Category Amateur Wrestling

Toby Willis TheMat’s Wrestler of the Week

Willis named TheMat.com Wrestler of the WeekJohn Fuller Note: To nominate a wrestler for TheMat.com Wrestler of the Week, send the athlete’s name, accomplishments for the week and career accomplishments to John Fuller at [email protected] Toby Willis (Ashland City, Tenn.)…

Madison Paper Readers Weigh In On Title IX

Your Views Wisconsin State Journal :: FORUM :: B1 Last week, we asked readers what they thought about proposed changes to Title IX, the federal gender equity law in education that has vastly increased women’s participation in sports. Here is…

Bishop Shanahan HS to offer wrestling

By Don Pigeon At Downingtown’s Bishop Shanahan High School, the westernmost institution of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, student activities are grouped into three categories. “First of all, we want to give students opportunities to grow spiritually, “explained Shanahan athletic director Hank…

Editorial – Wrestling Girls

FIRST-PERSON: Wrestling girlsby Tim Ellsworth JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)–A Washington man is upset because some wrestlers at private schools won’t wrestle the girls on his daughter’s team. The boys are choosing to forfeit their matches rather than wrestle a girl. According…

Time To Give A New Label to Title IX

By NANCY CLARK and NANCY CLARKREGISTER COLUMNISTNANCY CLARK It’s high time to be done with Title IX.The Title IX label, that is. It comes with too much baggage. Let’s drop the incendiary Title IX tag and call this federal guideline…

Hawkeye Wrestling On Academic Watch List

Hawk programs on watch listBy Steve Batterson Under revised data released this week, the men’s basketball program at Iowa has been added to a list of programs that could lose a scholarship in future years for failing to achieve minimum…

NCAA’s APR Could Cost Hawkeyes Wrestling Scholarships

Three teams could lose scholarships, including men’s basketball. By TOM WITOSKYREGISTER STAFF WRITER The Iowa men’s basketball team appears to have no margin for error if it is to avoid losing at least one scholarship next season under the NCAA’s…

Eastern Michigan May Have To Cut Sports (Like Wrestling)

Question EMU faces: Will it cut sports?BY JIM CARTY Craig Willis did a good job of walking a fine line Tuesday. On one hand, the interim president sent a clear message that there is no immediate threat of Eastern Michigan…

$1.2 million gift a boost to WVU wrestling

By Mitch VingleSports Editor West Virginia University has landed a $1.2 million gift to expand the wrestling room at the school’s Natatorium. And the expansion could bring more than extra space. Offers have gone out to members of wrestling’s elite…

Parents Take Issue When Boys Forfeit To Girls

By Linda Shaw Seattle Times staff reporter Girls who wrestled for several Puget Sound-area middle schools this year easily won their matches against boys from two private schools. The girls stepped onto the mat. Their opponents from Tacoma Baptist and…