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Brute/PWCA Fall Wrestling
Convention Informational Letter
Registration FORM for the
Brute/PWCA Fall Wrestling Convention.
USA Wrestling Pre-Season Nationals to be held in Iowa. Check here for details.
Penn State names Mark Perry, former Iowa NCAA Champion, as assistant coach.
Troy Letters & Aaron Anspach to staff
National Wrestling Hall of Fame - Pennsylvania Chapter Selects Seven for Spring '09 Induction.
Coach & Official Dale Bonsall
Coach Scott S. Gold II
Coach & Official Mike Colley
Official and Coach Robert Derr
Official Francis "Yogi" Michael
Coach and Contributor Sid Nodland
Coach Art McCall
Junior Worlds videos (thanks to Brock Hite) Watch former BEA wrestler Quentin Wright - http://195.70.27.5/815/fs/119.wmv Fill in the bout number where the 119 is. bout 119 is Quentin Wright's bronze medal match. Go to the brackets to find the bout number at the top. USA team for Freestyle was Rappo (upenn) 110 Sanders(minny) 121 Graff (wisconsin?) 132 Burroughs (nebraska) 145 Wright (psu) 163 Letts (maryland) 184 Foster (ok st) 211 and Jack (or st) 264. brackets are found here. http://www.fila-wrestling.com/istanbul08/index.php
Follow the
Fargo Report
from one of our new guys- Dean Beers - on the District ONE website
of the PA Wrestling Network. Many PA wrestlers entered and did well.
Thanks to another new link for our- District 5 by Ryan Spring. Ryan
informed us that Nick Roberts of
North Star won a National Greco-Roman
title at 84 lbs. over the past weekend., and
Pennsylvania won
the team title.
Placers reported to me.
Ken Wunderly's 2007-2008 Southwestern PA Wrestling Recap.. Ordering information HERE
Dean Beers, our new District ONE Rep, is seeking all District ONE Wrestling Schedules. Please email to him ASAP Dean@pasportspage.com
East Stroudsburg University goes Division II. (Dave Wrigley)
Susquehanna Township's Ed Ruth has transferred to Blair Academy for the 2008-2009 season.
PA Native Billy Welker (now head official in West Virginia) to be inducted into the West Virginia state chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Bruce Baumgartner to enter Olympic Hall of Fame.
PWCA Scholarship winners - 2008
$1,000 winner Micheal A. Brant Westmont Hilltop High School
$1,000 winner Matt Snyder Lewistown High School
$250 winner Mallie Shuster Big Spring High School
$250 winner Don Miller Cambria Heights High School
$250 winner Derek Reber Lewisburg High School
$250 winner Tom Polacek Westmont Hilltop High School
Head Coach Varsity Wrestling Team
Deadline for application is October 1, 2008
Applications can be found online on
the Cambria Heights School District website:
http://cambria.pa.schoolwebpages.com
Applications may be sent to: Athletic Director
426 Glendale Lake Road Patton, PA 16668
tboyle@chsd.k12.pa.us
Rich McIntyre is the new head coach at Bethlehem Freedom.
Greg Lazor takes over for the retired Jim Clark at Chestnut Ridge (Ryan Spring)
Former Bedford assistant Josh
Deputy is the new coach at Everett (Ryan
Spring)
Jeff Karam has moved from Freedom to Bethlehem Catholic
as head wrestling coach.
Kemal Pegram has been named head coach at Big Spring High School.
Tom Smith has been hired as the head wrestling coach at Richland in Johnstown.
Mark Sallot hired
as Cathedral Prep head coach.
Sunny Abe is now the head coach
at Pittsburgh Central Catholic
Al Camaerei steps down at East Stroudsburg South; Keith Miller resigns at Cathedral Prep.
Mike Maney
named head coach at Bellefonte.
Steve Millward gets head coaching job at Bald Eagle Area.
Jason Bainey is the new head coach at West Branch.
Mike Wilt is the new coach at United.
Kerry McCoy named head wrestling coach at Maryland.
Big News and Opportunities in store for the East Coast Wrestling Communities - a must-read for all wrestling coaches.
PWCA releases 07-08 All-Academic Teams. Class of 2008 Class of 2009 Class of 2010
(Questions for All-Academic should be directed to Earl Stoddard estoddard@norleb.k12.pa.us . Thanks to Earl for his hard work over the past several years with this noble project.)
