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30th College News, Notes and Results

Multi-Divisional Insider: Western Wyoming is soaring after ditching chemistry for ‘curb appeal’
Art Castillo won’t claim to know more about chemistry than an actual chemistry teacher. But Castillo certainly got to know the insides of a chemistry lab when he first took over as head wrestling coach at Western Wyoming Community College 11 seasons ago. Located in the lower western corner of Wyoming, 2.5 hours east of Salt Lake City, and five hours north of Denver, Western Wyoming has risen to the upper echelons of NJCAA wrestling hierarchy in the last few years under Castillo’s direction. The Mustangs have held the No. 1 spot in the past two NJCAA rankings and will be looking for the school’s first NJCAA national team title in March in Council Bluffs, Iowa. But long before WWCC rose to national contender, the Mustangs had humble beginnings. “When I started we were in an old science lab, old chemistry lab,” Castillo said. “We couldn’t even fit a whole mat in there. We didn’t have a weight room, locker room, coaches’ office. “And, when it got cold and because we didn’t have a locker room, guys would show up to practice with book bags, workout bags, coats and that took up some valuable real estate. “We had so many challenges,” Castillo finished. Five years ago that all changed for Castillo and the Mustangs when Western Wyoming built a brand new athletic facility, which includes a wrestling-dedicated practice room, large enough for two full 44′ x 44′ mats, locker room, office, meeting room, weight room and cardio room. “Curb appeal,” Castillo said if it has gotten easier to recruit to Rock Springs, the fifth-largest city in Wyoming at 23,000. “Now that we have these facilities it is easier to sell our program and our philosophy. When we get kids here on a visit and it is now more (an attitude of) I can definitely get the job done here. Rest of the story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1576220989440&twSessionId=pyfiosowml&postId=1859057132&mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Quant Wrestling: By the Numbers from the first five weeks of the college season (and part of last season, too)
2 — Percentage of match time Penn State heavyweight Anthony Cassar has spent on the bottom in 11 bouts analyzed. 
6 — Matches in which Purdue 174-pounder Dylan Lydy has scored the first takedown in six bouts analyzed this season. 
6.2 — Number of near-fall points Iowa 125-pounder Spencer Lee has averaged in 14 analyzed matches. 
14 — Average margin of victory for Lee this season. 
7.6 — Number of attacks Ohio State’s Luke Pletcher averaged in 15 matches analyzed last season. 
8.9 — Number of attacks Pletcher has averaged in eight matches analyzed this season. 
12 — Number of attacks Ohio State 197-pounder Kollin Moore has averaged in seven matches analyzed this season. 
37 — Percentage of left singles Northwestern’s Ryan Deakin scored on in 14 matches analyzed last season.  Rest of the story and numbers at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1576220989440&twSessionId=pyfiosowml&postId=1861483132&mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Short Time Shots: Vanguard waits 39 years between dual wins (12-12-19)
The number 12 carries religious, mythological and magical symbolism, generally representing perfection, entirety or cosmic order in traditions since antiquity. It’s also the number of qualifiers teams in the NAIA are allowed to send to the national championships, and the most frequent number won by Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. None of that is scientifically researched because why should I be the last guy on the earth to fact-check things before I post them. The first citation is from my former roommate Willie Evans and the rest of the 12 House Crew as we celebrate the 12 House New Year on 12:12 at 12:12. This is Short Time Shots, your mostly daily recap of the scores and more from around the world of wrestling. I’m Jason Bryant and I’ll probably be recording this around 12:12 … on the 13th.
By the way, it’s never the best look to apologize in the intro of a podcast, so I won’t. However, why no Shots the past few days? Well after realizing it’s extremely difficult to schedule and cultivate this while working an event – I was in Canada announcing their Olympic Trials – it’s also tough to do when you don’t have another parent around. My wife was also traveling for business. But I did decide to push one out today – why? Well, the longer you put off doing something, the longer it takes for you to actually do it – or something. You know what I mean.
Minnesota Beer of the Night: French River by Wooden Hill Brewing. To be honest, I didn’t like it too much. It’s a 6.5 percent saison, but it tasted better when I had it at the brewery in Edina. Could just be a bad can. I contemplated not doing it, but for consistency sake, because this show is ALL about consistency. Rest of the story and podcast audio at http://www.mattalkonline.com/podcast/shots/short-time-shots-vanguard-waits-39-years-between-dual-wins-12-12-19/?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

