com