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Mat Stats 13: If Not Now? When? If Not You? Who? Part I – SOW25
September 22, 2022 18:59 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBThe crew at MatStats continues their study on potential changes on team scoring. This Episode examines the concept of continuing the Margin of Victory dual meet scoring with the inclusion of Placement Points for tournaments. Using the data from Men's D1 Championships (1988-1992 & 2017-2022), MatStats contends that we should change the scoring at tournaments to enable more fans to understand it and increase scoring and action. Wade Schalles joins the show to add his perspective. Get the PD...
Recruiting, NIL and back on campus – AAS4E3
September 21, 2022 04:23 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBPurdue wrestling is gearing up for another big season on the mat and the on the recruiting trail. The crew gets together again to discuss all of that and more on another episode of the Always Aggressive podcast.Head coach Tony Ersland starts off by discussing how excited the team is to be back on campus, back in school and back in the wrestling room. A host of new faces join the Boilermaker veterans as the team awaits the release of the Big Ten schedule.The guys talk recruiting as Ersland and...
USA Wrestling’s Rich Bender on 20 years of women’s freestyle wrestling in Fargo
September 05, 2022 20:27 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBRich Bender, the Executive Director of USA Wrestling, talks during the 2022 USA Wrestling Junior Women's Freestyle National Championships about the tremendous growth of women's wrestling and how this tournament has served as one of the catalysts. Bender talks about the decision to bring the first Junior Women's tournament to Fargo in 2002 and how it is nearly approaching 1,000 athletes after a record-setting field 20 years later. This show was recorded in Fargo, North Dakota at the 2022 US...
Welcome new assistant coach LeRoy Gardner – AAS4E2
September 05, 2022 03:48 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBPurdue wrestling announced several staff changes and additions Tuesday, and following that release the Always Aggressive Podcast was lucky enough to welcome new volunteer assistant coach LeRoy Gardner to the show.In addition to head coach Tony Ersland's thoughts and impressions on Gardner, the Golden Valley, Minnesota native takes us through his wrestling journey and how he came to accept his new position with the Boilermakers. A three-time All-America honoree and 2004 NCAA Division III Champ...
Izzy Martinez of Izzy Style Wrestling on the development of club wrestling – OTM650
September 05, 2022 03:35 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBIsrael “Izzy” Martinez was one of the top high school wrestlers coming out of Illinois in the early part of the 2000s. Martinez won an NJCAA championship as a freshman at North Idaho College and then enrolled at Iowa, but his Division I career didn’t develop like the expectations that followed his stellar high school career. Martinez re-created a name for himself as a high school coach and a high-level club coach with Izzy Style Wrestling in the Chicago suburbs. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy ...
Summer seasons, newcomers on board and non-conference schedules – AAS4E1
August 25, 2022 04:02 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBCoach Tony Ersland and hosts Tanner Lipsett and Cory Palm discuss the summer season, go through the newcomers on the roster and take a first glance at the squad's non-conference schedule.
Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde on swimming, sportswriting and realignment’s impact on Olympic sports
August 24, 2022 16:53 - 1 hour - 45 MBFor the last three years, Pat Forde has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. A native of Colorado Springs, Forde’s journalism career started upon his arrival at the University of Missouri. After nearly two decades at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, he’s spent the last decade writing college sports for Yahoo and then SI. Forde joins the Short Time Wrestling Podcast to give his unique perspective on being a national sportswriter who actually has that understanding of the wor...
Doug Brooker talks on his lifetime of producing wrestling for television – OTM649
August 23, 2022 20:04 - 1 hour - 47 MBDoug Brooker’s journeys around the globe involve baseball diamonds and wrestling circles Doug Brooker has spent decades covering wrestling, but doing it behind a wall of monitors. A longtime producer, Brooker worked for Iowa Public Television for 30 years and was the go-to guy when it came to wrestling on television. Brooker also was on the ground floor with Big Ten Network’s wrestling broadcasts and he’s worked 10 Olympic Games, with seven of them involving wrestling. He’s also an avid base...
