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CHUN NAMED USA WRESTLING WOMEN’S COACH OF THE YEAR

STATE COLLEGE, Penn. – University of Iowa women’s wrestling head coach Clarissa Chun was named USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year, announced by the organization at the conclusion of the 2024 Olympic Team Trials tournament on Saturday.
This is Chun’s second coach of the year recognition in her first season with the Hawkeyes. Her first being NCWWC Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year, awarded to her at the national championships in March.
The Hawkeyes went 16-0 in dual competition in the 2023-24 season and broke the world attendance record for women’s wrestling in their first dual inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Chun led Iowa to the NCWC National Duals title, the NCWWC national team title and had six individual national champions, and 12 all-Americans.
Iowa qualified a total of nine wrestlers for the 2024 Olympic Team Trials this past weekend, bringing home three podium finishes.
Several Hawkeyes will continue international competition at the U20 and U23 World Championship later this year. The U20 World Championship will be held in Pontevedra, Spain, this September, … more at … Hawkeyesports.com/Chun-named-usa-wrestling-womens-coach-of-the-year

April 26, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Helen Maroulis makes record third Olympic team; David Taylor, Adeline Gray dethroned

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania — Helen Maroulis, the first U.S. female wrestler to win Olympic gold, will this summer become the oldest U.S. woman to wrestle at an Olympics and the first to wrestle at three Games.
Maroulis, 32, headlines the first 13 members of the Olympic wrestling team, decided at trials on Saturday at Penn State University.
She’ll be joined in Paris by veterans, including fellow 2016 Olympic champion Kyle Snyder, and newcomers, including 20-year-old world champion Amit Elor, who was one day too young to compete at the last trials and will become the youngest U.S. Olympic female wrestler in history.
Missing the team: Tokyo Olympic gold medalist David Taylor, who lost to NCAA Wrestler of the Year Aaron Brooks; six-time world champion Adeline Gray, who lost to Kennedy Blades, and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, who was eliminated on the trials’ first day Friday.
WRESTLING TRIALS: Results
Maroulis swept two-time world medalist Jacarra Winchester in their best-of-three series Saturday to earn the Olympic spot at 57kg.
Maroulis was last beaten for a spot on the national team at the 2012 Olympic Trials. Since, she won four gold, two silver and three bronze medals between the Olympics and world championships, including that breakthrough Olympic title in 2016.
She briefly retired in 2019 due to concussions and post-traumatic stress disorder, then came back to win Olympic bronze in Tokyo and a world medal of every color the last three years. “I was giving my dad a hard time because, two years ago, he said, ‘Hey, no more medals. Just retire. Get married. Have kids,’” Maroulis said. “I was like, ‘Let me go one more, dad.’”
Leading into these trials, Maroulis said she was in a car accident and dealt with a two-week “deep sickness.” Snyder, 28, swept Isaac Trumble to make his third Olympic team. … more at … NBCsports.com/Olympic-wrestling-trials-david-taylor-helen-maroulis-adeline-gray

April 26, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Buffalo on transition in men’s wrestling program: ‘We’re invested in this sport’

Donnie Vinson knows he’s entering the University at Buffalo wrestling program at a tumultuous time. He takes over as UB’s coach less than a month after the school announced it had not retained John Stutzman, the program’s coach for the last 11 years.
Vinson comes in when 14 wrestlers have entered the transfer portal as a result of Stutzman’s departure – nearly half of the 30 wrestlers listed on the roster for the 2023-24 season. Among the wrestlers in the transfer portal, according to Flowrestling.com, are NCAA qualifiers Nick Stampoulos and Sam Mitchell. Stampoulos will transfer to Lock Haven. After the 2022-23 season, nine wrestlers entered the transfer portal, according to transfer portal records kept by Flowrestling.com.
Vinson also takes over at a time when Division I men’s wrestling programs are on the decline. UB is one of 79 schools that fielded a program during the 2023-24 school year. That has dropped from 146 in 1981 to 89 in 2007.
But after Vinson’s formal introduction Monday at Alumni Arena, UB athletic director Mark Alnutt told The News this much about UB’s commitment to men’s wrestling: “We’re invested in this sport.”
That declaration came less than a month after UB began its search for a new wrestling coach, and a wave of change in the program, including allegations of medical and facilities neglect, documented in the UB student newspaper. Alnutt declined to comment to The News on the allegations. “The No. 1 priority is just to settle everything,” Vinson said. “There’s some turmoil. There was turmoil before I settled in here. “I talked to the team recently, and I seemed to settle their nerves. But my main goal right now is to make sure that everyone is comfortable with the position that I’m in now.”
It’s not an easy spot for the former Binghamton University wrestler, who takes his first head coaching job after three seasons as an assistant at Cornell, which finished second in the NCAA Championships in March. Vinson replaces Stutzman, a 1998 UB graduate who was 95-27 in three seasons as a UB wrestler. … more at … Buffalonews.com/Wrestling-donnie-vinson-john-stutzman

April 26, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

NCAA Funding approved for establishing women’s wrestling championship

The NCAA Board of Governors on Thursday revised the penalty structure around the attestation requirement of the NCAA policy on campus sexual violence.

Established in August 2017, the policy includes six key requirements that schools must annually attest that they have met in the previous academic year.  For schools that fail to submit an attestation form or do so after the deadline, the new penalty structure includes the following:

  • A school that does not submit the attestation form will be fined $5,000, which will be distributed to a philanthropic organization identified by each division whose efforts focus on campus sexual violence prevention. The school will also be listed on the NCAA website after the board’s annual review.
  • The revised policy also authorizes NCAA national office staff to automatically grant an extension of 10 calendar days from the original deadline to any school that requests one before the deadline. If a school meets the revised deadline, no penalty will be imposed.
  • A school that submits the attestation form after the deadline or its extended deadline will be listed on the NCAA website as late. For schools that miss the attestation deadline in multiple years, the penalties of a fine and being listed on the NCAA website as not attesting will be applied.

In the previous penalty structure, schools that failed to attest were prohibited from hosting NCAA championships in the next academic year, as well as listed on the NCAA’s website. “This policy change shifts the impact of penalties away from the student-athletes and will impact schools more equally, as not all schools host an NCAA championship,” said Linda A. Livingstone, president at Baylor and chair of the Board of Governors. “We also understand the need for flexibility. Providing schools an automatic extension if they identify the need for more time before the deadline is an appropriate compromise.”

Women’s wrestling

The board approved $1.7 million in Association-wide funding — $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 and $1.5 million in fiscal year 2026 — for establishing a National Collegiate women’s wrestling championship, with the first championship occurring in the 2025-26 academic year.
In February, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics voted to recommend that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add a women’s wrestling championship. The divisions are expected to vote on the proposals during the 2025 NCAA Convention planned for Jan. 15-18 in Nashville, Tennessee. … more at … NCAA.org/Media-center-board-of-governors-revises-penalties-for-campus-sexual-violence-attestation

April 26, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment