Takedown Report

Top 40 All-Time Women’s College Coaches – TDR # 31 – 79

The coaches are ranked by the number of dual meet wins while they were a head coach of a Women’s College Team in any division. Totals include matches from the 2023-2024 season.
ALL-TIME Women’s Coaches– Top 40 with 15 or more wins                     

1. Jason Moorman (King Univ.)                     172  (9)
2. Archie Randall (Oklahoma City Univ.)        160
3. Lee Miracle (Campbellsville)                      112  (13) 
4. Donnie Stephens (Univ. of Cumberlands)   89  (11)
5. Sam Schmitz (McKendree Univ.)                  77 
6. Link Davis (Emmanuel College)                     74 
7. Ashley Sword-Buster (Life University)       73   (23)
8. Paul Rademacher (Indiana Inst. Of Tech./South. Oregon St.)  65  (17)
9. Aaron Meister (Friends/Wayland Baptist Coll.,)      55  (2)
10. Brian Jackson (Missouri Baptist)                   54 – inc. 
11. Carl Murphree (Missouri Valley College)  52  – inc.  (5) 
12. Joe Norton (North Central College)            48  (13)
13. Nick Goebel (Tiffin University)                   44  (14)
14. Travis Mercado (Colorado Mesa Univ.)     43  (11)
15. Paulina Biega (Sacred Heart University)    40  (17)
16. Lee Dale Allen (Menlo Colleg)                      40
17. Tony DeAnda (Northern Michigan/ Jamestown)   39  (2)
18. Mahdi Bigdely (Ottawa Univ.)                    36  (11)
19. Joel Gibson (Southern Oregon State)          35  (10)
20. Joey Bareng (Menlo College)                         33 
21. Angelo Crinzi (Grand View University)     31  (13)
22. Devane Dodgens (Brewton-Parker College)  30  (3)
23. Anibal Nievas (East Stroudsburg State)     30  (13)
24. Matt Stevens (Oklahoma City University)  29  (12)
25. Shaunna Isbell Kent (Jamestown)               29  (10) 
26. Cliff Cushard (Adrian College)                   29   (4)
27. Bryce Killian (Emmanuel Coll.)                  28  (13)
28. Cole Spree (Indian Hills Comm. Coll.)       26  (9)
29. Cody Griswold (Elmira College)                 25  (10)
30. Johnny Cobb (Wayland Baptist College)        25
31. Tucker Black (William Penn)                      23  (9)
32. Kirwyn Adderley (Missouri Baptist)          22  (9)
33. David Mathews (Life University)                   22
34. Brieanna Delgado (Central Methodist Coll)  21  (3)
35. Chuck Kearney (Univ. of Saint Mary)       20   (6)
36. Breonnah Neal (Gannon Un./Ferrum Coll.) 19  (2)
37. Beau Vest (Midland Lutheran)                        17
38. Dany DeAnda (Presbyterian University)        16
39. Kevin Corbett (Lyon College)                         16 
40. Craig Jaxkson (Umpqua Comm. Coll.)      15  inc. (0)
41. Jake Short (Augsburg College)                    15   (1)

April 7, 2024 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Women’s Wrestling News – Apr. 7th

2023-2024 Women’s College Commitment List
A running list of current college commitments for girls’ high school wrestlers.

Mar 30, 2024 by Kyle Klingman
Below is a partial —  but not complete — commitment list of current high school wrestlers and colleges they plan to attend along with an approximate college weight. There are thousands of high school wrestlers and over 150 women’s college wrestling programs (NAIA, NJCAA, and NCAA D1, D2, and D3), so this is an ongoing list. Contact Kyle Klingman at kyle.klingman@flosports.tv to add your wrestler to the list. … story at … Flowrestling.org/2024-womens-college-commitment-list
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The NCAA Women’s Freestyle Transfer Portal Is Open
Look at the NCAA women’s freestyle wrestlers who have entered the transfer portal.
Apr 6, 2024 by Kyle Klingman
Keep of the NCAA women’s freestyle wrestlers entering the transfer portal, and where they transfer to.  Email kyle.klingman@flosports.tv if someone is missing or needs to be added.
2024 NCAA D1 Wrestling Off-Season Transfer Tracker

Clearwater high school student rewriting narrative for women in wrestling
Cerenity Whiting is an honors student and state champion who only started wrestling three years ago.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Stepping onto the wrestling mat, Cerenity Whiting is a trailblazer who’s rewriting the rules. In a sport where muscle meets grit, the Countryside High School student-athlete has shattered expectations.
She’s just a junior in high school and has only been wrestling for a couple of years, but she’s already a state champion and she got her eyes set on even bigger goals. As we celebrate Women’s History Month – it’s important to remember history isn’t just in the past, but it’s being written right now on the wrestling mat.
Cerenity Whiting is not just a wrestler, she’s a trailblazer, as both an honors student and state champion. “I just needed to stay humble, try my best and I knew I would win,” she said. When she stepped onto the mat three years ago, Whiting said she didn’t even know how to execute a headlock. “I used to watch a lot off WWE when I was younger and when I got to high school, I saw they had a wrestling program and thought it be fun,” she said.
But in that short span of time her coach, Joe Logano, said he watched her transform her skills and take the sport by storm. “She kept grinding and kept grinding and stuck to the process, listened to her coaches, followed the plan and it all worked out” Logano said. Whiting said wrestling became her sanctuary, a place where she could grapple with life’s challenges both on and off the mat. … story at … WTSP.com/Student-athlete-clearwater-wrestling-women-champion
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Area grapplers growing girls wrestling
Seven local girls qualified for state tournament
COLUMBUS — For the second straight year, the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) sponsored the girls state wrestling tournament, hosting the event at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, where it ran simultaneously with the 87th annual boys tournament.
Ohio is just one of several states to recently give its stamp of approval on girls wrestling, which has become one of the fastest-growing sports in the country. The National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) said in September that high school girls wrestling participants had increased by 55% year-over-year and had multiplied by nearly five times in the last decade.
“It almost feels like it’s doubling every year. When we started, we’d see pretty much the same girls all the time,” Howland assistant wrestling coach Mike Burns said. “It’s pretty wild to see where it’s going. It’s just going to continue to grow more, and more people are going to come here and learn about it. It’s just gonna keep growing to be as big as the boys here.”
Sloane McNally, a state qualifier in the 105-pound girls division from Boardman, said she has personally seen the expansion of girls wrestling. “It’s changed a lot. We went from having almost no girls — maybe like a couple girls in your weight class, if you were lucky — to [a point that] we had to add a pre-regionals just to qualify for state, so it’s changed a lot. It’s grown a lot,” McNally said.
When Boardman head coach Hadi Hadi began coaching more than 30 years ago, girls wrestled, but there just weren’t very many of them. With no girls-only division or tournaments, many shied away from the sport due to the inevitability of wrestling boys. … story at … Tribtoday.com/Area-grapplers-growing-girls-wrestling
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Tinley Park state champ Jade Hardee keeps wrestling success ‘going to girls’
Tinley Park Bulldogs boys youth wrestling coach Mickey Griffin is stepping down after 15 years of helping produce some of the top wrestlers in the area and state. He never imagined that his final state champion would be a girl. Eighth grader Jade Hardee is such a special wrestler that in January he had her working out with the Bulldogs boys team and joined Bulldogs girls coach Jamie Ruggio Hubbard in overseeing Hardee’s development. Hardee became the first person from Tinley Park to win an Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation girls state championship when she won the 93-pound division March 9 at the BMO Center in Rockford, needing just 42 seconds to pin her opponent in the title match.
It was a big accomplishment, but Hardee was not jumping around and going crazy after the referee’s hand smacked the mat. “I was pretty cool about it, I didn’t do any of that stuff,” Hardee said. “I’m the type where if I could have done a little better in a match, I’m a little bit harder on myself. But then the next time I know to give it my all.” … story at … Chicagotribune.com/Tinley-park-state-champ-jade-hardee-keeps-wrestling-success-going-to-girls
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Prendergast avenges loss, wins historic state title
GREENSBORO — The only time South Brunswick senior wrestler Lillian Prendergast was on her back this season was when dad and coach, David, fell on top of her while celebrating her championship Saturday in the state championships. Prendergast won the 100-pound title in the first girls wrestling state tournament sanctioned by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. The girls — in one classification — wrestled on one mat in the center of the cavernous Greensboro Coliseum at the same time the boys wrestled on four mats — for four classifications — beside the center mat. The Coliseum was nearly a sellout. The significance of the event meant as much to Lillian as her championship. “It’s definitely amazing to see,” she said. “I remember going to tournaments, before I got to high school, seeing one or two girls in a tournament. There wasn’t very much out there. My brother wrestled a girl here at the state tournament in 2011, when it was basically unheard of to hear a girl wrestle. “So to see the growth and the amount of people that have come out, that have done it, even though it is one of the most uncomfortable sports, it’s great to see the passion that a lot of these girls are getting from it. You have your few wrestlers at the top and you have your younger girls — they go out and get beat but they’re still coming back, they’re still coming to practice and they’re still competing.”
Lillian’s mom, Shawna, was the scorekeeper at Lillian’s high school matches. Shawna, too, was thrilled by the state event. “I think the thing that excited me the most,” she said, … story at … https://stateportpilot.com/sports/article_42c0cca8-d0f3-11ee-8539-ffc4beaa36c4.html
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Girls are falling in love with wrestling, the nation’s fastest-growing high school sport
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jody Mikhail was a sophomore at Pennsylvania’s Cumberland Valley High School when a poster for a new girls’ wrestling club caught her eye. So Mikhail, a senior now, tried the sport. “I fell in love with it the first time,” she said.
Unlike previous generations, she’s hardly alone.
Girls’ wrestling has become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country, sanctioned by a surging number of states and bolstered by a movement of medal-winning female wrestlers, parents and the male-dominated ranks of coaches and administrators who saw it as a necessity and a matter of equality. Where once girls wrestled on boys teams and against boys, increasingly they are wrestling on girls teams and against girls. And now that they are wrestling in sanctioned and official tournaments against girls, their names are going onto plaques on their high schools’ walls and into state record books.
This year, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania held their first state-sanctioned girls’ wrestling championships, while Louisiana became the 45th state to sanction the sport. At the collegiate level, women’s wrestling is designated as an “emerging” sport and is on track to become a championship-level sport in 2026, the NCAA said.
A rapidly growing sport
In Pennsylvania — where the Penn State men are ranked No. 1 and the state’s male and female wrestlers dominated last year’s 16-and-under national team championships — the number of girl wrestlers in high schools nearly doubled this year as the state rocketed to more than 180 high school teams from none in 2020.
Hundreds of girls competed in Pennsylvania’s first sanctioned state tournament, including Mikhail, after years of girls having no choice but to wrestle boys or, if they did wrestle girls, seeing the same handful of faces, year after year, in tournaments organized by local wrestling organizations.
Even for girls who compete nationally or hope to wrestle in college, wrestling in state-sanctioned tournaments brings status. “It really does bring this level of, I think, having these girls feel seen,” said Brooke Zumas, a former wrestling coach who was active in the movement to get the sport sanctioned in Pennsylvania.
Girls who have competed for years are seeing new faces and big crowds in this year’s state-sanctioned championship tournaments. … more at … APnews.com/Wrestling-girls-high-school

April 7, 2024 Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized | Leave a comment