Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY Last year the world governing body for Olympic wrestling noted the appeal of beach volleyball and held its first World Beach Wrestling Championship in Turkey (yep, headlocks in the sand). Now it aims to ride…
The International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), the governing body of international amateur wrestling, aims to add beach wrestling to the Olympics program. FILA President Raphael Martinetti, who was in Antalya for the First World Beach Wrestling Championships, told…
ANTALYA, TURKEY ” Former East Stroudsburg University wrestling coach Angelo Borzio won a bronze medal and the United States team took second place at the World Beach Wrestling Championships in Turkey Saturday. Borzio took bronze in the over 187.5 lbs.…
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wrestling Assistant Coach Jeff Zastrow will represent the U.S. in the first-ever Beach Wrestling World Championships in Turkey beginning November 1st. Zastrow won gold in the senior men’s 231-pound division the day prior to the World Trials.…
Sussex Central standout wrestler Connor McDonald can go about this season with a little less to think about, as the two-time state champion made his college commitment on Monday night. McDonald, of Rehoboth Beach, committed to Lehigh University, where he…
The Batter’s Box and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans have teamed up for a second straight year to raise money for a local high school athletic program. The Pelicans and Batter’s Box presented the Georgetown Athletic Booster Club with a check…
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The 2006 ASCIS East Coast Beach Wrestling Championships was a huge success with over 200 wrestlers, including several from the W. T. Clarke Varsity Wrestling Team, taking part in the two-day event held Aug. 12-13 in Long Beach. The tournament…
MIKE KUHNS Record Sports Editor Angelo Borzio, the former wrestler and coach at East Stroudsburg University, is supposed to be lounging on the beach these days, not wrestling on it. But wrestling was exactly what Borzio was doing last Saturday…
By Sharon Robb South Florida Sun-Sentinel SINGER ISLAND – Eric Albarracin no longer travels light. Unlike his early years in wrestling when the Coral Springs High graduate slept on friends’ couches, walked five miles to practice and lived on money…
The beach behind the Hilton Singer Island Resort will be the site of the first U.S. Beach National Championships. They’re part of a wrestling weekend that also includes national and Pan American championships in Sombo wrestling on Sunday at the…
By Sharon Robb South Florida Sun-Sentinel SINGER ISLAND ,· Shawn Sheldon brushed the sand off his arms and face after a demonstration of beach wrestling Wednesday at the Hilton Oceanfront Resort. The two-time Olympian lives in West Palm Beach and…