Wrestling returns to Wilmington (Ohio)
TDR Editor’s Notes ; Always exciting to see Another college restarting a wrestling program! Wrestling will return to Wilmington after an absence of 7 years. In 1990 the TDR (then based in NE Ohio) awarded a trophy to a Wilmington wrestler as the best college wrestler in Ohio at his weight. He was in a heavier weight class yet the name escapes me. It must be a sign I am getting older and the TDR has been around a while.
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Wilmington College is starting wrestling as an intercollegiate varsity sport beginning in fall 2018.
The College will hire a full-time wrestling coach and designate a training space in its athletics complex especially for the sport, which will become its 19th varsity-level program. WC will field the Ohio Athletic Conference’s eighth wrestling team. Dr. Terry Rupert, vice president for athletic administration, said the combination of wrestling’s popularity in Ohio high schools and the recent expansion of the College’s athletics facilities makes starting a wrestling program a proposition with a “great opportunity” for success. Rest of the story at ….http://wilmingtonquakers.com/general/2016-17/releases/20170515kgph7i?mc_cid=8f7a1926ea&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
For the Love of the Mat
TDR Editor’s Notes ; Great see growth in wrestling opportunities even in Alabama. Next they should get some college teams started. It used to be that the University of Alabama and Auburn University had top level D-I teams. Auburn even hosted the National Championships one year.
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High school wrestling thrives despite lack of collegiate options in Alabama
For high school football players in the state of Alabama, opportunity at the college level is an incentive made almost tangible because of the omnipresence of college football. If you push your hardest during summer workouts, your future could be at Jordan-Hare Stadium. If you maximize your potential, Bryant-Denny Stadium could be your next destination. Troy, UAB, Samford, Jacksonville State — the list of right-in-your-own-backyard landing spots is extensive for football prospects in Alabama.
Most other high school sports have a significant local presence at the college level, too, to help incentivize student-athletes. High school wrestling, though, has no such luxury. No SEC member school has a wrestling program aside from Missouri, whose wrestling team competes in the Mid-American Conference. In the state of Alabama, only Division III Huntingdon has a wrestling program that competes in the NCAA. Yet the sport continues to grow at the high school level in Alabama, especially of late. According to the annual National High School Athletics Participation Survey, participants in high school wrestling in Alabama rose from 1,747 during the 2002-03 school year to 2,719 in 2015-16, an increase of nearly 56 percent. Rest of the story at …. http://www.oanow.com/sports/high_school/_other/high-school-wrestling-thrives-despite-lack-of-collegiate-options-in/article_875ee612-f0b1-11e6-9478-13182a6626dd.html?mc_cid=75fb1d2847&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
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After 20 seasons of publicizing wrestling The TakeDown Report’s (TDR) focus has changed to the collecting of college coaching records from North America since 1903. We will continue to recognize and reward successful wrestlers in eastern North Carolina (east of Raleigh & Fayetteville), assist with schools in starting or re-starting a team and this blog. Join us on our FaceBook Page – “The TakeDown Report” for photos and news. Please send results, stories, links and news to pass along. E-mail us at takedownreport@gmail.com
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