School of Education
Division of Exercise & Sport Science
Plainview Campus
University Mission: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically
challenging, learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success
and service to God and humankind.
Coaching Wrestling
EXSS2207 PL01
Spring 2015
Instructor: Mr. Aaron Meister
Office Phone: (806)-291-3845
Email: meistera@wbu.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only
Office Location: Laney Center – Wrestling Office – 2nd Floor
Class Meets: Tuesday – 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Class Location: Laney Center Gymnasium
Course Description: Development of wrestling through coaching. Understanding of the
different fundamentals, equipment, qualifications, certifications, memberships, organizations
and legalities involved with coaching wrestling. History of wrestling and youth groups and
competitive levels involved with the sport.
Prerequisites: None
Required Textbook: I. L., Cooper. (2005) USA WRESTLING COACH'S GUIDE TO
EXCELLENCE (2nd ed.) Traverse City, MI: Cooper Publishing Group LLC.
Course Outcome Competencies:
The goal of coaching wrestling is for all students to be able to effectively:
1. Learn the roles of a wrestling coach
2. Develop philosophies and establish goal-setting techniques
3. Learn techniques for teaching wrestling
4. Develop risk management
5. Know how to build a wrestling program
6. Promote wrestling
7. Develop a wrestling club
8. Learn techniques for coaching women's wrestling
9. Be knowledgeable about the USA Wrestling organization
10. Apply positive coaching techniques
11. Maintain team discipline
12. Learn methods of establishing leadership, image, and respect
13. Promote performance enhancement, and mental skill development
14. Learn techniques for teaching basic skills, strategy, and techniques
15. Learn about resistance training programs in wrestling
16. Understand what the optimal performance weight is
17. Prevent and handle sports injuries, and apply First Aid
18. Understand about contagious and infectious skin diseases
19. Teach the principles of training wrestlers
20. Know about wrestling in the USA
21. Understand what Title IX is and how it affects wrestling
22. Pass the USA Bronze Level Certification Test with an 80% efficiency rate
Attendance Policy:
Each student is strongly encouraged to attend every class period. Note: You are allowed three
excused absences. Each additional absence will count for one letter grade from your final point
total. Any student who is not present at the start of the class will be considered tardy, unless there
is an emergency, and you contact me at that time, NOT after the fact. Each student is allowed
one tardy, and thereafter a student who is tardy will be considered absent from the class period. I
have provided the necessary information to contact me in case of emergency.
Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty:
ACADEMIC HONESTY:
Wayland students are expected to conduct themselves according to the highest standards of
academic honesty. Academic misconduct for which a student is subject to penalty includes all
forms of cheating, such as possession of examinations or examination materials, forgery, or
plagiarism. Disciplinary action for academic misconduct is the responsibility of the faculty
member assigned to the course. The faculty member is charged with assessing the gravity of any
case of academic dishonesty and with giving sanctions to any student involved. The faculty
member involved will file a record of the offense and the punishment imposed with the dean of
the division, campus dean, and the provost/academic vice president. Any student who has been
penalized for academic dishonesty has the right to appeal the judgment or the penalty assessed.
Plagiarism
“Plagiarism — The attempt to represent the work of another, as it may relate to written or oral
works, computer-based work, mode of creative expression (i.e. music, media or the visual arts),
as the product of one's own thought, whether the other's work is published or unpublished, or
simply the work of a fellow student.
1. When a student submits oral or written work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or
data of others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete,
accurate, and specific references, and, if verbatim statements are included, through use of
quotation marks as well. By placing one’s name on work submitted for credit, the student
certifies the originality of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate
acknowledgements. A student will avoid being charged with plagiarism if there is an
acknowledgement of indebtedness.”
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Disability Statement:
In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is the policy of
Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational
program or activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the
coordinator of students with a disability and should be contacted concerning accommodation
requests at (806) 291-3765. Documentation of a disability must accompany any request for
accommodations.
Course Requirements and Grading Criteria
There will be two exams in the class. They will be accumulative exams. The exams will have
questions from the quizzes. The first exam will have questions from the information that was
covered up to the midterm. The second exam will have all the information from the first exam
and all the information that was covered from the midterm to the end of the class. In order to
pass the test according to the USA Wrestling standards the tester must pass the test with at least
an 80%. A score of 80% or better qualifies the student to receive their bronze level certification.
If a student passes the certification test with an 80%, they must also register for a background
check through USA Wrestling in order to apply for the Bronze card.
Grading Criteria:
A
B
C
D
F
90-100
80-89
70-79
60-69
Below 60
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 5
Quiz 6
Mid-Term
Quiz 7
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
60 point
10 points
Quiz 8
Quiz 9
Quiz 10
Quiz 11
Quiz 12
Coaching Paper
Exam 2 (Final)
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
50 points
124 points
Total
354 points
Students shall have protection through orderly procedures against prejudices or capricious
academic evaluation. A student who believes that he or she has not been held to realistic
academic standards, just evaluation procedures, or appropriate grading, may appeal the final
grade given in the course by using the student grade appeal process described in the Academic
Catalog. Appeals may not be made for advanced placement examinations or course
bypass examinations. Appeals are limited to the final course grade, which may be upheld,
raised, or lowered at any stage of the appeal process. Any recommendation to lower a course
grade must be submitted through the Executive Vice President/Provost to the Faculty Assembly
Grade Appeals Committee for review and approval. The Faculty Assembly Grade Appeals
Committee may instruct that the course grade be upheld, raised, or lowered to a more proper
evaluation.
Tentative Course Schedule (*Subject to Change)
CLASS
Textbook Reading
Assignment
1 – Jan 13th
Read Pages 1-15
Introduction
2 – Jan 20th
Read Pages 16 - 33
Quiz #1 (1 - 10)
3 – Jan 27th
Read Pages 27 - 39
Quiz #2 (10 - 20)
4 – Feb 3rd
Read Pages 40 - 50
Quiz #3 (21 - 30)
5 – Feb 10th
Read Pages 51 - 65
Quiz #4 (31 - 40)
6 – Feb 17th
Read Pages 65 - 90
Quiz #5 (41 - 50)
7 – Feb 24th
Read Pages 90 – 99
Mid-term
Quiz #6 (51 - 60)
Mid-Term (1-60)
8 - March 3rd
Read Pages 99 - 114
8 – March 10th
Read Pages 115 – 134
9 – March 17th
Spring Break – No Class
Quiz #7 (61 - 70)
Quiz #8 (71 - 80)
No Class
10 – March 24th Read Pages 135 - 172
Quiz #9 (81 - 90)
11 – March 31st Read Pages 173 - 195
Quiz #10 (91 - 100)
12 – April 7th
Read Pages 196 - 217
Quiz #11 (101 - 110)
13 – April 14th
Read Pages 217 - 224
Quiz #12 (111 - 120)
14 – April 21st
Coaching Paper Due
Quiz #13 (121 - 124)
15 – April 28th
Final Exam
Final Exam
15 – May 5th
No Class
No Class