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Beat the Streets New York Wrestling launches 2025 year-end campaign

  • Brandon Cain
  • 3 days ago
  • 2 min read

Help us make a lifelong impact on New York City boys and girls through the sport of wrestling.

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As the year draws to a close, Beat the Streets is proud to launch our 2025 year-end campaign. Today, we invite you to join us in supporting more than 2,400 New York City boys and girls, helping them build their futures on and off the wrestling mat.


Why Your Support Matters

Beat the Streets is more than a wrestling program. It's a community that offers free world-class wrestling coaching, academic support, character development to student-athletes across all five New York City boroughs.


Through wrestling, our student-athletes learn discipline, perseverance, humility and grit. These life lessons transcend the wrestling mat and shape them into leaders in the classroom and in all their future endeavors.


What We're Raising Funds For

  • Coaching and Mentorship: Ensuring expert, consistent and positive coaching that guides student-athletes in their growth both as competitors and as young leaders.

  • Training Center Facility: Maintaining a safe, high-quality training environment where student-athletes from all five boroughs can develop year-round on and off the mat.

  • Competition Opportunities: Covering competition fees so student-athletes can focus on improving and achieving their goals with no financial barriers. 

  • Social-Emotional and Academic Support: Funding workshops and services that promote well-being, life skills and pathways to post-secondary education. 


Our 2025 Impact & Why It Matters

This past year was record breaking!

  • Tripled membership in past three years

  • 20% increase in Academy program sessions

  • New weekly all-girls freestyle practices

  • Daily study hall, weekly SAT prep

  • College and career readiness

  • 5-6 days per week of wrestling training

  • 2 student-athletes earned NHSCA All-America honors

  • 10+ student-athletes started wrestling in college

  • 100% high school graduation rate from Academy program student-athletes compared to 83% citywide


This year, we'll spotlight two exemplary student-athletes and how being part of BTS has positively impacted their lives.


How You Can Get Involved

Donate Today: Make a tax-deductible gift to support our year-end campaign.


Become a Matching Sponsor: Double your impact by becoming a matching donor. For more information, email BTS Executive Director Bob Seidel at bseidel@btsny.org.


Spread the word: Help us extend our reach and share our campaign on social media and encourage others to join! Share our message and the year-end campaign with your friends, family, colleagues and network.


Thank you for believing in these young student-athletes and in the power of wrestling to change lives.


Bob Seidel

Beat the Streets New York Executive Director

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