Sunday Results
NY/PA Duals (Oswego, RIT, Lycoming, King’s)
Stevens Quad (Hunter, Trinity, TCNJ)
Augsburg 25, Augustana (SD) 21
Tuesday Results and Events
Citrus Invitational Day 1 Brackets
Lock Haven Invitational (Messiah)
Midlands – 12/29-30 – Video should be available for free for all rounds HERE
Holiday Wrestling Tournaments
Citrus Invitational – 12/29-30 – Results should be here once brackets are made
Lock Haven Invitational (Messiah) – 12/29 – Results should be here once brackets are made
Midlands – 12/29-30 – Video should be available for free for all rounds HERE
Ice Hour Episode 6
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Cornell College’s Dick Simmons has become quite used to running and coordinating wrestling tournaments. On Episode 6 of The Ice Hour, Simmons previews what fans should expect for the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships that will be coming to Cedar Rapids, Iowa on March 11-12.
Simmons, currently the Associate Director of Athletics and Compliance at Cornell, will also be inducted into the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame the same weekend. We’ll talk with Simmons about his rise from head athletic trainer to administration and how much wrestling and Cornell’s proud wrestling history, has helped shape his career.
Simmons is also recovering from hip replacement surgery, so give him some love on Twitter@CCRamatc.
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Desert and W&L Duals Results
First, it should be noted that wrestlers and coaches from both Pacific and Delaware Valley were involved in an incident where a woman intentionally drove her car onto a crowded sidewalk on Sunday night in Las Vegas. One pedestrian was killed and several dozen were injured. Several wrestlers and coaches have been treated at the hospital, and all are expected to recover fully. In light of the event, both teams pulled out of the competition and returned home. Read below for more.
Washington & Lee Duals (W&L, Greensboro, Lycoming, Ohio Northern, Muskingum)
Desert and W&L Duals today
Two dual events today are the last DIII events before Christmas. The annual Desert Duals takes place today in Las Vegas. Click below for the Desert Duals schedule. Washington & Lee is also hosting some duals today to wrap up the first half of the season.
Desert Duals – Alma, Coe, Concordia-Moorhead, Baldwin-Wallace, Wartburg, Johnson & Wales, Delaware Valley, St. John’s, Pacific, Dubuque
Washington & Lee Duals – Greensboro, Hampden-Sydney, Lycoming, Muskingum, Ohio Northern
Castleton University to start wrestling next season
Castleton University in Castleton, Vermont, has announced plans to begin varsity wrestling in the 2016-2017 season. The coach will be long time Vermont high school coach Scott Legacy. Legacy will finish the season at Mount Anthony Union high school in Bennington before taking the reigns at Castleton. Legacy’s teams have won the last 27 straight Vermont state championships and have finished first and second in the New England championships eight times each. Castleton will join Norwich as the only two varsity collegiate wrestling teams in the state of Vermont. Read below for more from Castleton University Sports Information.
Scott Legacy Tapped to Start Castleton Wrestling Program
Dec 17, 2015
CASTLETON, Vt. – Castleton University Associate Dean for Athletics and Recreation, Deanna Tyson, is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Legacy as the inaugural head coach of the Castleton Wrestling program, which will begin varsity competition in the fall of 2016.“We’re thrilled to welcome Scott as the first wrestling coach at Castleton,” said Tyson. “He is a nationally recognized wrestling coach who knows the sport intimately and we’re excited to see the success he’ll have at the collegiate level.”
Legacy comes to Castleton following a Hall of Fame career as the wrestling coach at Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington for the past 30 years. The 2014 USA Today National Coach of the Year and New England Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee created a dynasty at Mount Anthony, illustrated by his program’s 27 consecutive Vermont State Wrestling Championships.
During his tenure he amassed an impressive 654-35-2 overall record, including eight New England Champion teams and eight more which were runner-up. In the last five years alone he has won three New England Championships and finished second once. He also has had 15 teams ranked in the top-25 nationally.
“First of all I am truly honored to be given the opportunity to lead the new wrestling program from the ground up at Castleton University,” said Legacy. “I would like to thank President Wolk, Scott Dikeman and Deanna Tyson for creating the opportunity for student-athletes who want to wrestle in college. Especially those student-athletes from Vermont who want to stay close to home and be part of a University which is growing academically and athletically. Coaching in college is the next natural progression for me. My goal is to hopefully be an ambassador for Vermont Wrestling on the college level, while providing student-athletes with memories and a family-type atmosphere that Castleton already provides as one of the leading universities in Vermont.”
Legacy has shown the ability to develop wrestlers at all weight classes, with 168 individual Vermont State Champions – a national record for all high school coaches, and 84 All-American wrestlers. He has coached seven national champions, 28 New England Champions and has had three high school USA Team Members. One of his wrestlers has gone on to make the USA World Team and over 180 have competed at all levels of collegiate wrestling.
In addition to his coaching merits, Legacy has held numerous leadership positions within the wrestling community. He has served as the Cadet/Junior National Team Coach since 1990 and for the past 13 years has been a board member of the National High School Coaches Association since 2002. He has been the Vermont State Chairman for USA Wrestling for nearly 30 years and is the Co-President of Catamount Wrestling Club.
Legacy holds a bachelor’s degree from Oswego State and a Master of Education Degree in Athletic Administration from Endicott College. He was a three-time high school state champion in Vermont and a high school All-American. He recorded over 100 wins in college, while spending two years each at Morrisville State and Oswego. At Morrisville he was a Junior College National Qualifier and Region 3 Junior College Place winner. Legacy then was named team captain at Oswego, where he was a SUNYAC Place winner.
Legacy will coach his Mount Anthony team through the end of the season before turning his complete attention to Castleton wrestling.
MyHouse Wrestler of the Week: William Gockel-Figge
The MyHOUSE Sports Gear Wrestler of the Week is William Gockel-Figge of NYU. Gockel-Figge won a pair of matches at McDaniel’s Grapple on the Hill including a 2-1 decision over #4 ranked 2x NCAA qualifier Kyle Diesel of Wilkes at 184. In his other bout, Gockel-Figge earned a first period fall against Greensboro.
Gockel-Figge, a junior from Simi Valley, California, came to NYU for the second semester of the 2014-2015 season. That fall, he was the California State Junior College champion for Fresno City College and came to New York for the second half of the year. He was 12-4 at 197 and 285 last year for NYU and is currently 8-0 at 184 this season, giving him a career record at NYU of 20-4. NYU is done with competition for a few weeks but will be back on the mat for the Citrus Invitational in Fort Lauderdale December 29-30.
Events This Week
Wednesday
Cornell at Augustana
Concordia Wisconsin at Lakeland
Thursday
Pacific at Southern Oregon w/Simon Fraser
Messiah at Lock Haven
Saturday
Gator Boots Duals in Nashville (Buena Vista, Elmhurst, Ferrum, Huntingdon, Loras, Luther, Mount Union, Olivet, Simpson, Wisconsin-Whitewater)
Midwest Classic at Indianapolis
Waynesburg at Seton Hill
Monday (12/21)
Desert Duals (Alma, Coe, Concordia-Moorhead, Baldwin-Wallace, Wartburg, Johnson & Wales, Delaware Valley, St. John’s, Pacific, Dubuque)
Washington & Lee Duals (Greensboro, Hampden-Sydney, Lycoming, Muskingum, Ohio Northern)
Weekend Results 12/11-13
Friday
Coast Guard Tri (Southern Maine, Roger Williams)
Elmhurst 42, Trine 4
Williams 53, Trinity 0
Springfield 43, Daniel Webster 6
Messiah 28, Shippensburg 10
La Crosse 38, Eau Claire 6
Concordia-Moorhead 46, St. Olaf 6
Saturday
Luther Hill Invitational at Simpson
Holiday Inn/Husky Open
North Central Invitational
Waynesburg Duals (Stevens, Baldwin Wallace, WVU Tech)
Mariner Duals at USMMA (Centenary, Hunter)
North East Duals at Oneonta (WPI, Johnson & Wales, RIT)
Muhlenberg Tri (East Stroudsburg, Ohio Valley)
McDaniel Duals (Wilkes, NYU, Greensboro)
Williams Baptist Tri (Ozarks)
Rhode Island Tri (Southern Maine, Plymouth State)
Stevens Point duals (Oshkosh, Concordia Wisconsin, Lakeland)
Olivet at Indianapolis Duals
Ithaca 45, Oswego 3
Sunday
Ursinus Tri (SUNY-Sullivan, Penn College) – 500th win for Coach Bill Racich
Manchester vs. Indiana and Eastern Michigan
Thursday Results
Cornell 24, Dubuque 15
Stevens Point 29, Platteville 10
Alma 32, Heidelberg 12 (100th career win for Coach Todd Hibbs)
Central 47, St. Olaf 6
La Crosse 35, Luther 6
Augsburg 31, SW Minnesota State 11
MyHOUSE Wrestler of the Week: Nick Velez
The MyHOUSE Sports Gear Wrestler of the Week is Nick Velez of Ithaca. Velez won the 165 lbs. bracket at the New Standard Invitational this past weekend. The tournament’s 4th seed, Velez defeated wrestlers ranked 5th, 7th, and 10th in the latest d3wrestle.com Rankings and finished ahead of the 8th ranked wrestler. His championship performance helped the Bombers win the team championship as well.
Velez, a sophomore from Westfield, New Jersey, was a regional runner-up and NCAA qualifier last season. He compiled a 33-12 record as a freshman to go along with an 11-3 mark this season, giving him a career record of 44-18. He was 2nd in the season-opening Ithaca Invitational and 7th in the New York State Intercollegiate Championships before winning the New Standard Invitational on Saturday. Velez and the rest of the Bombers finish up their first semester competition with duals tonight against RIT and Saturday against Oswego.
