Entries Tagged as ‘Solid News’

July 1, 2008

Top 100 Recruits: A brief analysis

It’s the start of a new recruiting cycle across the college athletics landscape and wrestling is no different. Phones are ringing and to coincide with this day of constant badgering from college coaches, InterMat has released its annual hit list of the Top 100 recruits. 
It’s one of our most popular features and it’s not a [...]

June 26, 2008

Breaking Point: Division I Qualifier Allocation Update

Instead of jaming this into the Four Points, it’s going to get its own breakout point. The news is coming from the NCAA Championship/Competition Cabinet meetings in Illinois which voted on the NCAA Wrestling Committee qualifier allocation proposal.
The proposal, as you might have remembered from previous news items here, asked for an additional 30 qualifiers to the [...]

June 25, 2008

June 25: Junior Pan Am’s through the eyes of Coach Rob Prebish

By Rob Prebish
Greco-Roman Coach
2008 FILA Junior Pan Am Games 
My only experiences in international wrestling prior to 2008 were through the eyes of a young Greco-Roman athlete, trying to leave his mark on the wrestling community. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever have the chance to lead a group of wrestlers [...]

May 14, 2008

Half-past midnight out East

Been frantic today.
Right now, it’s all phone tag, text messages and e-mails. Trying to get ahold of a few more folks for some breakdown reaction, but I did just get off the horn with Anthony Robles. While it’s an unfortunate situation in which I had to interview the lad, but I have to say this [...]

May 13, 2008

Tuesday update

We’ve launched www.saveasuwrestling.com and will be updating it as more information comes to fruition. Thanks to Jacob Schlottke, who wrestled for a brief time at Arizona State, for setting up the domain and the WordPress-based blog-site to allow us easy updates.
Also, just concluded an interview with Arizona State Athletics Director Lisa Love … I will [...]