Article on Central Mountain's Alton Twins
4X All-American, NCAA Champion Phil Davis signs with LionHeart Management
PWCA Adds Ten to List of PA Wrestling Greats ----- photos of inductees
National Wrestling Hall of Fame Inducts
Class of 2008 in Lititz - 15th Year Anniversary
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Fund Established for the children of John Toggas. John met an um timely accidental due to complication after being hit by an automobile,
West York Website pays tribute to John Toggas.
Cornell's Adam Frey Battling Cancer by Jess Shirey
We welcome Dean Beers as our new District One website rep. He replaces Greg Ferrell, who did a nice job for us for several years.
Beers is no stranger to our network, having done some of District 11 and the annual weekly scoreboard. We look for some big things from Dean. District One coaches feel free to contact Dean @ dean@pasportspage.com
We sadly report the untimely death of former Parkland Coach John Toggas. We pray for his family and friends.
Can anyone help out? We owe our armed forces any support we can give.
Dear Tom
My name is Sgt Dan Heflin we're here in Afghanistan fighting the Talliban and I have a question. Is there anybody back home in PA who would be able to donate a small wrestling mat so the Marines can train and keep up their conditioning. I'm a former PA wrestler from Valley View HS and there's another guy here with me from out by State College, Cpl Todd Fetzer. If there is anyway someone can support some PA natives and former grapplers it would be outstanding. We would be grateful as well as our fellow Marines. Communication out here is a bit tough so it'll be a bit before I can try to communicate again.
Thank you in this matter
Semper Fi
SGT Daniel W Heflin
and the Marines of Alpha Battery
Battalion Landing Team 1/6
24 MEU
Greg
Strobel has resigned as wrestling coach
at Lehigh.
Former
Lehigh assistant Pat Santoro has been named as
Strobel's replacement.
Strobel went 189-83-1 at Lehigh, coaching two national
champions, six national finalists, 30 All-Americans and 27
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association champions.
Santoro
was a two-time national collegiate wrestling champion at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Two Centre County Coaches call it quits: Larry Walker of Bellefonte and Steve Kurzinger of State College. We wish them both well!
Wrestlers and Wrestling Fans ...
Get your Pennsylvania Wrestling Tee-ShirtNow two choices of design.
Design #1
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Bob Ferraro's NHSCA National High School SENIOR HS Results - Place Winners list
Sophomores' Results Mark Hartenstine (130) of Easton High was OW
Support the 'Matroom' - a training opportunity for District 4 wrestlers.
Dates for PIAAs in 2009 @ Giant Center - March 5-6-7
Tom is updating state records. Please get this information to him as soon as possible.
Ken Wunderly is looking for any new coaches with 300 wins or more. and any schools who have 450 wins or more. Contact Ken at statco@nb.net
2008 Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic USA Tops PA Stars 28-12
PA Wrestling and Escape Sports are
the official PIAA site for the
PIAA Wrestling Championships updates Rich Vetock, Ray Bennett, Gimp, Kevin Vallely, and Barry Kline are
on site.
David Ackley's PIAA Wrestling notebook.. Day one. Day two
More photos as you scroll down THIS page.. but also some additional posted here
 Rick Bishop (L), head coach at Cambria Heights will retire after is state tournament. |
 AA Action at 160- Redbank Valley's Jonathan Brothers works for fall. He managed to secure it in 3:06 in the opening round. |
Wrestling USA's Man-of-the-Year for 2008
Section - District - Regional Pairings/Results
2008 Regional photos of Champions
EWL Results 3/8/08
How is this for inspiration? Ohio Wrestler Dustin Carter against all Odds.
PWCA All-Academic Forms (2008)
 AA Action at 140 - South Side Beaver's Dominick Demor uses a 'Peterson' to gain points over Warrior Run's Elias Biddle. Demor won 6-0. |
 AA Action at 135 - Sharon's Jordan Moss applies pressure on Hyndman's Logan Sheldon. Moss took a 5-0 decision. |
Former PA PIAA Champion Bill Welker achieves 2008 Wrestling USA Magazine's Master of Wrestling Award
Reynolds Wrestling Newsletter (one of the very best in the nation by Don Shaffer)
 AA Action at 103 - Tyrone's Ronnie Garbinsky counters Benton's Coltin Fought. He did and won a hard-earned 2-0 decision. |
 AAA Action at 112 - Central Mountain's Jordan Rich about to score on Lower Dauphin's Taylor Stuart. Rich WBF in 3:59. |
Looking for Wrestlers who have achieved 100 wins this season.. include the W-L record, wt class, school, and grad year.
Thomas Jefferson looking for Junior High head coach in 08-09.
District 6 Hall of Fame to add Six
Central Susquehanna Conference Wrestling All Stars
PIAA Team Championships 2008
AAA pairings
AA pairings
Past Results
Link for PIAA Team Live Results. Make sure to hit REFRESH to update each time you view!
Photos from the 2008 PIAA Team Championships Delaware Team Championships (David Willauer)
 2008 Central Dauphin PIAA AAA Team Champions |
 2008 Burrell PIAA AA Team Champions |
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Central Mountain's Jerome Klumb gets big win for
Wildcats.over
Council Rock North
Bob Lorence has decided to retire as head coach at Plymouth-Whitemarsh. His team had a school-record 21-3 season this year. We
wish Bob the best. He has been a great coach and a positive factor in all of Pennsylvania wrestling.
WPIAL Wrestling and more on
WJPA... check out
info here.
WIN Magazine's BRUTE
National High School Rankings Wrestling
USA
National High School Rankings (Individuals only)
PIAA State
Championships Results.. 1999-2007 (compiled by Rich Vetock)
PWCA Scholarship
Application (2008)
District Team Championships
| District One | District Two | District Three (Dean Beers) Brackets | District Four |
| District Five | District Six | District Seven AAA AA | District Eight |
| District Nine | District Ten Summaries | District Eleven | District Twelve |
Beast of the East date for 2008 - Dec 20 & 21st - 2008 - application is available for teams to apply found at
Bill Ennis' photos.. includes King of the Mountain. Northern Tier Dual meets, PIAA Football, Penn State and more!
January10 Bedford's 42-22 win over Penn Cambria was the 650th win for their program. Congratulations, Bison team and coaches past and present! (Todd Irwin reported)
Check out Flowrestling for some great wrestling action video!
MAC Wrestling Hall adds Four.
Photos of the Bethlehem Christmas City Tournament by Terilyn More photos
Check out this Reynolds' publication by Don Shaffer. Well done, Don!
PSAC Championships (12/8/07) Edinboro Dominates
New Coaches for 07-08 (please report other to me)
I had the pleasure of viewing Howie Miller's terrific movie about Jon Trenge, his wrestling life and his struggles. This movie is inspirational and motivational. Wrestling Coaches and parents - this is a video you MUST show your wrestler. VERITAS is a must-see.
Wrestling Rules and General Information (including weight certification)
Counting your Competition Points
A PIAA-member school is permitted to participate in a maximum of twenty-four (24) Regular Season wrestling Contests based on the following
method of counting Regular Season
wrestling Contests:
1 point for Contest for each dual meet.
2 points for Contests for each triangular meet (formerly called dual meet Tournament) or for each individual Tournament involving up to 8 teams.
3 points for Contests for each quadrangular meet, for each one (1) day multiple dual event (formerly called dual meet Tournament), or for each individual
Tournament involving 9 or more teams.
4 points for Contests for each two
(2) day multiple dual event.
The History of Collegiate Wrestling Book. The price has been reduced by 30%. You can now purchase this great book including updates for last year for $34.95. Please remember that this is a project of the state chapter program and all proceeds go to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Bill Ennis' photos from Body Bar Wrestling Tournament at Cornell, Saturday, November 17th.
LaSalle College High School Website - Vic Stanley- head coach
Bill Welker's
Pancake Series Takedown Clinic
- Dr. Welker will come to your facility to put on the clinic.
Get all of your Pittsburgh Steeler Memorabilia at Ross Sports
New York High School Wrestling
New York long time Wrestling Coach and Activist
Al Bevilacqua reports on football and wrestling ties.
NCAAs to come to Philadelphia in 2011... St. Louis and Omaha also named as future sites
Beat the Streets - a novel program... also You have to see the big spread USA Today gave wrestling! (from Al Bevilacqua)
All-Time Coaching Records of College Coaches (thanks to Martin Fleming)