Matt Mincey a force to be reckoned with

2011-12 • REDSHIRT JUNIOR: 
Overall Record: 20-8
Dual Meet Record: 1-0
Big Ten Record: N/A
Pins: 4
Major Decisions: 1
Technical Falls: 3
Finished the season with a record of 20-8 • Wrestled primarily in open tournaments and recorded four falls on the year • Wrestled in the North Dakota State dual against Matt Erickson and won 13-6 • Went 4-1 at the Bison Open • Scored a fall over Jasper Oyster of North Dakota State at the 2:06 mark • Recorded a 16-1 tech fall win over Hayden Zillmer of the Bison • Won six matches at the UNI Open • Also competed at the Finn Grinaker Open and Southern Scuffle • Letterwinner.


2010-11 • REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE:
Overall Record: 11-10
Dual Meet Record: 2-3
Big Ten Record: 2-3
Pins: 3
Major Decisions: 0
Technical Falls: 2
Finished the season 11-10 overall and 2-3 in dual matches • Was 2-3 in Big Ten matches • Recorded three pins as well as two technical falls on the season • Made his first appearance at the Big Ten Championships • Finished third at the Husky Open, scoring a 16-0 technical fall over Jesse Westphal of Minnesota State Mankato • Scored a 15-0 technical fall win over Purdue's Tom Churchard to earn his first Big Ten win • Picked up an 11-9 decision over Sean Nemec of Ohio State • Fell to Michigan's Brandon Zeerip, 11-8 • Earned his second letter.


2008-09 • REDSHIRTED:
Posted a 15-6 mark on the season at 141 lbs. • Won seven matches by fall • Won two matches by major decision • First career win came by fall at the Bison Open • Opened season, and career, with a 4-1 tally for a third place finish at the Bison Open, losing only to the eventual runner-up • Beat teammate Jake Mellmer 8-6 in the third place match • Earned first career fall in first career match, pinning Mark Erickson • Went 2-2 at the Kaufman/Brand Amateur Open, winning two matches by fall before dropping the next two • Garnered second place honors at the Flash Open in early January • Earned his first career individual championship at the Minnesota West Open, gaining a pair of falls along the way.


HIGH SCHOOL:
Competed for perennial wrestling power Apple Valley High School as a prep • Two-time NHSCA All-American • Three-time MSHSL state champion • Four-time section champion • Four-time All-State selection • Three-time All-Lake Conference selection • Named sixth-best national recruit at 135 pounds by Amateur Wrestling News.


PERSONAL:
Undecided on a possible major • Has brothers Stephen (13) and Tarrance (11) • Son of Steve and Heather Mincey • Born Nov. 11, 1989.

Season	Wt.	Overall	Wt. Cl.	Dual	Big Ten	Points	Pins	MD	TF	v.Rnk	Strk	Fast Pin	Big Ten's	NCAA's
2010-11	149	11-10	11-10	2-3	2-3	-	3	0	2	-	4W	0:23	1-3	-
2011-12	149	20-8	20-8	1-0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2:06	-	-
Total		46-24	68-17	3-3	2-3	-	10	2	2	-	-	0:23	1-3

RYC picks South Bend among its 250 cities starting for 2013

The internet is now the #1 source for information about local businesses, far outpacing newspapers and even word of mouth*.  But local businesses can have difficulty reaching the right prospects--or waste money chasing the wrong prospects. Represent Your City helps local businesses across the country convert customers in the neighborhoods they serve.

A full 80 percent of local sales originate within a 20-minute drive time. With Represent Your City and it's partnering bloggers, you promote your business through RYC Blog  news platforming and event sites. Local businesses gain a competitive edge with category-exclusive sponsorships and association with powerful local media brands.
Small and medium-sized businesses will grow their online media spend 25 percent per year 2013 through 2015.
 When you advertise with Represent Your City, you can boost your visibility with videos, attract new customers with online coupons, build communities with Facebook, and drive response through email campaigns. We create custom advertising packages that get you up and running on the web quickly. We also have a growing Facebook Group page that will be used to sponsor your business to our growing members posting from our partnering sites from all over the world.

With Represent Your City, local businesses partner with leading media brands to boost visibility and attract new customers. You can take advantage of integrated online coupons, video advertisements, email campaigns and more. Contact us today to find out for yourself.

Exclusive Association with Local Media Brands Elevates Your Business
Enhance your image by associating with powerful local media brands. Strengthen your brand with exclusive sponsorship opportunities that place you above the competition. Represent Your City's creative team works with you to create professional-looking, highly targeted advertisements and great locations for our visitors.

