Takedown Report

Women's Wrestling News — # 25

A first for a Summerville girl wrestler: she goes to masters level competition
An 18-year-old senior at Summerville High School is the first female wrestler from her school to make it to masters level competition. Cailyn Kiolbassa wrestles in the 160-pound division. She wrestled hard against other girls at CIF Sac-Joaquin Section regionals competition Friday and Saturday last week at Central Valley High School in Ceres. So she was on a so-called active rest day, running more than four miles on the track and up and down the steep bleachers stairs at Thorsted Field on Monday, which was Presidents Day, a federal holiday for banks, many businesses, and most of her classmates. Several of her male teammates were hard at work too on the holiday Monday in the sweltering wrestling room at Summerville, practicing one-on-one takedowns to booming sounds like “Abra abra cadabra, I wanna reach out and grab ya,” from the 1982 global hit by the Steve Miller Band. …. story at https://www.uniondemocrat.com/sports/article_1cc4fd6e-5369-11ea-9340-97e16d688c80.html?mc_cid=d6242deb79&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

10 Days to Adrian: Meet Tamyra Mensah-Stock
Tamyra Mensah-Stock
College: Wayland Baptist 
High school: Morton Ranch High School (Katy, Texas)
Age: 27
Fast fact: Likes to give hugs but doesn’t like tight spaces. 
High school and college credentials: Mensah-Stock won WCWA national titles in 2014 and 2017 after a fourth-place finish in 2012 as a freshman and a third-place finish in 2013 as a sophomore. She was a 2010 and 2011 Texas girls state champion after a second-place finish in 2009. 
International credentials: The 27-year-old won the 2019 World Championships at 68 kilograms after a bronze medal performance in 2018 and a ninth-place finish in 2017. She was also a 2014 University World silver medalist. 
Where is Mensah-Stock now? Mensah-Stock won the 2019 World Championship at 68 kilograms, which means the United States has ….. story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1582783731231&twSessionId=sjuhybergw&postId=611734135&mc_cid=27d42ae874&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

9 Days to Adrian: Meet Forrest Molinari
Forrest Molinari 
College: Missouri Baptist (Creve Coeur, Missouri), King (Bristol, Tennessee)
High school: Benicia, California
Age: 24
Nickname: Snowflake
Hobby: Riding dirt bikes
High school and college credentials: Molinari placed third at WCWA Nationals in 2014 for Missouri Baptist followed by a fourth-place finish in 2015, first in 2016 and second in 2017 for King. She was a two-time third-place finisher at CIF State. 
International credentials: The 24-year-old has placed fifth at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships at 65 kilograms following appearances at the 2017 and 2018 U23 Worlds and the 2015 Junior Worlds. 
Where is Molinari now? Molinari currently lives in Iowa City …. story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1582783731231&twSessionId=sjuhybergw&postId=613188135&mc_cid=27d42ae874&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

TOP 5 STORY LINES FROM WAshington WOMEN’S STATE
Every year some of the best female wrestlers come from the state of Washington. The state is primed with talent, evident by Team Washington’s first place finish in the Junior division at Fargo last year. On the third weekend in February, 224 young girls arrive at the Tacoma Dome with dreams of having their hands raised as a state champion. Some grew up watching older Washington legends, such as Desiree Zavala, Rachel Archer, and Whitney Conder. Younger girls may have been around to see the likes of Brenda Reyna or Cameron Guerin. With 14 state titles on the line (and team title), the WA state tournament never disappoints, and this year was no exception. …. story at https://www.wreaperwrestling.com/what-went-down-in-washington-top-5-storylines-from-wa-womens-state/?mc_cid=d6242deb79&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

