Category Amateur Wrestling

By Kip Carlson Oregon State Sports Information CORVALLIS, Ore. – Troy Steiner has been hired as an assistant coach for Oregon State’s wrestling team, OSU head coach Jim Zalesky announced Friday. Steiner, who had been on Zalesky’s coaching staff for…

UI looks to expand facilities By Gregg Hennigan Iowa City Press-Citizen With the $87 million Kinnick Stadium project nearing completion, the University of Iowa now wants to renovate several other athletic facilities, including Carver-Hawkeye Arena. UI will present a report…

THE technical officials,  of the Nigeria Amateur Wrestling Federa-tion (NAWF) exhibited their high level of incompetence in handling doping issues at the recently concluded 15th National Sports Festival tagged Gateway 2006 Games in Abeokuta and this almost marred the game.…

By Ron Bracken [email protected] Ever since the PIAA split the wrestling field into two classes there has always been the argument over what would happen if you matched one of the top Class AAA teams against the AA king. Next…

National Wrestling Hall of Fame STILLWATER, Okla. — David Craig, from Brandon High School in Brandon, Fla., has been selected as the national winner of the 2006 Dave Schultz High School Excellence award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame…

Craig Sesker USA Wrestling It was Saturday night in Las Vegas, the bright lights were shining seemingly everywhere and Henry Cejudo had just won the U.S. Nationals for the first time. It was time to celebrate. Well, sort of. Cejudo…

USA Wrestling’s University Nationals will carry added significance this year as it will serve as the qualifying event for the World University Championships. The University Nationals for freestyle and Greco-Roman, along with the FILA Cadet Nationals in both styles, are…

Bryan Johnston Virginia Tech Due to numerous requests concerning the eligibility status of Virginia Tech wrestlers, the Virginia Tech Athletics Department issues the following statement: “The Virginia Tech Athletics Department has chosen not to release for the 2006-07 academic year…

Bowlsby to leave for Stanford By the Press-Citizen The man who has headed up the University of Iowa’s athletic department for nearly 15 years is leaving to become the athletic director at Stanford. Stanford announced today that it has hired…

Iowa wrestler Ruben Chavez was arrested Monday for assault causing bodily injury stemming from a March 11 incident. According to a police report, Chavez, 21, of West Liberty, allegedly head-butted an unnamed accuser in the face and injured the accuser’s…

By Ron Bracken [email protected] In a recent idle moment Steve Kurzinger was leafing through the history of State College wrestling and marveling at some of the great coaches who had helped build the Little Lion tradition, men like Homer Barr,…

By Brooks Hatch Corvallis Gazette-Times The sense of deja vu permeating the Valley Football Center media conference for new Oregon State wrestling coach Jim Zalesky was palpable to those who attended a similar event for football coach Dennis Erickson seven…