Coast Guard Wrestling

Nick Sanders just flipped out…. 😳

But you would too if you had the opportunity to experience Coastal Sail at the US Coast Guard Academy! ⛵️

this week delves into an experience reserved for rising juniors (2/c), Coastal Sail is a week long immersive sailing trip fully planned, mapped, navigated by, and executed on by the people onboard. 🧭

Our sailboats sleep nine people. With the minimal oversight of an Officer for safety purposes, the cadets are fully in charge of their week and their adventure! 🗺️

Sanders recently concluded his trip, which took him from the Academy through Mystic, local towns and waterways, and back, stopping off for some fun, flips, beach time, and a couple world renowned restaurants and bake shops! 🌮🧁

The autonomous adventure gives our cadets the ability to control their adventure, take hold of their classroom learning experiences, and then apply it to the open ocean 🌊

Where else can you be paid to go on a “stay-action” in one of the most sought out coastal vacation places in the country, and do so with your closest friends?! 🕶️

The United States Coast Guard Academy 📍 That’s where.

Are you flipping out yet?!
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🌊 SEA. 🚁 AIR. 🏢 SHORE.

You have to choose ONE for your Coast Guard career. Which are you taking?

Comment SEA, AIR, or SHORE 👇

🌊 SEA — AFLOAT
Take the mission offshore. Conduct search & rescue, drug and migrant interdiction, maritime law enforcement, or maintain critical waterways aboard buoy tenders. Serve aboard major cutters around the world or pursue specialized opportunities with DSF, TACLET, and MSRT conducting some of the Coast Guard’s most demanding operational missions.

🚁 AIR — AVIATION
Take the mission to the sky. Helicopter pilots specialize in missions like SAR, hoists and maritime response, while fixed-wing pilots cover huge distances conducting surveillance, patrol, logistics and search operations. Aviation requires additional training and service commitment — but offers a highly specialized, sustainable career path.

🏢 SHORE — ASHORE
Take the mission to land. Work in engineering, cybersecurity, intelligence, operations, logistics or other specialized fields. Later in your career, opportunities can include command and staff assignments, serving at Coast Guard Headquarters, or returning to the Academy to teach and mentor future officers.

One service. A lot of different ways to serve.
👇 SEA, AIR, or SHORE — what are you choosing and WHY?
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⚓️🏡📚🫡

Leadership doesn’t always happen underway.

After spending five weeks afloat in Virginia, where he gained firsthand operational experience while also training with 2x NCAA National Champion Chase Randall, rising senior and team captain Landon Kearns was selected for one of the Academy’s premier summer leadership opportunities: Battalion Staff (Batt Staff).

For the next six weeks, Landon has helped lead the Corps of Cadets through Swab Summer, serving as part of the team responsible for the day-to-day accountability, welfare, and administration of every cadet on campus. From tracking medical status and SIQ chits, coordinating room assignments, processing administrative actions, and ensuring every cadet is accounted for, his role is built on organization, trust, and leadership.

Batt Staff was Landon’s first choice.

“I felt it would be the most beneficial to growing and developing my leadership style, as well as my professional development. Working closely with senior officers and Cadet Division has absolutely done that. I also knew I could learn what I needed underway in five weeks, and I’d rather spend six weeks leading people. It doesn’t hurt that I’m also able to keep a consistent schedule for training and wrestling.”

Experiences like Batt Staff are one of the many opportunities that make the United States Coast Guard Academy unique—developing leaders long before graduation while preparing them for a lifetime of service.
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HBD, Coast Guard! 🎉
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Ready to make more moments like this.

October 10th, where ya at?!
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SOUND 𝗢𝗙𝗙! 📢🔊

What gives with the people dressed up in red shirts running around yelling all day??

These are 𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗲 and they are tasked with the Swabs development through the 7-week indoc program.

Most commonly seen, these “red shirts” are made up of rising USCGA juniors (2/c).

The cadre spend 3-4 weeks dedicated to leading , training, and yes remediating the platoons of their deficiencies militarily

There are four areas cadre can specialize in:
👉 Swab Summer Cadre
👉 AIM Program Cadre
👉 Waterfront Cadre
👉 CGAS Cadre

While the cadre can get a bad rep for being too hard, or yelling too much, the reality is this: they are just doing their job and holding the standards!

They have 7-weeks to take nearly 300 high school aged civilians and prepare them to be professional, polished leaders of character who can live the cadet lifestyle, adhering to the USCGA cadet rules and regulations. That’s serious business!

As much as it is the Swabs ‘job’ to learn and grow, it is the cadre’s ‘job’ to teach and refine.

This period of time signifies the cadre’s transition from leading oneself, to now leading others.

And no, just because they’re yelling doesn’t mean they’re angry… This is part of the role and the ‘culture shock’ expected when going through a boot-camp-style intensive training.

Once this period ends, these cadre will become the Swabs shipmates, teammates, and likely friends.

Being a cadre isn’t about a power trip, it’s about mentorship. It isn’t about yelling, it’s about teaching. It isn’t about intimidating, it’s about impacting.

This is serious and our wrestlers have done a tremendous job this summer of assuming those roles and shepherding the CO 2030!
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𝙄𝙏’𝙎 𝘾𝘼𝙈𝙋 𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙆! 💥

This Friday and Saturday, the SPAR Wrestling Camp is taking over the Coast Guard Wrestling room for two action-packed camp sessions each day! 🤼‍♂️

Youth campers (G3-7) will lead things off from 9-11:20 before the sold out HS session get their work in, in the afternoons!

It’s been too long since our room has been packed out with wrestlers. We’re looking forward to seeing it look like this again soon!

Are you going to the SPAR Wrestling Camp? Let us see you in the comments if so!
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🖐️ wrestlers represented their respective companies at today’s Obstacle Course Challenge, sponsored by First Command!

Our program is no stranger to having multiple participants in the Class wide competition, but to have 5 wrestlers represent our program was… 🤯 amazing!

(L-R) Travis Bauer, Kevin Mallon, Nathan Burchfiel, Luke Westkott, and Auston Kosanovic earned the right to represent their company by being one of the fastest two males in their company at running the Obstacle Course 🏃‍♂️

The OC Challenge takes each company’s fastest ✌️ men and ✌️ women to race against the other companies for the fastest (lowest) cumulative time

The winning company receives a pizza lunch and carry on from the event’s sponsors! 🍕

This year, in addition to having our five participants, wrestling can also boast the fastest overall swab in Kevin Mallon! Kevin ran the course today in a blistering 2 min 24sec!! ⏱️

For his efforts, Mallon was presented with a challenge coin from Capt. Casavant 🫡

Wrestlers do it all here. That’s the standard. These swabs are proving no different!
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🚁🚤🧺🔐 Chase Mayes, in just his first summer with the Coast Guard, has experienced more than most could ever dream of…

After five weeks on EAGLE, sailing as part of America 250, Chase took his talents to Atlantic City, NJ where he has been inundated with first hand experiences!

The rising sophomore has participated in security ops for boat races, helio ops for basket hoists at night, and spent time at the air station!

In such a short period of time, he has gathered so much knowledge, experience, and opportunity.

All paid for by the USCG as part of his training and education!

In comparison, his friends back home are grinding. Working 9-5’s to pay tuition, pay rent, and scrounge up some spending money to have some fun down the line. They are really grinding..!

Chase is earning his keep, but experiencing the world and learning to lead himself and others. It feels and looks different. And their paths after four years are completely unique as well!

If you’re ready to start living the SPAR LIFE and having these experiences, you need to hit up Chase and see what brought him here. Shoot him, and us, a DM to learn more about what the journey could look like for you!
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𝐂𝐎 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟏, 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧!

The application for the United States Coast Guard Academy Class of 2031 is now 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞!

Start your application online on our website 🔗 Link to apply is also in our story
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