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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