 
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Most consumers spend about 80 percent of their disposable income within 20 miles of their homes. While digital coupons used to be limited to national chains, today local businesses have the most to gain from engaging shoppers online. Represent Your City will work with you to develop an effective set of offers to drive your business. Get the most from your marketing dollars by  adding your coupons to the Represent Your City Coupon Directory coming soon and distributing them across the Represent Your City Coupon Network in 1,000s of cities by 2013. We will cover the major online destinations where people search for local goods and services.


Professional Video Boosts Your Visibility
Video is one of the most effective marketing tools. A video produced by Represent Your City communicates your advertising message in high-impact sight, sound and motion. Publishing a video makes your business content 53 times more likely to appear in the first page of Google results¹, and pages with videos convert 8.3 percent more visitors to leads². With Represent Your City's creative expertise, you receive a custom treatment for your Business Profile . You can also use your video on your website or in other promotional materials.


Email Campaigns Reach a Highly Targeted Audience
Reach individuals who have joined into the RYC  blogsites. These email campaigns, powered by Represent Your City, exceed industry standards for open rates (21%+) and click-through rates (12%+).  You appear alongside  local post content each week on your city blogsite. These highly targeted sites also enable you to feature coupons and deals to attract new customers. 


And we want to send out a special thanks to our new RYC Member Charla Scott representing South Bend, Indiana. She brings a lot to the RYC Corporation being a member to the sister company Blogging Toward Success. So lets welcome her and support her and her city.  


    Charla Scott Co-Founder RYC -South Bend

South Bend joins with RYC

The purpose of the RYC Employees of the Month program is to recognize outstanding full-time employees of all our RYC cities who embody their company’s standards for excellence & customer service based on the C.A.R.E values.

Collaboration
Accountability
Responsiveness
Efficiency

In addition to these values, the EOM program will recognize those employees who show exemplary individual achievement, contribution, and performance in their jobs and other related duties beyond their own, in an effort to make the workplace more efficient and more welcoming to co-workers and customers.
The EOM program seeks to acknowledge those whose efforts have inspired and supported the performance and achievement of others.
The EOM program will provide awards to such employees by a means that is fair, with equal consideration of all eligible staff.

A City's employee who demonstrates the following will be eligible for the EOM Award:
A positive attitude toward work responsibilities, co-workers and customers, and serves as a role model for others;
A commitment to quality in carrying out job responsibilities, and is an asset to the department;
A willingness to take initiative, and accept and carry out additional responsibilities beyond regular job assignments for the good of the department as a whole.

Name of the Award

RYC Employees of the Month

Nomination & Selection

Committee Composition/Objectives

The committee is comprised of seven department members, which will have the responsibility for managing the nomination, selection, and award process for the Employee of the Month Program.

The committee evaluates the nomination and selects the Employee of the Month honorees each month.

Members of the committee shall serve for one year and are not eligible to receive the award during their year of service.

Criteria & Nomination

1. Three (3) employees per month shall be selected for a single award each month in the following
categories: 
1 office employee (all classification levels, not including Assistant Directors and above)
1 custodial employee
1 trades or engineer employee
 
2. Candidates for the award must be an individual, not a department, functional unit, or group of people.

3. Nominations may be made by anyone with an active affiliation within the CPFM
department (i.e., co-workers, staff, administrators, customer, etc).

4. A candidate for the award must meet the following criteria:

Nominees must be non-probationary, full-time company employees
Must have been employed at least one (1) year within the company
Can be employed at any of company in the RYC  locations
Has not been selected as employee of the Month within the past 12 months
Has a positive attitude toward work responsibilities, co-workers and customers, and also serves as a role model for others
Is productive, exhibits commitment to quality in carrying out job responsibilities, and is an asset to the staff in his/her unit
Is willing to take initiative, and accepts and carries out additional responsibilities beyond regular job assignments
Have a distinguished attendance record, is consistently dependable and punctual in reporting for duty, completing assignments on time, and participating in additional responsibilities

5. Any eligible staff member may be nominated more than once.

6. All nominations must be submitted on the form available and received by the committee by the 25th of each month in order to be considered for that particular month’s award.

7. Nominees who do receive the award for the month in which they have been nominated may be nominated again, and will automatically remain in the nomination pool.

Award Framework

Award recipients shall receive:

A visit from members of the committee to present the award, where a picture will be taken for publication in internal communications venues;
A gift of appreciation for the employee;
A letter of congratulations;
A certificate suitable for framing;
Inclusion on a plaque to be prominently displayed in an appropriate location of the company on behalf of the company and RYC.