INDIANAPOLIS, IN — The most significant changes in weight classes in high school wrestling in 23 years will take place in the 2011-12 season. In its April 4-6 meeting in Indianapolis, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee approved an upward shift of the weight classes, beginning with the 103-pound [...]
Archive for April, 2011
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – University of Illinois head coach Jim Heffernan announced Wednesday that two-time NCAA champion Mark Perry will join the Fighting Illini coaching staff as an associate head coach. Perry comes to Illinois from Cal Poly, where he served as co-head coach last season and as an assistant coach in 2009-10. “We are thrilled [...]
Post High School Nationals Individual Rankings (Editor’s Note: WIN is compiling recruiting status information from seniors and juniors in our rankings who have not yet committed to a college. Coaches, parents and wrestlers, please e-mail the wrestler’s name and the top 2-4 schools they’re looking at to Info@WIN-magazine.com. It will be listed under recruiting status [...]
STILLWATER, Okla. — The National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum has selected its 2011 state and regional winners of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award as part of its Educational Outreach Program. Forty-nine seniors from those states that sponsor high school state wrestling championships have been chosen for the honor. The High School [...]
By Jason Bryant, WIN columnist I only briefly saw Cary Kolat wrestle in the prime of his career. Getting into wrestling in the mid-1990s, I was unaware of wrestling outside of the Virginia bubble. As I stepped on the mat for the first time as a junior at Poquoson High School, I watched much of [...]
By Mike Finn Call it the Catch 22 of United States’ men’s freestyle wrestling. A surprisingly low number of Americans have defended their U.S. national championships in the last three years, only 14.3 percent to be exact. The 2011 annual event in Cleveland, April 8-9, was more of the same in that regard compared to [...]
By Mike Finn, WIN Editor One of the things that was mentioned most often when Philadelphia earned the right to host the 2011 NCAA Division I Championships was that the sport might be introduced to a much different audience than that which had attended the annual event in Midwest locations like St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Ann [...]
Editor’s Note: The recent dropping of men’s wrestling by programs like Nebraska-Omaha, UNC-Greensboro and Cal State Fullerton has had a big impact on national wrestling community. Dan Gable, who coached for 20 years at Iowa and won 15 national championships, spoke with WIN editor Mike Finn about what should be done to make sure this does [...]
By Roger Moore Name the last program other than Iowa, Oklahoma State, Minnesota or Iowa State to win back-to-back Division I wrestling titles. The University of Oklahoma, under legendary coach Port Robertson, led the Sooners to consecutive championships in 1951 and ’52. When the 2011-12 campaign kicks off Penn State will try and become the [...]
By Sandy Stevens In the home of Rob Koll — the current Cornell University head wrestling coach and former NCAA champion — the son also rises. Fifteen-year-old Will Koll, son of Rob and his wife Rachel, won a New York state Division II 103-pound title this year as an unseeded freshman. He followed up that [...]
