Last ride underway for active coaching wins leader
EWL Notebook: Last ride underway for active coaching wins leader
He won’t call it a farewell tour, though many people are. Gary Taylor, the dean of coaches in the Eastern Wrestling League and Division-I’s active career wins leader, is calling it a career at the end of the season. Since 1978, he has set a standard for excellence on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. Taylor may be saying goodbye to coaching at the end of this season, but he’s not saying goodbye to his pursuit of excellence just yet. “They tell me that at the end of the year, it will be 39 seasons,” he said. “At the end of the season, John Hangey, my longtime assistant, will be the head coach. People are calling this my farewell tour, but I don’t like to get caught up in all that stuff. I ran as hard and as long as I could. It’s time. This is about the kids. I’m focused on trying to win another conference championship and get more All-Americans. That’s where I’m at.” After losing to conference rival Edinboro during the dual meet season last year, Rider won the EWL tournament, and then Chad Walsh became Taylor’s 15th All-American when he placed fifth at 157 pounds. Walsh is currently ranked 11th at 165. In addition to Walsh, the Broncs have a 2015 All-American in B.J. Clagon (fifth at 149), who is ranked No. 19 at 157. Ryan Wolfe is No. 14 at 197. The Broncs opened their EWL season last Saturday when Taylor picked up his 430th career coaching win – fourth all-time – with a 20-14 win at Lock Haven (2-3, 1-1). Rider has competed in several different conferences under Taylor, beginning with the East Coast Wrestling Association and the Colonial Athletic Association before joining the EWL three seasons ago after the collapse of the CAA. Rest of the story at …. http://s200.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1481210659571&twSessionId=dmufqdgzfdnvzin&postId=9127123&mc_cid=2e34d45673&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
MOORPARK COLLEGE ATHLETICS REINSTATES WRESTLING
ANOTHER NEW WRESTLING PROGRAM !!!
Wrestling to start this Fall 2017
After an eight-year hiatus, this fall Wrestling will return to Moorpark College for the 2017 season. On Monday, it was announced that Wrestling and Sand Volleyball will be a part of the comprehensive Athletics program. “It is an unbelievable feeling to reinstate Wrestling for the student athletes and Wrestling community in Ventura County. Moorpark College will be providing an opportunity for many to continue Wrestling and follow their dreams,” said Interim Athletic Director Vance Manakas. “While we suffered the darkest days in Raider Athletic history six years ago, we will not only put this crisis behind us, but it will serve the future for countless members of our community.” “The state revenue generated from the added student athletes won’t reach our campus for 18 months,” said Manakas. “So, there will be a time gap between paying the bills and getting paid. Nonetheless, adding these sports is in the best interests of Moorpark College on many fronts, including financially.” Restof the story at …. http://thecaliforniawrestler.com/moorpark-college-athletics-reinstates-wrestling/?mc_cid=b7d0f05313&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Oklahoma Wesleyan Announces Addition of Men’s Wrestling
ANOTHER NAIA SCHOOL ADDS WRESTLING !!!
December 6, 2016
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Oklahoma Wesleyan University Director of Athletics Mark Molder is pleased to announce the addition of Men’s Wrestling to the varsity lineup. “We are excited to offer this sport to the students attending Oklahoma Wesleyan,” said Director of Athletics Mark Molder. “This a great sport and aligns directly with what we are looking to do within our athletic department by growing kids spiritually, providing an amazing education, and putting quality athletics on the playing field.”
The addition of men’s wrestling will bring the number of varsity sports offered by Oklahoma Wesleyan to 17. A search for the new head coach will begin immediately. Applicants are encouraged to apply at http://www.okwu.edu/employment/wrestling-coach/.
More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport
More youth athletes taking to the mats in that other indoor sport – Randy B. Young
Here on Tobacco Road, basketball is life. Each season, fans live, dream, despair, hope, and dies a little, until there’s one team left standing in March. Out there in that great wilderness beyond the land of longleaf pines, however, are those who actually enjoy or even participate in other indoor activities, forsaking the madness of March for the mats of wrestling, and local devotees are trying to import wrestling interest and enthusiasm into the area. The key: start ’em young. New local wrestling club N.C. Rams hopes to build a nationally recognized program through instruction and competition. Meeting Sundays at UNC’s Fetzer Gymnasium, N.C. Rams’ high school program began in late November and runs through February. A Little Rams program for elementary and middle school boys and girls meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings through Feb. 2. Club director Andy Gunning and coach Josh Kindig hope to help young athletes develop core fundamentals – footwork, hand-fighting, stance and motion, head position, escapes and reversals – while also providing advanced training for experienced wrestlers. N.C. Rams, which evolved from Gunning’s Big Cats wrestling program, now provides a significant increase in mat space as a chartered club with USA wrestling and a charter member of the newly formed Triangle Youth Wrestling League. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-sports/article118809993.html?mc_cid=ac06da2376&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b#storylink=cpy
Sanderson sizing up outdoor dual, attendance record
College wrestling’s attendance wars have heated up over the last few years as marquee programs have procured the use of massive venues and have succeeded in packing in thousands of fans.
At this point, no attendance record is safe, especially considering Penn State is eyeing 107,000-plus seat Beaver Stadium for possibly its next big event. Although Cael Sanderson would like to see it happen, Penn State’s coach said this week no plans are currently on the table to put a mat down inside the Nittany Lions’ massive football stadium in similar fashion to Rutgers earlier this season.
“We’ve been talking about that since we got here,” Sanderson said. “But we haven’t really pursued it. It’s always about just making progress and doing a better job and increasing in all areas of the program. So if that means we do an outside dual at some point, I certainly wouldn’t say that’s off the table.” For now, Penn State will settle for the cavernous confines of the Bryce Jordan Center where they’ll face No.10 Lehigh (3-0) on Sunday. It’s been a grand atmosphere for a few seasons now, especially as tickets for Penn State duals at Rec Hall have become harder and harder to come by. Rec Hall seats just over 6,500 and the Nittany Lions have been able to more than double that in each of the four duals at the school’s basketball facility since 2013. More than 28,000 fans combined to attend two BJC duals last season, 15,967 were on hand to watch a dual against Iowa in 2014 and the program set a dual-meet attendance record when 15,996 braved a churning snow storm to attend a dual against Pitt in 2013. The Hawkeyes, however, upped the ante with a dual against Oklahoma State at Kinnick Stadium last season when 42,287 showed up to watch the Hawkeyes edge the Cowboys. Rest of the story at … http://s200.trackwrestling.com/tw/PortalPost.jsp?TIM=1480650195270&twSessionId=wjcoeovbolofcyp&postId=137138076&mc_cid=7ffba32921&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Wrestling Singlet Debate – A Photographer’s Perspective
The debate around wrestling uniform has been going on in this country for the last 100+ years. Mark Palmer wrote a nice piece for Intermat on the history of the wrestling uniform in the US. This issue around the singlet is not new to our sport and it makes sense given the complexities of pairing a uniform to a hand-to-hand combat sport through the changing social mores and styles in a rapidly evolving country. As a photographer I’ve been reading the articles and comments with great interest, particularly Mark’s and Matt Krumrie’s USAW article. There’s also a NY Times piece on the subject. I also read Tim Foley’s weekly piece on Intermat and he’s unabashedly anti-singlet. I wanted to give my perspective as a long time wrestler, fan and photographer. I’m not overtly locked into the singlet for nostalgic reasons, my perspective comes from 1) trying to suss out the noise from actionable ideas, and 2) as a leading photographer of the sport I want the best photographs possible and a uniform change will impact my work. I feel there may be a need to parse some of the rhetoric as well, because as informative as the articles and dialog have been, Rest of the story at … http://www.wrestlersarewarriors.com/2016/11/30/wrestling-singlet-debate-a-photographers-perspective/?mc_cid=15347a172c&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
Thomas More Defeats W&J in First-Ever Home Match
(CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky.) – The Thomas More College wrestling team defeated Washington & Jefferson College, 29-20, today (Saturday, December 3, 2016) in its first-ever home match and first-ever Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) match at the Connor Convocation Center in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. With the win, the Saints improve to 2-1 overall in dual matches and 1-0 in the PAC. With the loss, the Presidents fall to 2-3 overall and 0-1 in the PAC. Rest of the story at … http://tmcsaints.com/sports/wrest/2016-17/releases/20161203kzrdg1?mc_cid=532b1af250&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
South Dakota State brings over 4,000 to Frost Arena in record-setting night against Iowa
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Short Time makes its first ever trip to Brookings, South Dakota as the No. 20 South Dakota State Jackrabbits hosted third-ranked Iowa at Frost Arena on Friday, December 2. For South Dakota State, it was a chance to set a new attendance record — and boy did they ever. The South Dakota faithful put 4,087 into Frost Arena although their boys in blue fell to the Hawkeyes 29-8. The Iowa-South Dakota theme was consistent as Madison High School in South Dakota faced CL-GLR in a South Dakota vs. Iowa dual prior to the Jackrabbits and Hawkeyes. The angle there is SDSU two-time Division II champion Paul Konechne coaches at CL-GLR and his brother Marty coaches at Madison, about 40 minutes from Brookings. A war of words led to the matchup at the Division I championships and Coach Chris Bono got the brothers together to kick off afternoon with a back-and-forth dual. Rest of the story at … http://www.mattalkonline.com/podcast/short-time/south-dakota-state-brings-over-4000-to-frost-arena-in-record-setting-night-against-iowa-st295/?mc_cid=532b1af250&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
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Head coach John Stutzman brings toughness, winning culture to U. of Buffalo’s program
The only fun thing about wrestling is getting your hand raised, according to UB head wrestling coach John Stutzman. However, after Stutzman’s first match in the seventh grade, his opponent had his hand raised. After losing the match, Stutzman went home crying.
His mom responded with a pointed message: “Toughen up. If you don’t like it, go be a swimmer.”
He knew he had to toughen up. “Then I got my hand raised and I was like ‘Oh man this is the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life,’” Stutzman said. Stutzman became UB’s head coach in 2013 and has brought a winning culture and toughness to the program. His cauliflower ear may be his most defining characteristic. Life has always revolved around wrestling for Stutzman and he has instilled that same passion into his young UB wrestlers. “I think I’m a better person because of him,” said sophomore Brett Perry. “He always tells us to do the right thing, just to be a better person, just being tougher and to not let things bother you. The culture he’s helped create has made me a better person and a better wrestler.” Stutzman wrestled at UB in the ’90s and made it his goal to one day become Buffalo’s head coach and raise the program into a national powerhouse. “I sat here in 1995, somebody asked me what my goal was. I told them that I was going to be the next head coach for the University at Buffalo,” Stutzman said. Rest of story at … http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2016/11/true-grit?mc_cid=41493a56b7&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
How Rutgers officials planned and executed the Batttle at the Birthplace
PISCATAWAY — Throughout the day on Nov. 14, 2015, when Iowa made collegiate wrestling history by drawing an NCAA-record 42,287 fans for an outdoor duel, Geoff Brown’s phone buzzed. The person messaging Rutgers’ chief marketing officer was Scott Goodale, the Scarlet Knights wrestling coach who yearned for his program to host an event like Iowa was staging. “When Iowa announced it months before, Scott immediately was like, ‘We gotta do that,’ ” Brown recalled. “And then, the day Iowa was doing it, Scott’s blowing my phone up, sending me pictures, ‘We gotta do this, we gotta do this.’ Finally I told him, ‘Scott, you know I’m in.’ ” Rest of the story at … http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2016/11/the_story_of_how_rutgers_officials_planned_and_exe.html?mc_cid=f4062dd7c8&mc_eid=2ef7cbca4b
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