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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

May 17, 2017 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized