Glossary

Plain definitions of the words you see in Wrestling Aide. Wrestling terms come first, then the app’s own terms.

Event types

These are the choices under Event type when you post an event or filter a search.

Term	Meaning
Individual tournament	Wrestlers enter by weight class and compete in brackets for individual places. Teams bring as many or as few wrestlers as they like.
Dual	One team wrestles one other team, one match per weight class, for a team score.
Dual tournament	Several teams wrestle a series of duals, usually in pools or a bracket, for team places.
Tri	A triangular: three teams at one site. Each team wrestles a dual against the other two.
Quad	A quadrangular: four teams at one site, each wrestling duals against some or all of the others.
Other	Anything else. The host describes it in Describe the event type, and that text shows on the event.

Styles

An event can list more than one style.

Term	Meaning
Folkstyle	The American scholastic style used in high school and middle school, and in most youth winter events.
Freestyle	The international style wrestled at the Olympics. Common in spring and summer youth events.
Greco-Roman	The international style where holds below the waist aren’t allowed. Also common in spring and summer youth events.

Levels and divisions

Term	Meaning
High school, Middle school, Youth	The three levels. Each event lists one or more divisions, and each division is a level plus a gender.
Boys/Co-ed	The division for boys’ teams and mixed teams.
Girls	The division for girls’ teams.
Varsity and JV	High school only. A high school division can offer varsity, JV (junior varsity), or both.
6U, 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U, 16U	Youth only. USA Wrestling age divisions: “10U” means 10 and under. Each covers two birth years, which the app works out for the season. See Age divisions.
Season	September 1 through August 31, labeled by its years, such as 2026-27. Spring and summer youth events belong to the season of the winter before them.
Membership required	The card wrestlers need to enter: USA Wrestling card, AAU, None, or Other.
Bracket link	A link to the event on a bracket site, such as USA Bracketing or TrackWrestling. A division can have its own bracket link.

Event status

Every event shows one of four statuses. The host sets it and gets a reminder email when it hasn’t been confirmed in three weeks.

Status	Meaning
Open	The event has room for more teams.
Near capacity	Only a few spots are left. Contact the host soon.
Full	The event is full. If the host allows a wait list, teams can join it.
Cancelled	The event won’t happen.
Hidden (reported)	Not a status the host picks. Several coaches reported the event, so it’s hidden until the host edits and saves it. See New organizations and reports.

Searches show open and near capacity events unless you change the Status filter. See Event status.

Organizations and people

Term	Meaning
Organization	A school, club, or other group that hosts events or brings teams. Events belong to the organization, not to the person who posted them. Types: High school, Middle school, Youth club, Booster club, Nonprofit, Other.
Verified	An organization that has shown it’s real. Schools loaded from state data start verified; others verify on their own, through a member’s email on the organization’s website domain or an event that stayed up 14 days with no report. Until then, its events say “Posted by a new organization” and it can have up to 5 upcoming events. See New organizations and reports.
Host	The organization putting on an event.
View	An organization role. Can see the organization’s events, including hidden ones, and Our Season. Can’t post.
Contributor	An organization role. Can post and edit the organization’s events, mark the team attending, join wait lists, post that the team is looking for an event, and add and change dates on Our Season.
Admin	An organization role. Everything a contributor can do, plus approving join requests, inviting people, changing roles, and editing the organization’s details.
Site admin	The person who runs this copy of Wrestling Aide. Decides on events hidden twice by reports, merges duplicate organizations, can verify organizations, and sets each state’s season rules.

See Roles for the full list of what each role can do.

Finding and filling events

Term	Meaning
Teams attending	Teams that marked themselves as coming to an event with We’re attending. It doesn’t reserve a spot or register anyone. See Teams attending.
Teams Looking	The board of teams that want events to fill their schedules. A team posts that it’s looking with Post that we’re looking. See Teams Looking.
Post	One team’s “looking for an event” post: its dates, divisions, and the event types it wants. When the team finds an event, the coach chooses We found an event and the post shows as Filled.
Wait list	A line of teams for a full event. The host turns it on with Allow a wait list. Teams on it get an email if the event opens up again. The app doesn’t hand out spots; the host contacts teams. See Wait list.
Watching	Following one event with Watch. You get an email when its status changes and a reminder before registration closes. See Watching.
Messages	Conversations between coaches inside Wrestling Aide, such as Message the host on an event. Each message is also emailed. See Messages.
Saved search	A search saved with Save search on Events or Teams Looking. The app emails you when a new event or team post matches. Called an alert before release 0.2.8. See Saved searches.
Daily digest	One morning email with everything your saved searches and posts matched the day before, instead of an email for each match.
Weekly summary	One email on Monday morning with the week’s saved search and post matches, in place of each saved search’s own emails. Turn on Weekly summary instead in Account Settings > Email Notifications. The Monday email also lists dates on Our Season with host changes to review.
Check-in email	The “Is this event still open?” email hosts get every three weeks. Its buttons confirm or change the status without logging in. See Check-in emails.
Copy to Next Season	In the More menu on an event you host. Makes a new event from an old one with the dates moved 52 weeks, so the same weekday a year later. See Copy and next season.
Drive time	How long the drive is from your starting point, such as “1 hr 30 min (82 mi)”. When drive times aren’t available, the app shows straight-line miles instead, such as “about 45 mi (straight line)”. See Distance and drive time.
Notifications	The list under the bell at the top right: messages, wait list joins, saved search matches, and the other things the app emails you. See Notifications.
Calendar feed	A web address you add to Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar so events show up there and stay updated. See Calendars.

Our Season

Term	Meaning
Our Season	Your team’s schedule for this season and next (and past seasons under Previous Seasons): every date, home or away, with times, the bus, and a checklist. Every member of the organization sees it; contributors and admins change it. See Our Season.
Divisions (Our Season)	Who goes on a date. A high school plans Varsity, JV, Girls varsity, Girls JV, and 9th grade. A middle school plans Middle school.
Tentative	A date that isn’t confirmed yet. Dates copied to next season start tentative.
Team events	The regular-season dates that count against your state’s limit for the team, such as “11 of 16”.
Girls on their own	Dates where only the girls’ divisions go. They have their own allowance and don’t count toward the team’s events until it’s used up.
Estimated matches per wrestler	How many matches a wrestler can expect on a date (dual 1, tri 2, quad 3, tournaments 4, unless you enter your own), added up for each division against the state’s limit.
Counts toward season limits	A switch on each date. Turn it off for a date that doesn’t count, such as 9th grade state. Dates with the type Postseason never count.
Blackout dates	Days your team can’t compete, such as school breaks. Event search with Skip our blackout dates, the open-date finder, and Teams Looking matching skip them.
Host changes	Changes a host made to an event on your season, in a field you set yourself: the name, date, venue, address, or bracket link. Accept takes the host’s value. Decline keeps yours.
Teams wanted	How many teams a host is looking for. The event shows how many have said they’re coming, like “5 of 16 so far”.
Host panel	The box at the top of an event page that the host’s contributors and admins see: status buttons, Edit, More, and the counts.
Your Team panel	The box on another organization’s event where you mark your team attending or join the wait list.
Acting For	The organization you’re working for when you belong to more than one. Pick it with the name in the top bar.
Link for your Athletic Director	A private, read-only page with your team’s season, from Sharing on Our Season. No login needed.
Previous Seasons	Earlier seasons’ schedules on Our Season, read-only.
Passkey	A way to log in with your phone’s or computer’s fingerprint, face, or PIN instead of a password.
Authenticator app	An app on your phone (such as Google Authenticator) that shows a six-digit code to type in when you log in.
Embed	Your team’s schedule (events you host and events you’re attending) on your own school or club website, from the organization’s Calendar page.
Team size	How many wrestlers you have in each division this season. 9th graders count under JV or varsity. Logged-in coaches see it next to your team on events.
Compare events	Two to four events from the open-date finder side by side: the drive, who’s going, and their team sizes.
List publicly	Posts a home date from Our Season as an event other teams can find. For a dual, tri, or quad with no opponents yet it reads Find opponents. Afterward the date says Listed publicly.
Arrive by	When you need to be at an away event. Calculate works out Bus leaves from it and the drive from your school.
Bus padding	A percentage added to the drive time when Calculate works out bus times. It starts at 0.
Copy to next season (Our Season)	Copies every date on this season’s schedule to next season, on the same weekday of the same week of the month, so the second Saturday in December stays the second Saturday. Copied dates are marked Tentative and the checklist is reset.
Season rules	Each state’s season dates and limits, set by the site admin for every school in the state.