One year ago, at the 2014 Colorado high school state wrestling tournament, the Meeker Cowboys wrestling team impressed us on the mat and with their enthusiasm for sports nutrition.
The wrestling team recognized not only the delicious taste, but the nutritional benefits of milk after a wrestling workout and were successful in winning a chocolate milk grant contest from Western Dairy Association for their 2014-2015 wrestling season.
Students, coaches and the school’s athletic director are all enthusiastic about the availability of chocolate milk in their high school locker room this season. Coach JC Watt raves that the milk grant “has allowed all of our athletes a chance to have a great recovery drink after all of our workouts,” and he’s noticed that offering milk post-exercise “improves the athlete’s attitudes, especially after a hard workout.”
Coach Watt adds, “every day we hear ’Do we get chocolate milk today?’ from our athletes who benefit from the protein, carbohydrates, fluid and electrolytes a cup of milk provides after a workout.”
Seeing the success with their athletes, Meeker plans to continue to provide milk to athletes in coming seasons; especially after early-morning workouts, where athletes appreciate milk the most.
Dairy farm families in Colorado are proud to have made it possible for student athletes to receive these milk grants. They care about student athletes and want to help them get the nutrition they need to succeed on and off the mat. “We thank the many dairy farmers in Colorado!” applauded the 2014-2015 Meeker wrestling team.
Western Dairy Association and Colorado dairy farm families congratulate the Meeker High School boys wrestling team for their incredible season and second place finish at this season’s state wrestling tournament last weekend in Denver! The benefits of refueling with milk helped place one champion, two second place, two third place and one fifth place winner at the tournament.
Would you like to see your athletes excel both on and off the field by replenishing their bodies with white or chocolate milk? Your team could win funds to provide FREE milk for a season.
If your student athletes aren’t fueling up with low-fat white or chocolate milk, this is a great opportunity to get started!
Download the grant application at here. Print, complete and mail back to WDA.
Application MUST be postmarked by:
June 12, 2015 for Fall 2015 Sports
Questions? Please contact Jenna Allen, Western Dairy Association’s Director of Nutrition Marketing & Affairs, at 1-800-274-6455, 303-451-7711 or visit WesternDairyAssociation.org.
Athletes can train harder and perform better with proper nutrition. Visit this site to read more about milk as an exercise recovery beverage and learn how to eat for peak athletic performance.