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Women’s Wresling News — # 32

2021 Iowa High School Girls State Wrestling Championships
CORALVILLE (March 23, 2020) – Think Iowa City is pleased to announce that the 2021 Iowa High School Girls State Wrestling Championships presented by the Iowa Wrestling Officials and Coaches Association will take place at Xtream Arena – the new 5,100 seat venue and adjacent 58,000 square foot GreenState Family Fieldhouse set to open this fall in Coralville’s Iowa River Landing. The 2021 Iowa High School Girls State Wrestling Championships presented by the Iowa Wrestling Officials and Coaches Association will take place January 22 and 23, 2021 and will be hosted by Waverly-Shell Rock High School, Iowa City West High School and Iowa City City High School.”The new facilities set to open next August in Coralville are perfect for this event,” said Bob Murphy, Executive Director, Iowa Wrestling Officials and Coaches Association. “We’ll be utilizing both Xtream Arena and the GreenState Family Fieldhouse both state of the art and first class facilities for our high school athletes.” “I’m excited to work with Luke, Josh and their team at Think Iowa City,” added Eric Whitcome, Head Coach at Waverly-Shell Rock. “They know how to put on top notch events like the USAW Olympic Team Trials, 2018 UWW World Cup, and next season’s Dan Gable Donnybrook. I know our high school girls will receive the red carpet treatment.” The Iowa High School Girls State Wrestling Tournament has taken place during its inaugural two years at Waverly-Shell Rock. In 2019 the event attracted 87 wrestlers and in 2020 the event grew to 376 wrestlers. …. story at https://www.thepredicament.com/2020/03/2021-iowa-high-school-girls-state-wrestling-championships/?mc_cid=3137d16555&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

2019-20 Jim Wade Award winner: Rachel Watters, women’s wrestling
Rachel Watters guzzled her soda in February like she had after every tournament she has wrestled in since she was a sophomore in high school.
But as Watters gulped her Mountain Dew at the Cracker Barrel in Marietta, Ga., she downed her pop for the first time as a national champion.
Watters celebrated with her father and teammates after winning the 155-pound national championship in the Women’s College Wrestling Association Championships on Feb. 7-8. Watters took the fourth all-American nod of her career. In 2019-20, Watters picked up the Jim Wade Award for Oklahoma City University women’s wrestling. In addition to her national crown, Watters snared the 155-pound Sooner Athletic Conference title, SAC wrestler of the year and outstanding wrestler of the inaugural SAC women’s championships Feb. 29 in Plainview, Texas. Watters became USA Wrestling/TheMat.com athlete of the week, NAIA wrestler of the week and two-time SAC wrestler of the week as a senior. …. story at https://www.ocusports.com/news/2020/4/6/2019-20-jim-wade-award-winner-rachel-watters-womens-wrestling.aspx?mc_cid=91538a90c1&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Eight coaches talk 2019-20 season, seniors and the NAIA
The opportunity lost for athletes at the canceled NAIA National tournament doesn’t take away from the real achievements and growth from this season. Flavia Weedn said, and I quote, “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” There were close to 200 women ready to take the mats in search of a title at the 2020 NAIA National Invitational. Women from 28 programs across 13 states—that’s who this is for. In the first part of the show we hear about the NAIA, and then in the second part we hear more about the season from 8 different head coaches: Lee Miracle (Campbellsville), Joey Bareng (Menlo), Joel Gibson (Southern Oregon), Ashley Sword (Life), Carlene Sluberski (Providence), Nicole Tyson (Oklahoma City), Kevin Corbett (Lyon) and Aaron Meister (Wayland). …. story and podcast at https://www.transitionwrestling.com/podcast-eight-coaches-talk-2019-20-season-seniors-and-the-naia/?mc_cid=864912e0e4&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

HOW-TO TAKE DOWN QUARANTINE
RESOURCES & SUGGESTIONS FOR TACKLING SOCIAL DISTANCING
Due to COVID-19, the world as we know it came to a crashing halt. NCAA’s? Cancelled. Olympic Trials? Cancelled. The Olympic Games? postponed until 2021. In a world filled with fear and uncertainty, how can you keep getting better at your craft? With no wrestling events on the horizon, this time right now is incredibly valuable. While social distancing may seem boring, it is a window of opportunity to get in better shape, learn new skills, recover, and even watch film. No matter how unlikely it seems at the current moment, life will go back to normal eventually. …. story at https://www.wreaperwrestling.com/how-to-take-down-quarantine-resources-and-suggestions-for-tackling-social-distancing/?mc_cid=1270ffe756&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

