Josh Clayton is hoping to take the Eagles wrestling program at Milford High School in suburban Cincinnati to new heights. Josh ClaytonThe Milford High School Department of Athletics has announced that Clayton will take the controls of the Eagles high school mat program for the 2020-21 season as int...

Ivan McClay, who had been 2017 NCAA Division II national 125-pound wrestling champ at Notre Dame College in the Cleveland area, is heading west to Ohio Northern University, located in Ada, Ohio between Toledo and Dayton. where he will be serving as an ONU assistant wrestling coach. Ivan McClayMcCla...

The Power Five athletic conferences made a staggering amount of money in 2019. According to USA Today, the P5 conferences, which are the ACC, PAC-12, Big 10, SEC and Big 12, made nearly $3 billion in revenue, and the Big 10 led the way with $780 million in revenue. The B1G paid out more than [&#8230...

Tony Ersland (right), with A.J. Schopp, coaching at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue wrestling head coach Tony Ersland was named president elect of the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) last week, setting ...

Nenad Lalovic (Photo/Tony Rotundo WrestlersAreWarriors.com) CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland -- The official candidacies for the 2020 United World Wrestling Bureau elections have been received and confirmed. There are seven positions up for re-election in 2020, including six seats on the Bureau and t...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The University of Iowa wrestling program has launched an alumni advisory group to assist fundraising efforts for the Carver Circle facility campaign. The 12-member group includes head coach Tom Brands and is led by chairman Chuck Yagla, a two-time NCAA champion and 1980 Olympian...

Bad news. And it’s not like Stanford is poor. A few justifications and noteworthy points. Stanford points to the fact that fewer than 22% of D1 schools sponsor wrestling. When they re-instituted wrestling it was because it was a cheap sport and it was easy to find wrestlers with high academics...

Barkley said, “I think what’s happening now is we have turned it into a circus. We are going to spend time instead of talking about racial equality, racial justice and economic justice. We spend all our time worried about who is kneeling and what’s being said on buses, what is being said on jerseys....

Your favorite wrestling goofballs, Brandon and Ben, are back to the mic for episode 116. What the hell has happened?!?! Pat Downey melting on social media as we record, what a great time to be back. Follow us on twitter @theinsidetrip1, find The Inside Trip Facebook page, or email us at theinsidetr...

WIN’s Special June Issue is NOW AVAILABLE – (Plus WIN Archives back to 2011 Inside WIN’s Digital Subscription) Click here to view the Special Free June Digital issue of WIN Click here to subscribe or call 888-305-0606  The death of George Floyd in May made society take a strong look at t...

Former University of Nebraska-Kearney assistant wrestling coach. Working to rebuild the wrestling program at Alma High School in Nebraska. Independent business entrepreneur. Josh EricksonNow Josh Erickson can add "head wrestling coach at Hastings College of Nebraska" to his growing resume, having b...

Appalachian State University has announced the names of the five past student-athletes as members of the Class of 2021 - which will include 1960s star wrestler George Sansone -- the North Carolina school announced. George Sansone with App State coach JohnMark BentleyBecause of the current coronavi...

Does Coach Popolizio have a face for podcasting? We find out the answer to that question and more on the #PackMenality Pop-Ins Podcast.

Duane "Tug" Wilson wasn't real familiar with wrestling but he figured that since most of the high schools in the area had teams & it was quite popular in Northwestern Iowa, that Westmar should probably get a program.  So wrestling was brought to Westmar for the 1961-1962 season, with Wilson...

Manny Rivera is moving into his fifth season at CSU Bakersfield as the program's head coach. The Roadrunners have been inventive with fundraising, too.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday that Chief Justice John Roberts -- who wrestled while in a private high school in Indiana decades ago -- was hospitalized for a head injury earlier this summer after suffering a fall about three weeks earlier while exercise-walking on a golf course in Mary...

Ben Rosen, an accomplished coach and competitor, has been named Lakeland's new head men's wrestling coach. Ben RosenHe comes to Lakeland from Campbellsville University, an NAIA-member institution in Campbellsville, Ky., with a very successful men's wrestling program. He has served as a full-time a...

Indiana is a basketball state &amp; I can't say that Taylor hasn't had success in basketball because they have.&nbsp; Yet if you saw the success of the wrestling team, you'd think at least one part of Indiana at one time, was a wrestling state.&nbsp;<br /><br />The Trojans were very competitive at b...

Welcome to In The Room, a wrestling podcast from the Des Moines Register's Cody Goodwin. On today's episode, Cody talks Wartburg wrestling coach Eric Keller on growing up in Indianola, wrestling at Northern Iowa and what it’s been like coaching in Waverly for a decade. STORIES • A look at who’s r...

STILLWATER, Okla. -- The National Wrestling Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday that it would be reopening its museum on Monday, July 13. The Hall of Fame will follow guidelines and recommendations from health and safety experts to help ensure the well-being of its visitors and staff. "We are exci...

Stanford head wrestling coach Jason Borrelli (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Stanford University announced Wednesday that it will discontinue its wrestling program, along with 10 other varsity sports, at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. According to Stanford, the discontinued pr...

April 2017: A dark time for collegiate wrestling in the northwest U.S. -- and beyond -- as Boise State University announced it would eliminate its successful intercollegiate wrestling program ... effective immediately. All to focus its intercollegiate sports resources on its men's baseball progra...

Mickey Martin STILLWATER, Okla. -- Mickey Martin, a Distinguished Member inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2014, passed away on Monday, at the age of 78. "We are saddened to learn of Mickey Martin's passing and send our most sincere condolences to his family, friends, teammates a...

Today in the small town of Springfield, South Dakota you'll find a Durfee State Person which host about as many inmates as their are people in the community.&nbsp; It wasn't always a prison though.&nbsp; At one time it was a school.&nbsp; The University of South Dakota at Springfield.&nbsp; A small ...

One would think that the goal of an athletic director would be to create as many opportunities for his student athletes as possible.&nbsp; Ryan Bowles, who tried vigorously for years to get rid of the school's wrestling program would by truthful action if denied by dishonest word, disagree with that...

Iowa Well Represented at King of the Ring National Duals

Colton McCrystal gets in on a shot against Justin Oliver at the CKLV Invitational (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Morningside College just landed an impressive candidate to join its wrestling coaching staff. Head coach Jake Stevenson announced Monday that Colton McCrystal -- a former...

The year 2020 should end on a positive note for the international wrestling community, with the 2020 World Wrestling Championships concluding the last month of the year&hellip; should health and safety measures be met regarding the coronavirus pandemic. The event has been scheduled for December 12...

Wrestling was first brought to Maranatha Baptist by legendary Iowa State/Olympic grappler Ben Peterson in the 1972-1973 season.&nbsp; He would remain the head coach of the program through the 2000-2001 season.&nbsp; While the Sabercats did compete within both the NAIA &amp; NCAA Division III, there ...

I met coach Dave Novikis at the Coe Invitational the season of 2003-2004.&nbsp; He was impressed by my enthusiasm &amp; passion for the sport.&nbsp; He talked to me about my plans for the future &amp; I told him that I was planning on going to college, had narrowed it down to a few schools &amp; pla...

Noah Gonser (Photo/Campbell Athletics) BUIES CREEK, N.C. -- Former All-American Noah Gonser has joined Campbell's wrestling coaching staff as Director of Operations and Recruiting Coordinator. Working under first year head coach Scotti Sentes, Gonser will coordinate the daily operations, administra...

Two decades after completing a combined wrestling/football career at Baldwin Wallace University, Mike Blackburn, head wrestling coach at Steubenville High School in eastern Ohio, will become one of ten Yellow Jackets for Life as he is welcomed into the Athletics Hall of Fame for the NCAA Division II...

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland -- Following the decision to cancel and postpone international wrestling competition until August 31, the Executive Board of United World Wrestling recently convened to develop an action plan for the remaining events in 2020. This plan includes conditions and criteri...

Located in the town of Jacksonville, Illinois College is a small college with a big history.&nbsp; Some of the most vocal &amp; influential abolitionists spoke at the college &amp; Beacher Hall was well known as a stop on the Underground Railroad.&nbsp; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde &amp; Mark Tw...

Wrestling is a sport that often likes to pride itself on the fact that it is all inclusive.&nbsp; A sport that welcomes all male &amp; female regardless of height, weight, size or even disabilities.&nbsp; What other sport can have the likes of Anthony Robles of Arizona State or Nick Ackerman of Simp...

Authored by Dominick Mastrangelo via The Washington Examiner, Big take away For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%. For 45 to 70, it is probably about 0.05-0.3%. For those above 70, it escalates substantially, to 1% or higher for those over 85. Stanford University&#8217...

Get an all-sports perspective on the current state of college sports with Dr. David Ripdath on the latest SHORT TIME.

If you go into a school in New Jersey &amp; ask the teachers where they obtained their degree there's a good chance many will tell you that they went to Kean.&nbsp; A Division III school located in northeastern, New Jersey at one time they produced pretty good wrestlers too. Good enough to have fini...

One of the many Universities within the Twin Cities of Minnesota,&nbsp; I wasn't able to find out a whole lot of information about the Royals wrestling team.&nbsp; However, I do believe I can name you their best wrestler.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" c...

Josh Moore, head coach at Cleveland State University, joins Chad Dennis on the latest episode of The MatBoss Podcast. Coach Moore, who spent time at Kent State before moving over to Cleveland State, talks about the dynamic of building a foundation in Northeast Ohio by recruiting the state and recru...

Checking in with Josh Moore, head wrestling coach at Cleveland State with host Chad Dennis on The MatBoss Podcast.

Located a half hour outside of St. Paul, Minnesota&nbsp; The University of Wisconsin-River Falls was a team that competed hard within the NAIA throughout the 60's &amp; resurfaced to an even more competitive team throughout the early to mid 80's.&nbsp; The Falcons won Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athle...

The Blue Devils of Wisconsin Stout an NCAA Division III institution competed at both the NAIA level &amp; the NCAA Division III levels during their time in wrestling.&nbsp; They were also members of the Wisconsin State Universities Conference (WSUC).&nbsp; Ironically enough when the WSUC came to an ...

&#160; By John Klessinger It’s been many years since I put on a wrestling singlet. For that matter, when I wrestled at Warwick High School in Lititz, Pa., all we could wear was a singlet. There was no optional uniform, headgears could still be taped and shoelaces didn’t need to be taped or secured. ...

Dan Dennis at a team practice a week before competing in the 2016 Olympics (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Dan Dennis walks into Hi Fi Clyde's, an eclectic bar adorned with 1980's and '90's Americana situated on the south side of Chattanooga. It's late January and he's wearing a blue ...

Photo Courtest: Caleb Coyle After years of hard work and dedication, Coyle is starting to see the payoff. He has wrestled numerous tournaments in his career. Last summer he was a double All-American at Fargo. He finished 6th in Junior Freestyle and 5th in Junior Greco. He also finished 5th at UWW in...

In the sport of wrestling our fan base has an unnatural &amp; in my opinion unhealthy obsession....Actually I'll go as far as to call it a fixation with being the absolute best.&nbsp; As the world of chess consistently searches for the next Bobby Fischer, we search for the next Cael Sanderson. Who w...

A lot has happened to the legendary high school wrestling program at Easton Area High School in Pennsylvania ... starting with the firing of JaMarr Billman, wrestling-alma mater-turned-head-coach-of-the-boys-program at the end of May this year ... and now ending the announced hiring of new head coa...

Prior to his induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2019, Rich Lorenzo talked about his career and legacy as a wrestler and a person.

Photo: Bloomsburg’s Marcus Gordon is about to begin his fifth season as head coach of the Huskies. Wrestling is the only Division I sport within the athletic department at this university in Pennsylvania. The following story appeared in the special free digital issue of WIN magazine. Click here to v...

Located about an hour southwest of Chicago, the small Christian college of Olivet Nazarene has had quite the history in its 113 year existence.&nbsp; Within that history, was a wrestling program that came to an end after the 1993-1994 season.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />During the Tigers time in wrestlin...

In all of my research on dropped wrestling programs this was one of the most confusing that I ran across.&nbsp; Sometimes it would be recorded as simply Chester, the community in Pennsylvania in which the school is located.&nbsp; At other times, listed as PMC which took me forever to figure out what...

Located along the beautiful Susquehanna river in Selingsgrove, Pennsylvania the River Hawks of Susquehanna were a competitive wrestling program at both the NCAA Division III level &amp; at the conference level on an individual basis.&nbsp; Throughout the 80's up through when the program was dropped ...

Within the hotbed of high school wrestling in Columbus, Ohio,&nbsp; Capital University is located in the suburb of Bexley.&nbsp; The Crusaders had a wrestling program up through the 1998-1999 season.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption...

Welcome to In The Room, a wrestling podcast from the Des Moines Register's Cody Goodwin. On today's episode, Cody talks Grand View women’s wrestling coach Angelo Crinzi about his first year in charge and what he learned from the experience. STORIES • A look at who’s recruiting Iowa’s best high sc...

Justin Gaethje wrestling Harvard's at the 2010 NCAAs (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com) Justin Gaethje has been inducted into the University of Northern Colorado Athletics Hall of Fame's 2020 class, the school announced. Gaethje is one of six new inductees. The ceremony for the inducte...

Zane Richards gets interviewed by Jordan Blanton at Rumble on the Rooftop (Photo/Justin Hoch, jhoch.com) By almost all accounts Rumble on the Rooftop, a series of matches held on a Chicago rooftop and wrestling's first public event since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. in March, was a success wit...

A rather large NCAA Division III institution located in southwestern New Jersey, Rowan was known as Glassboro State during the time they fielded a wrestling team.&nbsp; They competed at both the NAIA &amp; NCAA Division III levels in the Metropolitan Conference.&nbsp; During their final season of 19...

A small school located in Potsdam, New York, Clarkson competed at the NCAA Division III level in the Independent Collegiate Athletic Conference (ICAC) during the time they sponsored wrestling.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" s...

Jason Nolf gets in on a shot against Jordan Oliver (Photo/Justin Hoch, jhoch.com) CHICAGO -- Wrestling is back. The sport made its triumphant return for the first time in over three months with the Rumble on the Rooftop being held Sunday night. The card featured a number of compelling bouts betwee...

Located in the central Pennsylvanian town of Huntingdon, Juniata is a small college, a little over 1,500 students that competes in NCAA Division III athletics.&nbsp; During their time in wrestling, the Eagles competed in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC).&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><table align...

The Tommies were very competitive in both the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) &amp; NCAA Division III.&nbsp; At the conference level, St. Thomas won team titles in 1981 &amp; 1986.&nbsp; In NCAA Division III, they took a high of third place in 1991 &amp; finished in ninth place ...

Another wrestling program I wasn't able to find much on.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/...

I wasn't able to find out a whole lot about Grove City wrestling but what I do know is that they were (and the school still participates in) an NCAA Division III institution in the President's Athletic Conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" cla...

The coronavirus pandemic has forced The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) to cancel a total of eight fall sports seasons -- including wrestling -- the NCAA Division III public university located in Ewing, NJ announced Friday. Other sports which will not be competing this fall include football, men's s...

Today the warriors of Cal State Stanislaus are a NCAA Division II school but during the time they competed in wrestling they were NCAA Division III.&nbsp; Warrior wrestling came to an end after the 1980-1981 season, ironically after they crowned their first NCAA finalist.&nbsp;<br /><br /><br /><tab...

Disclaimer. I&#8217;ve been a Nike product tester since the early 1990&#8217;s. Editorial up top and business reporting below In 2008 the Oregon Ducks dropped their wrestling program. Oregon&#8217;s athletic programs are heavily subsidized by Nike. While Oregon wasn&#8217;t a power house it had two ...

I spent some time today talking with PA AAA state champ, former Mt Lebanon and future Princeton wrestler Luke Stout. We covered a bunch of ground. I look forward to seeing him a Princeton this fall. You can listen on Sound Cloud or You Tube. Unfortunately the video had technical issues. Just audio.

Rico Hill has just been named new head wrestling coach at La Salle High School in Cincinnati, having coached at a number of respected wrestling programs in the area over the years. Rico HillMost recently, Hill had served as an assistant coach at La Salle High School. He also had previous coaching ...

Sebastian Rivera after defeating Seth Gross of Wisconsin (Photo/Juan Garcia) PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Two-time All-American, two-time Big Ten Champion and New Jersey native Sebastian Rivera has enrolled at Rutgers University as a graduate transfer student. Rivera, who previously competed at Northwestern ...

Kevin Emily is a man of many talents ... all related to amateur wrestling. He's been an incredibly successful high school coach in his native Iowa and in South Carolina ... and as an author of respected historical books about the world's oldest and greatest sport. Now Kevin Emily will be putting tha...