Twenty NCAA Division I wrestling programs are using MatBoss, wrestling's premier VideoStats app, including five of the nation's top 10 programs in InterMat's preseason rankings. Below is a season outlook for each of the 20 NCAA Division I...
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Author John C. Maxwell wrote, "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way." On wrestling teams, leaders are assigned the role of team captain and play an important role in...
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College wrestling programs across the country will soon embark on the 2016-17 season with the first official practice less than three weeks away. Coaches will finalize their team rosters and scholarship money will get dispersed throughout the...
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As a wrestling coach, you want -- and expect -- your wrestlers to constantly improve. To gain new skills. To perform better each time they step out onto the mat. In the highly competitive environment that is...
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Yet again the fall is here, which means it is almost the scholastic wrestling season. However, these days, there is no such thing as a true offseason. There have already been a few pre-season tournaments, mostly Super...
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During the first few months of Matt Azevedo's college wrestling career, takedowns were hard to come by in the wrestling room.Azevedo started his college wrestling career at Arizona State (he would later transfer to Iowa State) and...
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In 2008, Chris Bono, who was serving as head wrestling coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, received a surprising request. After Nate Gallick, one of Bono's assistant coaches at the time, was forced to withdraw...
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Jeff Buxton is one of wrestling's all-time great coaches. He served as Blair Academy's head wrestling coach from 1982 to 2012, winning the Prep National championships in each of his 30 seasons. His Blair Academy teams were...
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During Mark Branch's first week of wrestling practice at Oklahoma State University in 1993 he was approached by Cowboy great and new teammate Alan Fried. Fried asked Branch his name and where he's from. After the lanky...
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When Lennie Zalesky was a competitor at the University of Iowa, his coach, the legendary Dan Gable, used statistics as a motivational tool.As a junior at Iowa, Zalesky was a team leader in major decisions (before technical...
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