Nicholson, ADs help bring middle school wrestling team to Richmond County
ROCKINGHAM — It’s a dream that may have taken “probably more than 18 years” to come true, but Earl Nicholson can finally say that Richmond County has its own official middle school wrestling team. The process wasn’t an easy one, but Nicholson — longtime head wrestling coach at Richmond Senior High School — believes this is a huge step towards developing the area’s talent, bringing in more scholarship opportunities, and competing with the surrounding counties (Anson, Hoke, Moore, and Scotland) who already have youth teams.
“I think the pressure from some of the other middle schools getting teams showed us that we need to get on board with it,” he said. “There’s seven Division I wrestling schools in the state, and about three of four other Division II schools, and we’re not getting any of those scholarships in Richmond County. I’ve probably had about four scholarships in my 20-something years of coaching wrestling, and that’s not good with the athletes we have here.” It was “a group effort” that helped the idea come to life, as Nicholson was able to collaborate with all of the middle school athletic directors — especially Ellerbe’s Allen Adeimy — throughout the process. He also met with Dennis Quick, the Executive Director of Auxiliary Services of Richmond County Schools, to talk about the benefits of the team. Rest of the story at https://www.yourdailyjournal.com/sports/83687/nicholson-ads-help-bring-middle-school-wrestling-team-to-richmond-county?mc_cid=30b74f007b&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Hall of Fame Hosts Honors Weekend Friday, Saturday
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame will induct the Class of 2019 at the 43rd Annual Honors Weekend on Friday and Saturday in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The Class of 2019 is:
Distinguished Members
Carl Adams
Rich Lorenzo
Brandon Paulson
Townsend Saunders
Rest of the story at details at https://nwhof.org/blog/hall-of-fame-hosts-honors-weekend-friday-saturday/?mc_cid=32fc00e7b3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
UWW CADET & U23 NATIONALS in Akron
Event Information
U23 Nationals
Only the following individuals may participate as competitors in the 2019 U23 Nationals:
All competitors must be U.S. citizens. Born 1996-2001.
UWW CADET Nationals
The event also features competition for UWW Cadet age athletes (born 2002-2004) in Men’s Freestyle and Greco-Roman. The champion in each UWW Cadet weight class qualifies to represent the United States at the 2019 UWW Cadet World Championships.
Top eight (8) place winners at this event qualify for:
UWW Cadets born 2002-2004:
– Qualifies for 16U Nationals in the same style
– Qualifier for Junior Nationals in the same style (if they are in high school)
Rest of the story at https://usawevents.sportngin.com/uwwcadet-u23
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TDR Editor’s Notes – Big Exciting National Tournament in The Rubber City of Akron, Ohio. Would be great to be there. Hopefully next year.
Seven Minutes with Coyte Cooper presented by College Wrestler Recruiting
This is the 72nd installment of Seven Minutes. It’s a series of interviews with top wrestling coaches and athletes. Most of the question-and-answer sessions last roughly seven minutes. Hence the name. Coyte Cooper was an All-American at Indiana and is currently a motivational speaker. Cooper recently joined Trackwrestling’s Kyle Klingman for this week’s edition of Seven Minutes.
You can listen to the entire interview above or read the transcript below.
If you could take what you know now and have a conversation with yourself at 15, what advice would you give yourself?
I think what I would tell myself is to just learn to love the process. Get clear on what you want with your goals and the outcomes of what you want but just dive into the process and focus on being extraordinary with your habits. If you’re extraordinary with your habits and you’re unbelievably consistent with those things, you can really do some awesome things. I’m proud of what I did when I was 15 but I would encourage myself to tighten up on my morning habits and the things I would do with my mindset and I think that would have made an even bigger difference for me.
Rest of the story and video at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPlayer.jsp?TIM=1558841659118&twSessionId=ndftvjqhqy&videoId=1450613132&mc_cid=32fc00e7b3&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
End of an era; Coach Pacheco retires 37 years of coaching wrestling at Sac City
Coach Pacheco is retiring after coaching wrestling at Sacramento City College for 37 years (and 40 years of coaching overall). He has helped develop one of the finest wrestling programs in the state and one of the Panthers most successful programs. Pacheco’s 2018 team was the State Runner-Up and won an unprecedented 8th consecutive Big 8 Conference Championship. During his years at SCC, Pacheco won 4 State Championships (1996, 2000 (Dual Meet), 2013 and 2015), 16 Conference titles, 4 Regional titles and has been named the State Coach of the Year 3 times. He has coached 21 individual State Champions, over 90 All-Americans, over 175 State Medalists, 50 Individual Regional Champions and 89 Academic All-Americans. He has been inducted into the Idaho State University Hall of Fame and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (California Chapter). We wish him all the best in retirement … Rest of the story at https://www.sccpanthers.com/sports/wrest/2018-19/releases/20190514kpx50q
Adam Hall Promoted to Associate Head Coach of N.C. WolfPack
Wolfpack has finished in top-20 in all four of Hall’s seasons with two ACC titles
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State wrestling coach Pat Popolizio has announced the promotion of Adam Hall to associate head coach. Hall joined the Wolfpack in the summer of 2015 as an assistant coach, and since that time NC State has finished in the top-20 at the NCAA Championships in all four seasons Hall has been on staff. “Adam’s
commitment to this program has elevated him to this position,” said Popolizio.
“He has shown tireless work ethic, along with being a great role model for all
of our student-athletes. He has been instrumental in the success our program
has achieved both on and off the mat in the recent years. With people like him,
that is how we have been able to move forward as a program.”
During Hall’s time on staff with Wolfpack wrestling, NC State has won both a pair of ACC Championships (2019 and 2016) and a pair of ACC Regular season titles (2019 and 2018). The Pack also won both team trophies in 2018-19 for the first time since 2004, and back-to-back regular season titles for the first time since 2001-02. NC State has also posted four straight seasons finishing in the top-10 in the NWCA Coaches’ Poll. The Wolfpack has been ranked in the top-10 in 57 straight polls over the last four seasons. NC State has won 67 of its 75 duals (89.3 percent) the last four seasons. That winning percentage sits fourth-best in the NCAA, and the 67 dual victories leads the nation (the next closest is at 60). On the recruiting trial, NC State’s 2016 12-person signing class was ranked the nation’s best by both FloWrestling.com and InterMatWrestling.com. In that class, the Pack signed two of the top-six ranked wrestlers in the 2016 recruiting class, and five in the top-66 overall. Rest of the story at Visit www.GoPack.com
UW-Eau Claire wrestling moving on up to new practice room
“Well, we’re movin’ on up…” To quote the lyrics to the theme song for the popular 1970s sitcom “The Jeffersons”, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire wrestling program is moving on up in more ways than one… relocating from a lower-level facility upstairs to a new space that’s larger, brighter and better. The move actually involves two Olympic sports at the public university located in northwestern Wisconsin. The Blugold mat program is moving into what had been home to the school’s gymnastics program, which is relocating out of the on-campus McPhee Center into L.E. Phillips YMCA Indoor Sports Center as part of a partnership between UW-Eau Claire and the community YMCA.
Both wrestling and gymnastics will gain additional space to prepare for competition. As UW-Eau Claire athletic director Dan Schumacher described it: “It’s a classic win-win for both programs.” Head wrestling coach Tim Fader offered a description of the Blugold’s current home… and the new wrestling facility set to be ready this fall. “The existing room has about 2,000 square feet of space, and a low ceiling — no more than 9 or 10 feet tall,” Fader told InterMat. “It’s on the lowest floor of the building. No windows. It’s merely functional.” “The room was about right for 15 wrestlers, which is about what we had when I came here five years ago. We now have a team in the 40s, so there’s simply not enough space for that many wrestlers to work out effectively.” Here’s how coach Fader described the challenge of a too-small wrestling room to the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram in terms even a non-wrestler could understand: “If I want to take you down, I’m going to take you down and probably run into three people that are also doing the same thing or we’re going to hit the wall. … If you put a wall right around the out-of-bounds line on a basketball court, a brick wall, and said, ‘Ok, play,’ it would change the way you play.” “The new space has about 5,400 square feet – Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/21964
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