Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
Amateur Wrestling news, gear and photos from the side of the mat.
GARY HOROWITZ Statesman Journal He is one of the most visible athletes on a team steeped in wrestling tradition. Brock Gutches takes the attention in stride. A sophomore at Crater High School and the No. 2 seed at 130 pounds…
‘Wrestling fraternity’ prominent today By Andy Hamilton Iowa City Press-Citizen The brown brick apartment sits at the bottom of the hill across the street from Carver-Hawkeye Arena’s north side and wears no indications that it once doubled as a fraternity…
By Kendall Johnson Stanford Athletics McCoy to Coach 2007 U.S. Freestyle World Team Stanford head coach selected by USA Wrestling to coach at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 17-23. Stanford Head Wrestling Coach Kerry McCoy has been named…
By Christine Dillon Oklahoma City University Oklahoma City University President Tom McDaniel announced today that the university has added women’s wrestling to its athletics roster. Oklahoma City University is the first university in Oklahoma to create a women’s wrestling program…
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By Emily Gatewood University of Missouri Senior 174 pound defending National Champion Ben Askren (Hartland, Wis.) was named to the 2007 Big 12 Conference Winter Sports Good Works Team as announced by the league office. This honor is given in…
BOB SANSEVERE GOPHERS WRESTLING COACH J ROBINSON TALKS BOB SANSEVERE LISTENS After we won the national title in 2001, we went to the White House. Before he came over to us, President Bush talked to the media. He was bumbling…
Max Askren’s upset loss leads to Missouri’s first Big 12 defeat By STEVEN MILLAR In a flash, it was over. Missouri’s Max Askren led Iowa State’s Kurt Backes 6-4 in the second period of the 197-pound match in Sunday’s wrestling…
Waterloo, IA By Kyle Klingman Former WWE world heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and former United States Congressmen Jim Leach will join several Olympic champions in celebrating the Grand Opening of the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum (DGIWIM) on…
By Andy Hamilton Iowa City Press-Citizen The letter arrived about the same time the winning streak did for Charlie Falck. In his mail one day last month, Iowa’s sophomore 125-pounder found an inspirational message that gave him a boost of…
Auction and show benefit wrestlers By Victoria A.F. Camron The Daily Times-Call BERTHOUD ” Karen Fate was concerned that the community might be exhausted from supporting Tyler Carron and Nikko Landeros. After all, since the two 17-year-old Berthoud High School…
Pinning his toughest foe By Brian Sumers ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Donte Butler will never forget the feel of the knife piercing his left hand. No matter how far wrestling takes him ” maybe to college next fall on a scholarship,…