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Appalachian State Announces 2025-26 Schedule, Season Ticket Details

BOONE, N.C. — App State Wrestling has announced its 2025-26 schedule, a slate packed with high-profile duals, big-name tournaments and key SoCon matchups that will test the Mountaineers from November through March.
Led by head coach JohnMark Bentley, who is entering his 17th season, the Mountaineers have lost four veteran starters but are returning a large group of accomplished wrestlers from the team that won SoCon regular season and tournament titles last season.
Sunday afternoon visits to Varsity Gym from NC State on Nov. 30 (a day after a home football game closes that program’s regular season) and from The Citadel on Feb. 8 (Super Bowl Sunday) highlight a home schedule with five duals and two tournaments. Season tickets are now available for renewal or purchase.
General admission season tickets with sideline bleacher seating are available at the low cost of $70 for the seven home events. For faculty/staff, the discounted price is $60.
The endline seating introduced last season, facing the new competition mat and the Varsity Gym scoreboard, will again be in place as a premium seating option for the 2025-26 season.
A season ticket in the Premium Gold section … more at … https://appstatesports.com/news/2025/9/8/wrestling-announces-2025-26-schedule-season-ticket-details.aspx

September 14, 2025 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

College athletes suing NCAA to extend eligibility to 5 seasons

A pair of Vanderbilt football players are among 10 athletes suing the NCAA in an effort to force the association to allow college athletes to compete for five seasons rather than four.
Linebacker Langston Patterson and defensive lineman Issa Ouattara filed a class action lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, which claims that the NCAA’s eligibility rules violate antitrust law. The NCAA’s current rules allow athletes to compete for four seasons during a five-year timespan that begins when they enroll in college.
Attorney Ryan Downton said in a news release that the players were not aiming to completely remove any eligibility restrictions but believe they should be able to compete in games for all five years that they are allowed to be on the team. “We’re not challenging the five-year [limit],” Downton told ESPN Tuesday night. “The question is why do players have to spend one of those five years sitting on the bench? How does that further any of the NCAA’s goal of moving players toward graduation?”
Patterson and Ouattara are both seniors who played in each of their three previous seasons on campus and will be out of eligibility at the end of 2025 under the NCAA’s current rules. “The NCAA stands by its eligibility rules, including the five-year rule, … more at … https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46141528/two-vanderbilt-players-suing-ncaa-extend-eligibility

September 14, 2025 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment