Thirty-three Mount Maunganui youth are firmly concentrating on what they can achieve in their upcoming high-stake matches, having wrestled 37 competition medals recently.

Mount Maunganui Academy of Wrestling head coach Mark Grayling is happy to have secured 15 gold medals, 11 silver, eight bronze, two fourth place and one fifth at the North Island Wrestling championships in Katikati on June 24-25, but their sights are set firmly on what's ahead.

'We've been building for years; last year we won the National Club Championships, which is for club points and proves who has the strongest club in the country, and we won that.

'Hamilton is hosting that competition soon, and we want to take a big team over there and try and win that again.”

Mark and his MMA Wrestling team are keen to set a good tone in Hamilton on August 20 before the NZ National Championships which MMA Wrestling is hosting at Tauranga Boys' College on October 7-8.

Coaching athletes from the ages of five-49 years and training locally at Ōtūmoetai College, the recent result has sparked an excitement within the team of wrestlers and has only encouraged them to work harder training in preparation for the rest of the wrestling season.