Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
The Finlay family casts a large shadow whenever the Newnan wrestling team rolls out the mats. Led out on the floor by Cougar senior David Finlay, a 2010 state qualifier and team captain, the Finlays have become the first family…
Jessica Bondy MacDonald isn’t the only former L’Essor wrestler looking to further their Olympic hopes at the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association’s team trials this week in Winnipeg. David Tremblay Jr., a Stoney Point native, is the No. 1 seed in…
“I always loved getting hit, I suppose. I dunno what it is. It makes you feel alive. Otherwise you’re cruising through life without a bit of punishment.” Finn Simpson, 22, is one of Sydney’s growing band of amateur cage fighters,…
To say former Hazel Park High wrestler Eric Queener is in it for the danger might be a little extreme. But the Warren Fitzgerald wrestling coach and United States Army sergeant discovered upon his return from active duty in Iraq…
By Brian Lopez-Benchimol Of all the bases of martial arts to build upon a budding, MMA, career, wrestling has been one of the truer and more dominant. Over the years, we have seen a steady increase in the amount of accomplished wrestlers…
By Luke Thomas Jordan Burroughs, one of America’s premier talents in amateur wrestling, tells MMA Nation he is ‘definitely’ interested in a career in mixed martial arts. The catch? We’ll all have to wait until he’s done wrestling. If you…
By Janet Gibson A co-ed wrestling program for students aged 10 and older has grown in popularity this year “its second year running. Northern Pikes Wrestling Club meets Mondays and Thursdays at 3:45 p.m. in the mezzanine of Carpenter High…
Kids as young as 5 years old learn the sport of wrestling in Manassas Park’s Cougar Wrestling Program. By Jim Kirkland How does one of the smallest school districts in the state of Virginia, Manassas Park, which holds only…
by Dave Thomas YAKIMA, Finding your path in life and love is rarely well marked, making it all the more rewarding when it’s discovered. It’s even less likely “, but infinitely more satisfying “, should those two paths converge. As teenagers, respectively,…
By Jillian Bullock The Department of Justice, federal agencies, faith-based and other grassroots and community organizations are always looking to instill crime prevention programs to address at-risk youth and gang members. While many of these programs have failed, many people…
By Danny Udero There is a broad question that has enveloped the wrestling world. What do wrestlers do when their careers are over? Mixed martial arts has seen to be the cure for the grappler that can t get enough…
The biggest piece of news to emerge from the fall PIAA Board of Directors meeting Thursday night was the adoption of a new method of counting dual meets that go toward each wrestling team’s allotment of 22 regular season wrestling…