By Gary Abbott USA Wrestling USA Wrestling has announced the wildcard selections for Phase I of the 2014 U.S. World Team Trials in men’s freestyle and Greco-Roman. Four men’s freestyle wrestlers and two Greco-Roman wrestlers have been added to the field. The men’s freestyle wrestlers will compete in the U.S. World Team Trials for men’s […]...
By MIchelle Brutlag Hosick NCAA.com A decade into academic reform, student-athletes in Division I continue to make gains academically. The latest NCAA Academic Progress Rates show overall improvement, including upticks in baseball, football and men’s and women’s basketball. The most recent four-year Division I APR is 976, a two-point improvement from last year. The average […]...
By Melissa McKeown Air Force Academy Sports Information USAFA, Colo. – Sam Barber has been named the head coach for the Air Force wrestling team, as announced today by Director of Athletics Dr. Hans Mueh. Barber takes over the reins after spending the past six years as an assistant coach for the Falcons. “Sam Barber […]...
By Kyle Klingman NWHOF Dan Gable Museum WATERLOO, Iowa—The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum has released it full slate of celebrities for the 15th annual Dan Gable Celebrity Golf Tournament. The tournament will be held at Centennial Oaks Country Club in Waverly, Iowa, on Friday, June 6. This year’s headline celebrity is […]...
Kelly Flannery is married for 25 years mother of four. Her son was a three-time Massachusetts All-State Champion and a New England Champion who went on to wrestle at Cleveland State and Buffalo. In her spare time she has coached volleyball, softball, basketball, and most recently girls wrestling. Read Kelly Flannery’s Personal Statement at WrestlingStories.org: Kelly […]...
By Steve Kaminski MLive.com LOWELL – Lowell High School officials announced this week that R.J. Boudro has been promoted to coach the school’s varsity wrestling team. Boudro has served as a varsity assistant for the past seven years at Lowell, which won the Division 2 state championship in March and has had one of Michigan’s […]...
By Travis Johnson Centre Daily Times PHILADELPHIA — Cael Sanderson’s resume would seemingly be at the top of any pile of prospective U.S. National Wrestling Team coaches. Maybe it was — Sanderson on Tuesday stopped short of saying Team USA offered him the job former national coach Zeke Jones left earlier this year. But it’s […]...
By Elite Level Sport Marketing Chapel Hill, NC – The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), in coordination with Elite Level Sport Marketing (ELSM), has named 12 programs as 2013-14 Best of Brand finalists for the Gold Standard category in the Open Division. The programs that were announced as finalists by a committee are the following: […]...
By Brian Wolff Buffalo Sports Information BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo has been informed by the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance that its Wrestling team has been banned from the 2014-15 postseason due to low Academic Performance Rate (APR) scores. UB is currently in the process of appealing the ban with the NCAA. […]...
By Jason P. Skoda Ahwatukee Foothills News Tricia Saunders has long been considered the country’s preeminent female wrestler. And there is now an award named after her that’s reemphasizes the Ahwatukee Foothills resident’s place in the sport. For the first time, the National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum honored female high school wrestlers with […]...
Bruce Burnett and Joe Gibbons will go “On the Mat” this Wednesday, May 14. “On the Mat” is a presentation of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum. The show can be heard live on the Internet at 1650thefan.com or locally in Northeast Iowa each Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00 PM Central on […]...
By Anthony Hernandez Rutgers Sports Information PISCATAWAY, N.J. (May 13, 2014) – Rutgers wrestling redshirt junior 165-pounder Nick Visicaro (Long Branch, N.J.) was named a recipient of the Scholar Baller National Second Team Academic Momentum Award, the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) announced. A total of 15 student-athletes were selected for the Academic […]...
By Justin Barney Florida Times-Union Rachael Kreier had it all planned out.The senior at Oakleaf was going to graduate and then go to college at Sam Houston State. Kreier’s grandparents had gone there, and so too, had her parents. It was a family tradition. Wrestling came along and changed everything. One inquiry led to another, […]...
Courtesy USA Wrestling The Virginia Wrestling Association (VAWA) has selected Andrew Farrar to be the state’s first ever Executive Director. Farrar will begin his new position on June 2, 2014. The VAWA is USA Wrestling’s state association in Virginia. Farrar returns to Virginia after three years of coaching, teaching, and advising at the St. Mark’s […]...
Courtesy Elite Level Sports Marketing Chapel Hill, NC – The National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), in coordination with Elite Level Sport Marketing (ELSM), has named 12 college programs as finalists for the 2013-14 Best of Brand Masterful Mission Award. The programs that were announced as finalists by a committee are the following: Bucknell, Duke, Grand […]...
By Scott Farrell NCWA ATLANTA – Emory University, recognized internationally for its outstanding liberal arts colleges and graduate and professional schools, announced this week that it will create a new wrestling program and compete as part of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. The Eagles hope to take advantage of their location in one of the […]...
By Taylor Miller National Wrestling Hall of Fame STILLWATER, Okla. – Pennsylvania phenom Chance Marsteller and California native Marina Doi have been named the national winners of the High School Excellence Awards given by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum. Marsteller, a senior from Kennard-Dale High School in Fawn Grove, Pa., is the […]...
The Open Mat launched the 7 Minutes feature in 2009 and profiled wrestlers with a series of short questions, some of them were relevant to wrestling, while others were looks inside to the wrestler’s personality and likes. TOM has launched the 7 Minutes feature for 2013-14, profiling athletes and coaches from all levels of wrestling. […]...
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell head wrestling coach Dan Wirnsberger on Tuesday announced the incoming class of Bison grapplers that will join the Bucknell program this fall. The highly ranked class consists of nine wrestlers and has made national headlines, garnering a No. 18 ranking among recruiting classes from Intermat and a No. 25 ranking from […]...
By Tim Hayes Bristol Herald Courier Trey Smith has completed quite the trifecta. In his senior season as a wrestler at Grundy High School, Smith won an individual state championship, helped the Golden Wave earn a team title and procured for himself a college scholarship He finalized the latter part of his own personal triple […]...