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Nick Corey: How one car ride changed the lives of two high school wrestlers

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Interested background story on a North Carolina Wolfpack wrestler. Inspiring to learn of the bond wrestlers have in overcoming tragic events.
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How far is human fragility from the thoughts of a high school wrestler’s mind as he speeds on a winding, two-lane road to watch the NCAA wrestling finals with his buddies? The driver is with his friend and high school teammate on a Saturday night in March of 2013. They’re on their way to meet up with a few of their peers to watch the coronation of 10 individual national champions and undoubtedly debate strategy and officiating calls before returning home. They’ll talk on the drive, likely about the night’s biggest match — Cornell’s Kyle Dake versus Penn State’s David Taylor in the 165-pound title bout.  

North Carolina State’s Sean Fausz was a high school junior. Collin Humphrey was, too. Both wrestled at Campbell County High School in Alexandria, Kentucky. Their season had ended weeks earlier with Fausz winning his first of two state titles. Dake would win his fourth NCAA title that, becoming the third wrestler in D1 history to accomplish the feat. Sean Fausz and Collin Humphrey missed it. They never made it to the party. “You never expect anything like this to happen,” Collin Humphrey said. “I woke up the next morning, not really aware of what was happening.” Humphrey was the driver that night. He would gain consciousness the next morning and learn he’d been driving recklessly. He crashed.  “I was 17 and stupid,” he said. The accident left Fausz with a sprained lower lumbar in his back. He would rehab and go on to win a second state championship a year later. Fausz accepted a scholarship to North Carolina State, where he has qualified for the national tournament three times and reached the ACC finals twice. Last season, he won the ACC title at 125 pounds. Internationally, Fausz earned a silver medal last month at the U23 World Championships in Romania. “In my opinion, Sean is one of the best 125-pounders in the country,” North Carolina State coach Pat Popolizio said. “His wins over guys who have placed over the last several years prove this.”
Rest of the story at http://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1545945077044&twSessionId=okuxkgyimp&postId=936982132&mc_cid=651ae652dc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

January 1, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wrestling no longer just for the boys; program established with 22 girls

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Girls wrestling in another state looking at sanctioning it as a new sports opportunity.
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WEST POINT, Neb. (KMTV) — In most Nebraska high schools, when you find girls in the wrestling room, they’re either student managers, cheerleaders or scorekeepers, but at West Point-Beemer, they hit the mat. “I don’t think a lot of girls see it as a girls sports, just because it’s really physical and you’re getting rough with other people. I think they just mainly see it as guys because that’s how it’s been for so long,” says senior Myla Illian. That’s changing fast. More than 100 girls across the state, including 22 at West Point-Beemer alone, came out for wrestling this year. The momentum is strong enough in Nebraska, that girls wrestling could be its own sanctioned sport, as soon as next year. “It would be cool to make my own records, not under the guys so it would be awesome to have our own state and do our own thing and not have to be part of the guys,” says junior, Estefania Barragan. A girls only team was created two years ago at West Point-Beemer, as coaches wanted to avoid girl vs. boy matchups. So now the Lady Cadets travel to tournaments with the boys team but they only wrestle a handful of girls from other schools. Rest of the story at https://www.foxcarolina.com/wrestling-no-longer-just-for-the-boys-program-established-with/article_37ae7700-b16c-5f16-bbba-7ddd151372c6.html?mc_cid=6bd91e5019&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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Myers helping wrestlers, readying for tryout

Just hours after he led his Selinsgrove High School football team to the 2009 state championship in Hershey, Spencer Myers was sweating with his wrestling teammates during a Saturday morning practice. The day after Myers and his University of Maryland football teammates arrived back in College Park after their game versus Stanford in the 2014 Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif., Myers was back in the Terrapins wrestling room, and a week later he competed against Harvard. That dedication — along with tons of hard work and perseverance — is what the 2010 Selinsgrove graduate hopes will allow him to achieve his lofty goal of playing in the National Football League. Myers, who heads to Philadelphia in March as a camp invitee by the Arena Football League’s Philadelphia Soul, continues to keep in shape and improve his handwork and footwork under Bucknell University wrestling coach Dan Wirnsberger as a resident athlete. He is working with the Bison heavyweights.
Rest of the story at https://www.dailyitem.com/sports/local_sports/myers-helping-wrestlers-readying-for-tryout/article_360d89cf-1647-5737-b4ea-bb5ef3bc9c48.html?mc_cid=6bd91e5019&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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‘An opportunity to build something’: Mouw hopes to change DWU’s wrestling culture

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Great to see a coach willing to take on a big challenge and to build a program. We wish Coach Mouw well.
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Casey Mouw decided to take the head coaching job for the Dakota Wesleyan University wrestling team because he wanted to build something from the ground up. He admitted it’s a multi-year process, but it didn’t take long for him to find his right-hand man in Zeke Andrade, a former South Dakota State University wrestler who was recommended by SDSU assistant coach Cody Caldwell. Together, Mouw believes they can change how the program is perceived. “I knew kind of where the program had been and where it was at,” Mouw said. “Where I was at in my career and life, I just wanted a change of pace, and first off, I wanted to build something and I saw an opportunity to build something.” Just like Andrade, Mouw knows what it takes to be a successful collegiate wrestler, despite his most recent coaching experience being at Sioux Falls Roosevelt High School and a strength and conditioning coach at Crossfit Sioux Falls. As a wrestler, he spent his freshman season at Army before wrestling at NCAA Division II Augustana University for three years. He feels that experience will help him connect with his wrestlers, especially with Andrade experiencing a successful rebuild at SDSU from 2014 to 18.
Rest of the story at https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/sports/wrestling/4535609-opportunity-build-something-mouw-hopes-change-dwus-wrestling-culture?mc_cid=2c83e678bf&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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La Crosse Tribune Sportsperson of the Year: Holmen wrestling coach Jason Lulloff

TDR Editor’s Notes ; Pretty impressive for a wrestling coach to be named sportsperson of the year. Great to see the recognition. Congratulations to coach Lulloff.
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HOLMEN — Jason Lulloff was a serious athlete when he attended Kiel High School. He was a two-time WIAA Division 2 state wrestling finalist and won a 171-pound championship as a senior while being coached by his dad, Charlie. Lulloff also played football, baseball and was part of the track and field team for the Raiders and squeezed in some soccer between the summer baseball games. He also felt like he was taking advantage of a “really, really nice weight room.” That changed when he joined the wrestling program at UW-La Crosse in the fall of 2002. “I was an everyday lifter,” the Holmen High School wrestling coach said. “But when I got to college and got into a real lifting program, I was very embarrassed as far as my knowledge.” That began Lulloff’s education with weight and speed training and led him to Holmen, where it’s fair to say he has impacted the athletic program as much, or more, than anyone else for the last decade. Lulloff’s contributions as the school’s wrestling coach, assistant football coach and implementation of the popular N.A.S.T.I.E. (Nutrition And Strength Training Intensive Exercise) program have made him the La Crosse Tribune’s choice for its 2018 Sportsperson of the Year.
Rest of the story at https://lacrossetribune.com/sports/local/la-crosse-tribune-sportsperson-of-the-year-holmen-s-jason/article_ae367fb0-1d2d-572f-8e83-64fe619a6f60.html?mc_cid=6bd91e5019&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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