Coast Guard Wrestling

Happy Flag Day! 🇺🇸

So, what’s this whole SPAR LIFE thing all about???

Welcome to Coast Guard Wrestling, where we train college wrestlers to live the SPAR LIFE and apply these principles to being better athletes, students, Officers, and human beings.

The SPAR LIFE is our mantra, our guiding principles, our direction.

Ready to learn about our secret sauce? Swipe through to read more about it.

What do you think? Are we are the right track? What did we miss? Let us know in the comments.
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📈 Looking to make a jump this summer?
📈 Want more training after Fargo?
📈 Interested in being recruited by our staff?
📈 Want to get (your kids) started in the sport altogether?
📈 Think wrestling is fun and just want more mat time?

Then the SPAR Wrestling Camp is for you! 🫵

✌️ Our coaching staff is excited to host a two day commuter camp this July and August on campus at the US Coast Guard Academy!

📆 July 31st - August 1st, 2026
📍 US Coast Guard Academy Wrestling Room
⏰ 9AM - 11:20AM (Youth) | 12PM - 3:30PM (HS)

🤼‍♂️ Our highly accomplished coaches will work with wrestlers of all ages and competitive abilities in a focused, technical learning style guaranteed to have you wanting more!

💪 Come learn and train with one of the top NCAA Division III coaching staffs in the Northeast, and the country!

🧐 Interested in learning more? The link to read more and register is in the comments, our story, and our bio 🔗

❓ Have questions? DM us on social or shoot us an email at [email protected]

⏳ Don’t hesitate! Spots are limited to the first 3️⃣0️⃣ youth participants and HS participants (different sessions)!

🐤 Sign up before June 30th and use promo code EARLY25 to save $25 at checkout!

Are you ready to live the SPAR LIFE?!
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✈️🚁⁉️ Take a sneak peak behind the curtain of the CAT-P experience offered by the US Coast Guard Academy!

We’ve all seen the movies of the guys and gals jumping out of helicopters, making the saves, and being bad asses. Hollywood has made this part of the Coast Guard famous.

But let’s take a deeper dive…

Search and rescue is a massive component of the Coast Guard’s mission. Coast Guard Officers won’t be the ones jumping out of the helicopters, but they will be the ones piloting them.

Search and rescue consists of lost ships, lost swimmers, but also protection and life saving services of migrants attempting to enter the country. When their make-shift vessels go down, the Coast Guard rescues them.

These operations are done with helios and fixed wing planes.

Planes are also vital in tracking, identifying, and guiding SAR targets to assist in the efforts. Fixed wing pilots also make supply drops, provide resources and relief in times of natural disaster, and help prevent weapon, drug, and human trafficking.

This past week, 2/c Kane Sistrunk and 2/c Nick Sanders had an opportunity to learn about these career opportunities first hand through the Cadet Aviation Training Program (CAT-P) in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Their summer training was hands-on, immersive, and gave them memories and views of a lifetime!

The time spent on base gave them unique networking opportunities to forge their path after graduation as well!
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Why grind at a conventional college-kid job all summer for minimum wage, when you can gain the experiences and opportunities of a lifetime with the US Coast Guard?!
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It’s always a tough day when you decide to wrestle a Bear… 🐻💪💥

In the wilderness or on the mat, proceed with extreme caution ⚠️ You’ll be in for the fight of your life!
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⁉️🌊🚁 if you couldn’t tell by the ear to ear smile, 3/c Aidan Barry is LOVING his experience at Station Gulfport in Mississippi to kick start his Coast Guard Summer!

Barry is at Gulfport for five weeks, practicing search and rescue cases and doing recreational ship boardings with Officers to ensure safety and maritime laws are being followed 🚤

The kicker - There’s also a wrestling room by his station, so when he’s not learning and on the water, he’s training and kicking some butt! 🤼‍♂️

Life experience, travel, hands-on education… All sponsored by the Coast Guard… This place is special.

Keep representing the SPAR LIFE, Aidan! 💪

We are excited to share that Coaches Bratland, Foley, McAllister, and Klee will be running the SPAR Wrestling Camp out of facility this summer!

📆 July 31st - Aug 1st
📍 USCGA Billard Hall Wrestling Room
🤼‍♂️ Grades 3-12 | Split Youth & HS Sessions
⏰ Youth 9AM-11:20AM | HS 12P-3:30P
📔 Includes digital SPAR LIFE journal & camp tee

🤏 This two-day camp is a focused, technique camp with limited spots to ensure you get the attention to detail you deserve! There will be only 30 spots available in both sections

🦅 Use the promo code EARLY25 to save $25 on sign up before June 30th!

Whether you’re looking to making big strides on the mat or get noticed by our college staff, this is the perfect opportunity to make an impact this summer!

Use the QR code or visit the link in our story to register today while spots remain!

Wrestling opens the door,
Your desire to serve your country kicks the door down.

We love to wrestle 🤼‍♂️ And we’re dang good at it 📈 But winning matches and getting on the national podium is just a piece of your journey here 🧩

Your desire to help others, save lives, and make a positive impact on the world around you will root you in the decision to come here and thrive here

❌ No, you don’t need to know exactly how you’re going to make your impact
❌ No, you don’t need to have your Coast Guard journey planned out (how, where, what)
❌ No, you don’t need a military history in your family and no you don’t even have to have know. For longer than it’s taken you to read this!

People that come here, stay here, and thrive here:
✅ Want to do something unique with their life - No 9-5 clock watching here!
✅ Want an elite education, comparable to most Ivy’s
✅ Want to help people in some capacity
✅ Understand the long-term financial and career benefits that come with attending OUR service academy
✅ Love wrestling and want to improve their skills

Use wrestling as your vehicle to change your life 🛳️ Excel at what you love now, while setting yourself up for greatness later 🌟

Sounds appealing? Drop a 💯 in the comments to show our guys some love!

One week ago already…?!? 😱

Relive some of the moments of last week’s graduation and commissioning for the Class of 2026!

In just three short weeks, these ten will report to their first active duty stations as Officers!

Fair winds and following seas, Ensigns!

We Remember 🇺🇸

Memorial Day 2026.