Montreat Women’s wrestling unveils 2024-25 schedule
MONTREAT, N.C.— Ready for its first action under new head coach Koby Reyes, the Montreat women’s wrestling team unveiled its upcoming 2024-25 competition schedule earlier this month. The slate is highlighted by numerous opens, duals and the first regular season home event in program history.
The action begins on Nov. 2 when the Cavaliers visit Mount Olive, N.C. for the Trojan Open. Just one week later, Montreat heads down to Georgia for a day of duals and an open tournament at Life University.
Following a pair of stops at Liberty University and Baldwin Wallace University to round out November, the Cavs kick off December with two days of showdowns at the Patriot Duals in Williamsburg, Ky. Montreat’s final action in 2024 falls on Dec. 13 as the squad swings through Virginia for the Wasps Open.
January proves to be busy for the women’s wrestling program. The Cavaliers return from Christmas break on Jan. 4 for the Red Lady Open in Alabama prior to visiting Brewton-Parker College on the 10th. Two days of competition at the Indiana Institute of Technology late in the month ultimately set up a historic February.
Montreat hosts its first women’s wrestling dual in program history on Feb. 6 when St. Andrews University comes to McAlister Gymnasium. The Cavs then follow up their initial home dual with the Mid-South Conference (MSC) Women’s Wrestling Championships on Feb. 28 in Bowling Green … more at … https://montreatcavaliers.com/news/2024/8/13/womens-wrestling-womens-wrestling-unveils-2024-25-schedule.aspx
Years of Hire for Every Current DI Head Coach (2024 Version)
We’re almost through August and we currently have no head coaching openings at the DI level after Bloomsburg’s job was filled last week. Barring an unforeseen situation leading to a vacancy, there will be no further head coaching changes during the 2024 offseason. With the leaders of each program set, it seemed to be a good time to look back to see when every current DI head coach was hired.
Note: We published a similar article in July of 2023 and then had the musical chairs of the North Carolina/Stanford/Princeton opening’s so anything is possible!
2024
Bloomsburg – John Stutzman
Buffalo – Donnie Vinson
Central Michigan – Ben Bennett
Columbia – Donny Pritzlaff
Hofstra – Jamie Franco
Oklahoma State – David Taylor
Utah Valley – Adam Hall
2023
North Carolina – Rob Koll
North Dakota State – Obe Blanc
Oklahoma – Roger Kish
Princeton – Joe Dubuque
Stanford – Chris Ayres
2022 … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/college/years-of-hire-for-every-current-di-head-coach-2024-version-r99486/
Burroughs to Enter 2024 World Team Trials
Omaha just got even better! This morning, seven-time World/Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs made an Instagram post that read “Can’t let you guys have all the fun without me. See you in Omaha.” The post was made in conjunction with a handful of pictures of him training.
Burroughs will presumably attempt to make his 12th World/Olympic team and his first since winning his seventh World/Olympic title in 2022.
The World Team Trials slated for September 14th and 15th in Omaha, Nebraska, are for the non-Olympic weights for the upcoming World Championships. Wrestlers who did not participate in the Games are eligible at those non-Olympic weights. For men’s freestyle, they are: 61kg, 70kg, 79kg, and 92 kg. Burroughs would enter the 79kg bracket which is where he won his world titles in 2021 and 2022. Burroughs last wrestled at 79kgs in Final X 2023 – losing to Chance Marsteller in an epic three-match series.
Recently, Burroughs was on the microphone doing commentary for the 2024 Olympic Games. While he sounded like a polished vet, Burroughs also didn’t come off like someone who was ready to retire and even dropped a couple of subtle (or not-so-subtle) hints that he wasn’t done competing. The 2024 Olympic Games marked the 12-year anniversary of Burroughs’ Olympic gold medal-winning performance in London.
Another layer of this story is that the Trials are back in Omaha, not far from his long-time home in Lincoln at the University of Nebraska. The location probably didn’t factor into Burroughs’ decision, but likely is an added bonus.
We last saw Burroughs in action at the 2024 Olympic Trials on the campus of Penn State University. At the Trials, Burroughs defeated Penn State star Mitchell Mesenbrink in a heated affair, before losing to former Nittany Lion great Jason Nolf. After each bout, Burroughs was met with boos … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/international/burroughs-to-enter-2024-world-team-trials-r99484/
Spencer Lee Earns Olympic Silver
PARIS – Former University of Iowa All-American and three-time National Champion Spencer Lee won a silver medal Friday at the 2024 Paris Olympics, becoming the 11th Hawkeye wrestler in school history to medal at the Olympic Games.
Lee fell to top-seeded Rei Higuchi of Japan in the gold medal match, 4-2. Lee earned two push out points in the first period to lead 2-0 at the break. A scramble led to a Higuchi takedown to tie it at 2-2 and give the Japanese wrestler the lead on criteria. Higuchi countered a last second attack from Lee with a takedown to make the final 4-2.
