Why Virginia Tech? New Associate Head Coach Zach Tanelli Talks About His Move
Earlier this week, Virginia Tech head coach Tony Robie announced the latest edition to his coaching staff. He added Zach Tanelli, formerly the head coach at Columbia, to come aboard as an Associate Head Coach. Tanelli just wrapped up a season in which his team produced a pair of EIWA champions and his first individual All-American, Lennox Wolak. Coincidentally, Wolak is also headed to Virginia Tech as a graduate transfer.
A few days after it was all official, Tanelli joined our Robbie Wendell to discuss the rationale for this move, his accomplishments at Columbia, the potential that Virginia Tech holds, his relationship with the existing staff, Carhartt vests…..and much more! For the full interview: … more at … Intermatwrestle.com/Why-virginia-tech-new-associate-head-coach-zach-tanelli-talks-about-his-move
Olympians 2024
Maroulis becomes first three-time Olympian in women’s freestyle at Trials
The following are the Best-of-3 Championship matches in the six women’s freestyle weights at the 2024 Olympic Trials in State College, Pa., April 19-20. WIN Magazine will provide even more comprehensive coverage of this event in our next issue, printed May 1. Click here or call 888-305-0606 to subscribe. 50k/110 pounds — Sarah Hildebrandt (NYAC) defeated Audrey Jimenez (SKWC), two matches to none Match 1 – Hildebrandt won by TF over Jimenez, 10-0 — A fourth takedown with 22 seconds gone in the second period also helped Hildebrandt score two back points that ended the bout with 2:10 left. Hildebrandt’s first three takedowns all came in the first period.
Match 2 – Hildebrandt won by TF over Jimenez, 10-0 — Hildebrandt scored five takedowns, mostly off a single and three in the first period … and the fifth that ended the bout with 1:08 left … to clinch her second straight Olympic berth.
53k/116.5 pounds — Dominique Parrish (BDRTC/SKWC) defeated Haley Augello (IZZY/NYAC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Parrish dec. Augello, 2-1 — Parrish scored her points on high-crotch takedown with 1:37 left in the first period. Augello got on the board with a stepout six seconds into second period but could not add anything else.
Match 2 — Parrish dec. Augello 5-2 — The 2022 World champ opened the bout on an inside trip, then countered a throw by Augello in the second period to clinch her first Olympic berth. Augello, the 2016 Olympian, nearly hit a headlock but the first period expired.
57k/125.5 pounds — Helen Maroulis (SKWC) defeated Jacarra Winchester (TMWC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Maroulis pinned Winchester, 2:41 — Maroulis’ third takedown of the bout put Winchester on her back with 50 seconds left in the first period before the two-time Olympic medalist ended the bout 22 seconds later.
Match 2 – Maroulis dec. Winchester, 6-0 — Maroulis became the first American woman to qualify for three Olympic Games by scoring two takedowns and two stepouts. … more at … WIN-magazine.com/Maroulis-becomes-first-three-time-olympian-in-womens-freestyle-at-trials
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Snyder joins rare wrestling air as three-time Olympian and 10-time world and Olympic team member
Apr. 20, 2024, 10:54 PM (ET) by Cody Goodwin, Special to TheMat.com
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— Steadily, consistently — and perhaps even quietly? — Kyle Snyder is authoring one of the greatest American wrestling careers ever.
Snyder swept Isaac Trumble, two matches to none, to win the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling on Saturday here at the Bryce Jordan Center. He will represent the U.S. at 97 kilograms in the men’s freestyle competition this summer in Paris. It will be his third trip to the Olympics. He is just 28 years old.
The Woodbine, Md., native won his best-of-three finals series matches 5-0 and 4-0. It was a ho-hum, businesslike performance. Trumble was one of the stars in Friday’s challenge tournament competition, but he hardly got anything going against Snyder.
As a result, Snyder is now on the U.S. team for a staggering 10th consecutive year. He’s been the guy at 97-kg every year since 2015, when he became the youngest American wrestler ever to win a world championship. He followed that up with Olympic gold in 2016, and has won a medal at every single world or Olympic competition since.
As if that’s not rare enough air, Snyder is now the 11th American wrestler to qualify for three Olympic competitions. He is just the second to reach three before the age of 30, joining Mark Fuller, a Greco-Roman wrestler who went to four in a row: 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992.
Fuller is one of just two Americans to wrestle in four Olympics, along with Bruce Baumgartner, who not only wrestled in four, but medaledin all four: gold in 1984, silver in 1988, gold in 1992, and bronze in 1996. Baumgartner ultimately won 13 world and Olympic medals, adding five world titles to his two Olympic golds. Snyder is tracking toward doing the same. Entering this summer, he’s won nine consecutive world and Olympic medals, … more at … Themat.com/Snyder-joins-rare-wrestling-air-as-three-time-olympian-and-10-time-world-and-olympic-team
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Brooks stuns Taylor in men’s freestyle at Olympic Trials
The following are the Best-of-3 Championship matches in the six men’s freestyle weight of the 2024 Olympic Trials in State College, Pa., April 19-20. WIN Magazine will provide even more comprehensive coverage of this event in our next issue, printed May 1. Click here or call 888-305-0606 to subscribe. 57k/125.5 pounds – Spencer Lee (HWC / TMWC) defeats Thomas Gilman (NLWC / TMWC), two matches to none
Match 1 – Lee dec. Gilman, 6-3 — After trading step out points in the first, Lee scored a single leg takedown and immediately followed with a trap arm gut wrench to take a 5-1 lead. Gilman answered back with a big lift double leg on the edge that yielded a brick throw to check for exposure, but the two-point takedown was not enough to tie the bout for the NLWC athlete. Lee added a point for the failed challenge to win 6-3.
Match 2 – Lee pinned Gilman, 5:58 — Gilman led, 2-2 on criteria, before Lee gained two points for exposure and then used successive gut wrenches to plant and hold his former teammate and training partner for a fall just before time expired. Lee must now qualify the weight class, May 9-12 in Turkey, for a chance to wrestle in Paris this August.
65k/143.5 pounds — Zain Retherford (NLWC / TMWC) defeats Nick Lee (NLWC / TMWC), two matches to none.
Match 1 – Retherford dec. Lee, 2-1 — The pair of NLWC teammates traded passivity points while a step out point proved to be the difference in a match that endured several blood time stoppages.
Match 2 – Retherford dec. Lee, 5-0 — Retherford struck early with a takedown and exposure within the first 2 seconds of the bout and never looked back, as the former three-time NCAA champ earned a controlling 5-0 win. He will look to qualify the weight class for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Istanbul, Turkey in early May.
74k/163 pounds — Kyle Dake (NLWC / TMWC) defeats Jason Nolf (NLWC / TMWC) 2 matches to none.
Match 1 – Dake dec. Nolf, 4-1 — Dake scored a takedown in the first minute and added a push out and passivity point to defeat his fellow NLWC foe in match one. … more at … WIN-magazine.com/Brooks-stuns-taylor-in-mens-freestyle-at-olympic-trials
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Kyle Dake ’13 Punches Ticket To 2024 Summer Olympic Games
STATE COLLEGE, PA. — Kyle Dake ’13 swept Jason Nolf in two matches in the 74kg freestyle best-of-three championship series at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at the Bryce Jordan Center on Saturday, punching his ticket to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. This marks the second time that Dake has qualified for the Olympics in his international wrestling career.
Dake (Nittany Lion WC), a bronze medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, beat Nolf (Nittany Lion WC) 4-1 in the morning session and 3-0 in the night session. He has won all eight of his matches against Nolf in his freestyle career.
Dake, a four-time NCAA Champion at four different weights during his time at Cornell, is the first Big Red wrestler to qualify for two Olympics. In all, eight Big Red wrestlers have qualified for the Olympics, including Dake, Charles Ackerley (1920, Belgium), Dave Auble (1964, Tokyo), Christopher Campbell (1987, Spain), Philip Oberlander (1961, Japan), James Talbott Jr. (1908, London), Walter Wright Jr. (1924, Paris) and Frank Bettucci (1956, Melbourne). … more at … Cornellbigred.com/Kyle-dake-13-punches-ticket-to-2024-summer-olympic-games
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Heavyweight U: Wolverine Alums Coon, Parris Earn U.S. Olympic Team Berths
By: Leah Howard
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The University of Michigan wrestling program swept the heavyweight spots on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team as alumni Mason Parris and Adam Coon won at 125kg freestyle and 130kg Greco-Roman, respectively, at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Saturday (April 20) at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
Five Wolverines are now qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Parris and Coon join fellow alums Stevan Micic (57kg freestyle, Serbia) and Myles Amine (86kg freestyle, San Marino) and graduate student Austin Gomez (65kg freestyle, Mexico). It will be the first Olympic Games for both heavyweights as well as Gomez. Coon previously won the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2021 but did not qualify his weight for the Tokyo Games.
Parris swept the best-of-three championships series against Hayden Zillmer at 125kg freestyle, winning both matches 7-0 to make his second straight U.S. senior team. Parris, who advanced directly to the finals after claiming world bronze last fall, earned an early passivity shot-clock point before finishing on three takedowns in both matches. He scored on a first-period high crotch and added two second-period go-behind takedowns in the first bout, then broke open the second with three second-period takedowns — a double leg on the edge, a spinout off a Zillmer low single shot and a late go-behind to ice it.
Parris, the 2023 NCAA heavyweight champion and Hodge Trophy winner, has medaled in all five of his senior-level tournaments since graduating from Michigan last spring. In addition to his 2023 world bronze, he claimed 125kg gold at the UWW Ranking Tournament in Hungary last July as well as in a pair of Pan American appearances and took bronze at the Zagreb Open in January.
Coon rallied to beat Cohlton Schultz in consecutive evening-session matches … more at … Mgoblue.com/Heavyweight-u-wolverine-alums-coon-parris-earn-us-olympic-team-berths
Spencer Lee wins battle of former Hawkeye lightweights to win 57 kg at U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling
Apr. 20, 2024, 2:49 PM (ET) by Cody Goodwin, Special to TheMat.com
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This was what the fans wanted to see, right?
Spencer Lee. Thomas Gilman. Two former Hawkeyes. Two world-class wrestlers.
But only one could win the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling.
In a highly-anticipated best-of-three finals series, it was Lee who emerged victorious, defeating Gilman two matches to none to win the Trials at 57 kilograms. Lee won the first match, 6-3, thanks to a takedown-to-a-turn sequence in the second period. In the second, a similar script unfolded: Gilman led 2-2 on criteria with 30 seconds left, then Lee erupted for a takedown, two turns, and ultimately pinned Gilman in 5:58. As a result, Lee is the Olympic Trials champion — but he is not yet an Olympian.
The Murrysville, Pa., native must now qualify the U.S. for the 57-kg competition at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He’ll travel to Istanbul, Turkey, next month for the World Olympic Games Qualifier, set for May 9-12. In all, the United States still needs to qualify five weights for Paris: 57 kg and 65 kg in men’s freestyle as well as 60 kg, 67 kg, and 77 kg in Greco-Roman.
It’s a challenge Lee is ready to attack, the same way he attacked the Trials this weekend. Lee finished 4-0 and outscored his opponents by a combined 35-11. He took out Nico Megaludis, another Murrysville native and occasional training partner; Zane Richards, the returning world team rep; then Gilman, three-time world medalist, world champion, and Olympic bronze medalist, in consecutive matches.
Winning Olympic gold has always been Lee’s dream. He’s now closer than he’s ever been — and he doesn’t plan on stopping now.
Here’s a weight-by-weight rundown of what happened in Session III on Saturday: … more at … Themat.com/Spencer-lee-wins-battle-of-former-hawkeye-lightweights-to-win-57-kg-at-u-s-olympic-team-trials
Cerritos Takes Home Second Consecutive Women’s Wrestling State Championship
Complete Results
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With 166 points and three individual state champions, the Falcons took home their second consecutive 3C2A Women’s Wrestling State Championship on Saturday evening at Sacramento City College. “I think the team chemistry is one of the biggest things that set us apart,” said Cerritos Head Coach Dustin Kirk. “I talk about enjoying the process, having fun and enjoying the journey. At the end of the day, it’s a sport and one of the hardest games out there. We forget about that and these girls came out and represented themselves.”
In addition to three state champions, the Falcons had five wrestlers finish second in their respective weight classes. Their depth throughout the team led to the second state championship in 3C2A history. The Mt. San Antonio Mounties were the closest team behind them as they finished with 127.5 points. Mt. SAC came into the tournament ranked third but saw three members of their team become state champions while two more finished runner up.
East Los Angeles placed third overall with … more at … CCAAsports.org/2023-24/releases
NCWWC Regions Announced ahead of 2024-25 Season
Following approval from the Executive Committee Thursday, the regional assignments for the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championship (NCWWC) for the 2024-25 season have been solidified.
The NCWWC will move from a six-region qualification to eight regions for the coming year, a testament to the explosive growth the sport of women’s wrestling is currently experiencing. A total of 96 teams across NCAA Division I, II and III will field women’s wrestling programs this coming season, with 23 of those programs competing for the first time in the fall of 2024.
“The NCWWC Women’s Coaches Leadership Group spent quite a bit of time looking at this from all angles to develop a solid working set of recommendations,” Leadership Group Chair Cliff Cushard of Adrian College said. “The inter-complexity of the various pieces was really quite impressive. I commend everyone involved and want to thank the NWCA for their expert input and guidance along the way. The NCWWC Executive Committee understood and appreciated this work and approved it for next season. It is going to be an amazing final year of the NCWWC – with a large field and the opportunity for more NCAA student-athletes and varsity programs to earn their places in history. I’m excited about the future of our great sport!”
In moving to the eight regions, the top four at each weight class will still qualify to the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championship March 7-8, 2025, increasing the field of student-athletes to 320 from 240 this season. The 2025 NCWWC will take place at Xtreme Arena in Coralville, IA. … more at … NWCAonline.com/NCWWC-regions-announced-ahead-of-2024-25-season
CHUN NAMED USA WRESTLING WOMEN’S COACH OF THE YEAR
STATE COLLEGE, Penn. – University of Iowa women’s wrestling head coach Clarissa Chun was named USA Wrestling Women’s Coach of the Year, announced by the organization at the conclusion of the 2024 Olympic Team Trials tournament on Saturday.
This is Chun’s second coach of the year recognition in her first season with the Hawkeyes. Her first being NCWWC Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year, awarded to her at the national championships in March.
The Hawkeyes went 16-0 in dual competition in the 2023-24 season and broke the world attendance record for women’s wrestling in their first dual inside of Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Chun led Iowa to the NCWC National Duals title, the NCWWC national team title and had six individual national champions, and 12 all-Americans.
Iowa qualified a total of nine wrestlers for the 2024 Olympic Team Trials this past weekend, bringing home three podium finishes.
Several Hawkeyes will continue international competition at the U20 and U23 World Championship later this year. The U20 World Championship will be held in Pontevedra, Spain, this September, … more at … Hawkeyesports.com/Chun-named-usa-wrestling-womens-coach-of-the-year
Helen Maroulis makes record third Olympic team; David Taylor, Adeline Gray dethroned
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania — Helen Maroulis, the first U.S. female wrestler to win Olympic gold, will this summer become the oldest U.S. woman to wrestle at an Olympics and the first to wrestle at three Games.
Maroulis, 32, headlines the first 13 members of the Olympic wrestling team, decided at trials on Saturday at Penn State University.
She’ll be joined in Paris by veterans, including fellow 2016 Olympic champion Kyle Snyder, and newcomers, including 20-year-old world champion Amit Elor, who was one day too young to compete at the last trials and will become the youngest U.S. Olympic female wrestler in history.
Missing the team: Tokyo Olympic gold medalist David Taylor, who lost to NCAA Wrestler of the Year Aaron Brooks; six-time world champion Adeline Gray, who lost to Kennedy Blades, and 2012 Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs, who was eliminated on the trials’ first day Friday.
WRESTLING TRIALS: Results
Maroulis swept two-time world medalist Jacarra Winchester in their best-of-three series Saturday to earn the Olympic spot at 57kg.
Maroulis was last beaten for a spot on the national team at the 2012 Olympic Trials. Since, she won four gold, two silver and three bronze medals between the Olympics and world championships, including that breakthrough Olympic title in 2016.
