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Arsen Aleksanyan to Lead Newly Established NAIA Program at Life Pacific College

Editor’s Notes; Interesting article from the other far coast about a new college program. It highlights or emphasizes how much of the recent growth in wrestling opportunities has been at NAIA schools.
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Since the early 1980s, the sport of wrestling has seen a significant decline in the number of programs offered at the collegiate level; more specifically at the NCAA Division I level. In the state of California, the impact was huge. Not only did we see a major decline at the D1 and D2 levels, the number of programs at the community college level was cut virtually in half. It was not for a lack of interest at the kids and high school levels, which has seen a significant increase over the last several decades, but due to the implementation of Title IX (more specifically proportionality) and other factors that I rather not go into detail in this article. The good news, the sport has seen a significant increase of programs nationwide in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) division. To date, California has fielded programs at Menlo College, Simpson College, Cal Baptist University (now NCAA Division II), and there is talk about fielding more programs in the near future.
Rest of the story at http://thecaliforniawrestler.com/arsen-aleksanyan-to-lead-newly-established-naia-program-at-life-pacific-college-in-san-dimas-california-qa/?mc_cid=0ff91f59b4&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

February 7, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized