ACC Finals
TDR Editor’s Note; The finals start at 7:00. All finalists have qualified for the Nationals in Cleveland in two weeks yet all want to go there as an ACC champion. Fourteen other wrestlers will also be going. Zach Sherman of UNC took the last spot as he topped Finesilver of Duke for 5th place at 133. The team race has Virginia Teach with only a 4 point lead over North Carolina State but they will have 6 finalists while State only has 5. The TV coverage on the ACC channels sounds pretty good. Check them out.
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BERTOLONE TABBED TO LEAD INAUGURAL WRESTLING PROGRAM IN 2019
TDR Editor’s Notes; OK, the answer is Keiser University is in West Palm Beach, Florida. Will admit that we were not familiar Keiser and had to look that up. Great to see more wrestling coming to Florida. They will compete in the NAIA. Wrestling is growing in wrestling with 58 school currently offering the sport. There has been a 50% growth in teams competing in the NAIA in the last 8 years.
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Director of Athletics, Kris Swogger announced that Keiser University will add wrestling to its slate of varsity athletic programs, with intercollegiate action beginning during the 2019-20 academic year. “There are a lot of great high school wrestling programs in Florida, and we are excited to provide those student-athletes the opportunity to stay home and compete in the sport they love,” stated Swogger.
Swogger also announced the hiring of Joe Bertolone as the first Head Coach of the Keiser University Wrestling program. Bertolone has over 40 years of experience at the high school level coaching at Archbishop McCarthy High School, Miramar High School, Cardinal Gibbons High School, Monsignor Pace High School, and Chaminade High School. In addition to his coaching resume, Bertolone was also a successful student-athlete winning back-to-back NCAA DIII titles during his collegiate wrestling career at John Carroll University. Rest of the story at http://kuseahawks.com/news/2018/2/28/general-bertolone-tabbed-to-lead-inaugural-wrestling-program-in-2019.aspx?mc_cid=b4a4fc83ee&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Division II and III regionals set award standings for nationals
TDR Editor Notes; Good step up in recognizing wrestlers and wrestling in the post season.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has released updated standings for the 2018 NCAA Wrestling Awards that will be awarded in March at the respective Division I, II and III Wrestling Championships. The inaugural NCAA Wrestling Awards were presented at the 2012 wrestling championships. The three awards, given in each division, honor the Most Dominant Wrestler as well as the student-athletes that have accumulated the most falls and the most technical falls throughout the course of the regular and postseasons. For falls and tech falls to be counted they must come against opponents in the same division. Ties in the two categories are broken based on the aggregate time.
Rest of the story at https://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/article/2018-02-28/college-wrestling-division-ii-and-iii-regionals-set-award?mc_cid=49fc4188d1&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Wolfpack Heads to ACC Championship in Chapel Hill on Saturday
TDR Editor Notes; The is the preview of the ACC Championships from the N.C.S.U. perspective. After the Semifinal round they are in 2nd place behind Va. Tech.
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ACC Regular Season Champions look for second ACC title in last three years
2018 ACC Brackets | 2018 NCAA Allocations
NC State Notes | Rankings Roundup | ACC Breakdown
LISTEN: #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast: Ep. 15 – ACC Championship Preview
RALEIGH, N.C. – After claiming the ACC regular season title with a perfect 5-0 dual record, the NC State Wrestling team heads to Chapel Hill for Saturday’s 2018 ACC Championship. The Wolfpack has an ACC-best seven of its 10 participants seeded No. 1 or No. 2 at their weights, which will result in a bye into the semifinals.
2018 ACC Championship
Date Saturday, March 3
Time Starts 11 AM – Finals 7 PM
Location Chapel Hill, N.C.
Venue Carmichael Arena
Tickets $10 adults, college students & 18 & under Free
Streaming ACC Network Extra:
Mat 1 & Finals
Mat 2
Live Scoring TrackWrestling
Social Media @PackWrestle
About the ACC Championship
The ACC will hold the 64th annual ACC Championship March 4 in Chapel Hill at Carmichael Arena. Wrestling begins at 11 a.m. and all of the action will be broadcast live on ACC Network Extra. Here is a tentative schedule:
• First Round – 11 a.m.
• Semifinals – 1 p.m.
• Consolation Semifinals – 3:30 p.m.
• Consolation Finals – 5 p.m.
• Finals – 7 p.m.
Rest of the story at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#label/INBOX%2FaaResponseNeeded%2FaTDRWrestling/161e7468f91c16a3
PREVIEW: NC State seeks to knock off reigning champ Virginia Tech at ACC Championships, March 3 at North Carolina
TDR Notes; Here is one look at the tournament from before the action started.
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BY TAYLOR MILLER, USA WRESTLING | FEB. 27, 2018, 2:51 P.M. (ET)
The Atlantic Coast Conference Wrestling Championships are set to take place this Saturday, March 3, at Carmichael Arena on the University of North Carolina’s campus in Chapel Hill, N.C. Of the 60 wrestlers expected to compete, 34 will receive automatic bids to the 2017 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, based on the allocations set by the NCAA last week. This is the fourth highest among the conferences, behind Big Ten (80), EIWA (47) and Big 12 (45). Three of the six schools enter the tournament with NWCA /USA Today Coaches’ rankings, including No. 6 North Carolina State, No. 10 Virginia Tech and No. 25 North Carolina. Other schools competing this weekend are Duke, Pitt and Virginia. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2018/February/27/ACC-Championships-preview?mc_cid=49195452e5&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
ACC Championships
TDR Editor’s Notes; In the semifinals of a smaller (6 teams) conference tournament with the big consequence of who becomes eligible to continue on this season to the national championships in two weeks at Cleveland. The impressive scoreboard in the center of Carmichael arena displays the team scores which are updated after every match. That makes clear the meaning of every match. Action on two mats may seem quiet for fans used to the 8 – 10 mats at a high school state championship but the wrestling is intense. At every moment when there is at least one match in action it is hard to turn away as one can miss a fast blaze of action and change in scoring. It is definitely better than seeing a dual match. It is also impressive hearing so many Virginia Tech fans traveling to support their team. More details later.
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