She briefly retired in 2019 due to concussions and post-traumatic stress disorder, then came back to win Olympic bronze in Tokyo and a world medal of every color the last three years. “I was giving my dad a hard time because, two years ago, he said, ‘Hey, no more medals. Just retire. Get married. Have kids,’” Maroulis said. “I was like, ‘Let me go one more, dad.’”
Leading into these trials, Maroulis said she was in a car accident and dealt with a two-week “deep sickness.” Snyder, 28, swept Isaac Trumble to make his third Olympic team. … more at … NBCsports.com/Olympic-wrestling-trials-david-taylor-helen-maroulis-adeline-gray
Buffalo on transition in men’s wrestling program: ‘We’re invested in this sport’
Donnie Vinson knows he’s entering the University at Buffalo wrestling program at a tumultuous time. He takes over as UB’s coach less than a month after the school announced it had not retained John Stutzman, the program’s coach for the last 11 years.
Vinson comes in when 14 wrestlers have entered the transfer portal as a result of Stutzman’s departure – nearly half of the 30 wrestlers listed on the roster for the 2023-24 season. Among the wrestlers in the transfer portal, according to Flowrestling.com, are NCAA qualifiers Nick Stampoulos and Sam Mitchell. Stampoulos will transfer to Lock Haven. After the 2022-23 season, nine wrestlers entered the transfer portal, according to transfer portal records kept by Flowrestling.com.
Vinson also takes over at a time when Division I men’s wrestling programs are on the decline. UB is one of 79 schools that fielded a program during the 2023-24 school year. That has dropped from 146 in 1981 to 89 in 2007.
But after Vinson’s formal introduction Monday at Alumni Arena, UB athletic director Mark Alnutt told The News this much about UB’s commitment to men’s wrestling: “We’re invested in this sport.”
That declaration came less than a month after UB began its search for a new wrestling coach, and a wave of change in the program, including allegations of medical and facilities neglect, documented in the UB student newspaper. Alnutt declined to comment to The News on the allegations. “The No. 1 priority is just to settle everything,” Vinson said. “There’s some turmoil. There was turmoil before I settled in here. “I talked to the team recently, and I seemed to settle their nerves. But my main goal right now is to make sure that everyone is comfortable with the position that I’m in now.”
It’s not an easy spot for the former Binghamton University wrestler, who takes his first head coaching job after three seasons as an assistant at Cornell, which finished second in the NCAA Championships in March. Vinson replaces Stutzman, a 1998 UB graduate who was 95-27 in three seasons as a UB wrestler. … more at … Buffalonews.com/Wrestling-donnie-vinson-john-stutzman
NCAA Funding approved for establishing women’s wrestling championship
The NCAA Board of Governors on Thursday revised the penalty structure around the attestation requirement of the NCAA policy on campus sexual violence.
Established in August 2017, the policy includes six key requirements that schools must annually attest that they have met in the previous academic year. For schools that fail to submit an attestation form or do so after the deadline, the new penalty structure includes the following:
- A school that does not submit the attestation form will be fined $5,000, which will be distributed to a philanthropic organization identified by each division whose efforts focus on campus sexual violence prevention. The school will also be listed on the NCAA website after the board’s annual review.
- The revised policy also authorizes NCAA national office staff to automatically grant an extension of 10 calendar days from the original deadline to any school that requests one before the deadline. If a school meets the revised deadline, no penalty will be imposed.
- A school that submits the attestation form after the deadline or its extended deadline will be listed on the NCAA website as late. For schools that miss the attestation deadline in multiple years, the penalties of a fine and being listed on the NCAA website as not attesting will be applied.
In the previous penalty structure, schools that failed to attest were prohibited from hosting NCAA championships in the next academic year, as well as listed on the NCAA’s website. “This policy change shifts the impact of penalties away from the student-athletes and will impact schools more equally, as not all schools host an NCAA championship,” said Linda A. Livingstone, president at Baylor and chair of the Board of Governors. “We also understand the need for flexibility. Providing schools an automatic extension if they identify the need for more time before the deadline is an appropriate compromise.”
Women’s wrestling
The board approved $1.7 million in Association-wide funding — $200,000 in fiscal year 2025 and $1.5 million in fiscal year 2026 — for establishing a National Collegiate women’s wrestling championship, with the first championship occurring in the 2025-26 academic year.
In February, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics voted to recommend that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add a women’s wrestling championship. The divisions are expected to vote on the proposals during the 2025 NCAA Convention planned for Jan. 15-18 in Nashville, Tennessee. … more at … NCAA.org/Media-center-board-of-governors-revises-penalties-for-campus-sexual-violence-attestation
Participants now inbounds with one point of contact in high school wrestling
This fundamental change to high school wrestling was one of six major changes impacting almost 30 rules recommended by the NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee at its April 1-3 meeting in Indianapolis. All recommended changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
Beginning with the 2024-25 season, high school wrestlers will be inbounds with only one point of contact of either wrestler inside or on the boundary line.
This fundamental change to high school wrestling was one of six major changes impacting almost 30 rules recommended by the NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee at its April 1-3 meeting in Indianapolis. All recommended changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
Previously, high school wrestlers were considered to be inbounds if a total of two supporting points of either wrestler were inside or on the boundary line. The two supporting points could be two supporting points of one wrestler or one supporting point of each wrestler inside or on the boundary line. “Without increasing risk, this change eliminates the subjectivity of the out-of-bounds call,” said Elliot Hopkins, NFHS director of sports and student services and liaison to the Wrestling Rules Committee. “The change also helps officials to call ‘out of bounds’ more consistently, and it provides wrestlers, coaches and spectators a better understanding of out of bounds.”
While the One Point of Contact change will be noted under the definition of Inbounds in Rule 5-15, it also impacts a number of other sections in Rule 5 on Definitions, as well as Rule 6-4-1 on Stopping and Starting the Match.
In addition to the One Point of Contact change, points awarded for a Near-Fall have been revised in high school wrestling. Overall, the changes simplify the points awarded based on how long the wrestler is held in near-fall criteria. The change in Rule 5-11-3 is as follows: Two points will be awarded when near-fall criteria are held for two seconds, three points for three seconds, four points for four seconds and five points if the defensive wrestler is injured, indicates an injury or bleeding occurs after the four-point near-fall has been earned. These changes will affect other rules including individual match scoring in Rule 9. “The goal in wrestling is to pin the opponent,” Hopkins said. “Changing the near-fall points should motivate wrestlers to work for a fall.”
In another change in scoring rules, opportunities to earn more points will also be available when executing a Takedown. Beginning next season, wrestlers will be awarded three match points instead of two when securing a takedown.
The committee also approved a change regarding the Technical Fall. Rule 5-11-4a now states that “if a takedown or reversal, straight to a near-fall criteria creates a 15-point advantage, the match shall continue until the near-fall criteria is no longer met. Conclusion of the near-fall criteria is immediate.” The change clarifies when the technical fall has concluded in relation to the near-fall criteria being met. Hopkins said the offensive wrestler cannot be penalized appropriately after the technical fall has been earned. In another change, the 10-Foot Circle at the center of wrestling mats is now optional. Wrestlers now will be encouraged to “stay in the center of the mat” instead of “within the 10-foot circle.”
“The committee determined that the starting lines of a mat indicate the center of the mat and the 10-foot circle is no longer needed,” Hopkins said. “With the new mat designs that have a large mascot or logos, it gives a refreshing look to the mats. Wrestlers and officials know where the center of the mat is located without the 10-foot circle.”
Finally, the committee approved a new Referee’s Time-Out Signal. The signal, which is used in many other sports, is both hands/fingers pointing inward to the referee’s chest.
A complete listing of the wrestling rules changes will be available on the NFHS website at http://www.nfhs.org. Click on “Activities & Sports” at the top of the home page and select “Wrestling.”
According to the 2022-23 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, wrestling is the sixth-most popular sport for boys with 259,431 participants in 10,962 schools. It also continues to gain popularity among girls with 50,016 participants in 6,545 schools nationwide. … more at … Highschoolot.com/Participants-now-inbounds-with-one-point-of-contact-in-high-school-wrestling
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