Category Amateur Wrestling

Artist features Sumo Wrestling

Wrestling at the Garden Julie Randle Of the Suburban Journals Oakville-Mehlville Journal Lynn Matsuoka isn’t a sports fan, so after 30 plus years of following sumo wrestling one has to wonder. “I’m still not a sports fan. I’m a people…

Harris Pins Down Honors While Wrestling

By Cheryl Walker UNION-TRIBUNE COMMUNITY NEWS WRITER VALLEY CENTER “Football, trombone or wrestling. Bethany Harris decided she had to pin herself down to one activity and give it her all. Wrestling won. “Why wrestling? “is what most people ask the…

Tim Foley Named to Columbia’s Wrestling Staff

Tim Foley Named to Columbia Wrestling Staff Former All-American Follows Brendan Buckley’s Lead Tim Foley, one of the finest wrestlers in University of Virginia history, has joined the Columbia wrestling staff as a graduate assistant coach, following the lead of…

Jake Percival Joins Rutgers Staff

Four-Time All-American Jake Percival Joins RU Wrestling Staff PISCATAWAY, NJ “Former Ohio University All-American Jake Percival, the program’s all-time leader in victories, has joined the Rutgers wrestling program as an assistant coach, announced RU head coach John Sacchi. Percival graduated…

Augsburg To Be Honored at White House Sept 8

Don Stoner/Augsburg Sports Information MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The nine-time NCAA Division III national champion Augsburg College wrestling team has been invited to meet with President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, D.C., next Thursday (9/8), college officials…

Two-time All-American wrestler may receive second chance

From Staff Reports If everything goes as planned, 133-pound senior Chris Fleeger will be eligible to wrestle for Purdue once fall semester grades are released. Fleeger finished third as a freshman and second as a sophomore at the NCAA Wrestling…

Erisman Commits to Cowboys (Oklahoma State)

By Joel Reichenberger, Sports editor The news may not have been official — it still won’t be for a couple months in fact — but one glance around De Soto senior Neil Erisman’s home and there was no question about…

U Penn Paper: Olympian Hired as Coach

Olympian hired as wrestling coach By fred david andzachary levine In filling the void left by wrestling coach Roger Reina, who departed after 19 seasons, Penn looked to the world’s biggest stage. The man they found was 2004 U.S. Olympic…

Beach Wrestling Rules & Information Available

Beach Wrestling promotional presentation posted on TheMat.com as a pdf file and powerpoint document Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling USA Wrestling has posted a promotional document on the new sport of Beach Wrestling on TheMat.com for wrestling leaders and the wrestling community…