Updated On:

July 13, 2009

PIN CHAMPION

The sport of wrestling provides a constant sense of suspense because a match can be won at any time, regardless of the score, if one wrestler PINS their opponent.  The ultimate show of dominance is to physically control and restrain an opponent in order to secure a pin.  The wrestler who earns the most pins, will be the PIN CHAMPION.

Every Panther Cub wrestler is a candidate for the Pin Champion.  Only scheduled club tournaments are counted toward this award and the age appropriate State tournaments end the season pin counts.

Don't think about winning. Think about dominating! - Pierre Pryor

When I go out there, I like to mark out that area of the mat and own it. I want to dominate. I want to humiliate. I want to show that guy and everyone in the gym that I am the best. "Abuse" doesn't sound right, but that's it. - Peter Yozzo, Lehigh University

If you don't invest much of yourself, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning isn't very exciting. - Dick Vermeil

A pin can come from total domination or even from a last ditch move to salvage a match.  The bottom line and only thing that matters is that the referee slaps the mat.  Regardless of the specifics, these wrestlers dominated on the mat and earned the title of Panther Cub PIN CHAMPIONS,