Dustin Carter, a wrestler profiled here on AOL, here in the New York Times, and here on CBS, has committed to wrestle at the College of Mount St. Joseph, as reported in this Cincinnati Enquirer article. Carter was 40-4 this past season at 103 lbs., qualifying for the Ohio Division II State Tournament.
The Directors Cup is an accounting of all sports at Division III institutions where points are scored based on NCAA participation. Williams College won the cup this year for the 10th straight year. To score points in wrestling, a school must score team points in the NCAA tournament. Points are given for placing, starting with 100 points to Wartburg for first, all the way down to 21.5 points each for Thiel and Centenary, who tied for 52nd with 0.5 points.
Top Ten Schools with Wrestling Teams
1. Williams
3. TCNJ
6. UW-Whitewater
8. Wartburg
9. Cortland
10. UW-Eau Claire
11. Messiah
14. Ithaca
15. UW-Stevens Point
17. Johns Hopkins
All of these ten except Williams and Johns Hopkins appeared in the last full team ranking of the year, though Williams had two national qualifiers and Johns Hopkins had an All-American for the first time ever.
Some new video is up on the Video Page, including highlights of the NCAA tournament for Stevens wrestler Brandon MacWhinnie, the first All-American from his school.
While you’re on the video page, be sure to check out the NEWA Championship matches and several college highlight videos.
LINK TO DAILY DIARIES/BLOGS AND PHOTOS:
http://www.augsburg.edu/athletics/wrestling/08asia/index.html
Six members of the Augsburg College wrestling team are traveling to central Asia for a 15-day training, mission and service trip. Four Auggie wrestlers, two coaches and four other wrestlers will be in central Asia from May 25 to June 8, training in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Dushnabe, Tajikistan. In addition to training and competing, the wrestlers will do mission and service work, along with visiting historical and cultural sites in the two countries.
Two-time All-American and 2008 NCAA Division III 125-pound national champion Seth Flodeen (JR, Cannon Falls, Minn.), 141-pound national runner-up Jason Adams (SO, Coon Rapids, Minn.), 141-pounder Lucas Murray (FY, Anoka, Minn.) and 141-pounder Jake Saatzer (FY, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS) will join Augsburg head coach Sam Barber and assistant coach John Peterson (a 1976 Olympic wrestling champion) in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Also on the trip will be Steve Barrett, a three-time All-American wrestler at Oklahoma State (1975-77) who currently works as a representative for Athletes in Action in Russia; Olivet College (Mich.) NCAA Division III All-American wrestlers Jason Brew (second at 157) and Kyle Vanderhyde (fourth at 174); NCAA Division III 165-pound national runner-up Ben Hoover from Maranatha Baptist Bible College (Wis.); and Ravshan Uraimov, a three-time national boxing champion from Kyrgyzstan.
This is the third time that Barber has led a wrestling contingent overseas. In 2006, Barber served as head coach of the National Wrestling Coaches Association’s Division III Cultural Exchange trip to Ukraine. In 1997, he served as an assistant coach on the NWCA Cultural Exchange trip to England.
Barber completed his first season as Augsburg’s head coach in the 2007-08 school year, his seventh year as a member of Augsburg’s coaching staff. In 2008, Augsburg finished third at the NCAA Division III national championships, marking the 20th straight year that Augsburg has placed the top four in the team standings — a record currently unmatched by any other NCAA wrestling program in any division. Augsburg claimed five All-Americans, marking the 20th straight season that Augsburg has had five or more All-Americans and 22nd time it has accomplished the feat in its 26 seasons of NCAA Division III competition.
Eagles land promising recruiting class – from the La Crosse Tribune
Highlights include 5 state champ freshman and 2 state champ transfers.
Severin Walsh Named Head Coach 
FOREST GROVE – Pacific University Director of Athletics Ken Schumann has announced that Severin Walsh will become the next head coach of the Pacific men’s and women’s wrestling program.
Walsh comes to Pacific after two seasons as the top graduate assistant coach at St. Cloud State University, a NCAA Division II program in St. Cloud, Minn. Walsh replaces Scott Miller, who announced his retirement from coaching in March after six years leading the Boxers. Walsh is the ninth coach in the history of the program.
I know it’s not Division III, but KC Star columnist Joe Posnanski wrote recently in his blog about his experience covering the 2000 gold medal match at heavyweight in greco-roman wrestling. It’s worth reading at a slow time of the year for wrestling news.
Here are two recent D3 highlight videos. Please contact me if you have one, or one is posted somewhere, for a specific team.
2x All-American and Wilmington graduate Carl Amerine was announced last week as the new head coach at Wilmington College. See the release below.
“CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA” will feature Olivet teammates Jason Brew and Kyle Vanderhyde this Saturday at 1pm. The show highlights NCAA championships from the past year and a feature this year will be about Brew and Vanderhyde, teammates who have been wrestling together since the age of four. Both were All-Americans this year, helping Olivet to an 11th place finish.
I hope you had the chance to see The Streak last night on ESPN2 about the Brandon (FL) High School 459 match winning streak. It was well done and showed wrestling in a positive light for two prime time hours on a major cable network. If you missed it, it will air again Monday, May 5th at 2pm, so fire up your DVR.
Brian Borchers, the 2008 NCAA D3 runner-up at 285 lbs. was announced as one of 58 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winners for the Winter season. He is one of 4 wrestlers, and the only D3 wrestler to be awarded the $7,500 scholarship this year. The NCAA annually awards up to 174 scholarships split evenly between senior men and women, so this is a great accomplishment considering the nearly 400,000 NCAA athletes competing each year.
Nick Ackerman’s win over Nick Slack in the 2001 NCAA 174 lb. final was named the #1 dramatic finish in the last 25 years of NCAA competition by NCAA Champion Magazine. Ackerman, from Simpson College, won an action packed match and withstood Slack’s furious comeback that came up one takedown short, leaving the final score 13-11. Ackerman went on to be named a co-winner of the 2001 Hodge Trophy, sharing it with Cael Sanderson.
Former Manchester College and Northwestern University head coach Tom Jarman will speak today at the Defiance College Purple and Gold Club Spring Awards Banquet. Tickets can still be had for the 6pm event.
Jarman was an NCAA champion wrestler at Wheaton College and coached 17 All-Americans at Manchester. He is in numerous Halls of Fame and was named Midwest Region coach of the year four times.
His book Wrestling for Beginners is one of the top selling books for young wrestlers.
Former national champ will speak at DC’s Purple & Gold Banquet
There are a number of current and former D3 athletes in the various age groups at the U.S. Nationals in Las Vegas this week. Please comment if I’ve missed anyone.
FILA Jr. Greco-Roman
Clayton Rush, Coe, 5th place at 55kg
Luke Satern, Buena Vista, 1st place at 63kg
FILA Jr. Freestyle
Luke Satern, Buena Vista, 63 kg
Senior Freestyle
Dave Morgan, King’s, 60 kg (can anyone verify this?)
Gannon Hjerleid, Coe, 66kg
Ricky LaForge, Delaware Valley (formerly), 66kg
Danny Song, USMMA (formerly), 66kg
Dustin Hinschberger, Wartburg (formerly), 66kg
Eric Van Patten, Brockport, 84kg
Terry Madden, Hunter (formerly), 84kg
Madden is the only wrestler left after the qualification tournament in Senior Freestyle, while Luke Satern will wrestle high school sophomore Andrew Alton in the consolation semis of the Fila Jr. Freestyle.
RevWrestling has named Ohio State head coach Tom Ryan as their 2007-2008 Coach of the Year. However, Jim Miller of Wartburg was 5th on the ballot, placing higher than any other non-Division I coach. He led the Knights to another title in 2007-2008, steamrolling the field to win by 47 points and put six in the finals to cap an undefeated season.
Cornell College head coach Mike Duroe has been honored by the USOC as the 2007 Volunteer Wrestling Coach of the Year for the second year in a row. Duroe has been a part of several world and Olympic teams, and recently completed his 3rd season at Cornell, finishing in 7th place at the 2008 NCAA Championships.
After a season as the interim head coach at Augustana College, Eric Juergens was elevated to full time head coach. A highly decorated wrestler at the University of Iowa, Juergens took over for Pat Marsh shortly before the 2007-2008 season. See the link to the Augustana release below.
The annual all-star match between Iowa and the USA takes place tomorrow at Iowa City West High School. Tonight, Wartburg head coach Jim Miller will be speaking at the banquet. See the link below for ticket information and scheduling info for the Classic.
Concordia-Moorhead wrestler Josiah Simburger has been diagnosed with cancer, as reported on The Guillotine more details can be found on that site.
