Hidlay Prepares to Compete for USA at Senior World Championships
RALEIGH – NC State wrestling alumnus Trent Hidlay is set to compete at 92kg for the United States at the 2025 Senior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, September 14 and 15.
Wolfpack wrestling’s program standout, Trent Hidlay, is just the second member of the program to make the senior world team after Nick Gwiazdowski competed for the United States in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021.
Hidlay comes into the tournament as the No. 8 seed in his weight class, but based on head-to-head matchups, FloWrestling ranks him third in the world and also lists him as one of three favorites for the title based on past achievements and recent results.
Most recently, Hidlay claimed the gold medal at the Budapest Ranking series in July. … more at … https://gopack.com/news/2025/9/11/wrestling-hidlay-prepares-to-compete-for-usa-at-senior-world-championships
The 2025 Offseason Coaching Carousel (9/10/2025)
As we move closer to the collegiate season, most coaching staffs have been rounded out or are in the process of doing so. This week we have a couple of new additions – plus a couple that you might know about, but haven’t been announced as official by their respective schools.
With Ryan LeBlanc taking the reins at Binghamton so late in the game, it made sense for The Citadel to announce that Luke Welch will serve as the program’s interim head coach for the 2025-26 campaign. Welch had spent the last five years as an assistant coach on LeBlanc’s staff. He presumably will be a finalist for the position next spring or, perhaps, be named the full-time head coach after the season. Another recent coaching announcement takes us across the country to Oregon State. Recent graduate Trey Munoz has been named the Beavers graduate assistant. Munoz was a two-time All-American for Oregon State, placing sixth and third in the nation at 184 lbs. He also captured three Pac-12 titles. Oregon State had a vacancy on staff after Nate Engel left to pursue a coaching position with the Army WCAP. There are also a couple of other coaching hires … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/college/the-2025-offseason-coaching-carousel-9102025-r100496/
The Greatest Women’s College Wrestlers Of All Time
The complete list of the greatest women’s college wrestlers of all time.
Selecting the all-time women’s college wrestling team is tricky.
The first women’s college national championships were hosted in 2004 at Missouri Valley University in Marshall, Missouri, without much fanfare. Some participants thought it was just another tournament, with brackets consisting of four to six participants.
That changed in 2008 with the creation of the Women’s Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA). This organization provided women with an opportunity to compete in a formal setting. It included all divisions, and the end-of-the-year tournament was considered the college national championship. The final WCWA championship was held in 2020.
In 2019, the NAIA held an invitational tournament until it sanctioned women’s wrestling for the 2022-23 season. The National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships included all NCAA programs (D1, D2, and D3), and the first national championship was held in 2020. The NCAA sanctioned women’s wrestling as its 91st sport for the 2025-26 season.
Of the four four-year divisions listed above, only the NAIA continues in its original form. Up to 15 wrestlers per team qualified for the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships, and the brackets expanded to 32 per weight class.
The 2026 NCAA women’s wrestling championships feature 18-woman brackets and a maximum of one wrestler per team, per weight. To celebrate the unique history of women’s college wrestling, we have selected the greatest college wrestler at every weight from each era. There is crossover between divisions, of course, and weight shifts, but this provides an overview of how the sport evolved.
A wrestler is evaluated only during the years she competed in college, with caveats. Winning multiple college championships is important, but international success during college factors into a wrestler’s final evaluation. Post-college success is not considered, which is why Olympic gold medalists Sarah Hildebrandt and Tamyra Mensh-Stock did not make the list. Below are the all-time women’s college wrestling teams by era, … more at … https://www.flowrestling.org/articles/14514726-the-greatest-womens-college-wrestlers-of-all-time
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