8 Days to Adrian: Meet Haley Augello
Haley Augello
College: King University 
High school: Lockport Township High School (Lockport, Illinois)
Age: 25
Twitter: @hayaugello
Instagram: @haleyaugello
High school and college credentials: Augello won WCWA titles for King in 2014, 2015, and 2017.
International credentials: The 25-year-old made the 2016 Olympic team after winning a gold medal at the 2011 Cadet World Championships and appearances at the 2012 and 2013 Junior Worlds. 
Where is Augello now? Augello trains full time at the Olympic Training Center where she will attempt to make the 2020 Olympics at 53 kilograms. 
In her own words: “Everyone is starting to get into women’s wrestling a …. story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1582871137443&twSessionId=knjroxksrr&postId=614159135&mc_cid=c355acb3cc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Trackwrestling to stream inaugural Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships for free
Trackwrestling will stream next weekend’s inaugural Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships for free.  Archives of the historic first standalone tournament for NCAA programs offering women’s wrestling will also be available on Trackwrestling.  “This event highlights the explosive growth of the women’s wrestling movement,” said Travis Shives, Vice President of Sports, SportsEngine and Trackwrestling. “Trackwrestling is proud to be involved with this monumental tournament in an effort to expand the visibility and accessibility of women’s wrestling. This is an opportunity to showcase a historic event that will advance the entire sport.”  The March 6-7 tournament in Adrian, Mich., is the kickoff event to a month-long stretch in which top American women’s wrestling stars will be showcased in tournaments streamed on Trackwrestling. World champions Tamyra Mensah-Stock and Adeline Gray are expected to compete the same weekend at the Pan Am Championships, Olympic gold medalist Helen Maroulis and World champion Jacarra Winchester lead the United States team into the Pan Am Olympic Games Qualifier the following weekend and Olympic hopefuls will vie for tickets to Tokyo next month at the Olympic Trials. Each of those events will be streamed live and available on-demand on Trackwrestling. 
Prior to the upcoming championships in Adrian, female wrestlers participated in the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) Championships. The WCWA tournament provided an opportunity for women to compete at a national championship event during the genesis of women’s college wrestling. In 2004, the first women’s college national championship took place and three years later the first official WCWA championship tournament was held, creating a culminating event for colleges offering women’s wrestling. …. story at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPost.jsp?postId=613950135&mc_cid=c355acb3cc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

In a state with no high school girls’ wrestling teams, a small college leads the way in NCAA D-I
CLINTON, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – There’s a sports wrestling revolution taking the nation over: women’s wrestling. It’s no longer just an amateur event, either, and a South Carolina college is leading the charge in legitimizing it. Presbyterian College, located in Clinton, is the smallest college in NCAA Division I athletics. But size doesn’t matter when it comes to leading; Presbyterian has started the first women’s wrestling team in NCAA D-I. And now, the sport is exploding. Women’s wrestling is quickly growing, with 22,000 girls wrestling at the high school level. But as of now, it’s only sanctioned at the prep level in 21 states. Neither North Carolina nor South Carolina have officially sanctioned it yet. This means for most of the time, girls have to wrestle the boys. Some girls don’t like this arrangement. Others say it helps make them tougher. But what the girls we talked to agree on is that they want to take the mat and grapple in their own class of girls. Against odds and doubters
Lillian Humphries is a sophomore at Presbyterian College, and she’s on the team. We caught up with her on a rare night of relaxation. Lillian and her team, known as the Blue Hose, just finished their first match. “It means a lot to me,” Lillian tells us. “It means a lot to the little girl I was when I was wrestling the boys with just how far women’s wrestling has come in such a short amount of time.” Lillian’s coach is Dany Deanda, whose story resonated with Lillian. Lillian’s loved for martial arts evolved into wrestling as a freshman at Blue Ridge High School. She was the only girl on the all-boys varsity team. And just like her teammates then, all of her opponents were boys too. …. story at https://www.foxcarolina.com/sports/in-a-state-with-no-high-school-girls-wrestling-teams/article_1ecd3472-591e-11ea-a4b1-332bb71e33fb.html?mc_cid=c355acb3cc&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

March 23, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized