Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Sports Illustrated recently provided a list of the “top ten up-and-coming stars in Mixed Martial Arts”… and three had US collegiate wrestling backgrounds. Thanks to the Yahoo group Fight_Planet for providing the information seen here… C B Dollaway – known…
Arizona State University Sports Information TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State University Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love announced Friday that the athletic department is fully reinstating the sport of varsity wrestling, effective immediately, due to financial support from local civic…
Former Missouri wrestler Ben Askren, top, is competing at the Olympic Trials on June 13-15 in Las Vegas. By DAVID THIESSEN It would be wise not to doubt Ben Askren. He is competing at the Olympic Trials in Las Vegas…
Ackerman’s win recognized by magazine Simpson College Sports Information NCAA Champion Magazine has named Simpson College wrestler Nick Ackerman’s 2001 National Championship victory the No. 1 most dramatic championship victory in NCAA history. Ackerman, who lost his legs due ot…
Mike Rodriguez was one of the great college wrestlers of the 1950s — a three-time Big Ten champ and two-time NCAA finalist for the University of Michigan… Then he became a long-time high school coach in Detroit, molding Michigan high…
National Wrestling Hall of Fame STILLWATER, Okla. — Jason Chamberlain, a high school senior from Springville High School in Springville, Utah has been selected as the national winner of the 2008 Dave Schultz High School Excellence National Award presented by…
By GREG TUFARO Sophomore Darrion Caldwell, an NCAA All-American wrestler who asked for his release from North Carolina State University, has been granted permission to speak with three schools, including Rutgers, where he would like to continue to wrestle and…
‘Wrestlers At The Trials’ – excerpt from Gene Mills Amongst the 90 wrestlers and coaches whose never-been-published stories are captured in the recent book about the 1960 thru 1988 Olympic wrestling Trials is former Syracuse standout Gene Mills. From “Wrestlers…
By Kyle Klingman, W.I.N. Columnist Wrestling has the distinct privilege of calling itself the Sport of Lincoln, a fitting tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the man many consider the U.S.’s greatest president. Lincoln’s wrestling match with Jack Armstrong in the tiny…
University of Nebraska Sports Information Lincoln — The Amateur Athletic Union has announced that former Nebraska wrestler Brad Vering is a finalist for the 2007 James E. Sullivan Award, an honor given each year to the nation’s top amateur athlete.…
By JOSH KATZOWITZ Video: Profile of Dustin Carter from The Enquirer GOSHEN, Ohio ” The scream that Dustin Carter let loose in a gym here last weekend conveyed equal parts pain and elation. It was the sound of glory for…
By Travis Johnson Email Collegian Staff Writer A gray-haired man in his 60s sits on a bench in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex beneath championship plaques. He watches intently as his grandson, an elementary school wrestler, rolls around the mat with…