JUMPING LEVELS – LUKE PLETCHER FALL ‘19
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Luke Pletcher heads into the holiday break with an unblemished 14-0 mark, highlighted by an undeniable hike in his attack rate. Over half of those victories have come against nationally-ranked opponents. Dominating during the Fall semester is nothing new for Pletcher, going 13-1 and 16-0 the last two autumns. The difference in ’19 has been his heightened performance when facing top-25 foes. Pletcher has outscored the higher-tiered competition by a combined tally of 103-41 (+61), good for a victory margin average of 7.75 points per top-25 win. That makes him just a quarter point per win shy of averaging a major decision vs. nationally-ranked adversaries. Whoa.
Rest of the story and details at https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/jumping-levels-luke-pletcher-fall-19/?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

A “Kut” Above
By Hannah Edwards ’20, Lehigh Sports Communications
Jordan Kutler has a fierce fire to compete in everything he does.
He competes on the mat, in the classroom and in something as miniscule as a card game. That’s just how he lives his life. Kutler’s internal fire started during his freshman year of high school, wrestling for Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey. After picking up a few tough wins at a big tournament and increasing his amount of takedowns each day at practice, he felt propelled to do more. “It was just that constant fuel on the fire,” Kutler said. “Go get it. Go chase your dreams. Go work hard.” This fire has been continuously burning and growing throughout the years, especially as he begins his season as a fifth-year for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. Kutler prides himself on doing everything in his power to win – in academics, in competition and in practice. Academically, Kutler received a Bachelor’s of Science in Behavioral Neuroscience, posting a 3.3 GPA and is currently working on his master’s degree in Technical Entrepreneurship. He’s always trying to learn something new and work harder than his peers in the classroom to gain a competitive edge, and he is dedicated to excelling in the little things. Athletically, Kutler listens to his body, intakes a healthy diet and gets more sleep. Rest of the story at https://lehighsports.com/news/2019/12/12/wrestling-a-kut-above.aspx?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Longtime Hofstra Publicist Jim Sheehan To Retire From Hofstra
 By: Stephen Gorchov
Hempstead, NY – Hofstra’s longtime senior sports information director Jim Sheehan has announced that he will retire from the University effective January 3, 2020. “I am truly grateful for all the things that Hofstra has given to me over my long tenure at the University, Sheehan said. “I have spent more than half of my life at Hofstra and I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Hofstra. I’m too young to just sit on the porch and watch the world go by so I am looking forward to the next chapter in my life. To the many student-athletes, coaches, staff, alums, media members and friends that I leave behind, I wish them all the best of luck and success. It has been great working with you all and I thank you for everything.” “Jim has been a huge part of the success of Hofstra Athletics immediately upon his arrival in 1988 and served this department and the University in an exemplary manner over the 30-plus years,” commented Hofstra Vice President and Director of Athletics Rick Cole Jr. “We congratulate him on his retirement from Hofstra and look forward to the next step in his journey. Jim is a legend at Hofstra and I know I speak for everyone in thanking him for his outstanding service to the University.” “There are few people as dedicated, as hardworking, and as well-connected as Jim Sheehan,” mentioned Hofstra Vice President for University Relations Melissa Connolly. “An informal historian of Hofstra athletics, he remains close to student-athletes for years after they graduate, … … Rest of the story at https://gohofstra.com/news/2019/12/12/general-ath-longtime-hofstra-publicist-jim-sheehan-to-retire-from-hofstra.aspx?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

