PJW Area III consists of schools from Armstrong, Westmoreland, and part of Indiana County.

Our mission is to support and promote youth wrestling and develop them into good wrestlers, but most importantly productive members of society.

From USA Wrestling:

Life is hard.  Wrestling prepares you for the challenge.It’s a fact of life.  Adversity is guaranteed.  It’s how we respond to these challenges that makes the difference.  Wrestling instills the values of courage, hard work, discipline, perseverance and humility. It forges character that lasts a lifetime and trains people to triumph over trials.  This is the promise that wrestling delivers to our next generation.

Dear Wrestlers, Parents and Coaches:
Saturday, March 21, the Youth State Tournament Committee met with the PAJW Officers and the Area Chairmen regarding the status of rescheduling this year’s Youth State Tournament.
At this time we do not have anything definitive to report, however all those involved remain optimistic that we will be able to reschedule this year’s Youth State Tournament.

The consensus of Saturday’s meeting was that at this time we would hit “pause” and reconvene in two (2) weeks and at that time re-evaluate where we are as a nation in dealing with the crisis at hand that has impacted all of us in some way.
We are hopeful that at that time we would be in a better position to provide more certainty with respect to rescheduling the event.

After the Group meets in the next two (2) weeks we will update all of you of the outcome of that meeting and next steps.

Thanks to all of you for your patience and understanding as we continuously try and save this year’s Youth State Tournament.

Sincerely,
Vince Fera
Tournament Director
PAJW Youth State Championship Tournament