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American University’s Katzen Arts Center to Host the Greater Washington Wrestling Business Network January 26th Event
Posted January 24th, 2012

Wade Schalles, Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame will be the Master of Ceremonies.

John Licata, GWWBN President has announced that Wade Schalles has agreed to MC the event hosted at American University’s Katzen Arts Center. Licata stated, Wade adds so much to the event. A wrestling legend himself who lives in Maryland has been very involved in the formation of our group and serves as a Founding Board Member. Schalles stated, “I am very excited to be part of this event and group of professionals. The Katzen Arts Center is an ideal site to promote our mission and help support the school’s wrestling program. I can’t think of a better place for the areas business community to come together for an evening of building relationships. Then for our membership to be able to meet, hear and have their pictures taken with Speaker Hastert and Coach Gable…..well its just going to be a great event.” .. read more »
NWCA, Track Wrestling and Wrestling Video Solutions Awarded Bid to Bring Unprecedented Technology to NCAA
Posted January 16th, 2012

The National Wrestling Coaches Association and its event management partner, Trackwrestling, have been awarded the bid to provide the statistical software solution and score clocks for the 2012 NCAA Wrestling Championships in all three divisions. In addition, the NWCA and Trackwrestling have partnered with Wrestling Video Solutions to provide video solutions for the NCAA Division I Championships.

The statistical software solution will provide unprecedented results and statistical features for the fans in attendance and at home. The NCAA Championships will be managed using the Trackwrestling paperless tournament system. .. read more »
GWWBN Networking and Speaker Event
Posted January 16th, 2012

Tom Peters- The best selling author of “In Search of Excellence” about business management practices said, “Your power and influence is almost directly proportional to the thickness of your rolodex. The most potent people I’ve known have been the best networkers.”

A primary reason that the The Greater Washington Wrestling Business Network was formed was to bring together professionals with a common interest for the purpose to create an environment to do business with each other. People do business with people they know they can trust. .. read more »
National Duals Brackets Released
Posted January 5th, 2012

By Tammy Tedesco

The 2012 NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals Presented by Hibiclens and The Marines has announced the brackets for the event taking place on January 7-8 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Illinois.

This five division tournament will take place over a two-day period and is double elimination. Division II, Division III and NAIA will all compete in sixteen team double-elimination brackets. The NJCAA and Women’s Divisions are placed into eight team brackets, all divisions are guaranteed three matches. .. read more »
George Mason Wrestles #7 American University
Posted December 7th, 2011

Saturday, December 10th, the Mason wrestling squad hosts #7 American University at the (RAC) Recreation & Athletic Complex at GMU in Fairfax, VA. The dual begins at 7:30 PM. Season tickets are still on sale for 15.00. Mason has seven home dates which includes 12 different teams. Season Ticket holders will be able to watch all seven CAA teams compete at the CAA duals and will get preferred seating.

Top Twenty Remains the Same in Week 4
Posted December 7th, 2011

The University of Iowa remains at the No. 1 spot in the NWCA/USA Today Coaches Poll as they received eight No. 1 votes.
The Top 20 remains the same with little noticeable movement this week.

No. 2 Oklahoma State proved their team’s strength over the weekend with a 24-13 win over No. 3 Minnesota.

Edinboro moves to No. 25 this week after receiving votes in the past weeks.

The NWCA/USA Today Division I Team Coaches Poll Committee is made up of one coach from each conference.  A number one ranking is worth 25 points and a number 25 ranking is worth one point.

This poll is based on a dual meet ranking.

A new poll will be released every Tuesday from now until the week of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Tournament and can be found at www.nwcaonline.com. .. read more »
GMU Head Coach Joe Russell’s Blog
Posted December 7th, 2011

George Mason Head Wrestling Coach Joe Russell has a blog to keep fans up to date on what is happening at the Fairfax, VA campus. His blog can be found here.
Below is his 6th blog/post for George Mason wrestling…..

This weekend was good for Mason Wrestling. Friday we traveled to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania for the Bloomsburg duals. We took 19 wrestlers. It was good to be together as a team. On Saturday we were able to win 2 of 3 duals. Our first dual was against East Stroudsburg. Each team won 5 matches. We won thanks to bonus points. Isenhour and Barnette won by major decisions. McLaughlin and Hembury won by pins. We lost our dual against Bloomsburg. We certainly had opportunities to win the dual, but we did not capitalize. Our last dual of the day was against Sacred Heart University. They wrestled us hard, but had to forfeit some weight classes, which put us in the position of being almost assured of victory before the dual even started. .. read more »
National Wrestling Day December 5th
Posted December 4th, 2011

Press Release from the Pennsylvania Wrestling Newsmagazine; By Danny Iovino-Ortiz

Joe Baranik, founder of the Award Winning Pennsylvania Wrestling Newsmagazine (PWN) in conjunction with the following nine wrestling organizations and media across America have declared December 5, 2011 the first annual National Wrestling Day. PWN, Beat The Streets, Riot Sports Marketing, National Wrestling Coaches Association, Takedown Wrestling Radio & TV, USA Wrestling, National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum, World Wrestling Resource, and the National Collegiate Wrestling Association are all thrilled to get the “Wrestling Season” started from elementary leagues, middle school and high school grapplers, collegiate wrestling, women’s wrestling and our Olympic level Team USA.

It is time to roll out the mats and “Rumble and Tumble” from Maine to Florida and New York to California. We want to let the public know ‘Wrestling Season Has Arrived’ and will continue until the state and national tournaments in March 2012.
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