D1 Insider: Huskers hoping another Vegas title leads them to hardware in March
By Travis Johnson, Trackwrestling
For the last five years, Nebraska’s wrestling program has inched closer and closer to national prominence. With a handful of Top 10 finishes at the NCAA tournament under their belts, the Cornhuskers are prepared to take the next step and their performance at the Cliff Keen Invitational is the best evidence yet. Nebraska won the team title last weekend in Las Vegas, where Isaiah White won his second straight individual championship. Husker teams won Cliff Keen team titles in 2003 and 2008. Both years saw them finish in the Top 5 at the NCAA tournament.  That’s the goal this time around too, and Manning believes a team trophy is well within this group’s reach.  “Absolutely. We’ve felt like it,” Manning told Trackwrestling.com. “But it has to come from within your team. This team feels it. This team wants it and that’s what’s most important. We have good leadership. Our team has really come together, and they’ve got each other’s backs. That’s where we have some momentum, but we have a way to go.”  Veterans like White, 141-pounder Chad Red and 184-pounder Taylor Venz have paced the lineup for a few seasons now. This year, the Huskers have a handful of young, rising stars helping them close the gap.  Mikey Labriola (174), Peyton Robb (157) and Ridge Lovett (133) have all taken big steps through the first half of the season. They are a combined 29-7 so far. Robb redshirted last season and went 22-3 in open competition to set up his entrance to this year’s lineup. Manning originally planned to redshirt Lovett this winter, but the freshman has been able to cut to 133 pounds without detriment and hasn’t missed a beat after going 169-0 for Post Falls High School in Idaho. Like Red and Venz, Labriola earned All-America status last season in his first year competing for the Huskers with a sixth-place finish at the NCAA tournament. Manning said his ceiling is as high as anyone the Huskers send to the mat. Rest of the story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1576220989440&twSessionId=pyfiosowml&postId=1865409132&mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

State of Wrestling, a new podcast for the NWCA, launches with Mike Moyer as first guest
The NWCA has launched a new organizational podcast called State of Wrestling, hosted by Jason Bryant of the Mat Talk Podcast Network. The podcast will give monthly updates on NWCA initiatives with staff, member coaches and leaders within the sport and the organization. Today, we kick off the show with Mike Moyer, the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Before we hear from Mike about the background of the organization, where it’s been and where it’s going, let’s get to November’s updates.
Some of the topics we discuss in the inaugural episode of State of Wrestling include:
The NWCA has been in existence since 1928.
The focus of the NWCA has shifted over the years.
What are the key focus areas for the NWCA right now?
What is the NWCA not?
What are some of the checkboxes the NWCA looks for when targeting a school to add wrestling?
Rest of the story at https://portal.nwcaonline.com/articles/NWCA_News/State-of-Wrestling-a-new-podcast-for-12-12-2019

December 15, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

3rd Women’s Wrestling Notes, Results & News

Menlo is No. 1, Jamestown No. 2 in new NAIA Women’s Wrestling Coaches’ Poll
Action image courtesy of NAIA.org
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the second edition of the 2019 NAIA Women’s Wrestling Coaches’ Poll, Menlo (Calif.) took home the top spot for a second week in a row. The No. 1 Oaks earned a total of 206 points.
Top 20 Highlights
* The No. 1 Oaks had five wrestlers in No. 1 spots within their respective weight classes. Including: Alleida Martinez (109), Gracie Figueroa (116), Tiana Jackson (123), Marilyn Garcia (143) and Precious Bell (170).
* Wayland Baptist (Texas) had three No. 1 wrestlers this week including: Kaylynn Albrecht (155), Desiree Zavala (136) and Nina Pham (101).
* The top five remained the same from the previous poll (Dec. 6)
* All ten of the top-ranked individuals remained the same from the previous poll as well.
* This is the second year for women’s wrestling as an NAIA invitational sport. Twenty-eight NAIA institutions sponsor women’s wrestling teams during the 2019-2020 season. Women’s wrestling will be eligible for championship status once 40 institutions sponsor a varsity women’s wrestling program.
Poll Methodology
* The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the four conferences and groupings.
* Two days prior to the national poll, each qualifying group rater submits the top six individuals from each weight class in his conference into the system. Only wrestlers listed on a conference ballot are considered for the national ballot. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/December/12/NAIA-womens-rankings-12-Dec?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Demetra Yancopoulos wants you to drop the modifier
“I just want to wrestle”: meet Demetra Yancopoulos
Five-foot-four, 120 pounds, every inch of her muscle-bound, she knows she’s making history. She knows she’s at the forefront of a movement. She knows it’s an important one. Yancopoulos is the second female wrestler in University history to earn a spot on Princeton’s varsity roster. She’s one of only two female wrestlers training for NCAA Division I programs today. She’ll likely be half of the first-ever Ivy League female wrestling match. But enough with that f-word trailing her every move. Yancopoulos just wants to wrestle.Before she was 19 years old and a Division I pioneer, Yancopoulos was 12 years old and a recess soccer star. Routinely and ruthlessly, she showed her playground rivals who was boss — and recognized an alarming trend. “Every time I’d beat a boy,” she said, “he’d tell me, ‘Yeah, you’re good. But you’d never be able to start on a guys’ soccer team.’” This did not sit well with her; Yancopoulos decided she had a point to prove. So seeking a sport that would allow her to compete head-on with boys (and following in the footsteps of her eldest brother), Yancopoulos tried out for her middle school’s all-boys wrestling team.  She passed a New York State fitness test, made the roster, spent a month learning the basics of wrestling, and suffered three humiliating defeats. Her dad and two elder brothers urged her to quit the sport. They told her (jokingly, she stresses) that she was bringing shame upon the family.  Rest of the story at http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2019/12/i-just-want-to-wrestle-demetra-yancopoulos?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

UHSAA Board of Trustees sanctions girls wrestling in Utah, details to be determined
High school girls wrestling is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. Take Fremont High’s wrestling program as an example. Last year, the Silverwolves finished the season with five girls on the team and there’s 16 on the team this year with four more testing the waters and 12 more in the youth program. Brooke Handley, a junior who’s been wrestling for two years, is Fremont’s team captain, head coach Cody Storey said. “Each year for the last five years it’s really started growing. We’d get a girl here and there in our youth program … which was like a sibling that wanted to roll around with their brothers. It’s consistently growing even in our youth program,” Storey said. There’s a high school girls wrestling state championship in Utah County every February, plenty of girls wrestling clubs in the state, tournaments, clinics and lots of support for a sport that doubled in participation nationally from the 2010-11 school year to the 2016-17 year. And now in Utah, it’s officially sanctioned. The Utah High School Activities Association Board of Trustees voted at its Nov. 21 meeting to officially sanction girls wrestling starting in the 2020-21 school year. That would ostensibly target the first official girls wrestling state tournament sometime in February or March 2021, about a year-and-a-quarter from when the vote happened. “I think it’s really awesome, these girls are tough, they try hard and I think that it’s good that they get into it and enjoy it,” Handley said. Rest of the story at https://www.standard.net/sports/high-school/uhsaa-board-of-trustees-sanctions-girls-wrestling-in-utah-details/article_99bbfc3a-f8ed-522e-93fc-eb90136671e9.htm?mc_cid=0fa14e78f4&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Fort Osage event highlights growth in girls wrestling
This was a scene Fort Osage freshman Haley Ward never imagined she would see. Here she was, surrounded by dozens of other girls wrestling Tuesday night on five mats in two gyms at her own school. “I really didn’t expect girls wrestling to grow this much,” Ward said. “I was the only girl when I started, so to see all these girls really makes me happy.” It was a happy sight for anyone interested in girls wrestling and another sign of how quickly the sport has been growing. Fort Osage played host to its first “Battle of the Braids” Girls Wrestling Scramble, and 185 girls from 28 schools – including William Chrisman, Grain Valley, Van Horn and Lee’s Summit North – showed up. No team scores were kept, and the competition took place in brackets based on ability. Still, it was an impressive display of participation and talent in a sport that just barely existed on the high school level until last year. “We’re kind of at the forefront of growth in wrestling,” said Fort Osage coach Brandon Wackerman, who oversees the Indians’ boys and girls teams. “Your seeing year two of wrestling being a stand-alone sport in Missouri and the first in Kansas. So this is just the very forefront of that and you’re seeing a great turnout in both states.” They turned out to compete in a round-robin format of three-girl divisions, with some weight classes divided into as many as seven divisions. Each wrestler got two matches. With so many girls so new to the sport, Wackerman believed the format was the best way to get many of them competitive matches against opponents of similar ability. “In a bracketed tournament, generally speaking all of the seeds are hitting unranked wrestlers,” Wackerman said. “People always ask in those tournaments when are the semis, when are the finals. The nice thing about a night like this is you had two Fargo All-Americans wrestling each other in the first 20 minutes.” Rest of the story at https://www.examiner.net/sports/20191211/fort-osage-event-highlights-growth-in-girls-wrestling?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Wrestling is an Iowa obsession. But where are the girls?
State association sees too little support for sanctioning the sport for girls’ teams
IOWA CITY — When she got to high school, Laurel Haverkamp didn’t try out for the wrestling team despite wrestling through junior high. The team was male-dominated and highly competitive, she said. So she stayed off the mat for her first three years at West High in Iowa City. This week, the 18-year-old was back on, spending hours Monday in the school’s wrestling room — running drills and jumping into a wrestler’s stance — with some 20 other girls who make up West’s first-ever girls’ wrestling team. The athletes are some of nearly 500 girls wrestling this season in Iowa, where the sport has exploded in popularity among high school girls only recently, despite a rich state history of wrestling for boys. About 480 girls are on team rosters this school year, according to Iowa USA Wrestling, up from just 40 girls across the state five years ago. But while teams crop up in several school districts — including Iowa City, Decorah, Dubuque and Waverly-Shell Rock — girls’ wrestling in Iowa remains an unsanctioned sport. Rest of the story at https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/girls-wrestling-teams-growing-in-iowa-schools-x2014-but-is-it-fast-enough-20191205?mc_cid=128ff71298&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

