Archive for May, 2010

Those who continue following wrestling into the spring know their sport as well as any athletes or spectators. So when Bellefonte junior high coach Tom Alterio announced the mat assignment for a bout between Zach Horan and Cameron Throckmorton during the Pennsylvania Amateur Wrestling Federation state freestyle tournament, teenagers and adults wandered to an auxiliary [...]

By Jami Frankenberry Larry Rubama The Virginian-Pilot © May 21, 2010 Off to college Cox’s Dorsay picks Maryland Cox’s Ben Dorsay, a three-time state wrestling champion with 163 career victories, has signed with Maryland. Dorsay finished with a 163-14 record and collected 114 pins. He won three Group AAA state titles, including this past season [...]

By The Daily Item —- — The Valley’s two state wrestling champions, Selinsgrove’s Spencer Myers and Line Mountain’s Zain Retherford, added another honor to their stellar seasons when they were named to the 25th annual ASICS All-America Wrestling Team. Thirteen wrestlers from Pennsylvania are among the 42 honored as All-Americans. Myers, the 215-pound PIAA champ [...]

In-depth analysis of Top 25 recruiting classes for 2010 5/7/2010 InterMat Staff InterMat has released its recruiting class rankings for 2010. Iowa, on the strength of six Top 100 recruits, five of which are ranked inside the Top 30, sits atop the rankings. Fellow Big Ten Conference programs Penn State, Northwestern, and Minnesota are next [...]

The ASICS All-America Team, selected by a nationwide panel of wrestling experts, is the only national all-star team for which wrestlers enrolled in all four high-school grades are eligible. ASICS is a title sponsor of the ASICS Vaughan USA Wrestling Fargo Junior National Championships and is a major benefactor of the sport at all levels. [...]

The National Wrestling Coaches Association has announced its annual Division I Individual All-Academic wrestling team for the 2009-10 wrestling season and it includes University of Maryland seniors James Knox and Hudson Taylor. Knox, a Kinesiology major, has a 3.475 GPA and was an NCAA qualifier. The Baltimore native went 21-13 this season as the team’s [...]