University of Maryland head wrestling coach Kerry McCoy was voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year and Terrapin wrestlers Brendan Byrne, Steven Bell, Alex Krom and Hudson Taylor were selected to the all-conference team, the league announced Friday.…
Among several Vikings and other football prospects working out for seven NFL scouts Wednesday at the Gophers’ indoor facility was Kole Conrad, a two-time NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion for the Gophers. Conrad, 24, who has received interest from the New…
INDIANAPOLIS— The NCAA announced the 52 at-large selections for the 2009 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. These wrestlers, listed in alphabetical order by weight class, join the other 278 student-athletes that qualified automatically through their conference and regional qualifying tournaments.…
By JOHN MILLEA, Star Tribune LUVERNE, MINN.” Saturday was a big day for high school wrestling across Minnesota, as section tournaments determined the 672 individuals who will compete at this week’s state tournament. For 671 of them, advancing to state…
Marcus LeVesseur went where no other Division III college wrestler has ever gone before. From 2002-2007, the Minneapolis native compiled a perfect 155-0 record at Augsburg College and won four NCAA Division III titles, which had never been accomplished. In…
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Five new members will be inducted into the EIWA Hall of Fame in a ceremony before the final round of the EIWA Championships on March 8 at the University of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made by…
The 2009 World Team Trials, presented by the U.S. Marines, will be hosted at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 30-31. This event will determine the athletes who will represent the United States at the 2009 World Wrestling…
Former Olympian and two-time NCAA Division I national wrestling champion Ben Askren’s first professional MMA fight was a quick one. Askren (1-0), a former University of Missouri wrestler, scored a first-round TKO of Josh Flowers (0-3) at the Holiday Inn…
Mixed Martial Arts Videos on Purefight 170 Lbs Ben Askren Vs Josh Flowers
STILLWATER, Okla. — In 1949, two years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Harold Henson became the first African American athlete to compete in the NCAA Wrestling Championships. Six years earlier, however, he proved his…
