Takedown Report

Women’s Wrestling News — # 29

No.1 McKendree Women’s Team Wins NCWWC Championship Title
(ADRIAN, Mich. – Mar. 7) – McKendree University No.1 women’s wrestling competed in the inaugural Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championship (NCWWC) Friday and Saturday afternoon at Adrian College. The Bearcats finished in first place with 191.0 team points and five individual champions. This was the first national-level tournament and championship in the NCAA for affiliated women’s wrestling programs. The Bearcats had five national champions including Pauline Granados (Rialto, CA/Wilmer Amino Carter High School), Alexia Ward (Portland, OR/Westview High School), Emma Bruntil (), Alexandria Glaude (West Sacramento, CA/Christian Brothers High School) and Sydnee Kimber (Sitka, AK/Mt Edgecombe High School). In addition, they had two second-place finishes, one fourth-place finish, one fifth-place finish, one sixth-place finish, two seventh-place finishes and one eighth-place finish. Below are the individual results for the Bearcats: …. rest of the story at https://mckbearcats.com/news/2020/3/7/no-2-womens-wrestling-becomes-wins-first-ever-ncwwc-championship-title.aspx?mc_cid=2240f0215d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Semifinal match-ups set for NCWWC, plus other notes from Michigan
Adrian, MI – – Day one of the historic National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships is in the books. It wasn’t really a matter of if, but when. Today was a must, a step forward in the progress toward championship status for women’s wrestling. The sport will be classified an NCAA Emerging Sport on August 1, 2020.  King University Assistant Coach and Wrestle Like A Girl representative, Julia Salata, shared the following in an interview with TrackWrestling: “There was a point when it seemed kind of unfathomable. We knew it was going to get there eventually, but it seemed so far off, and then to be here for this moment . . . I’m really proud to be a part of it.” Her perspective is pretty special—she was part of King’s program in its first year and has been involved with the program since.  …. story at https://www.transitionwrestling.com/semifinal-match-ups-set-for-ncwwc-plus-other-notes-from-michigan/?mc_cid=2240f0215d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

NAIA 2020 Women’s Wrestling Invitational Qualifiers Announced
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – (Qualifiers by Weight Class | Qualifiers by School | Qualifiers by First Name) The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes (NAIA) has officially announced the qualifiers for the 2020 NAIA Women’s Wrestling National Invitational on Wednesday. The Invitational is hosted by University of Jamestown, N.D.
This is the second year of invitational status for NAIA Women’s Wrestling.
Preliminary brackets will be released on Friday, by 5 PM. …. story at https://www.naia.org/sports/wwrest/2019-20/releases/Wwrest-Qualifier?mc_cid=178e8cf0d6&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

USA Wrestling’s Rich Bender on the explosive growth of women’s wrestling
 USA Wrestling’s Rich Bender on the explosive growth of women’s wrestling
USA Wrestling executive director Rich Bender was at the inaugural Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships in Adrian, Michigan, on March 6-7 in an effort to advance women’s wrestling. …. Story and video interview at https://www.trackwrestling.com/PortalPlayer.jsp?TIM=1583806921868&twSessionId=rnlbxcsvxs&videoId=775811135&mc_cid=178e8cf0d6&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

2020 NCAA – WCWC CHAMPIONSHIPS
WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A PART OF HISTORY
Adrian, Michigan
The pinnacle of every college athletes season is the national tournament.
It’s what you go to bed dreaming about at night, what gets you through grueling pre-season workouts, and why you run that one last sprint. In March, every wrestler wants to go out on top. This year, we saw a dramatic shift in the landscape of women’s college wrestling. What used to be 1 division (the WCWA, Women’s College Wrestling Association), that included all schools with women’s wrestling divisions, was split. Out of this divide, we saw a field more similar to the guys side, with the NAIA and NCAA (Technically the WCWC until NCAA reaches full Championship status) hosting their own tournaments. ….. story at https://www.wreaperwrestling.com/wcwcs-what-it-was-like-to-be-a-part-of-history/?mc_cid=665dd2a84f&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Fan restrictions to hamper NAIA women’s wrestling tourney
This week’s National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Women’s Wrestling Invitational in Jamestown won’t be immune to precautions currently being taken nationwide to help curb the spread of coronavirus. University of Jamestown Athletic Director Sean Johnson said late Wednesday fan restrictions will be put in place for the tournament scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. this Friday at Harold Newman Arena, but he said details of those restrictions won’t be finalized until sometime Thursday (March 12). “There will be fan restrictions this weekend but I don’t know exactly what they will be at this time,” Johnson said. “We will know tomorrow.” The announcement by UJ came shortly after NAIA President and CEO Jim Carr released a letter stating that the NAIA plans to limit fan attendance at all remaining winter championships — including the men’s and women’s Division I basketball championships — due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Both Thursday’s NAIA Champions of Character event and kickoff banquet for the women’s wrestling tournament in Jamestown had already been canceled out of precaution. “As a staff and as an institution, we’ve been talking about this for days and weeks because, obviously, it’s been in the news and we’re all concerned about it,” Johnson said. “I certainly understand why we’re canceling some of the public events, especially Champions of Character because we were going to have elementary school kids that were going to be in close contact with the student-athletes. There’s no way to know if there’s any risk at all, but, again, there’s no sense in taking a risk when you don’t have to.” The Champions of Character event, previously scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. on Thursday at Harold Newman Arena, planned to bring in local elementary school children to interact with the wrestlers. The kickoff banquet, which wasn’t open to the public according to Johnson, was scheduled to take place Thursday between 5-6 p.m. …. story at https://www.jamestownsun.com/sports/wrestling/4994804-Fan-restrictions-to-hamper-NAIA-womens-wrestling-tourney?mc_cid=665dd2a84f&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

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