NCWA Weekly Update
Aug. 17, 2009

Four U.S. Women Strike Gold at Pan-American Cadet Championships
from TheMat.com
Four American women's wrestlers won titles as the United States captured the team championship at the Pan-American Cadet Championships. Winning titles for the U.S. were Erin Golston, Brieana Delgado, Krista Revelle and Kim Spiegel. More    More

Former Penn State Coach Sunderland Takes Prep Position; Manarte to Stevens
from the Examiner
A former college coach takes the helm of a high school program... while a former Hofsra University wrestler becomes a graduate assistant at another college. More

Navy Introduces Highly-Touted Rookie Class of Wrestlers
from Navy Sports
Tenth-year Navy wrestling coach Bruce Burnett and his staff have assembled one of the top recruiting classes not only on the East Coast, but on a national level as well. Navy's Class of 2013, which features 18 young men who have captured a combined 20 state titles, is ranked 21st by D1CollegeWrestling.net. More

Dance Takes Steps Towards Greatness
from The Mechanicsville Local
In almost every endeavor undertaken, greatness is the ultimate goal. And though President Obama was speaking on the grand scale of the history of the United States, his words can be reduced to the smaller context of a single young man by the name of Joey Dance who understands that greatness rarely comes without hard work and sacrifices. More

Cornell College Alum Voigt Returns as New Assistant Coach
from the Examiner
Voigt, Cornell College of Iowa’s last NCAA champion, will return to his alma mater -- and his home town -- as a full-time assistant coach for Mike Duroe's staff. More

One Moore Reason to Cheer for the Hawks
from the Iowa City Press-Citizen
Nick Moore joked in May that he might hold off on making a commitment until next spring just to throw off all of the people who expected an announcement this summer that he was headed to Iowa. As it turned out, the three-time state champion from West High might have thrown himself for a loop. More

Women's Wrestling Takes Center Mat
from ESPN
Wrestling seemed like a great idea at the time, an alternative to the standard blahs of winter. So last school year, when then-freshman Jessie Kaech wanted to play a winter sport but thought she would get bored with basketball, she joined the Sedro-Woolley (Wash.) High School girls' wrestling team. More