Check out the latest edition of the Wrestling Gurus live, hosted by USA Wrestling’s Richard Immel. Joining the Gurus on May 1 at 4 p.m. Eastern will be Immel, T.R. Foley of InterMat & FILA, Jason Bryant of TheOpenMat.com and Andrew Ross of 49Northwrestling.com in Canada....
By Chris Wells Mid-South Conference COLUMBIA, Ky. — Cumberlands (Ky.) Courtney Freeman, Campbellsville’s (Ky.) Trey Rhodes and Lindsey Wilson’s (Ky.) Corey Ruff all earned Mid-South Conference wrestling honors, conference officials announced on Wednesday. Freeman was voted by the Mid-South coaches as the 2013-14 MSC Wrestler of the Year. Freeman posted a 35-6 record during the […]...
By Michelle Van Dorn Northern Iowa Sports Information CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – UNI wrestling announces the signing of Tucker Black, Christian DuLaney, Drew Foster and Bryce Meyer for the 2014-15 season. TUCKER BLACK – Black won the 152-pound weight class at Iowa’s high school state meet this last season. He is from Batavia, Iowa, and […]...
Courtesy Mid-American Conference Cleveland, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference announced its 2014 Academic All-MAC Wrestling team today, as voted by faculty athletic representatives at MAC institutions. A total of ten student-athletes were named to the team. Highlighting the 2014 Academic All-MAC Wrestling Team are two-time Academic All-MAC selections Ohio senior Jeremy Johnson (2013) and Ohio […]...
Jeremy Rees Jeremy is a rising senior (class of 2014) at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. He has been a varsity wrestler there for each of his first three years of school, and posts a career record of 18-18. In high school, he was a member of the 2009 Division I state championship Framingham Flyers […]...
By Joe E. Cervi The Pueblo Chieftain Keenan Wyatt hopes to make the transition from Mr. C to Mr. CSU-P. Central’s Keenan Wyatt, in blue, defeats South’s John Torres in the 152-pound 4A regional wrestling tournament final match at the Events Center on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 in Pueblo, Colo. (Chris McLean, The Pueblo Chieftain) […]...
Former Apple Valley coach Jim Jackson will join one-time rival Scot Davis on the coaching staff at Eden Prairie High School in Minnesota. By Tim Leighton St. Paul Pioneer Press Longtime Minnesota high school wrestling coaches and rivals Scot Davis and Jim Jackson will share the same sideline next season. Jackson, who led Apple Valley […]...
Highlights from the 2013-14 season from the Yellow Jackets of Division III Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pa....
Highlights from the Golden Bears wrestling program at Western New England University in Springfield, Mass. Video by Riccio Productions....
By Andy Hamilton Des Moines Register Spending a semester as an intern for Sen. Chuck Grassley was expected to be a future-changing experience for Eric DeVos. The state champion from Waverly-Shell Rock never imagined it would ultimately point him back toward the wrestling mats in his home state. DeVos said Wednesday night that he is […]...
By Tom Nelson St. Cloud State Sports Information The St. Cloud State University wrestling team has named its team captains for the upcoming 2014-15 season. The group of team leaders for next season includes seniors Josh Howk (Oak Grove, Mo.) and Jay Hildreth (Council Bluffs, Iowa), junior Clint Poster (Pierz, Minn.) and sophomores Austin Goergen […]...
By Bill West TribTotalMedia Just a few days after visiting the college, Hempfield junior Sam Krivus committed to Virginia for wrestling Tuesday afternoon. Krivus, a three-time PIAA placewinner who won a Class AAA title as a sophomore and has a career record of 126-12, chose his college destination fairly early in the recruiting process compared […]...
By Jerry Milani Beat The Streets David Taylor of State College, Pa., will take on Yabrail Hasanov of Azerbaijan at 74 kg/163 lbs. in the first matchup announced as part of the Team USA vs. World All-Stars international wrestling competition in Times Square on May 7. The remaining pairings will be revealed in the coming […]...
By Dustin Tackett Tallahassee.com It was a dream that first started coming into focus during his junior year after placing fifth in the state tournament. Godby senior and 2014 state wrestling champion MaShawn Knight signed on the dotted line Tuesday morning in front of his family, friends and fellow teammates, and will receive a wrestling […]...
By Stephen Pytak Republican Herald SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – When a guest speaker, a wrestler with unique moves, asked a crowd of more than 500 eighth- through 12th-grade students in the Schuylkill Haven Area School District for a volunteer to step forward for a demonstration Tuesday morning, eighth-grader Noah Plasko, 14, immediately raised his hand. “I […]...
By Bob Link Forest City Summit FOREST CITY – Jake Staudt, a senior at Forest City High School, has signed a letter of intent to play football and wrestle at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake. Staudt, who lettered four years in wrestling and three years in football at Forest City, said he choose Buena […]...
By Craig Sachson Princeton Sports Information Though his program took a big step forward this past season, wrestling head coach Chris Ayres knows that this is not the time to rest. One year after watching a trio of freshman starters help his program to one of its best team seasons in decades, Ayres welcomes an […]...
By UW-Stevens Point Sports Information STEVENS POINT, Wis. – In the last two years, UW-Stevens Point freshman wrestler Trevor Spears (Muscoda, WI/Riverdale) has organized an effort that has raised nearly $2,000 for cancer research and he presented a check for this year’s total of $713.00 to the Stevens Point Cancer Center, a partnership between Ministry […]...
By Bethany College Sports Information Bethany College announces the hiring of Cody Garcia as the new Head Wrestling Coach. “I am very excited that Cody Garcia has accepted our offer to become the second Head Men’s Wrestling Coach in the program’s history,” said Dean of Athletics Dane Pavlovich. “His passion for wrestling, connections to the […]...
By Dennis C. Way Montgomery Media A.J. Maida could have talked about how his life had been turned upside down over the past three weeks. Or he could have pointed fingers and demanded to know why his contract as Methacton High School’s head wrestling coach was not renewed back on April 8. But that is […]...