Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling USA Wrestling and Northern Michigan University are pleased to announce the hiring of Jim Gruenwald of Colorado Springs, Colo. to serve as the United States Olympic Education Center (USOEC) Assistant Greco-Roman Wrestling Coach. Gruenwald will work with…
WASHINGTON ” The NCAA will prohibit college athletic teams that use American Indian images deemed “hostile or abusive “from hosting postseason events or displaying the symbols during championship competition. The policy, announced Friday, will affect at least 18 schools the…
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State athletic association official quits Associated Press DEMAREST, N.J. – A member of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s executive committee has resigned amid questions about the group’s spending practices. Bert Ammerman, the longtime principal of Northern Valley High…
CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Bengals signed fourth-round pick Eric Ghiaciuc, a center from Central Michigan, to a four-year contract on Saturday. Ghiaciuc, 6-foot-4 and 302 pounds, started the final 35 games of his Central Michigan career and blocked for a…
One of the new rules adopted by the NCAA Wrestling Rules Committee will change what consititutes a wrestler being out of bounds. The new rule will make the two-inch line which circles the mat and defines the wrestling area part…
By MARCIA C. SMITH The Orange County Register SANTA ANA – Jesse Ruiz lurches up and back, bounding around a white circle for a raging warrior’s dance. His arms shake loose like wet linguini. His head and mountainous afro swivel…
BY CHARLIE BERGMANN: Staff Writer Members of the Union Pines wrestling team that attended last week’s team camp at Bloomsburg University in central Pennsylvania learned moves and techniques that will help them individually during the coming season. But the second…
By Jeff Kolpack, The Forum The conference room in the upper level of the Fargodome had more than one meaning Thursday night. Representatives from seven Division I wrestling schools agreed they would like a league up and running this season.…
Columbia, Mo. -Wrestling in the 2005 Show-Me State Games July 23 in the Hearnes Center, five Missouri athletes walked away with a finish in the top three, and four Tigers grappled their way to the top of the podium by…
FARGO, N.D. The owner of a company selling T-shirts and other wrestling merchandise near the Fargodome is promising to shut down if USA Wrestling agrees to hold its Junior and Cadet National Championships in this city another three years. Officials…
BY M.A. MEHTA Star-Ledger Staff The news tiptoed along the electronic superhighway, a few paragraphs lost on the Montclair State University Web site 11 days ago. Three months after the second largest university in New Jersey reinstated its wrestling program…