December 15, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

29th College News, Notes and Results

Lander earns 41-13 victory over Truett McConnell
GREENWOOD – The Lander wrestling team battled out of an early deficit to defeat Truett McConnell and earn the first dual win in program history, 41-13, in front of 209 fans in Finis Horne Arena on Wednesday night. “I’m excited for the guys,” said head coach R.C. LaHaye. “Any time you get a chance to be the first to do something, that’s pretty exciting. There was more effort there than there was last week, so I’m excited for the group.” The difference in the dual came in a 17-0 run for the Bearcats (1-1) as Elijah Gray and Tyler Dahlgren tallied back-to-back falls at 141 and 149, followed by a 17-1 tech fall from Bryson Ethington at 157 to help Lander turn a 9-0 deficit into a 17-9 lead.  After the Bears (2-5) notched a major decision to make the score 17-13, Lander added to its cushion with a forfeit win at 174.  Rest of the story at https://landerbearcats.com/sports/wrest/2019-20/releases/20191211un472e?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Davidson’s Fenn Selected SoCon Wrestler of the Week
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Davidson senior grappler Conor Fenn was named the Southern Conference Wrestler of the Week, announced by the league Wednesday.  Fenn had his hand raised twice at the Patriot Duals following a 7-0 decision win over Long Island’s Mark Malico and a 9-0 major over George Mason’s Ramses Montalvo. With the sweep, the 197-pounder moved to 6-5 overall this season and 4-1 in dual matches. With the distinction, Fenn becomes the first SoCon weekly honoree since Kevin Birmingham in 2014. Davidson returns to the mats Wednesday, Jan. 1 for the opening day of the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tenn. Rest of the story at https://davidsonwildcats.com/news/2019/12/11/wrestling-fenn-selected-socon-wrestler-of-the-week.aspx?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES WRESTLERS OF THE WEEK
MAC East Division: Wrestler of the Week
Greg Bulsak, Clarion—Junior, Pittsburgh, Pa. (South Park High School)
Clarion junior Greg Bulsak at 197 lbs., jumped from unranked and unseeded at the start of the Cliff Keen Invitational, back into the national spotlight with a sixth-place finish at the prestigious event in Las Vegas.  Bulsak beat three wrestlers ranked in the top-15 according to last week’s FloWrestling rankings, as well as two competitors ranked in the top-10 according to Intermat at the time of the event.  He started the weekend with a second-period win by fall over eighth-seeded No. 18/15 Tanner Orndorff of Utah Valley, the first of four wins by fall at the tournament for Bulsak.  After a setback against Arizona State’s Kordell Norfleet, Bulsak pinned three straight opponents, defeating Minnesota’s Garrett Joles, Wyoming’s Steph Buchanan, and third-seeded No. 8/11 Tanner Sloan of South Dakota State.  He added second-seeded No. 7/9 Jay Aiello of Virginia to his hit list with a 7-4 decision before falling to Cal Poly’s Thomas Lane and Nebraska’s Eric Schultz, giving Bulsak a sixth-place finish.  Bulsak now has seven wins by fall on the season, just one off the NCAA Division I lead so far.
Additional Nominees:
Josh Jones, George Mason—Freshman, Hellertown, Pa. (Saucon Valley High School)
George Mason freshman Josh Jones at 133 lbs., posted three straight wins and a fourth win via forfeit to improve to 6-6 on the season.  Jones earned an impressive win over Michael Pappaconstantinou from Gardner-Webb … Rest of the story at https://getsomemaction.com/news/2019/12/11/wrestling-mac-announces-wrestlers-of-the-week.aspx?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Brossard the total package for RCTC wrestling program
Rochester Community and Technical College wrestling coach Randy Rager loves getting complete student-athletes into his program. The Yellowjackets coach feels like he hit the jackpot with Seth Brossard. Brossard won an individual state championship during his senior season at Kenyon-Wanamingo when he went a perfect 48-0 last winter. Rager was not only excited to have Brossard join the Yellowjackets as a wrestler this season, but also as a student. Rest of the story at https://www.postbulletin.com/sports/localsports/brossard-the-total-package-for-rctc-wrestling-program/article_555051e0-1b0d-11ea-a930-c7c79a09e314.html?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Ian Clark Named Head Men’s Wrestling Coach
ELMIRA, N.Y. — Following an extensive search, Elmira College Director of Athletics Renee Carlineo is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Clark as head coach of the Soaring Eagles’ men’s wrestling program. Clark faces the unique challenge of building a program from the ground up. Although EC briefly sponsored men’s wrestling during the 1970s, the Soaring Eagles will return to the mat for the first time in nearly four decades during the 2020-21 academic year. “We are incredibly excited to have Ian as the first head coach of Elmira College men’s wrestling,” Carlineo said. “Ian is a passionate coach, hard-working recruiter, and a strong teacher. We could not be more eager to see what he can do in building this program from the ground up.” “I am excited for the chance to build something special in such an amazing setting,” Clark said. “I want to thank Renee Carlineo and the rest of the administration at Elmira College for giving the sport of wrestling an opportunity on this beautiful campus. I’m looking forward to getting to work right away. I have had the privilege to wrestle for and work with a lot of great coaches. I’m very appreciative of everything that I learned from them and intend to work very hard to pass those lessons along.” A 2011 graduate of SUNY Cortland and a two-year member of the Red Dragons’ wrestling program, Clark has gained valuable experience as an assistant coach at three NCAA Division III institutions. His coaching career began as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater under the guidance of his former coach and a five-time Empire Collegiate Wrestling Conference (ECWC) Coach of the Year, Brad Bruhn. With Clark on the bench during the 2010-11 campaign, the Red Dragons finished 14th at the NCAA Division III Championships. Rest of the story at https://athletics.elmira.edu/news/2019/12/11/ian-clark-named-head-mens-wrestling-coach.aspx?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

