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May’s Wrestler of the Month: Angel Garcia

Angel Garcia has been following up a tremendous regular season, with an even better offseason. The Marianna Bracetti Academy freshman put together a 33-11 record while winning a public league title, taking third in the district, and third in the region. His season ended one win away from qualifying for the state tournament. While many…

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April’s Wrestler of the Month: Dymir Davis-Carruth

Dymir Davis-Carruth has been working his whole life towards an opportunity to wrestle in college. Starting at the tender age of 4, Dymir was rolling around on the mats at the Russo PAL Center. However, it wasn’t until he started middle school that he really started to excel. As a 7th grader, he placed 4th…

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March’s Wrestler of the Month: Miles Lee

Pennsylvania is known as the toughest wrestling state in the country making placing at the PA state tournament quite a feat in its own right. Placing at the state tournament with less than 3 years of wrestling experience is nearly unheard of. However, Miles Lee did exactly that when he took 5th place at the Hershey Center this past March. Miles, although still a relative newcomer to the sport, became the first ever state place winner from a Beat the Streets program and only the second ever in Philadelphia Public League history. Miles had an incredibly dominant season leading up to states putting together a 36-4 record with his only losses coming to the number 1 ranked wrestler in the country, a Delaware state champ, and 2 PA state placers. Miles won the Public League tournament, Districts, and Regionals. He was named the “Outstanding Wrestler” at both the the Public League and District tournaments. At states, Miles won his first match 8-4. In the quarterfinals, he gutted out an 8-6 sudden victory win to guarantee himself a spot on the podium. He dropped his next two matches to the wrestlers that finished second and third respectively, putting him in the 5th and 6th place match. He ended his high school career on a high note, winning his 5th place match 6-3. Miles’s success comes as no surprise to those who know him. An incredibly hard worker, Miles would frequently supplement his South Philadelphia High School practices with training at the Philadelphia Police Athletic League,and the Pennsylvania Regional Training Center. In fact, sometimes Miles would have to be reminded to allow his body to rest and recover because of how hard…

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February’s Wrestler of the Month: Samirah Conners-Reed

Samirah Conners-Reed was faced with a dilemma at the end of the season. She was unsure of whether to enter the beginners or advanced bracket at the Beat the Streets youth tournament. By all accounts she was a beginner, not even having completed a full season of wrestling yet. However, her dominance in the practice room…

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Summer Training Makes Winter Champions by Jared Johnson

My name is Jared Johnson. I began wrestling in the 7th grade at Martin Luther King youth. Because of my continuation of training at PAL during the offseason when I was in eighth grade, I made connections with my current school, Roman Catholic High School. Every year that I wrestled in the summer I got…

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Beat the Streets Philadelphia’s Second Annual Bowling Night May 11th

Save the date! Thursday, May 11th, Beat the Streets Philadelphia will be hosting their second annual "Bowling Night" at Lucky Strike Philadelphia. There will be live music, pingpong, giant Jenga, and of course, bowling, as well as much more. More information will be coming soon.

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Miles Lee Places at PIAA State Tournament

South Philadelphia High School’s Miles Lee has become the first ever state placer in Beat the Streets Philadelphia’s history and the second ever from the Philadelphia Public League. He opened the tournament Wednesday night with an 8-4 win over Quakertown’s Noah Wood. Earlier this afternoon, he punched his ticket to the semifinals with an overtime…

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Miles Lee Wins North East Regionals and Moves on to States

Last weekend at the Northeast Regional Tournament, South Philadelphia High School’s Miles Lee made history by becoming the first ever Regional Champion from the Philadelphia Public League. He rolled through the tournament without giving up a single takedown, picking up a 4-3 decision in the quarterfinals, an 8-5 win in the semis, and an 11-5…

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Post Season Recap: Regionals on the Horizon

This season Beat the Streets had over 102 wrestlers compete in the Philadelphia Public League Sectional Tournament with 52 of those wrestlers qualifying for the District 12 tournament. Among the district qualifiers, 8 wrestlers were members of Beat the Streets youth wrestling programs. Last weekend at the District Tournament 28 public league BTSP wrestlers qualified…