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Season Previews in the Pipeline

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Season previews for as many teams send me information should begin to appear on the site in the next week or two in the lead up to the 2008-2009 season.  Additionally, keep an eye out for the 2nd annual preseason rankings (and notable newcomers) from d3wrestle.com.  Only 162 days until the NCAA Tournament.

Things to do in the mean time:
1. Become a fan of d3wrestle.com on Facebook
2. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader (I use my iGoogle home page)
3. Discuss the upcoming season in our forum
4. Send me pictures from last season to post in our Gallery
5. Ask the SID of your favorite team to post a link to d3wrestle.com on that team’s home page
6. Plan to go watch some DIII wrestling this season

Former Oneonta coach headed to Hall

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Al Sosa, longtime coach at Oneonta State, will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame this weekend.  Sosa spent 38 years as head coach, winning 284 matches, and he has already been inducted into the Division III Wrestling Hall of Fame and the NY State Collegiate Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame.  See the release below.

Intermat Article

Oneonta Release (pdf)

Shaun Smith Article

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The York Daily Record has an article today about Delaware Valley Assistant Coach and 3x NCAA champion Shaun Smith as part of their The Greatest Athletes series.

Dover: Catching up with Shaun Smith

Danny Song to Assist at Stevens

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Stevens Institute of Technology has announced the hiring of Danny Song as graduate assistant for the 2008-2009 season.  Song is no stranger to the Centennial Conference, having twice won the conference championship while attending the Merchant Marine Academy.  While there, he was a 2x NCAA qualifier and placed 8th at 141 pounds in 2006.  He also qualified for the NCAA championships while wrestling for SUNY Brockport in 2004.  Song continued competing post-collegiately as a member of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club until obtaining his B.A. in Psychology this year.  See the Stevens release below.

Clayton Hires Song as Wrestling Graduate Assistant

20 Questions with Jim Gruenwald

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Jim Gruenwald is a coach at the USOEC Greco-Roman training center at Northern Michigan University and a two-time Olympian.  He also attended and wrestled for Maranatha Bible Baptist College before they joined the NCAA.  InterMat recently published an interview with Gruenwald that can be found at the link below.

20 Question with Jim Gruenwald

Eustice to Assist Duroe at Cornell

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Ty Eustice, a two time All-American at Iowa, has been hired as the full time assistant at Cornell College.  There, the Minnesota native will assist Mike Duroe after spending two years as the graduate assistant at Division II MSU-Mankato.  See the release below.

Former Iowa All-American Eustice named assistant wrestling coach

Barber Hired by USA Wrestling

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Former Augsburg coach Sam Barber has been hired as the Director of the National Coaches Education Program by USA Wrestling.  See the release below.  Barber was the head coach at Augsburg for the 2007-2008 season before unexpected stepping down in July.  The NCEP Director oversees USA Wrestling’s certification program along with other duties involved with coaching education.

Sam Barber hired as NCEP Manager for USA Wrestling

Bridgewater State Assistant Coach Position

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Bridgewater State College is looking for a part time assistant coach to start immediately.  You can find the job listing on TheMat.com by going here.  Jason York recently took over as the head coach at BSC, which placed 5th at the 2008 NEWA Championships and will have NCAA qualifier Frank Cammisa back as well as an incoming class featuring Massachusetts and New England champion John Sughrue.

Manny Hopes to Continue Proud Simpson Tradition

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Clint Manny was named to the head coach position at Simpson College in April after Ron Peterson stepped down following 13 years of leading the Storm.  In his time with Simpson, Peterson had the chance to coach Manny to 148 wins, good for the most wins in the rich history of Simpson Wrestling.  A three time All-American and two-time runner-up, Manny became one of the younger coaches in Division III when he ascended from assistant to head coach at his alma mater.

Quite a few head coaches wrestled at the school they now coach, and Manny is one of them.  He has great enthusiasm not only for coaching, but also for Simpson College.  He describes his time at Simpson as a student as some of the best years of his life, and the experience there shaped him into the person he is today.  Taking that to heart, Manny recognizes how he as a coach will help shape the college experience of his wrestlers as they traverse the four years of college.  “The value of the relationships I built at Simpson with my teammates and coaches truly is priceless, and I want to provide those same opportunities for my wrestlers,” Manny states.  He goes on to say, “Ron Peterson has taught me a lot in the last 3 years as an assistant and I’m still learning every day.”

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College Wrestling Tournament List

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Click the link below for a list of all college wrestling tournaments for the 2008-2009 season.  The yellow highlighted items are regular season tournaments hosted by Division III schools.  The green highlighted items are the national qualifying tournaments in Division III.

2008-2009 Tournament List

Here are the host sites for each qualifying tournament:

Centennial – McDaniel
Empire – Oswego
Great Lakes – Concordia (WI)
Iowa – Luther
Metro – York
Midwest – Trine
New England – Springfield
Ohio – Muskingum
Wisconsin – UW-Oshkosh

Marantha searching for a coach

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Maranatha Bible Baptist College has a vacancy for their head coach position.  Scott Hawes was the previous head coach.  See the job posting here.  Last year, Marantha had their first ever NCAA All-American as junior Ben Hoover placed 2nd at 165 lbs, compiling a 36-2 record in 2007-2008.  Maranatha, located in Watertown, Wisconsin, competes in the Great Lakes Regional.

Dan Weber to coach Wheaton College

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d3wrestle.com has received word that Dan Weber, 2003 NCAA champion at 165 lbs. has accepted the position of Head Coach at his alma mater Wheaton College.  Weber has served as a part time assistant at Wheaton for the past five years and takes over for Seth Norton, who stepped down in June after 12 years as Head Coach.

Weber transferred to Wheaton from Indiana University and spent two years competing for the Thunder.  In 2001, he placed 3rd in Division III at 157 lbs. before moving up to 165 his senior year when he was undefeated on his way to a national championship.  He was Wheaton’s fourth NCAA champion.

As of today, there should be no vacancies in Division III, as Wheaton was the last of nine schools to fill its open position.

UPDATE: See the official Wheaton release HERE

Mario Thomas named to top spot at Morrisville

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Morrisville State College today announced the hiring of Mario Thomas as Head Wrestling Coach.  Thomas comes from Gannon University where he was the assistant for two years.  As a wrestler, Thomas was a 100 match winner for Missouri Valley.  He takes over a team in its third year of provisional Division III membership.  See release below.

Mario Thomas named head wrestling coach

Good News in Mississippi

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49 states have high school wrestling.  Mississippi has been the only holdout after Arkansas started up in the past few years.  Now, according to WLOX, Mississippi is on the verge of starting high school wrestling.  See the link below for more information.  Sure, it’s not DIII wrestling, but this is an idea the whole wrestling community can get behind.

High school wrestling’s coming to Mississippi

Team Pages Updated

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Over the past season, a number of schools changed their web site addresses.  The Division III Team Sites page of d3wrestle.com has been updated to reflect these changes in anticipation of the 2008-2009 season.  If any link ever fails to take you to the right destination, please contact d3wrestle.com with that information.

Tri-State now Trine

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Tri-State University has changed its name to Trine University.  They will still be the Thunder and still have 4 returning Midwest Regional Runner-Ups.  The name change was effective August 1st.

Headlee Looks to the Future with Waynesburg Wrestling

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After 20 years coaching in the area at the high school and middle school level, Ron Headlee moved up to take the reigns at his hometown Waynesburg University.  Following his first year off from coaching as he followed the wrestling careers of his two sons, Headlee did not plan to become a high school head coach again.  However, as Headlee tells it, “God opened the door for me to take over at Waynesburg University.”  Accepting the job in February of this year, he and John Yates, his assistant, set their first goal as filling out the roster in order to avoid the forfeits that have doomed the team in dual meets in recent years.

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Barber Steps Down at Augsburg

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Sam Barber has stepped down as head coach at Augsburg College.  Assistant Coach Mark Matzek has been named interim head coach as the national search begins.

Sam Barber Resigns Wrestling Position — Mark Matzek Named Interim Head Coach

McGovern Article in Telegraph Herald

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University of Dubuque coach Jon McGovern was featured last week in the Dubuque Telegraph Herald along with former Iowa Hawkeye and current Edinboro assistant Cliff Moore.  The article talks of his transition from competitor to coach following a 4th place finish at the 2000 Olympic trials.

No regrets – Wrestlers Moore, McGovern trade Olympic dreams for family life, coaching

Duroe Headed to Beijing

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Cornell Head Coach Mike Duroe is headed to his fourth Olympics as a member of the Team USA Coaching staff this August.  As the article below details, he’s taking on double duties this time.

Cornell’s Duroe draws dual duties as freestyle wrestling coach at 2008 Olympics

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