Category Amateur Wrestling

9 RPW Season 1 Wrestlers Win US National Titles

Wrestlers that competed in Real Pro Wrestling’s Season One captured a total of nine U.S. Nationals titles in either freestyle or Greco-Roman this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nev. Of those nine, six freestyle wrestlers won titles, with the seventh…

Ohio State Names Tom Ryan Head Wrestling Coach

Tom Ryan has been named as Ohio State’s new head wrestling coach. Gene Smith, athletics director at Ohio State, announced the hiring Saturday. Ryan, a 1993 graduate of Iowa, comes to Ohio State after spending the past 11 years at…

Cody Sanderson added to Iowa State coaching staff

AMES, Iowa — Cody Sanderson, a two-time 133-pound NCAA finalist as an Iowa State wrestler who has been the head wrestling coach at Utah Valley State the last three seasons, has joined the Cyclone coaching staff as associate head coach.…

Petkovic leads from behind the scenes

Written by John fuller Momir Petkovic is more American than he looks. He can tell jokes with the best of them. He can talk trash with the best of them. And he can still wrestle with the best of them.…

Steve Garland Named Virginia Wrestling Head Coach

By Kerwin Lonzo University of Virginia CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Steve Garland, a former All-American at the University of Virginia, has been named the head wrestling coach, as announced by Director of Athletics Craig Littlepage today. Garland has served the last…

Illinois College drops wrestling, adds swimming

Jim Murphy Illinois College Sports Information Illinois College will add swimming and discontinue wrestling in an effort to bring its intercollegiate athletic program into line with the rest of the Midwest Conference. In making the announcement, Athletic Director Gale Vaughn…

Wrestling life lessons on the mat – Jim Lucas

By Erin Keilah Chin A tall, slender, gray-haired man will greet you in the wrestling room at the top of the stairs in Uchida Hall. That man is Jim Lucas, the head coach of San Jose State University’s Wrestling Club.…

Colfax High wrestling coach wins a reversal of dismissal

By Kim Minugh — Bee Staff Writer Two weeks after Colfax High parents and students pleaded with trustees to reverse the firing of popular coach Jerry Sinkey, he has been reinstated as head of the school’s wrestling program. Officials announced…

Wrestling’s top weight class adds 10 pounds

Few of today’s high school wrestlers remember Tab Thacker. He was a star at N.C. State, winning the NCAA heavyweight title in 1984. Before that, he dominated the heavyweight class while at West Forsyth High School, tipping the scales at…