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Gary Abbott USA Wrestling
10/09/2007
For the first time, USA Wrestling will host a national championships focused
exclusively on folkstyle wrestling for young women.
The USA Wrestling
Girls Folkstyle National Championships will be held at the Freede Center on the
campus of Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City, Okla., March
14-16.
National champions and All-Americans in women’s folkstyle will be
crowned for high school, middle school and elementary school athletes. The event
will be held using National Federation of State High School Association
rules.
Awards will be given to the top eight individual in each weight
class in elementary school, middle school and high school divisions. Team awards
will be presented to the top three state programs.
The event will be held
alongside the annual Women’s College Freestyle Nationals, providing the young
wrestlers in attendance a chance to be seen by college coaches. A College/Club
Fair is being organized, where young athletes can receive information on the
women’s college wrestling programs.
Top college wrestlers from the Univ.
of the Cumberlands, Missouri Valley College, Oklahoma City Univ., Pacific Univ.
and Menlo College and the Northern Michigan USOEC program, as well a numerous
college club programs, will compete for the national championship. This will
allow the young wrestlers to witness the best college women athletes in
action.
“This is a big step forward for the USA Wrestling women’s
program,” said event director Archie Randall. “What is exciting to me is that we
will be able to showcase our college women’s wrestling programs, while
showcasing all of women’s wrestling in general. To have grade school, middle
school, high school and college women athletes in the same venue at the same
time is a tremendous opportunity. We can now truly promote women’s
wrestling.”
For information, contact Event Director Archie Randall at
405-834-2796.
Click here to download event flier
Click here to download event waiver forms
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- DATE: 10/8/2007 10:38:00 AM
- Williamsburg, KY
- By Kim Hamby
University of the
Cumberlands
Sports Information
The University of the Cumberlands
Women’s Wrestling Team has been collecting money all week around campus to help
raise funds for Lee National Denim Day and breast cancer research.
Lee
National Denim Day, which is sponsored by the Women’s Cancer Programs of the
Entertainment Industry Foundation, was Friday, October 5, 2007. This annual
event has raised more than $61 million in the past 10 years. The money goes
toward groundbreaking early detection and treatment research for breast cancer
nationwide.
The women’s wrestling team not only raised funds for an
extremely important issue, but they have exemplified the traits set forth in the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ (NAIA) Champion of Character
program. The program was designed to promote character, integrity, and personal
growth in all college athletes, coaches, and communities. The Patriot Ladies
have modeled exemplary character traits for the rest of the campus and community
to follow.
