PARK RIDGE, IL – Iowa wrestler Brent Metcalf and Northwestern lacrosse standout Hannah Nielsen were respectively named the Jesse Owens Male and Suzy Favor Female Athletes of the Year, the Big Ten Conference announced on Thursday. The Big Ten Athletes…
Indianapolis, IN By Greg Johnson The NCAA News The Division I Championships/Competition Cabinet at its June 24-25 meeting approved a new qualifier allocation formula for wrestling that will go into effect for the 2009 championship. Cabinet members, who convened in…
Purdue University Sports Information WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue head wrestling coach Scott Hinkel was named the 2008 Amateur Wrestling News (AWN) Rookie Coach of the Year on Tuesday. Joining him with first-year honors were freshmen Luke Manuel, Logan Brown…
Sports Illustrated recently provided a list of the “top ten up-and-coming stars in Mixed Martial Arts”… and three had US collegiate wrestling backgrounds. Thanks to the Yahoo group Fight_Planet for providing the information seen here… C B Dollaway – known…
Former Missouri wrestler Ben Askren, top, is competing at the Olympic Trials on June 13-15 in Las Vegas. By DAVID THIESSEN It would be wise not to doubt Ben Askren. He is competing at the Olympic Trials in Las Vegas…
Ackerman’s win recognized by magazine Simpson College Sports Information NCAA Champion Magazine has named Simpson College wrestler Nick Ackerman’s 2001 National Championship victory the No. 1 most dramatic championship victory in NCAA history. Ackerman, who lost his legs due ot…
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…
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…
by Catherine Guiles Thirty-five years after creating the nonscholarship Division III, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is surveying division members about adding a fourth division, citing rapid growth and policy disputes. But athletic directors at several Chicago area Division III…
WATERLOO “Six new legends of wrestling will enter the Glen Brand Wrestling Hall of Fame on April 19, 2008. It will be the seventh class to go into the hall. The group includes two men who each won a pair…
