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…
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…
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…
