| '08-09 - What a year it was! |
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| Written by Jay Ellenby |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 09:25 |
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What a year it has been! The year started out strong with fall tournaments and clinics featuring tremendous clinicians. Then the season moved into full swing with eight MSWA Novice tournaments, including the first Novice State Tournament held at Loyola. The Maryland Junior Wrestling (MDJW) “Regional Concept” took off and eight regions represented the entire state, holding qualifiers for the right to wrestle in the MSWA Kids State Tournament in Timonium. We had the Senior Classic, MD/VA All Star event, published the MSWA All Academic Teams and the MSWA All Junior/All Fresh-Soph Teams. Then, through the generosity of many camps in the state, we provided 17 Summer Camp Scholarships. Our monthly State Meetings featured guest speakers with many being head coaches from an array of local college wrestling programs. We also launched the new MSWA website.To top off the season, we organized, promoted, and funded the Maryland National FS/GR Teams at Fargo, the Maryland Folkstyle Team at the Brute Scholastic Showcase, and a Maryland Team at the National Schoolboy Duals. As you are aware, each one of these teams had tremendous success by setting records for participation and results for Maryland wrestlers. These are only highlights among many more events which took place supporting the needs of the wrestling community in Maryland.We are extremely proud of these accomplishments but we couldn’t have done it without so many talented volunteers, coaches, administrators, and of course the wrestlers who proved to be champions at all levels for Maryland Wrestling. Congratulations to all!The future is very bright for Maryland Wrestling and we do not want to lose the momentum we have built. We need your involvement and your attendance at our monthly State Meetings, help with tournaments, assistance with coordinating events and most of all your ideas in helping to promote wrestling in Maryland.Sincerely, Jay EllenbyChairman - MSWAMARYLAND NATIONAL WRESTLING TEAM EARNS 15 ALL-AMERICANS AT NATIONALS The Maryland national wrestling team on Sunday brought home 15 individual All-American awards from the Cadet and Junior National Championships in Fargo, N.D., the highest number of All-Americans in state history. The previous highest mark was 12 All-Americans in 2005. In all, the Maryland State Wrestling Association sent more than 50 of the state’s best wrestlers to the USA Wrestling event that ran from July 17 to 25 on the campus of North Dakota State University. Considered the toughest tournament in the world for its age group, the Cadet and Junior Nationals featured more than 3,000 competitors from across the country. Leading Maryland’s efforts were double All-Americans Tyler Goodwin (119), Frank Goodwin (125), Bubba Scheffel (152; Southern-Garrett) and Karl Green (285; Mt. St. Joseph). Tyler Goodwin made the cadet national finals in Greco-Roman competition and placed eighth in freestyle. His older brother Frank placed third in the junior Greco-Roman division and sixth in freestyle. Scheffel was eighth in cadet Greco-Roman and sixth in freestyle. Green placed fourth at the junior division in both styles. The Goodwin brothers, who attended Mt. St. Joseph last year, will be attending Arundel High School in the fall. Also earning All-American honors were: David Mohler (84; Loyola), who placed seventh in cadet freestyle; Cole Gallagher (98; Spalding), who finished eighth in cadet freestyle; Nathan Kraisser (112; Centennial), who was seventh in cadet Greco-Roman; Eric Friedman (112; St. Paul’s), who placed fifth in cadet freestyle; Pat Prada (119; DeMatha), who placed seventh in junior freestyle; Eric Hoffman (135; Northern-Cal), who was eighth in cadet Greco-Roman; and Brady Massaro (140; Severna Park), who finished eighth in cadet Greco-Roman. In all, wrestlers from Maryland won 196 matches with 34 pins during the course of the more than weeklong event. The Maryland team was led by head coach Cary Kolat, a former Olympian and world silver medalist. Posted Under MSWA Programs:
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