Takedown Report

New Programs in 2024 – TDR # 31-12

So far we have become aware of the following schools that will restart or revive their wrestling programs in 2024. We hope to see more schools joining this list. Bismark State College, Maine Mariime Academy, Northern Oklahoma College and Cal. State Poly at Humboldt.
Some schools are increasing wrestling opportunities by starting both Men’s and Women’s teams such as Felican University in New Jersey, Maine Maritime Academy, Misericordia University in Pennsylvania, Northern Oklahoma College, Penn State-Altoona, Tarleton State in Texas, and Randolph College in Virginia.
New Women’s teams will be added at Baldwin-Wallace University, Bethany College, Centenary College (NJ), Fort Hays State, Manchester University, McDaniel College, Minnesota North College-Itasca, Mount Union University, Muhlenberg College, Newberry College, Otterbein University, SUNY-Buffalo State, Upper Iowa University, West Liberty University, and Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
New Men’s teams will be started at Andrew College in Georgia and Westcliff University.

Some west coast schools have announced changes in conference affiliation in Division I for next year. We hope that they will take the opportunity to add wrestling to the athletics departments. The BIG 10 has traditionally been then only D-I conference with a wrestling program at every member school. We hope that the west coast teams will see the wisdom in expanding their sports offerings. It is a reasonable expectation since the conference schools will be flooded with TV coverage monies.

The expansion of the number of college programs will encourage the growth of the number of high school teams and the number of opportunities for more students to learn positive life skills that can be found in wrestling. 
This listing could be missing other new programs but so far we will have over 30 new programs in men’s (11 teams) and women’s (22) wrestling.

December 30, 2023 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized