Courtesy John Roebuck Jr In the first of a pair of wrestling dual matches, Team USA Women’s Wrestling picked up a 7-4 victory in Albuquerque Tuesday night. Among the winners is InvictaFC MMA’s Randi Miller, who outpointed Sangeeva Darima 8-0. Team USA and Russia head to Windsor, … [Read more...]
Ottawa College to add wrestling
Two of the many things we at the Title IX Blog are interested in are: 1) the reasons behind why schools choose to add specific sports; and 2) wrestling programs.The news that Ottawa College in Kansas is planning on adding both women's and men's wrestling to its roster of intercollegiate athletics, … [Read more...]
Amanda Leve Denied to be on Boy’s Wrestling Team Due to Gender
In the past decade, high school girls have been gaining more and more acceptance in the freestyle wrestling world. However, one school is still a bit backwards in their thinking. 16 year old Amanda Leve was denied the opportunity to wrestle on the new Archbishop Ryan High School boy’s … [Read more...]
Teen Girl Banned from High School Wrestling Team
Last month, the U.S. women’s wrestling team came in third place at the world championships in Budapest. Women have teams on a number of college campuses. Girls wrestling is one of the fastest growing high school sports in the U.S. New York City even started an entire season dedicated to girls … [Read more...]
Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limped her way up the Florida shore. … [Read more...]
Never Ever Give Up a blog post inspired by @diananyad
I don’t know Diana Nyad nor had I followed her extreme dream before this her fifth and final attempt of swimming the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. I found myself glued to the television cheering the 64 year old on and tearing up as she limped her way up the Florida shore. … [Read more...]
Olympic Wrestling is Back in 2020 Games
The International Olympic Committee has voted to re-instate wrestling as a sport for the 2020 games in Tokyo, Japan. Wrestling went against squash and baseball/softball in the voting, which took place in Buenos Ares, Argentina Sunday. Wrestling won with 48% of the vote from the 95 nation IOC. The … [Read more...]
The Power of 100%
I was working a camp this summer and one of the girls asked, “How in the world can I get a scholarship when I am from a small town in North Carolina with cows right behind my high school?” She was implying that because she was from such a small town there was no way she was ever going to … [Read more...]
10 Commandments of Leadership
I recently worked a camp with a man named Ryan Goodson. Ryan has created his own basketball development business called Goodson Basketball. He has a way of teaching the players new skills with catchy sayings and repetition. I will write more on some of those methods later but today I am writing … [Read more...]
Wrestler Danielle Hobeika Returns to Face Sarah Payant
Hobeika Payant Accomplished amateur wrestler Danielle Hobeika will return to the MMA cage after a three year layoff to take on ammy flyweight champ Sarah Payant at PremierFC in Agawam, MA August 3. Hobeika is a three time US National Wrestling team member and a mutiple time NAGA and FILA … [Read more...]