Category Amateur Wrestling

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…

Jason Chamberlain Wins 2008 Dave Schultz HS Excellence Award

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…

Rahway grad Caldwell hopes to transfer from NC State to Rutgers

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…

Gene Mills Tells His Story RE ’80 Olympic Boycott

‘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…

African-American’s pioneering efforts paying off

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…

Brad Vering a Sullivan Award Finalist

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.…

The New York Times featured Dustin Carter

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…

Wrestler teaches kids in preparation for Beijing

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…

Blindness Doesn’t Deter Spriggs’s Mat Vision

Flowers Wrestler Learns to Overcome Disability By Alan Goldenbach Washington Post Staff Writer Michael Spriggs grabbed on to a teammate’s shoulder and headed for the gymnasium wall, where William Ngakoue, a 215-pound junior on the C.H. Flowers High School wrestling…