Mat Stats 12: Should we change dual meet scoring? A Margin of Victory Method – SOW24
August 17, 2022 15:46 - 59 minutes - 41 MBThe dual meet is one of the great features our sport has to welcome new fans, to pack arenas and to see how one team matches up with another. While dual meet scoring has undergone some changes over the past 50-plus years, does the team scoring metric adequately represent the scoring that takes place within the men’s college structure of 10 weight classes? Glenn Gormley, Kevin Hazard and Jason Bryant dive into the topic with Gormley’s Margin of Victory method. Some suggested practices have a p...
The Rink Live: Jason Bryant discusses how he got the SCSU men’s hockey public address job, his background, the Olympics
August 17, 2022 15:15 - 31 minutes - 26.4 MBJason Bryant joins Mick Hatten to talk about the his new role at the PA announcer for St. Cloud State men's ice hockey.
20 years later, Limestone coach Brandy Green relished the chance to compete in Fargo
August 15, 2022 16:58 - 20 minutes - 14 MBIn 2002, USA Wrestling launched the first Junior Women’s Freestyle National Championships and the tournament joined the four men’s divisions in Fargo, North Dakota. The fifth tournament in Fargo would feature just over 100 young women. One of those first champions was Michigan’s Brandy Green, who then was known as Brandy Rosenbrock. Green was one of the first two women to ever win multiple titles in Fargo, joining Oregon’s Samantha Lang as two-timers with their championships in 2003. Green al...
The Show WILL Go On – NCS96
August 11, 2022 19:20 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBThe show must go on as host Brian Reinhardt and head wrestling coach Pat Popolizio are back for another episode of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast. Show Segments 0:50 - Welcome, we're back and Pat isn't going anywhere. 2:19 - Pat is entering his second decade in Raleigh. 3:25 - We've got a new staffer! 4:20 - Daycare facilities to be added to the wrestling room? 6:00 - What's the month of August look like for Wolfpack wrestling and the new rules impact? 11:00 - Lineup discussion and tra...
Recapping the summer events with Kyle and Andy – OTM648
August 08, 2022 17:40 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBIt’s been a while since Kyle and Andy sat down and hit record, but that’s just what they’ll do as they recap some of the summer happenings - the U17 World Championships, Junior & 16U Nationals and the NWCA Convention
California’s Malinda Ripley is one of Fargo’s first women pioneers
August 05, 2022 16:57 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBCalifornia's Malinda Ripley was one of the first crop of women's champions in Fargo 20 years ago.
Northwestern women’s lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller all-in on daughter’s wrestling in Fargo
July 28, 2022 20:23 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBNoted college women's lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller is in Fargo watching her daughter Harlee competed at the 16U Women's Freestyle National Championships. A fan of combat sports and multiple sports for athletes, Amonte Hiller talks about her daughter's time in wrestling, what the crossover is for mindset training for lacrosse and wrestling and what benefits she's seen from wrestling for her daughter. She also touches on what would make wrestlers good lacrosse players and what women's wre...
2022 National Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction Speeches
July 27, 2022 04:42 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBThe 2022 National Wrestling Hall of Fame Honors Weekend closed out with its annual induction program featuring all the honorees. The Class of 2022 featured Meritorious Official Tom Clark (posthumously), Order of Merit recipient Mike Moyer, Medal of Courage recipient Melissa Simmons, Outstanding American Mario Lopez and Distinguished Members Clarissa Chun, Sara McMann, Andy Rein and Jake Varner. The program includes highlight speeches and video presentations. Also honored are Dave Schultz High...
Mat Stats 11: Analyzing the scoring trends from the NCAA Division I wrestling championships – SOW23
July 25, 2022 16:38 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBThe MatStats gang, Glenn Gormley, Jason Bryant, and Kevin Hazard, does a deep penetration step into the scoring, pins, & OT of 3366 wrestlers & 6060 bouts at NCAA D1 Men’s Championship bouts. MatStats compiles a comprehensive statistical study on scoring categories of the Men’s NCAA D1 Championship Tournaments. The study includes two 5-year periods (1988-1992 & 2017-2022). MatStats analyzes yearly changes, weight class differences, and scoring changes as the rounds progress through the tourn...
Guest Spot: Ranking “Off The Deep End” on the Beer’d Al Podcast
July 15, 2022 14:16 - 1 hour - 76.7 MBOur series of “Weird Al” album rankings continues! This week, Lauren is joined by Jason Bryant, Hall of Fame sportswriter, broadcaster, and announcer, to discuss Al’s 1992 offering Off the Deep End. How do our rankings line up? Listen and find out! Full show notes available: https://www.beerdalpodcast.com/very-special-episode-off-the-deep-end-ranked-ft-jason-bryant/ Beer’d Al is a grande member of the OddPods Media Network.
