Penn State's New Coach Sanderson Intensifies Practices
from The Daily Collegian
Bubba Jenkins admits he wasn't even in shape at this point last season. Each practice, even though the season has not started, has been harder than last year's most difficult practice, redshirt sophomore Clay Steadman said. The wrestlers were used to training for an extended period of time in the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex, but not spending a Friday night there for breaking a team rule. Welcome to the Penn State wrestling team's version of Friday Night Lights. More    More

NCWA and My Sports Dreams Team Up to Raise $250,000
from NCWA
The NCWA has reached a partnership agreement with My Sports Dreams. They will become the newest NCWA official sponsor and together, we have set a goal to help our member teams raise $250,000 this season for mats, travel & equipment. This is some awesome news for NCWA Programs in this tough economic climate. The Partnership includes something for coaches, something for teams and something for the NCWA. For coaches, we've got a free $100 Team Express Gift Card. It's free and it's yours as part of this Partnership. For your team, you can reserve one of 52 spots still left to work with My Sports Dreams, this season. For the NCWA, My Sports Dreams has set a goal to help our member Institutions together raise $250,000. Our relationship helps keep membership costs down, which is another benefit to teams. More

Colorado Springs Wrestler Byers Wins Silver at World Championships
from the Gazette
Dremiel Byers took one step off the medal podium and quickly pulled the medal off that he had draped around his neck. The 35-year-old Byers turned in one of the best performances of his life on at the World Championships, but that didn’t make coming up short in the finals any easier for him. More

Newcomers Ready to Represent Rutgers
from ScarketKnights.com
Bill Ashnault and Daryl Cocozzo are both New Jersey natives who originally decided to go to college in Pennsylvania. Ashnault chose Lock Haven and Cocozzo chose Edinboro. Rutgers head coach Scott Goodale was familiar with both wrestlers. Goodale particularly took notice of them at the 2008 NCAA Championships. Cocozzo squared off with Eric Medina of Maryland in the NCAA first round of the 149-pound bracket. Medina had won over 20 matches entering the match, and had been ranked as high as No. 13 in the country that season. More

Former Olympic Wrestling Champ Helping Out SCSU
from St. Cloud Times
Wrestling has taken John Peterson in many different directions. Part of that has to do with his own storied wrestling career. The other has to do with the Athletes in Action, the organization he has worked with for 35 years. Peterson, a native of Cumberland, Wis., who still lives there, works with the St. Cloud State, Augsburg and University of Minnesota wrestling teams as a volunteer assistant coach through Athletes in Action. This is his second year helping out St. Cloud State head coach Steve Costanzo and the Huskies. More

'Thy Will Be Done': Former Cumberland College Wrestler Fighting for Her Life
from Crescent News
For most of her life, Becky D'Ambrosia has battled to beat long odds. She was the six-county area's first-ever female district qualifier in high school wrestling and followed that up as a four-year starter for Cumberland College, one of the top women's wrestling programs in the country. Today, at age 27, she is battling cervical cancer in a hospice center in Phoenix. More

Ryan Lang Joins Ohio University Staff as Volunteer Assistant
from the Examiner
The Wildcat becomes a Bobcat. Ryan Lang, who wrestled for the Northwestern University Wildcats, has joined the Ohio University Bobcat wrestling staff as a volunteer assistant coach. More

UNI to Honor Laurel's Long
from the Billings Gazette
Laurel's Max Long will be inducted into the University of Northern Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 1949-50 wrestling team. The ceremonies will be part of Panther homecoming weekend Oct. 17. Long competed at 175 pounds for the team, which claimed the 1950 NCAA championship and the national AAU team title as well. Under the direction of head coach Dave McCusky the 1950 Panthers finished with an unblemished 11-0 record in duals. More