ABOUT SANDERSON WRESTLING ACADEMY

Founded in 2016 by Cyler Sanderson, Sanderson Wrestling Academy (SWA) has quickly become one of the nation’s premier wrestling clubs. Located in Bountiful at the center of Utah’s beautiful Wasatch Front, SWA is the training hub for top regional talent in Utah and surrounding states. Offering specialized training groups for national-level contenders, local club wrestling, and camps, SWA offers multiple opportunities for wrestlers and coaches to train at one of the best wrestling facilities in the U.S.A.

NATIONAL TEAM - SANDERSON WRESTLING ACADEMY (SWA)

Wrestlers who are wrestling at a high level and who have proven they have what it takes to succeed in a high-level training environment have the opportunity to train in the SWA national team training groups. With separate high school, junior high, and elementary training groups, the “Academy” team members are selected from applicants who then come train throughout the year under Coach Cyler. Team members travel to in-state and many out-of-state high level tournaments to compete against the best wrestlers in the nation. Dozens of all-Americans train in these groups. As of fall 2023, SWA is one of 16 teams nationwide to be invited in the Premier National League (PNL), an exclusive league of many of the U.S.A.’s elite club teams including M2 (David Taylor’s club), Gilroy (Daniel Cormier), and many others. For more information about SWA, browse the “ACADEMY” tab on the top of this webpage.

LOCAL CLUB TEAM- NORTHSIDE WRESTLING CLUB

Sanderson also boasts a great development system for local wrestlers who wish to come train with the best, and in the fall of 2023 Sanderson is pleased to announce the return to the name “Northside Wrestling Club” for the area’s local wrestlers. Northside was originally founded in the area under the direction of legendary coach Steve Sanderson in the early 80’s, and many of the area’s best wrestlers grew up honing their wrestling in Northside Wrestling Club. The team, now head-coached under the guidance of Brandon Ripplinger is open to all area wrestlers, beginner through advanced. Their premier season is the winter youth folkstyle season and offers competition options and training for youth wrestlers competing in USA Utah in-state tournaments as well as other local competitions. Like SWA, Northside is not affiliated with any high school or junior high team but is open for all regardless of school boundary and encourages all its wrestlers to become the best they can and to take what they learn back to the culture of their home teams. A highly-tested and successful system of wrestling taught by the Ripplinger and Sanderson families is the core foundation wrestlers learn and master. For more information about Northside’s winter folkstyle team, look through the “WINTER YOUTH SEASON” tab on the top of this website or click HERE.

WRESTLING CAMPS

Throughout the summer and occasionally throughout the year, Sanderson offers exceptional wrestling camps. The popular “D1 All-American Camp”, the age-level specific intensive training camps at awesome remote locations, and its summer University of Wrestling series are just a few of the great options wrestlers can choose from. You can find more information about SWA’s wrestling camps HERE.

WRESTLING STYLES

We offer world-class training in all three main disciplines of wrestling: folkstyle (collegiate) and the Olympic styles (freestyle and Greco-roman). Different styles are focused on during different seasons of the year. Winter is folkstyle with with some tournaments also held in the spring, and spring is geared toward freestyle and Greco. Learning the different styles of wrestling is great cross-training for any wrestler as there is excellent style-to-style transfer among all three styles. For our wrestlers seeking high goals in either collegiate or even Olympic aspirations, Sanderson is the place to train.