International Outreach Note

USA Wrestling for Peace Ambassadors visit Zambia and Uganda
BY AUSTIN AND JULIE LANDES, AMBASSADORS FOR THE USA WRESTLING FOR PEACE PROGRAM | DEC. 11, 2019
Let’s connect some dots. How does an entrepreneurial couple from New York who have never wrestled become ambassadors for wrestling? Simple answer: Relationship. Long story short, we’re Austin and Julie Landes, Ambassadors for the USA Wrestling for Peace Program. Awhile back, our good friend Dan Russell asked us to join his humanitarian efforts, and we quickly said yes. His passion to serve those in need was contagious and aligned with our passions as well. Nonprofit work doesn’t work without a team of capable individuals committed to making a difference. We strongly believe in team-building, and our work in that area in the non-profit arena has resulted in Make It Rain, a US-based 501(c)3 organization dedicated to utilizing networking skills to simply help others help others. Since 2012, millions of lives have been impacted through our initiatives, as we work in coordination with government ministries and officials, established NGOs, and private partners. These relationships have lead our team to work alongside those with limited to no health care provision or capabilities. We collaborate with governments and rural communities to provide basic medicines that are otherwise lacking. Each shipment impacts tens of thousands of lives. Recently we had the privilege of coordinating an airlift of medicine in partnership with The First Lady of Zambia, Her Excellency Esther Lungu, Her Foundation, the Zambian Ministry of Health and Explore Africa. Rest of the story at https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2019/December/11/USA-Wrestling-for-Peace-Ambassadors-visit-Zambia-and-Uganda?mc_cid=ccc735817e&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

December 15, 2019 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment