MANHEIM, Pa. – North Dakota State University 197-pounder Cordell Eaton was named to the 2019 National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Division I Scholar All-American list released Thursday. Eaton is one of 142 wrestlers nationally to receive the award.
Eaton, a redshirt junior from Long Grove, Iowa, maintains a 3.786 GPA majoring in agricultural and biosystems engineering. He is a three-time selection to the Academic All-Big 12 Wrestling first team.
Continue readingManheim, Pennsylvania – Harvard’s reputation as one of the top academic institutions in the world is widely known. In the wrestling world, Harvard continues to be the gold standard when it comes to measuring academic success among its peers.
For the fifth time in the past six years, Harvard is the top team in the annual NWCA Division I All-Academic team standings released Wednesday by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. The Crimson achieved a team GPA of 3.5654 and placed four individuals on the individual All-Academic team. Continue reading
Fort Wayne, Indiana – The past three years, the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana has been a key location in the college wrestling landscape. In 2018, the United Wrestling Group will again host the NWCA Multi-Divisional National Duals presented by Applied Silver, InBody, Theraworx and the United States Marine Corps on January 4-5.
With 86 teams, 65 nationally ranked programs and five different divisions, the event will again live up to its moniker — Mat Mayhem.
“Fort Wayne has been a tremendous place for us the last four years,” said NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. “It’s a big two days of wrestling, not just with the National Duals portion, but NUWAY also provides competition at the age-group levels as well as a college open, so there’s no shortage of competition across the board.” Continue reading
The National Wrestling Coaches Association’s National Duals tournament has been shelved for 2018.
NWCA executive director Mike Moyer said Thursday that the Division I dual tournament will not be held next year as leaders in the sport work to resolve issues with the timing, format and other challenges surrounding the event.
“At the very least, we’re going to take a year off,” Moyer said. “There needs to be a lot more discussion around this topic. The challenges are this: Our coaches have such varied circumstances and it’s very challenging trying to get them to agree to a standardized format. A lot of coaches have great ideas on how it should be done, but it’s just proven to be more challenging to get everyone to agree to a single idea.”
The National Duals has been in flux since 2011 when it moved away from Northern Iowa’s UNI-Dome and an early-January tournament that enabled fans to watch every division competing under the same roof. Continue reading at trackwrestling.com
Manheim, Pennsylvania — The National Wrestling Coaches Association and the National Duals Selection Committee is pleased to announce the matchups for the 2017 NWCA National Duals Championship Series presented by Theraworx and the United States Marine Corps.
In the second year of this format, teams from the Big Ten Conference will face off with non-Big Ten teams in a showcase weekend of college wrestling dual meets. Last season, eight Big Ten teams hosted events around the country. In 2017, the Big Ten will be visiting college campuses in the ACC, Big 12, EIWA, EWL, and Southern Conference.
The showcase dual will be on February 19 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, as No. 1 Oklahoma State (14-0) will host No. 2 Penn State (13-0) in a battle of the last two unbeaten teams in Division I. The dual is a rematch of last year’s National Duals championship match won by Penn State 29-18 in Penn State’s sold-out Rec Hall. Oklahoma State holds a 13-7-1 all-time lead in the series, including an 8-2 mark at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Manheim, Pennsylvania — Fourteen different college programs will be highlighted in showcase bouts at the 51st annual NWCA All-Star Classic on November 5 at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center.
Along with the 14 different schools, Olympian Haley Augello will face Junior World Team member Becka Leathers in a women’s freestyle bout and a pair of bouts will also take place featuring local high school and middle school wrestlers.
The event, presented by The Brewer-Garrett Company and hosted by the Wrestlers in Business Network, has served as the major kick-off event for the wrestling season since becoming and early-season event. In 2012, the event moved to the first weekend of the major college wrestling calendar and has been a fixture ever since.
“One of the big draws to hosting the event is the ability to showcase the nation’s top wrestlers, but to also showcase local athletes, programs, and competitors who come from a given area but may compete out of state,” said NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. Continue reading
By Gary R. Blockus
MANHEIM, Pa. – Unbeaten and top-ranked Penn State claimed the crown jewel in the 2016 NWCA Division I National Championship Dual Series presented by the United States Marine Corps and Titan Mercury Wrestling Club.
The host No. 1 Nittany Lions utilized three pins, a technical fall to defeat No. 3 Oklahoma State 29-18 in front of at 6,575 fans at Rec Hall on Sunday, Feb. 21 and earn the dual meet championship in the new bowl-style format. Continue reading