Building women’s wrestling with veteran coach Shannyn Gillespie of Lakeland University
July 07, 2022 20:31 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBAn All-American at Lock Haven during his college days, Shannyn Gillespie has been on the front lines of coaching women’s wrestling for nearly two decades. The Illinois native is currently the head wrestling coach at Lakeland University, a Division III school that offers both men’s and women’s wrestling. On Episode 708 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Gillespie talks about his path from suburban Chicago to tiny Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and the path in life that led him to coaching women, i...
Speaking at the Peninsula Sports Club’s Headliner’s Night
June 30, 2022 20:07 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBThe 72nd annual Headliner’s Night, hosted by the Peninsula Sports Club, took place on June 27 at the Omni Hotel in Newport News, Virginia. William & Mary football play-by-play commentator Jay Colley served as the Master of Ceremonies for the annual event, which featured Mat Talk Online’s Jason Bryant as the event’s Keynote Speaker. In 2021, Bryant received the Bob Moskowitz Media Award from the Peninsula Sports Club just hours after he left the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This year, he had a ch...
Jake Hart ready to tell wrestling’s stories, his way – VT114
June 24, 2022 19:07 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBTexas native Jake Hart talks about his career at Virginia Tech, how he arrived and why he stuck things out when it was clear he wasn't going to be the starter for the Hokies at 157 pounds. Now focusing on a career in sports media and journalism, Jake's joined up with Fanco Wrestling. He talks about his journey, being selfless, and what's next. SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spreaker | iHeartRadio | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS SUPPORT THE NETWORK And if you're a fan of ...
2022 Hall of Fame Tribute Breakfast
June 20, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBThe 2022 National Wrestling Hall of Fame Honors Weekend was back to a fully attended in-person event after a delay from the 2020 class and the 2021 induction ceremony. The McKnight Center hosted one of the newest additions to the weekend, the Tribute Breakfast. Speaking at the Tribute Breakfast in 2022 were Rick Tucci and Zach Errett for Meritorious Official inductee Tom Clark, Jim Miller and Greg Hatcher for Order of Merit inductee Mike Moyer, Archie Randall and Dr. Bob Hines for Medal of ...
Mat Stats 10: Jason Bryant’s plan to renovate Division I wrestling conferences – SOW22
June 15, 2022 15:45 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBThere are 32 conferences in the Division I athletics landscape. Among the 350 Division I schools, there will be 81 that have wrestling at the start of the 2023-24 season. Those 81 teams will be spread across 28 different all-sports conferences and collected into seven conferences that sponsor wrestling. All 14 Big Ten schools sponsor the sport. Six of the ACC’s 15 schools sponsor the sport. The other five conferences are a collection of conference names with affiliate schools populating them ...
Brian Fox working to bring a wrestling state championship to Mississippi – OTM647
June 06, 2022 17:39 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBBrian Fox of the Mississippi Wrestling Foundation is helping to try to get Mississippi to complete that circle on getting the sport of wrestling fully integrated into the last state that doesn’t have an official state wrestling tournament. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy Hamilton as they talk about the world of wrestling on the flagship podcast of Trackwrestling.com from FloSports. Show Segments0:40 - Andy likes mostly regional taco chains. 1:00 - Andy’s going to FINALLY see the Bronx Bombers...
Brendan Buckley excited about Final X and the future of Beat The Streets New York
May 24, 2022 17:04 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBBrendan Buckley, Executive Director of Beat The Streets New York, talks about his path to BTS, the mission of the program and how the organization has grown and created opportunities since launching in what was once a barren landscape of wrestling. Oh, and that whole Final X thing coming to the Hulu Theater on June 8 in New York City! Prior to getting to the show with Brendan, I’ll give you a rundown on some points about World Team Trials attendance and wrestling attendance in general as wel...
Mat Stats 9: The unique role of the NCWA in college wrestling – SOW21
May 20, 2022 16:02 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MBWelcome to the NWCA’s latest venture to help our favorite sport. Glenn Gormley, Jason Bryant and Kevin Hazard outline their effort to bring statistical analysis to wrestling. MatStats is the NWCA’s attempt to bring wrestling up to speed with so many other sports by incorporating stats. The MatStats crew investigates ideas to help Grow our sport. In this new monthly episode the MatStats crew is joined by the Founder and Executive Director of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association, Jim ...
Leroy Vega talks World Team Trials – AAS3E21
May 19, 2022 17:39 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MBCoaches Tony Ersland and Leroy Vega join hosts Tanner Lipsett and Cory Palm to discuss Matt Ramos winning the U.S. Open last month and preview his chances this weekend at World Team Trials in Coralville, Iowa. They also discuss other performances at the U.S. Open and celebrate recent Purdue Wrestling graduates.
Coach Popolizio looks at the upcoming Trials and we meet three redshirts – NCS95
May 19, 2022 16:44 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBYou typically don't get a lot of coverage when you're redshirting in college wrestling. Episode 95 of the #PackMentality Pop-Ins Podcast will change that, highlighting three wrestlers who will be looking to attack the lineup next year after redshirting in 2021-22. Host Brian Reinhardt gets an update from head coach Pat Popolizio about the upcoming World Team Trials before sitting down with Derek Fields, Joey Milano and Brock DelSignore. Redshirt Segments 19:00 - Derek Fields 26:00 - Joey Mil...
2021 Distinguished Member Bruce Burnett
May 17, 2022 15:12 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBBruce Burnett has excelled as a coach on the high school, collegiate and international levels, serving as USA Wrestling’s national freestyle coach and leading some of the most successful teams in American history. During his tenure, five Americans won Olympic gold medals and 11 U.S. athletes won 13 World Championships including four champions in 1993 and four in 1995. From 1993-2000, U.S. wrestlers won 22 World medals (11 gold, four silver and seven bronze) and placed in the Top 10 at the W...
Think Iowa City’s Josh Schamberger brings the Soldier Salute to Coralville’s Xtream Arena – OTM646
May 16, 2022 20:50 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBA new college wrestling tournament will hit the schedule in December as Soldier Salute will kick off just before New Year’s at Coralville, Iowa’s Xtreme Arena. The event is the brainchild of Josh Schamberger, the President of the Iowa City/Coralville Visitors & Conventions Bureau and a big-time fan of wrestling and wrestling events. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy Hamilton as they talk about the world of wrestling on the flagship podcast of Trackwrestling.com from FloSports. Show Segments0:40 -...
New Central Missouri head coach Cody Garcia begins his own legacy
May 13, 2022 20:51 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBCody Garcia was a four-time NCAA Division II All-American and two-time champion at powerhouse Nebraska-Omaha under coach Mike Denney. Garcia, the son of a coach himself, started his career at his alma mater after finishing up with his eligibility in 2009. Most in wrestling know what happened in Omaha at the end of the 2011 season, but Garcia moved on to coach at two NAIA schools in Kansas. His first stop would be Bethany before spending the last seven years leading the Wildcats of Baker Unive...
2021 Distinguished Member Mark Lieberman
May 10, 2022 15:36 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBWhen wrestlers, coaches, media and fans gather to talk about the G.O.A.T. at Lehigh University, the conversation always includes Mark Lieberman. Combining all styles, he is considered the Mountain Hawks’ greatest overall wrestler. A 1979 Sports Illustrated article described Mark as “the guttiest and the best” college wrestler that year. He was a two-time undefeated NCAA champion at 177 pounds in 1978 and 1979 after a runner-up finish in 1977 at 167. He is part of another special wrestling fa...
All you need to know about #WrestlingShirtADayInMay with Jim Dutrow
May 03, 2022 20:45 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBJim Dutrow is back for another year of promoting wrestling at all levels with #WrestlingShirtADayInMay, a social media campaign aimed at showing your wrestling pride from every level of wrestling. This year, the month-long campaign is combined with the #BloodRoundPoundDown weight-loss fundraiser, so the wrestling social media community is losing weight, while repping their school or club of choice each day. Get your shirt via Rudis: https://teamgear.rudis.com/t/149088/?team_id=149088&set_te...
2021 Distinguished Member Dremiel Byers
May 03, 2022 15:18 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBOne of only two Americans to win three medals at the Greco-Roman World Championships, Dremiel Byers is considered one of the best Greco-Roman wrestlers in U.S. history. Byers won a gold medal at the 2002 World Championships and is one of just five Americans to win a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. He added a bronze medal in 2007 and a silver medal in 2009 joining Distinguished Member Matt Ghaffari as the only Americans to medal three times. His 2007 bronze medal helped the United States...
5PM52: Two-time Olympian Jim Gruenwald
May 03, 2022 03:40 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBWheaton College head coach and 2X US Olympian Jim Gruenwald makes his long awaited appearance on the show to discuss his new book Not All Roads Lead to Gold. Gruenwald discusses several of the book's foundational concepts as well as having to revisit painful moments from his career in order to illustrate the most important points he wants readers to uncover. In addition, Gruenwald shares a slew of poignant insights with regards to training athletes from which both fellow coaches and activ...
Wrestling coach and author J.D. Oliva launches his next trilogy of novels
April 27, 2022 18:55 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBJ.D. Oliva is carving out quite the career for himself as a fiction writer. The wrestling coach at Illinois’ DeKalb High School is publishing a trilogy of books via Kickstarter with his new series, The Wolf Stone Saga. Link: http://kck.st/3EpOqae Oliva also writes on the topic of professional wrestling for FightGameMedia and the first half of our show talks about the crossover with professional wrestling and collegiate and international level wrestling, some of its origins and our thoughts ...
Michigan head coach Sean Bormet goes On The Mat – OTM645
April 26, 2022 16:36 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBMichigan head wrestling coach Sean Bormet is coming off a program-best second-place finish at the NCAA Division I Championships as the school capped it’s 100th season on the mats. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy Hamilton as they talk about the world of wrestling on the flagship podcast of Trackwrestling.com from FloSports. Show Segments0:40 - Andy resembles a backpack, a good one, but a backpack nevertheless. 1:30 - Shane Sparks is also a Beast. The engine doesn’t cool down. 3:25 - Twitter is...
2021 Distinguished Member Bill Zadick
April 26, 2022 03:10 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBAs a competitor and coach, Bill Zadick has forever written his name in the U.S. wrestling record book. He won a gold medal at the World Championships in Guangzhou, China in 2006. His younger brother, Mike, brought home a silver medal from the same tournament, making them the first set of brothers since Terry and Tom Brands in 1995 to both make the same World or Olympic team. For a 10-year period, he was one of the most competitive wrestlers on the U.S. national freestyle team. After a fif...
Oregon State assistant coach Josh Rhoden is Ready for the Next Dam Chapter
April 25, 2022 15:02 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBFor the past 16 years, Josh Rhoden has been leading the Cougars of Clackamas Community College to new heights in the NJCAA. After winning the program’s sixth national championship - and fourth in a row - Rhoden jumped at the opportunity to head to Division I, joining the coaching staff at Oregon State. Rhoden assumed the role at Clackamas as a 26-year-old alum of the school, leaving after Mike Haluska took to take the job at Portland State. Thrown into the fire, Rhoden taught himself how to...
Kenny Monday and his role as the Director of Wrestling at SPIRE
April 20, 2022 20:09 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBKenny Monday was an NCAA champion at Oklahoma State and won four medals at the World Championships and Olympic Games, including Golds in 1988 and 1989. He’s now the Director of Wrestling at the Geneva, Ohio private school, SPIRE Institute & Academy and is looking to create something new as he’s giving back to the sport by teaching another generation of wrestlers, but now at the high school level. Monday tells stories about wrestling in Tulsa, Oklahoma growing up, how Ray Lewis played a role ...
Mat Stats 8: Can a non-scholarship Division 1 conference work? – SOW20
April 20, 2022 16:10 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBGlenn Gormley, Jason Bryant and Kevin Hazard explore the idea behind a non-scholarship or limited-scholarship Division I wrestling conference and how it could work and how it would be affordable for schools to implement. There’s some historical precedent as Division I football features the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League, a non-scholarship conference in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Mat Stats 8 PDF Slideshow MatStats_8Download About Mat Stats & State of Wrestling We...
Guest spot on the Messy Success Podcast with Elizabeth Henson
April 20, 2022 15:16 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBElizabeth Henson is one of my old college friends and a member of the 2000 NCAA Division I field hockey national championship team at Old Dominion University. Now she's got a cool podcast and we recently reconnected, talked about the show and decided I needed to come on to tell some old stories and explain how her show actually explains my career pretty well - a messy success. For show notes, follow this link. To listen, press play.
James Green says farewell to Blacksburg, SERTC – VT113
April 15, 2022 00:30 - 44 minutes - 31 MBAfter representing the United States on six World teams and coming away with a bronze medal in 2015 and a silver medal in 2017, James Green is calling it a career. On Episode 113 of Inside Virginia Tech Wrestling, Green talks about his career, why he's leaving his shoes on the mat, what's next with USA Wrestling and he also reflects on his time in Lincoln and Blacksburg, where he closed out his competitive career. Green represented Team USA at six straight World Championships, starting in La...
Coach reactions as NAIA approves women’s wrestling for championship status
April 09, 2022 21:05 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBA momentous day for women’s wrestling and wrestling as a whole came on April 9, 2022 as the NAIA approve women’s wrestling as its 28th championship sport. With the announcement, the NAIA becomes the first major college athletics organization to officially sanction the sport for an official national championship. On Episode 700 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we’ll visit with two of the 2022 championship coaches, Lee Miracle of Campbellsville University and Ashley Sword Flavin of Life U...
Ed Giese takes another coaching path, this time to Budapest
April 07, 2022 21:36 - 1 hour - 51.6 MBMinnesota All-American Ed Giese training the next generation of women’s wrestlers in Hungary During the 2022 European Championships at BOK Sportcsarnok, I sat down with Illinois native and 1986 Division I All-American Ed Giese. Ed goes through his years wrestling in Illinois, competing at Minnesota in an era before J Robinson was coaching there, wrestling with Foxcatcher and help train the next level of wrestlers in Illinois through his work at Team Overtime with current Michigan head coach ...
NC State’s Hayden Hidlay goes On The Mat – OTM644
April 07, 2022 17:02 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBNC State’s five-time All-American Hayden Hidlay finished up his college career a few weeks ago in Detroit at 174 pounds. Now he’s taken the shoes off from competitive wrestling and will turn his focus to coaching, starting out with a new role at his alma mater. Join Kyle Klingman and Andy Hamilton as they talk about the world of wrestling on the flagship podcast of Trackwrestling.com from FloSports. Show Segments0:40 - As always, Andy is ready for baseball. 1:30 - Kyle needs to shed some ...
The Recap, the Super Senior Salute and the move to freestyle season – NCS94
April 07, 2022 03:01 - 31 minutes - 22 MBAfter Brian Reinhardt and Pat Popolizio gave each other some time away from one another after the close of the college wrestling season, but now it's time to kick up that glorious offseason wrestling content. It's so good, it'll make you crave more wrestling - which is just what we have. We'll recap the Pack performance at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships, look back at the careers of the Wolfpack's six Super Seniors and break down what the next month of competition looks like for t...
Kenny Monday talks with Tony Ersland – AAS3E20
April 06, 2022 19:37 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB1988 Olympic Gold Medalist and Wrestling Hall of Famer Kenny Monday joins Coach Tony Ersland and the guys this week to discuss his life in wrestling, his Olympic journey and what led him to coaching. Monday, a three-time Olympian and two-time Olympic finalist, was also a three-time NCAA finalist, winning the 1984 title at 150 lbs. He is currently the head wrestling coach at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
5PM51: Lining up with Tanner Farmer
April 01, 2022 11:23 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBSurging Illinois heavyweight and former Division I lineman and NAIA runner-up Tanner Farmer helps usher in the new season of the podcast by sharing his thoughts on a variety of perspectives. With his first overseas tour now in the books, Farmer is poised for even more improvements entering his second year as a full-time Greco athlete and opens up regarding his approach to learning -- and the confidence he has in his overall physical strength. Says Farmer: "I'm one of the strongest heavyweight...
#BuckleUp with All-American Bryce Andonian – VT112
March 25, 2022 16:58 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBRecapping the 2022 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships with Virginia Tech All-American Bryce "Buckle Up" Andonian. The Ohio native has represented the United States at the Junior World Championships and provided #HokieNation and the wrestling world highlight reel throws and an unorthodox style that makes him a draw to anyone who likes exciting wrestling and bonus points. Andonian talks about growing up wrestling in Ohio, how he ended up wrestling at Ohio powerhouse St. Edward and when h...