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Penn State’s Zain Retherford wins 2017 WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy, presented by ASICS

TDR Editor’s Notes ;  Compliments to WIN Magazine on their continuing efforts to promote and cover amateur wrestling.  We admit that we took the idea of presenting the big Awards of the year out at football games and other big sporting events.
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By Bryan Van Kley, WIN Magazine
NEWTON, Iowa — The WIN Magazine/Culture House Dan Hodge Trophy has been awarded to the most dominant collegiate wrestler since 1995. Out of an amazing group of four Hodge finalists this year, Penn State two-time NCAA champ Zain Retherford has been named the 2017 Hodge winner, presented annually to the top collegian by ASICS.   “I met Dan Hodge at a National Wrestling Hall of Fame event a few years ago. To win something like this named in his honor is pretty awesome,” Retherford said. “This award symbolizes who he is as a person and competitor.”  The award, created by Culture House’s Mike Chapman, is named after Hodge, who was a three-time NCAA champion for the University of Oklahoma from 1955 to 1957, was undefeated over those three years at 46-0 and pinned an amazing 36 of those opponents.  Retherford, who was 28-0 this season, won a second straight NCAA title at 149 pounds after completely dismantling competitors at the weight for a second straight year. Retherford has won 63 straight matches over the past two years to move his career record to 95-3. And much like his 2015-2016 run of domination, this year’s tally included only two matches in which the Nittany Lion did not score bonus points.

Rest of the story at …. https://www.win-magazine.com/2017/03/penn-states-zain-retherford-wins-2017-win-magazineculture-house-dan-hodge-trophy-presented-by-asics/?mc_cid=b0b45bba1c&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

 

April 1, 2017 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Oklahoma Wesleyan hires Robinson as head coach

TDR Editor’s Notes ; A new coach at a new program. Yes college wrestling is being added at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. The NAIA has at least four schools adding wrestling next year.
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Colby Robinson has been hired as the first head coach of the brand-new wrestling program at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, the Bartlesville-based school announced Wednesday. As InterMat reported back in December, OKWU had announced it was adding a men’s intercollegiate wrestling program, effective in the 2017-18 academic year.
For the past four years, Robinson has served as head wrestling coach at De Smet High School in St. Louis. Prior to that, Robinson was assistant coach of the men’s and women’s wrestling programs at Missouri Baptist. While at MBU, Robinson coached over 10 NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) All-Americans, 15 WCWA (Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association) All-Americans, a Pan-Am placer, and a WCWA National Champion. Robinson helped lead the Spartans to a 2nd place finish in the Metro Catholic Conference. What’s more, Robinson recruited both men and women wrestlers from Texas, Oklahoma, California, Missouri, and Florida.
Rest of the story at …. http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/18065

April 1, 2017 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment