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Duke Announces 2019-20 Wrestling Schedule

2019-20 Schedule
DURHAM, N.C.—Duke head wrestling coach Glen Lanham has announced his team’s 2019-20 schedule. The Blue Devils will host five home duals and wrestle four duals against NCAA top-25 finishers from a season ago. Duke is coming off its second consecutive year in which it finished in the top-25 at the NCAA Championships, taking 24th out of the 70-team pool. The Blue Devils return four starters from last season, including three NCAA qualifiers. Prior to kicking off the season, the Blue Devils will host a Black and Blue wrestle-off on October 27th. The outside meet will take place in Krzyzewskiville on Duke’s campus.
The season officially starts November 3rd at the Battle at the Citadel in Charleston, S.C. The Blue Devils will then travel to Boone, N.C., for the Mountaineer Invitational on Nov. 9th, before ending the month at the Keystone Classic on the 24th. Duke has a little time off for the holidays before it’s back in action December 29th-30th at the South Beach Wrestling Duals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After the New Year, the Blue Devils head to Virginia Beach for the Virginia Duals from January 10th-11th. Duke will then wrestle Fresno State, Cal Bakersfield and Appalachian State all within a seven-day span from Jan. 17th-23rd. Rest of the story at https://goduke.com/news/2019/10/16/duke-announces-2019-20-wrestling-schedule.aspx?mc_cid=095e996692&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

How Wrestling Built Me: AutoNation General Manager Michael Child

‘How Wrestling Built Me’ is a podcast about the influence of wrestling beyond the mat. These are the stories of how wrestling develops a person in a singulalrly unique way. The people interviewed are those who have taken the skills of wrestling and used them to be highly successful in another endeavor. Whether it is business, politics, military, entertainment, broadcasting, writing, academics, or another sport — ‘How Wrestling Built Me’ explores the universal qualities of wrestling that last a lifetime.
Michael Child of Houston, Texas, was part of the state championship wrestling team at Midwest City High School in Midwest City, Oklahoma, before returning as an assistant coach at his alma mater for nearly 10 years. He lettered in football and wrestling at Colorado State University where he was a two-time Academic All-American. Child’s competitive wrestling career ended when he donated a kidney to his younger brother, Mark.  Rest of the story and audio at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPlayer.jsp?TIM=1571284075969&twSessionId=tbqudynpfd&videoId=1690370132&mc_cid=095e996692&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Dan Gable Donnybrook, a new high school wrestling tournament, coming to Coralville

TDR Note; Great name for a tournament. Also note that this will be the very first event in the new facility and it will be real wrestling!
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A new high school wrestling tournament is coming to the state of Iowa — one that organizers hope will become one of the sport’s premier national competitions. Beginning next year, the Xtream Arena and GreenState Family Fieldhouse in Coralville will host the Dan Gable Donnybrook, a brand-new tournament announced Wednesday by Think Iowa City.
The inaugural competition, sanctioned through the Iowa High School Athletic Association, is scheduled for Dec. 4-5, 2020, and marks the first sporting event announced for the Iowa River Landing’s new facility.  The event will be invite-only, will consist of a 32-team individual format with team scoring and will include divisions for both boys and girls. Organizers hope the best high school wrestling teams from Iowa and surrounding states will compete.
“A ‘donnybrook’ is a free-for-all brawl,” Think Iowa City president Josh Schamberger said in a release. “Our hope is that through exceptional event production and top-level competition — both attributes that are required with an event that boasts Dan Gable as its namesake — that wrestlers from the Midwest and ultimately the country will put this tournament on the top of their list.”

Any and all proceeds from the tournament will be split between the Veteran’s Liberty Center in Iowa City, which provides various levels of assistance to veterans, and a fund to help promote and grow girls’ wrestling in Iowa. The competition will be produced, in part, by the same organizers that put on the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials, which came to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City in both 2012 and 2016, and the UWW Freestyle World Cup, which came to Carver in 2018. Xtream Arena is scheduled to open in August. “The new facilities … are perfect for this event,” Nathan Eichorst, chief event organizer, said in a release. “We’ll be utilizing both Xtream Arena and the GreenState Family Fieldhouse. The atmosphere that weekend will be awesome. Rest of the story and details at https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/10/16/dan-gable-donnybrook-iowa-high-school-wrestling-josh-schamberger-xtream-arena-coralville-2020/4000997002/?mc_cid=095e996692&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Menlo 1st, Raiders 2nd in inaugural CCC women’s wrestling poll

By: SOU Sports Information
Women’s wrestling will be an official Cascade Conference sport for the first time in 2019-20.
Menlo (Calif.) was dubbed the favorite to win the first CCC title in a coaches’ poll released Tuesday by the league office. The Oaks – who in March captured the inaugural NAIA Invitational championship – collected all seven first-place votes, and Southern Oregon was picked second. Providence (Mont.) was third, Eastern Oregon fourth, Life Pacific (Calif.) fifth, and Simpson (Calif.) and Warner Pacific tied for sixth in the poll. The Raiders, entering their fifth season, are operating under the leadership of a new head coach: SOU alum and former men’s wrestling assistant Joel Gibson. His roster includes 16 returning wrestlers – headlined by All-Americans Anesia Ramirez (130 pounds) and Sienna Ramirez (143) – and an incoming recruiting class of 17. The Raiders will host the first CCC Championship meet on March 1 at Lithia Motors Pavilion. After going 9-8 in duals last season and taking eighth as a team at the NAIA Invitational, they’ll debut on Oct. 26 at the California-Oregon Duals in Redding, Calif. Rest of the story at https://souraiders.com/news/2019/10/15/menlo-1st-raiders-2nd-in-inaugural-ccc-womens-wrestling-poll.aspx?mc_cid=095e996692&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

USA Wrestling creates three new young girls age groups which match boys age groups, and sets their weight classes

BY GARY ABBOTT, USA WRESTLING | OCT. 16, 2019

USA Wrestling has changed its age-group structure for youth girls wrestlers, and developed the official weight classes for these new age groups.
The new age groups for youth girls will be 8U, 10U and 12U. This replaces the two youth age groups previously contested for younger girls in USA Wrestling competition. Moving forward, girls wrestling will have the exact same age-group structure as boys wrestling from high school and below. Rest of the story and details at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/October/16/New-young-girls-age-groups-and-weights-announced?mc_cid=095e996692&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

InterMat NCAA Division I Rankings

InterMat has rankings for all three NCAA Divisions, NAIA, NJCAA, Women’s College Division and California Jr. Colleges. Plus there are rankings of high school wrestlers from around the country. The high school wrestlers are even ranked on grade level.
Rest of the story and all the rankings at http://intermatwrestle.com/rankings/college?fbclid=IwAR1mFBkTGNfFpk6wh8ID7tvQXyu4dhQI56lwKndl7aiP_JuTvydZFeqOoaY

October 24, 2019 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment