Duals Preview: A set of duals at a tri-meet in St. Louis with a pair of NAIA schools in St. Louis is how the Westminster Blue Jays kicked off the 2024-25 season. They would face-off against St. Ambrose University (Iowa) and the host school, Missouri Baptist University. Westminster entered the season with two pre-season ranked […]
The William Woods Men’s wrestling team signed up for the Loosbrock Duals/Service Salute, hosted by Benedictine College in Atchison, KS as an early test on their physical and mental fortitude. They were set to compete in 4 rounds of dual wrestling and then placed into individual elimination brackets over two days against some of the […]
The William Woods Men’s wrestling team signed up for the Loosbrock Duals/Service Salute, hosted by Benedictine College in Atchison, KS as an early test on their physical and mental fortitude. They were set to compete in 4 rounds of dual wrestling and then placed into individual elimination brackets over two days against some of the […]
While children across the country are dressing up to go collect candy from various people’s homes, local businesses, etc., two local NAIA teams kicked off the 2024-25 season on Halloween night. This is the second full-season for the William Woods University wrestling teams and they have many new faces on the roster along with several […]
The State of Missouri and its wrestling has not been known as a wrestling powerhouse compared to Pennsylvania or Maryland. However, each of the past several Olympic Cycles Missouri has increased the success and the overall number of wrestlers that come from the Show-Me State at the Olympic Team Qualification Process and Trials Tournament. This […]
While most people from Missouri who attended the NCAA tournament in Kansas City followed the Mizzou Tigers and their wrestlers, there were several other native Missourians wrestling in the NCAA tournament as well. While Mizzou has several former Missouri High School wrestlers such as the Elam brothers, it was a homecoming of sorts for seven […]
Since the resurrection of the Westminster College Wrestling Program in 2017 (the original program was cut back in the 1970s), they have only had a handful of NCAA qualifiers but they have yet to reach the podium. They also lost 2 of the more recent championship opportunities due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021. However, […]
Going into their Regional Tournament, the Westminster Blue Jays knew it was a tough road to qualify for the NCAAs. In fact, if you qualify through the NCAA DIII Lower Midwest Regional, most likely already wrestled some of the nation’s best just to qualify. Among the teams in attendance, nine of them are Iowa Schools […]
The Centralia Panthers came into the tournament’s second day battling between 3rd and 4th place as a team. It was doubtful as the Panthers won less than half of their matches in the morning session (Semi-finals and blood rounds). However, they won enough key matches to have five medalists heading into the Friday afternoon/evening final […]
If you have been following the article series about the Lady Bulldogs this season, you’d find several references to this event. In the end, all of the other matches the wrestlers have wrestled this season were just practice and buildup for this weekend’s event. No matter if you wrestled ten matches or 40. The […]