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WRESTLING BEGINS WITH STRONG DEBUT
ATHERTON, CA – 10/10/01-
Melina Hutchinson
The Menlo College Women’s Wrestling team opened its season on Wednesday with a dual meet against team AC Uckerath of Germany. The competition was the first ever women’s meet at Menlo College, and was highlighted by a pair of wins from the Hutchison sisters, Tanica and Melina.
Tanica, a former Cadet National Champion, defeated her opponent, Justyna Maulik, in a 4-2 decision. Her sister Melina, who represented the USA in this year’s Junior World Championships, completely dominated Daniela Ewert with her relentless head-snapping and low single-leg takedowns, and pinned her before the end of the first period.
Other Menlo women’s wrestlers who participated in the dual meet include Bior Guigni, a New England Champion, Nikole Milleron, a 6th place finisher at the 1999 USGWA National Championships, Lydia Aghedom, a 6th place finisher at the California State Championships, and Linda Nguyen, who wrestled at North Quincy High in Massachusetts and who leads the Menlo Women’s Cross Country Team.
The team competes next at the Sunkist International Open in Phoenix, AZ on October 26th. The women will square off against some of the best female wrestlers in the nation and the world, including wrestlers from Missouri Valley College and the University of Minnesota-Morris, the first two women’s wrestling programs that were established in the USA. If the women demonstrate the same determination and energy that they showed today, then many of the Menlo women could possibly gain national rankings.
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World Wrestling Championships venue switched
Agence France Presse 10/11/2001
The postponed world wrestling championships, which were due to be held in
New York, have been switched to Greece and Bulgaria, FILA, world wrestling's
governing body said on Thursday.
The Greco-Roman world championship will be held in Greece, either in Athens
or Patra, from December 6-9, while the freestyle and women's wrestling
competitions will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, from November 22-25, a
spokeswoman said. The decision followed a vote at a FILA meeting in Lausanne.
The championships had been scheduled for New York's Madison Square Garden at
the end of September but were delayed indefinitely amid security fears after
the September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
The US organizers had asked that New York host the 2003 wrestling
championship if this year's event was moved to another nation.
New York had offered to re-schedule the event in December but said only the
finals could take place at Madison Square Garden because of a clash with
basketball and ice hockey matches.
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MSG Loses Wrestling Championships
By John Jeansonne
STAFF WRITER
October 12, 2001
New York City has lost this year's world wrestling championships, originally planned for Madison Square Garden the last week of September, then postponed while officials considered logistic and security options in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
FILA, international governing body of Olympic-style wrestling, announced yesterday that the event will be split into two locations on separate dates. Men's freestyle and the women's championships will be contested in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 22-25 and men's Greco-Roman will be held in either Athens or Pastras, Greece, Dec. 6-9.
All three disciplines were to have been packaged into one championship tournament for the first time from Sept. 26 through 29 at the Garden, with 693 athletes from 82 nations entered. But USA Wrestling, FILA's American arm, requested a postponement.
Working with local host committee NYC2012, the private group bidding for the 2012 Summer Olympics, USA Wrestling offered to keep the event in New York on Dec. 6-9. Unable to find four consecutive new open dates at Madison Square Garden, USA Wrestling and NYC2012 proposed having the first three rounds of competition at the Javits Convention Center and the final round at the Garden.
USA Wrestling also asked, in the event of moving this year's championships, that FILA place the 2003 tournament in New York. According to officials at USA Wrestling, no decision has been made on future events.
Currently, the 2002 freestyle championships are set in Tehran, Iran, with Greco-Roman scheduled in Moscow and the women's tournament in Patras. And the 2003 championships have been assigned to cities in Slovakia and France.