McCaskey High School approves first ever groundbreaking women’s wrestling program
By Connor Mirabella || Staff Writer
Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in human history. Since the first olympics, wrestling has been a challenging and developing art held in high regard by many. Socrates is known for having said “I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.” Wrestling has a powerful legacy in the United States, where folkstyle wrestling (the style of wrestling seen at NCAAs) originated. Pennsylvania has been long-known as one of, if not the most competitive states to wrestle in, particularly at the high school level.  Since there are no professional leagues of folkstyle and freestyle wrestling, the pinnacle of performance can most often be found at the Olympics where the US has garnered significant respect for its performance in both men’s and women’s freestyle wrestling. Helen Maroulis became the first American woman to win a gold medal for the US in 2016 with a dominant performance in her final match. Her story mirrors the story of every other woman on the US team: Helen never had a girls team until she had reached high level international competition. Growing up, she and all the other women representing our country had no other choice but to wrestle boys in order to earn their chances at competition.  Wrestling is a sport divided by weight classes, where it is in the wrestlers’ best interest to have the most possible muscle mass at any given weight. …. story at http://www.the-college-reporter.com/2020/03/29/mccaskey-high-school-approves-first-ever-groundbreaking-womens-wrestling-program/?mc_cid=1270ffe756&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Despite postponement of Tokyo Olympics, USA Wrestling’s Whitney Conder stays on course
Story content at …
https://gazette.com/sports/despite-postponement-of-tokyo-olympics-usa-wrestling-s-whitney-conder/article_bfc55380-71ee-11ea-802d-77f737d0d147.html?mc_cid=864912e0e4&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Topics you don’t want to miss from women’s wrestling in March
How do I even intro this month? In the right context, a lot of great things have happened, so that’s going to be the focus for this quasi-newsletter for March.
Women’s Wrestling at the NCWWC
NCAA programs competed at the first-ever exclusive NCAA postseason event March 6-7. The Cliff Keen National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships were hosted by Adrian College and the event was superb. The weekend will forever be a marker in the history of NCAA women’s wrestling. McKendree won the team title with five individual champions, and head coach Sam Schmitz was awarded coach of the year. Simon Fraser placed second to McKendree by just 12.5 points and had three champions of their own. Augsburg and UW-Stevens Point were the only two programs with title winners that advanced over McKendree and Simon Fraser on the way to the top of the podium. Finalist bouts at 109 and 170 pounds were also the only two weights without a McKendree or Simon Fraser wrestler. Archived video is free to watch on Trackwrestling—be sure to listen for commentary by Wrestle Like A Girl’s very own Sally Roberts in the finals.  Top 5 teams: 1) McKendree University 2) Simon Fraser University 3) King University 5) Colorado Mesa university 5) Emmanuel College …. story at https://www.transitionwrestling.com/topics-you-dont-want-to-miss-from-womens-wrestling-in-march/?mc_cid=2b0e4cf56d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

Women’s Wrestler of the Year Mensah Headlines Women’s Wrestling Rankings
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (April 1) – After a stellar 2019 campaign where she won United World Wrestling’s “Women’s Wrestler of the Year” Tamyra MENSAH (USA) heads into the 2020 season as the top-ranked 68kg wrestler in latest worldwide women’s wrestling rankings. Mensah, a returning world champion at 68kg, has the most points (92) of any women’s wrestler in any weight category and is one of two American women ranked No.1 in the world. She is joined by fellow American Adeline GRAY, a five-time world champion, who tops the rankings at 76kg. Women’s wrestling power Japan has five wrestlers ranked in the top 10 in their respective weight categories, with two of the five wrestlers being 2016 Olympic champions, Risako KAWAI (No.1 at 57kg) and Sara DOSHO (No.10 at 68kg). Complete rankings at https://unitedworldwrestling.org/article/womens-wrestler-year-mensah-headlines-womens-wrestling-rankings?mc_cid=2b0e4cf56d&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

THE FALLOUT FROM COVID-19: SIX QUESTIONS WE HAVE ABOUT HOW COVID WILL IMPACT THIS COMING YEAR.
With the Coronavirus impacting life as we know it, we have some serious questions about the state of the wrestling world. Many questions, however, we may not have answers to for a very long time. With COVID-19 changing on a daily basis, it’s hard to predict wrestling will look like several months from now. The USOC and USA Wrestling are hard at work trying to put procedures in place in light of the recent circumstances, but regardless, there’s still much we don’t know.
Who’s qualified?
In 2019, athletes qualified at the Bill Farrell International tournament and the U.S Olympic Trials Qualifier in Fort Worth, Texas. Previous world team members from earlier in the quad and junior world medalists also automatically qualified for trials. Will these athletes remain qualified?  …. rest of the story at https://www.wreaperwrestling.com/the-fallout-from-covid-19-six-questions-we-have-about-how-covid-will-impact-this-coming-year/?mc_cid=9b0303e966&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b

April 10, 2020 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized