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Lanham Announces 2024-25 Wrestling Slate

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke wrestling head coach Glen Lanham officially announced the 2024-25 wrestling schedule Monday, which kicks off in less than two weeks.  Lanham, who enters his 13th campaign in Durham with the Blue Devils, welcomes back seven starters and brought in 14 newcomers for the upcoming season.  
Duke is set to open the 2024 season at the Battle at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., on Nov. 3.  The Blue Devils will then compete against Long Island and Rutgers in WrangleMania, which will be contested at Nov. 9 at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa., and then compete in the Journeymen Collegiate Classic at Freedom High School on Nov. 10.  
The Blue Devils face Hofstra and Sacred Heart Nov. 16 in Hempstead, N.Y., before featuring the first match in Durham on Nov. 22 against Michigan.  The contest will be played at Jordan High School at 7 p.m.  
Duke will then host a quad match on Nov. 23 with American, Utah Valley and Presbyterian in Durham at a site yet to be determined.  The Blue Devils close the fall slate with Davidson (Dec. 6) and VMU (Dec. 22) at home. To open the 2025 portion of the schedule, Duke travels to the Southern Scuffle Jan. 4-5 in Chattanooga, Tenn.   
The dual match schedule features four home matches in 2025 – Gardner-Webb (Jan. 14), North Carolina (Jan. 17), Virginia Tech (Jan. 24) and Stanford (Feb. 16).  Away matches include NC State (Jan. 10), Appalachian State (Jan. 20), Pittsburgh (Feb. 1) and Virginia (Feb. 7).
Duke is set to host the ACC Championship in Cameron Indoor Stadium March 9. … more at … https://goduke.com/news/2024/10/21/lanham-announces-2024-25-wrestling-slate.aspx?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

October 30, 2024 Posted by | Uncategorized | , , | Leave a comment

Jason Moorman Out As King University Women’s Wrestling Coach

Jason Moorman is no longer the King University Women’s Wrestling coach as of October 18, 2024.

Jason Moorman is no longer the head women’s wrestling coach at King. Moorman is arguably the country’s most successful women’s college wrestling coach after serving in the role since the 2009-10 season. 
He led the team to a 1-9 record during its inaugural season before building a national powerhouse. The Tornado won four WCWA Championships (2014-17) and has placed in the top three at the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships since the tournament began in 2020. 
King University, an NCAA Division II school in Bristol, Tennessee, stated about his departure: “As of Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, Jason Moorman is no longer employed with King University. We are grateful for his service and wish him well going forward. “The future remains bright for the Tornado, and we will now begin a formal search process to identify the next proven and qualified candidate to guide our highly respected women’s wrestling program.”
The 2014 King University women’s team was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct 6, 2024. Moorman and several team members, including 2024 Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hildebrandt, attended the weekend festivities.  “I know when abrupt changes like this happen in a sport with men coaching female athletes, first assumptions can go straight to some inappropriate incidents causing harm or mistreating student-athletes, and that is not the case whatsoever,” Moorman said. “I am extremely grateful for King University and my 18 years there. … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/12919987-jason-moorman-out-as-king-university-womens-wrestling-coach

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Penn State, Iowa begin season ranked atop NWCA Division I Men’s Wrestling Coaches Poll

Manheim, Pennsylvania – For the third straight year, Penn State will start the college wrestling season ranked No. 1 in the country.  
The Nittany Lions garnered all 16 first-place votes as the season’s first poll was released by the National Wrestling Coaches Association on Wednesday. Penn State won its third straight national championship and 12th overall last March, setting a new NCAA tournament scoring mark in the process with 172.5 points and outdistancing runner-up Cornell by an unprecedented 100 points.  
Coach Cael Sanderson’s team is also riding a dual meet win streak of 55 in a row, which currently sits as the 13th longest all-time in college wrestling history and the sixth-longest in major college history.  
Iowa starts the year ranked second after finishing the regular season 12-2 in duals and fifth at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. The Hawkeyes are followed by Oklahoma State, Nebraska and Ohio State in the top five.  
Oklahoma State went 14-1 last season and for the first time in nearly 30 years, will be led by a new head coach. World and Olympic champion David Taylor assumed the role over the summer as the Cowboys’ head coach and brings a new feeling of excitement to Stillwater. The Cowboys finished a disappointing 10th at last season’s NCAA championships.  
Nebraska went 12-2 in duals and finished ninth at the NCAA championships, while the Buckeyes were 15-2 in duals and finished eighth. The Big Ten, as usual, has an abundance of teams ranked in the Top 25, with eight of the conference’s 14 wrestling schools starting the year in the poll, including four in the top five. Michigan (8-4 in 2023-24) gives the Big Ten a fifth team in the Top 10, coming in at No. 10.  
While the Big Ten was unaffected on the wrestling side of things by the continuing world of college realignment, other conferences find themselves with changing membership.  
Oklahoma State is one of eight Big 12 teams ranked in the Top 25 to start the season, … more at … https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/INBOX%2FaaResponseNeeded/FMfcgzQXJswdRXkXhZpHCFlpJWpHlCXs

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