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Colorado Mesa Adds Women’s Wrestling

TDR Notes; Great to see another school adding wrestling. One of 12 new Women’s programs starting in the fall. Yet this announcement focuses on “being the only one in the conference and the sport has less than 50 Women’s teams.” I think they should have focused on the growth of the sport.
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CMU IS FIRST IN RMAC AND ONE OF FEWER THAN 50 IN THE COUNTRY TO OFFER VARSITY-LEVEL PROGRAM
Grand Junction, Colo. — Colorado Mesa University today announced the addition of women’s wrestling to its portfolio of 28 varsity teams that compete at the Division II level. The Mavericks will field an all-female team beginning fall 2018. CMU is the first university in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference to institute a varsity women’s wrestling program, one of only 15 in the West and fewer than 50 who offer the program in the U.S. Rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/colorado-mesa-adds-womens-wrestling/

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College Championships

TDR Editor’s Notes; Last weekend the Junior colleges had their national championships tournament. This weekend the ACC will be held at UNC in Chapel Hill with matches to start at 11:00. Other Division I conferences and Regional tournaments for Divisions II and III will be held to determine the qualifiers for their National Championships. Divsion II will be in Cedar Falls on the 8th & 9th while Division III will be in Cleveland on the same days. The Division I Nationals will also be in Cleveland but a week later. These events are well covered and fans will easily seek out information about these events. With that said we explain why we direct our efforts towards other wrestling stories that get less notice yet are significant to the growth of our sport.
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National Junior College Championship Results from last weekend at http://njcaa.org/sports/wrest/2017-18/national_championship/index
NAIA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa at https://www.catchdesmoines.com/2018-naia-wrestling-championship/
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Jim Koch Division II Hall of Fame to Induct Five

TDR Notes; Congratulations to the new inductees to the D-II Hall of Fame. The program will be on the same weekend of and located near the Division II Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Jim Koch Division II Hall of Fame to Induct Five on Eve of NCAA DII Wrestling Championships
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (Feb. 27) – Four former national champions who combined for 528 career wins and a national title-winning coach have been selected for induction into the Jim Koch Division II Hall of Fame, it was announced Tuesday by the NCAA Division II Wrestling Coaches’ Association. Wrestlers Tervel Dlagnev of the University of Nebraska-Kearney, Travis Eggers of Upper Iowa University, Kyle Evans of the University of Central Oklahoma and Jason Rhoten of Minnesota State University-Mankato along with former UNK head coach Marc Bauer comprise the 2018 class. Rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/jim-koch-division-ii-hall-fame-induct-five/

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Georgia and Colorado Add Girls Wrestling

TDR Notes; Georgia becomes the 7th state to officially sanction girl’s wrestling on the high school level. Colorado will add it as a pilot program and Oregon’s announcement is pending. Sounds exciting for wrestlers and wrestling fans.
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Great news on the growing participation of girls in wrestling. The following is from Georgia: Rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/georgia-colorado-add-girls-wrestling/

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Fontbonne University Seeks Head Wrestling Coach

TDR Note; Will confess that we had not heard of this school before seeing this announcement. Yet, it is great news. Again a smaller school adds two teams in order to increase enrollment. It benefits the school and the athletes.
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Fontbonne University, a Catholic coeducational institution, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, offering both bachelors and masters degrees, seeks qualified individuals for a full-time Head Men’s and Women’s Wrestling Coach. Fontbonne is a member of NCAA Division III and the Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC). This is a full-time administrative staff appointment responsible for planning, organizing and managing all phases of the men’s and women’s programs including recruitment and retention of quality student-athletes.
Rest of the story at http://www.nwcaonline.com/fontbonne-university-seeks-head-wrestling-coach/

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