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Pan American Games Wrestling
Forrest Molinari of the United States, front, and Venezuela's Soleymi Caraballo, compete in the women's wrestling freestyle 68kg gold medal match at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on November 2, 2023. Women's wrestling is on track to become a NCAA championship sport in the winter of 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Women’s Wrestling Moves Toward NCAA Championship Status

The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics has recommended Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation to add a national collegiate women’s wrestling championship, with the projected first NCAA championship occurring in winter 2026. Before the committee can make a recommendation to add a championship for an emerging sport, 40 schools must sponsor it at a […]

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USA Wrestling Chooses Westfield, Indiana, for Major Event

USA Wrestling has announced its 2024 16U and 14U Girls National Dual Meet Championships will be held at Grand Park Event Center in Westfield, Indiana, from June 19–22 while the event will also return to the Grand Park Event Center in 2025. This will be the first time that this combined competition has been held. […]

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USA Wrestling 2024 Boys 16U Nationals Duals Heads to Utah

USA Wrestling’s 2024 Boys 16U National Dual Meet Championships will be held at Zions Bank Real Academy in Herriman, Utah from June 12-15, 2024 before returning to the same location in 2025. The tournament features state-level teams from USA Wrestling’s state associations from across the nation competing in dual meets in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. […]

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USA Wrestling Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals Heads to Cedar Rapids

USA Wrestling’s 2024 Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman National Championships will be held at the ImOn Ice Arena in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from June 28-30, 2024, and the event will return to the destination in both 2025 and 2026. The two USA Wrestling events feature the nation’s top boys in the 8U, 10U, 12U and 14U […]

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Dale Neuburger awarding the USA women's water polo team with their gold medals at the World Aquatics Championships - Budapest 2022 (Photo via László Balogh/World Aquatics)

Mary Lou Retton, Bruce Baumgartner and Dale Neuburger Honored by U.S. Olympic Movement

1984 Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton, multi-world and Olympic medals wrestler Bruce Baumgartner and Dale Neuburger, treasurer for World Aquatics and known for his longtime work throughout the Olympic movement both internationally and within the United States, will be recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Endowment during the annual awards ceremony at […]

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USA Wrestling Awards Marquee Events to Fort Worth, Fort Wayne

USA Wrestling has named Fort Worth, Texas, as the host of the 2023 USA Wrestling Senior Nationals and the Folkstyle Tour of America Stockyard Stampede, while also naming Fort Wayne, Indiana, as the host for the 2024 Kids Folkstyle Nationals. The Fort Worth events will take place at the Fort Worth Convention Center. The senior […]

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Shreve­port-Bossier City Wins NCWA Nationals Bid

The National Collegiate Wrestling Association will hold its 2024 national championships in Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana. The 2024 nationals will be from March 14-16 after a March 13 high school ‘Recruit-Me’ Combine. Nine qualifying conference tournaments are scheduled for the weekend of March 2, spanning across the country. The event will be at Brookshire Arena and […]

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Erie Sports Center Wrestling
Female wrestler Alex Alli is the first athlete to commit to the International Wrestling Academy and will attend Erie Prep Academy. Photo courtesy of International Wrestling Academy/Erie Sports Center.

Erie Sports Center Announces Creation of International Wrestling Academy

The Erie Sports Center in Pennsylvania has announced the creation of an International Wrestling Academy which will offer boys and girls high school aged wrestlers an opportunity to train and compete in Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling in line with the USA Wrestling National Team program, philosophy and schedule. Chad Vandiver has been named as director […]

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2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Wrestling

Penn State to Host 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Wrestling

The Bryce Jordan Center on the campus of Penn State has been selected to host the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials ­– Wrestling on April 19­–20 in University Park, Pennsylvania. The champions from the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Wrestling will become eligible to represent the United States at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. […]

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WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles was the highest-grossing event in WWE history at the time, with more than 160,000 fans in attendance. Photo by Justin Shaw/SportsTravel

WWE Produces Largest Event in History at WrestleMania 39

WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles had plenty of action, both inside and outside the ring. WWE announced the event as “the most successful WrestleMania of all time.” But shoehorned into the proceedings was the bombshell announcement that WWE was acquired by Endeavor, the company that owns the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The WWE promotion machine did […]

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