After winning the 2009 NCAA wrestling championship at 149 pounds, Darrion Caldwell earned a spot on the U.S. National Team this past summer. He traveled to many places all over the world and had the opportunity to wrestle with world champions. On Friday it was announced that due to a shoulder injury, Caldwell will have [ Read More ]
Penn State’s first dual is coming up against Lehigh. The man who defeated Lehigh’s Jon Trenge to win that fourth NCAA title will bring his Nittany Lions to Stabler Arena on Friday, Nov. 13.
Sanderson left his alma mater Iowa State to coach Penn State in the biggest wrestling states of the nation – second to [ Read More ]
University of Minnesota’s “Brockfast of Champions”
poster featured Brock Lesnar with “tale of the tape”
call-outs pointing out the measurements of various
body parts.
Think the UFC rivalry between Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir is intense?
A decade ago, the current UFC heavyweight champ had a powerful, ongoing rivalry as the University of Minnesota heavyweight vs Wes Hand of the [ Read More ]
Think it’s the off season and wrestling has died off for the summer? Think again! You have camps, coaches are moving around, freestyle is underway and much more! Here are just some articles that we have pulled up in the past week that we have been reading up on. Much thanks to the tweeps we [ Read More ]
Three college wrestling programs have been thrown in the trash since April. That’s a lot, and there hasn’t been a lot of focus on it. Probably because of the huge shift in coaching at PSU, ISU, ASU and Illinois. But this is MASSIVE! And finally, the NWCA is getting involved. They are putting together a [ Read More ]
Below is the transcript of the press conference when Kevin Jackson was introduced to ISU as their new head wrestling coach, replacing Cael Sanderson. The Press conference took place Friday May 1. Text is taken from Cyclones.com
Kevin Jackson
“I am truly humbled to be in this position today to lead Iowa State’s wrestling team. I said [ Read More ]
Reports are out now that David Taylor has been granted a release from Iowa State. That may not seem like that big of a deal to some. Until you realize that not only was he the top recruit for ISU, but he was a four-time Ohio state champion in high school and winner of the [ Read More ]
Rookie mini-camps usually serve as an induction into professional football, but for Jermail Porter, the Patriots’ camp was an introduction to playing football.
The ultimate NFL neophyte, Porter never had so much as played a down on a football field before the camp. The 6-foot-5-inch, 310-pounder, signed as an undrafted free agent, looks the part of [ Read More ]
Most Batman actions figures have an eight pack, rippling arms and a cape.
Jake Herbert, Northwestern’s senior 184-pound wrestler, doesn’t have a cape, but he does have two national championships, a Hodge Trophy (given to the most outstanding wrestler in the NCAA) and the eight pack.
On March 21, Herbert capped off his Northwestern wrestling career with [ Read More ]
Waterloo native Mike Van Arsdale remembers the first time he met Kevin Jackson.
Jackson, who was greeted with a loud, long, standing ovation when he was introduced as Iowa State’s new head wrestling coach Friday in a press conference inside the Jacobson Building, also recalls that chance meeting fondly.
“As a senior in high school, I wrestled [ Read More ]