Takedown Report

Olympians 2024

Maroulis becomes first three-time Olympian in women’s freestyle at Trials
The following are the Best-of-3 Championship matches in the six women’s freestyle weights at the 2024 Olympic Trials in State College, Pa., April 19-20. WIN Magazine will provide even more comprehensive coverage of this event in our next issue, printed May 1. Click here or call 888-305-0606 to subscribe. 50k/110 pounds — Sarah Hildebrandt (NYAC) defeated Audrey Jimenez (SKWC), two matches to none Match 1 – Hildebrandt won by TF over Jimenez, 10-0 — A fourth takedown with 22 seconds gone in the second period also helped Hildebrandt score two back points that ended the bout with 2:10 left. Hildebrandt’s first three takedowns all came in the first period.
Match 2 – Hildebrandt won by TF over Jimenez, 10-0 — Hildebrandt scored five takedowns, mostly off a single and three in the first period … and the fifth that ended the bout with 1:08 left … to clinch her second straight Olympic berth.
53k/116.5 pounds — Dominique Parrish (BDRTC/SKWC) defeated Haley Augello (IZZY/NYAC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Parrish dec. Augello, 2-1 — Parrish scored her points on high-crotch takedown with 1:37 left in the first period. Augello got on the board with a stepout six seconds into second period but could not add anything else.
Match 2 — Parrish dec. Augello 5-2 — The 2022 World champ opened the bout on an inside trip, then countered a throw by Augello in the second period to clinch her first Olympic berth. Augello, the 2016 Olympian, nearly hit a headlock but the first period expired.
57k/125.5 pounds — Helen Maroulis (SKWC) defeated Jacarra Winchester (TMWC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Maroulis pinned Winchester, 2:41 — Maroulis’ third takedown of the bout put Winchester on her back with 50 seconds left in the first period before the two-time Olympic medalist ended the bout 22 seconds later.
Match 2 – Maroulis dec. Winchester, 6-0 — Maroulis became the first American woman to qualify for three Olympic Games by scoring two takedowns and two stepouts. … more at … WIN-magazine.com/Maroulis-becomes-first-three-time-olympian-in-womens-freestyle-at-trials
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Snyder joins rare wrestling air as three-time Olympian and 10-time world and Olympic team member
Apr. 20, 2024, 10:54 PM (ET) by Cody Goodwin, Special to TheMat.com
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— Steadily, consistently — and perhaps even quietly? — Kyle Snyder is authoring one of the greatest American wrestling careers ever.
Snyder swept Isaac Trumble, two matches to none, to win the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling on Saturday here at the Bryce Jordan Center. He will represent the U.S. at 97 kilograms in the men’s freestyle competition this summer in Paris. It will be his third trip to the Olympics. He is just 28 years old.
The Woodbine, Md., native won his best-of-three finals series matches 5-0 and 4-0. It was a ho-hum, businesslike performance. Trumble was one of the stars in Friday’s challenge tournament competition, but he hardly got anything going against Snyder.
As a result, Snyder is now on the U.S. team for a staggering 10th consecutive year. He’s been the guy at 97-kg every year since 2015, when he became the youngest American wrestler ever to win a world championship. He followed that up with Olympic gold in 2016, and has won a medal at every single world or Olympic competition since.
As if that’s not rare enough air, Snyder is now the 11th American wrestler to qualify for three Olympic competitions. He is just the second to reach three before the age of 30, joining Mark Fuller, a Greco-Roman wrestler who went to four in a row: 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992.
Fuller is one of just two Americans to wrestle in four Olympics, along with Bruce Baumgartner, who not only wrestled in four, but medaledin all four: gold in 1984, silver in 1988, gold in 1992, and bronze in 1996. Baumgartner ultimately won 13 world and Olympic medals, adding five world titles to his two Olympic golds. Snyder is tracking toward doing the same. Entering this summer, he’s won nine consecutive world and Olympic medals, … more at … Themat.com/Snyder-joins-rare-wrestling-air-as-three-time-olympian-and-10-time-world-and-olympic-team
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Brooks stuns Taylor in men’s freestyle at Olympic Trials
The following are the Best-of-3 Championship matches in the six men’s freestyle weight of the 2024 Olympic Trials in State College, Pa., April 19-20. WIN Magazine will provide even more comprehensive coverage of this event in our next issue, printed May 1. Click here or call 888-305-0606 to subscribe. 57k/125.5 pounds – Spencer Lee (HWC / TMWC) defeats Thomas Gilman (NLWC / TMWC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Lee dec. Gilman, 6-3 — After trading step out points in the first, Lee scored a single leg takedown and immediately followed with a trap arm gut wrench to take a 5-1 lead. Gilman answered back with a big lift double leg on the edge that yielded a brick throw to check for exposure, but the two-point takedown was not enough to tie the bout for the NLWC athlete. Lee added a point for the failed challenge to win 6-3.
Match 2 – Lee pinned Gilman, 5:58 — Gilman led, 2-2 on criteria, before Lee gained two points for exposure and then used successive gut wrenches to plant and hold his former teammate and training partner for a fall just before time expired. Lee must now qualify the weight class, May 9-12 in Turkey, for a chance to wrestle in Paris this August.
65k/143.5 pounds — Zain Retherford (NLWC / TMWC) defeats Nick Lee (NLWC / TMWC), two matches to none.
Match 1 – Retherford dec. Lee, 2-1 — The pair of NLWC teammates traded passivity points while a step out point proved to be the difference in a match that endured several blood time stoppages.
Match 2 – Retherford dec. Lee, 5-0 — Retherford struck early with a takedown and exposure within the first 2 seconds of the bout and never looked back, as the former three-time NCAA champ earned a controlling 5-0 win. He will look to qualify the weight class for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Istanbul, Turkey in early May.
74k/163 pounds — Kyle Dake (NLWC / TMWC) defeats Jason Nolf (NLWC / TMWC) 2 matches to none.
Match 1 – Dake dec. Nolf, 4-1 — Dake scored a takedown in the first minute and added a push out and passivity point to defeat his fellow NLWC foe in match one. … more at … WIN-magazine.com/Brooks-stuns-taylor-in-mens-freestyle-at-olympic-trials
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Kyle Dake ’13 Punches Ticket To 2024 Summer Olympic Games
STATE COLLEGE, PA. — Kyle Dake ’13 swept Jason Nolf in two matches in the 74kg freestyle best-of-three championship series at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at the Bryce Jordan Center on Saturday, punching his ticket to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. This marks the second time that Dake has qualified for the Olympics in his international wrestling career. 
Dake (Nittany Lion WC), a bronze medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, beat Nolf (Nittany Lion WC) 4-1 in the morning session and 3-0 in the night session. He has won all eight of his matches against Nolf in his freestyle career. 
Dake, a four-time NCAA Champion at four different weights during his time at Cornell, is the first Big Red wrestler to qualify for two Olympics. In all, eight Big Red wrestlers have qualified for the Olympics, including Dake, Charles Ackerley (1920, Belgium), Dave Auble (1964, Tokyo), Christopher Campbell (1987, Spain), Philip Oberlander (1961, Japan), James Talbott Jr. (1908, London), Walter Wright Jr. (1924, Paris) and Frank Bettucci (1956, Melbourne). … more at … Cornellbigred.com/Kyle-dake-13-punches-ticket-to-2024-summer-olympic-games
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Heavyweight U: Wolverine Alums Coon, Parris Earn U.S. Olympic Team Berths
By: Leah Howard
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The University of Michigan wrestling program swept the heavyweight spots on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team as alumni Mason Parris and Adam Coon won at 125kg freestyle and 130kg Greco-Roman, respectively, at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Saturday (April 20) at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
Five Wolverines are now qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Parris and Coon join fellow alums Stevan Micic (57kg freestyle, Serbia) and Myles Amine (86kg freestyle, San Marino) and graduate student Austin Gomez (65kg freestyle, Mexico). It will be the first Olympic Games for both heavyweights as well as Gomez. Coon previously won the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2021 but did not qualify his weight for the Tokyo Games.
Parris swept the best-of-three championships series against Hayden Zillmer at 125kg freestyle, winning both matches 7-0 to make his second straight U.S. senior team. Parris, who advanced directly to the finals after claiming world bronze last fall, earned an early passivity shot-clock point before finishing on three takedowns in both matches. He scored on a first-period high crotch and added two second-period go-behind takedowns in the first bout, then broke open the second with three second-period takedowns — a double leg on the edge, a spinout off a Zillmer low single shot and a late go-behind to ice it.
Parris, the 2023 NCAA heavyweight champion and Hodge Trophy winner, has medaled in all five of his senior-level tournaments since graduating from Michigan last spring. In addition to his 2023 world bronze, he claimed 125kg gold at the UWW Ranking Tournament in Hungary last July as well as in a pair of Pan American appearances and took bronze at the Zagreb Open in January.
Coon rallied to beat Cohlton Schultz in consecutive evening-session matches … more at … Mgoblue.com/Heavyweight-u-wolverine-alums-coon-parris-earn-us-olympic-team-berths

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