Welcome to Team Palmetto Wrestling!

Since so many are asking why Team Palmetto was chosen as our new corporate name, I thought we might address those questions.

We wanted a name which could define our organization as one that could be more inclusive and not bound by a national organization. At first we thought that we could assume a name like South Carolina Wrestling. However, given that our primary method of communicating with our members is via the Internet, we subsequently found that every domain name was taken, used or not. Then we realized that we'd already named our national teams "Team Palmetto", so why not take it one step further?

For those of you who are unaware, here's a bit of Palmetto State history trivia.

As recorded in the S.C. State Library...

This is one of the oldest flag designs still in use. Its basic design goes back to 1765 when three white crescents were used on a blue flag by protesters against the Stamp Act. Ten years later a flag with a single crescent, or new moon, was hoisted in the Revolutionary war. Colonel William Moultrie designed a flag for the South Carolina soldiers using the blue color of their uniforms as the field and a silver crescent, which the soldiers wore on the front of their caps. The Palmetto tree was added to the flag later. When the people of Charleston heard that the British planned to capture Sullivanís Island, Colonel Moultrie and others, built a fort of Palmetto logs on the island. When the warships came, the captain and his soldiers defeated them, partly because the cannonballs that the ships fired could not destroy the fort. Instead, they sank into the soft, tough logs. This was the Battle of Fort Moultrie, fought on June 28, 1776.

Yours in wrestling,

Michael K. Sanders
Team Palmetto Wrestling State Director

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