The Murrysville, Pennsylvania, native earned a spot in the gold medal round winning a tight decision over China’s Zou Wanhao in the round of 16. Lee earned a passivity point and a takedown before Wanhao scored two pushout points at the end of the match. Lee rolled to a 12-2 victory in the quarterfinals over Bekzat Almaz Uulu of Kyrgyzstan. After Lee gave up an early takedown, he locked up the technical superiority with 12 unanswered points.
Lee defeated Uzbekistan’s Gulomjan Abdullaev in the semifinal with his second straight first period technical superiority winning 14-4. Lee used three takedowns and … more at … https://hawkeyesports.com/news/2024/08/09/spencer-lee-earns-olympic-silver/
Senior World Team Trials to be held September 14-15 in Omaha, Nebraska
Aug. 8, 2024, 5:13 PM (ET)
by Savannah Asmann, USA Wrestling
USA Wrestling is excited to partner with Visit Omaha and the Omaha Sports Commission to announce that the 2024 Senior World Team Trials will be heading to Omaha, NE on September 14-15, 2024, at CHI Heath Center.
This event is a crucial part of the calendar, as it will determine the champions of the four non-Olympic weight classes in all three styles. Champions will represent the United States at the 2024 Senior World Championships – Non-Olympic weights in Tirana, Albania, from October 28-31. Only the 12 non-Olympic weight classes will be contested at the World Championships in October. The 2024 Olympic representatives are not eligible for this event.
The weight classes for the trials include men’s freestyle at 61 kg, 70 kg, 79 kg, and 92 kg; Greco-Roman at 55 kg, 63 kg, 72 kg, and 82 kg; and women’s freestyle at 55 kg, 59 kg, 65 kg, and 72 kg. The event is scheduled after the 2024 U23 World Championships in the same location.
For those attending the trials, … more at … https://www.themat.com/news/2024/august/08/senior-world-team-trials-for-non-olympic-weight-classes-to-be-held-september-14-15-in-omaha-nebraska
USA’s Hildebrandt wins wrestling gold amid weight cut controversy
PARIS — The most unusual day of Sarah Hildebrandt’s wrestling career ended with her earning an Olympic gold medal. The American won the 50-kilogram women’s category Wednesday, defeating Yusneylis Guzman Lopez of Cuba 3-0 in the championship match to become the fourth U.S. woman to win a gold medal. For a while, she thought she wouldn’t even have a gold medal match.
Vinesh Phogat of India appeared to reach the finals of the 50-kilogram category after three wins Tuesday. But United World Wrestling, the sport’s governing body, disqualified her after she barely missed weight Wednesday morning. Measures such as cutting Phogat’s hair weren’t enough to shed the necessary weight. Team India said Phogat was 100 grams — about a fifth of a pound — over the weight limit. Hildebrandt originally thought she had won gold by forfeit. Instead, Guzman Lopez, who had lost to Phogat in a semifinal, was moved up from a bronze medal match. “There was a lot of celebrating,” the 30-year-old Hildebrandt said. “It was very strange. ‘Oh my God, I just won the Olympics.’ And then an hour later, it was like, psych, you did not win the Olympics. I was like, ‘Oh, this is very weird.’ So there had to be a reset.”
Phogat, who stunned four-time world and defending Olympic champion Yui Susaki of Japan in the first of her three matches Tuesday, would have been the first women’s wrestler from India to compete for a gold medal. Instead, she left empty-handed. “As a big weight cutter myself, yeah, I feel for her,” Hildebrandt said. “She had an amazing day yesterday, did an insane feat and, you know, I don’t think she saw that happening, ending her Olympics like that. So for sure, my heart goes out to her. I think she’s an amazing competitor, an amazing wrestler and person.”
Susaki eventually earned a bronze medal with a 10-0 win over Oksana Livach of Ukraine. Hildebrandt, a bronze medalist in Tokyo, … more at … https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40768385/usa-hildebrandt-wins-wrestling-gold-weight-cut-controversy
Iowa State Wrestling Receives NCAA Trophy
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State wrestling received its fourth-place trophy from the 2024 NCAA Championships on Tuesday, but you might be asking yourself, “why did Iowa State receive a trophy in August for a tournament that was in March?”
It was a historic season, Iowa State’s best since 2010, but one that originally finished without an NCAA trophy in hand. Traditionally, the NCAA has always awarded the top four teams at the NCAA Championships a trophy, but following the 2023 season, the NCAA elected to do away with the fourth-place trophy, citing financial reasons.
In the first season after the decision was made, it was Iowa State who finished in fourth place and narrowly missed out on a trophy finish.
Final team scores from the 2024 NCAA Championships:
1. Penn State – 172.5
2. Cornell – 72.5
3. Michigan – 71.0
4. Iowa State – 68.5
5. Iowa – 67.0
🌪️🚨🌪️ pic.twitter.com/IF7Bq19SgB— Iowa State Wrestling (@CycloneWR) March 24, 2024
In July, the NCAA Competition Oversight Committee voted to reverse course and to reinstate the fourth-place trophy going forward, as well as retroactively award the Cyclones their trophy for 2024. It officially marks Iowa State’s 45th trophy finish in program history (eight national titles, 16 runner-up finishes, 13 third-place finishes, eight fourth-place finishes). … more at … https://cyclones.com/news/2024/8/14/iowa-state-wrestling-receives-ncaa-trophy.aspx
Lander Selected as Host for 2026 NCAA Super Region II Championships
GREENWOOD – For the second time in three seasons, the road to the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship will run through Greenwood, South Carolina as the NCAA announced that Lander University and Finis Horne Arena will be the site of the 2026 NCAA Super Region II Tournament. The event will be held the weekend of Feburary 28th, 2026 with a specific date and start time to be determined at a later date. “We are excited to host the NCAA Super Regional Tournament for the second time,” said Athletic Director Brian Reese. “To host it twice in three years shows how much not only the Lander Wrestling program has grown but also the high quality of our arena, campus, staff, as well as the town of Greenwood.”
The tournament will consist of 13 teams from around the southeast, up from the 11 that competed in Greenwood in 2024, with wrestlers from each team competing in ten weight classes. The top-three wrestlers in each weight class will earn a bid to the NCAA Division II Wrestling Championship in Sioux Falls, S.D. where they will compete against qualifiers from the five other Super Region tournaments being held that same weekend. “We are extremely excited to once again host the NCAA Super Regional here at Lander,” said Head Wrestling Coach R.C. LaHaye. “Horne Arena provides an awesome wrestling atmosphere and our administration always puts on a first class event. We hope to once again pack the arena with Bearcat fans from across the country.”
Lander has won the last two Super Region II Tournaments, setting the all-time scoring record in 2023 with 164 points. The 2025 Super Region tournament will be held in Pembroke, N.C. with the National Championship being held in Indianapolis, Ind. … more at … https://landerbearcats.com/news/2024/8/9/wrestling-lander-selected-as-host-for-2026-ncaa-super-region-ii-championships.aspx?utm_source=Wrestling+News&utm_campaign=4dd041c29c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_09_28_09_07_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_44607e8210-4dd041c29c-245314521&mc_cid=4dd041c29c
Never Too Early Lineup Look: Campbell
We’re now going down south to the SoCon to check out one of the perennial conference favorites Campbell. The Camels are led by Scotti Sentes who is heading into his fifth seed as head coach.
Campbell returns a squad that features four 2024 national qualifiers and another coming off of an Olympic redshirt.
In 2023-24, Campbell went 14-3 in dual competition and finished ranked 22nd in the nation in dual rankings. Some of the Camels notable dual wins include Army West Point, MAC champion Central Michigan, and rivals Appalachian State.
While the SoCon tournament was not what Campbell hoped for, they did reach an impressive benchmark at nationals.
Looking ahead to 2024-25, Campbell will likely feature an experienced lineup with the potential to challenge the seven national qualifiers that the 2021 team produced. Additionally, could Campbell place multiple wrestlers on the podium or have a multiple-time AA? I guess we’ll have to stick around for the upcoming season to find out.
125: Anthony Molton
The Camels spark plug is back at 125 lbs and looking to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in his career. Molton was 21-5 last season and spent a significant amount of time in the national rankings, but a semifinal loss at the SoCon Championships … more at … https://intermatwrestle.com/articles.html/college/socon/never-too-early-lineup-look-campbell-r99485/
Lanham Adds Erkin Tadzhimetov as Assistant Coach
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke wrestling head coach Glen Lanham announced Thursday the addition of Erkin Tadzhimetov as an assistant coach. Tadzhimetov will coach the 125-149 weight classes.
“We are thrilled to be able to add Erkin and his experience working with the 125-149 weight classes to our outstanding group of coaches,” said Lanham. “This is the first time we’ve really focused on trying to add a lightweight coach on our staff. In the past, we really haven’t had a lightweight coach and we all have assumed those duties. But with the way the landscape of things are these days, combined with this great opportunity to get Erkin, we felt like it was the right move. Erkin has put lightweights on the podium and we felt like it was time for us to focus on that area, try to develop guys and get a coach that really knows the feel of being a lightweight. As class gets set to start for the fall, we are excited about getting on the mat and working hard.”
Tadzhimetov arrives at Duke after spending the last 16 seasons at Utah Valley University (UVU), including the final 12 as the associate head coach with the Wolverines.
“I am excited to be an assistant wrestling coach at Duke University,” said Tadzhimetov. “I’m looking forward to working alongside the coaching staff and mentoring student-athletes to achieve their goals on and off the mat. I am eager to contribute my experience to the team’s success and can’t wait to get started!” … more at … https://goduke.com/news/2024/8/22/wrestling-lanham-adds-erkin-tadzhimetov-as-assistant-coach.aspx
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