Jared Frayer, the Iowa wrestling team’s strength and conditioning coach, has accepted a position as an assistant coach at Wisconsin.

Frayer wrestled at Oklahoma, where he was a two-time all-American and an NCAA runner-up in 2002 at 149 pounds, and also has extensive post-collegiate national wrestling experience. He served as Iowa’s strength and conditioning coach for the 2008-09 season.

Frayer will join former Hawkeye Barry Davis’s staff at Wisconsin.

First assistant Bart Chelesvig left Davis’s staff in May, and Donnie Pritzlaff was elevated to the associate head coaching position. Frayer will take over Pritzlaff’s position.

“They had offered me the volunteer position about two weeks ago,” Frayer said. “It just wasn’t right. It was more of a lateral move for me. I enjoyed where I was at at Iowa. But I guess they kind of knew what they wanted and they (made the offer).

“It’s a better position. This is what I want to do as a career. It’s a position where I can recruit. I’m directly involved with the university. I respect the guys that are there. There are not too many places that I would have gone other than that.”

Another honor for Howe
MADISON, Wis.

Amateur Wrestling News released its All-Rookie Teams in the May issue, and after making it all the way to the NCAA finals at 165 lbs. as a true freshman, Andrew Howe was tabbed the publication’s 2009 Rookie of the Year. Earlier this spring, Howe was also named freshman of the year by RevWrestling.com and D1CollegeWrestling.net. He also earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year accolades after winning the title at 165 lbs. at the 2009 Big Ten Championships.

Howe was featured in the latest issue of Amateur Wrestling News and you can see the article below, or visit the publication’s Web site to find information on how you can get your own copy of Amateur Wrestling News.

from RevWrestling.com

Great things were expected of Andrew Howe when he arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last fall. The Indiana native delivered … and then some, with a 30-5 season, the 2009 Big Ten 165-pound title and Freshman of the Year honors, and being the only true freshman to wrestle for a title at the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. For all these reasons, Howe has earned the Rev Freshman of the Year award for 2009.

Each year, this award is given to the nation’s top freshman wrestler across all divisions of college competition, and is determined by a vote of RevWrestling.com writers and executives. Howe joins previous Rev Freshman of the Year award-winners Mike Grey of Cornell University in 2008, Iowa State’s Jake Varner in 2007, and Dustin Schlatter of the University of Minnesota in 2006.

Andrew Howe, who was 2009 NCAA runner-up at 165 pounds, won the award running away. He received all eight of the first-place votes, for a total of 72 votes. Minnesota’s Zach Sanders, who earned All-American honors by placing sixth at 125 pounds, came in second in the balloting, with 33 votes. In third place was Quentin Wright of Penn State, 174-pound All-American, who received 30 votes.