Great job… unreal! I used to chuckle when the NC was over before the finals even began. Now, these guys wrap it up on Friday nite after the semifinals. PSU Wrestling is simply the best, a true dynasty.
12th NC
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Penn St. duo on cusp of 4th NCAA wrestling titles
Carter Starocci and Aaron Brooks will have a chance to make some wrestling history for Penn State.
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At least have the courtesy to wait until the tournament is over.
next years NC is in Philly. Would be nice to see them win another one next year.
BTN was saying 13th this AM.
It is 12. PSU won in 1953. With tonight's win, they have won 11 championships under Cael Sanderson. So those 11 plus the 1953 championship equals 12
So, do they not wrestle their Senior HS year. Or just do tournaments or what? (Sorry, I’m not too “up” on this sort of thing)
They don't wrestle their senior season year of HS, as they are not attending their HS, and as such ineligible to wrestle for their school. They make the determination that a year of wrestling with the NLWC is better for their advancement than a year of wrestling at their local high school. They take classes online to complete their high school degree, but they are living in the State College area, and practicing year round.
It’s been around 14 hours since WE won the national championship, and I haven’t heard about any blue chip recruits committing to US. What the hell is Cael doing?
Back before it was an NCAA thing, there was a year (1920s?) when PSU claimed a "MNC" in grappling.BTN was saying 13th this AM.
They may have been counting that one. Or maybe no one there can count. Flip a coin.
I hope Sanderson can get 5 more NCs before he retires so he can pass Gable.
Well that is when ok state won all over there championships for the most part. Kind of like Yale in the 1800’s and Michigan winning 9 championships all in the wagon wheel days
I’m sure he is focused on that. Cael exceeds expectations at everything he sets his mind too.
NCAA Wrestling Championships started in the late 1920s. I am not sure how many Oklahoma State "claims", but since the NCAA tourney started Oklahoma State (previously Oklahoma A&M) has won 34 titles.
Their last was in 2006 - and that was the last time a non-Big Ten team won (since then, PSU has won 11, Iowa 4, Minnesota and Ohio State 1 each)
Correct.
Zack Ryder has aspirations of becoming a collegiate, national and Olympic wrestling champion. So he’s taking an unprecedented step to get a head start on his future.
Ryder, who recently turned 17, is going to forego his senior season at Minisink Valley High School, instead joining an elite wrestling club at the doorstep of his college choice, Penn State.
My point exactly
NCAA championships: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971,
Wore my hat to homey D TOday very proud. These boys get their church on
Sanderson could go down as the greatest coach in any sport, EVER! He is barely in his 40s with no signs of slowing in this juggernaut. Amazing job and coach.
NLWC members are allowed to train with PSU wrestlers!! So PSU wrestlers train with stars like David Taylor, Kyle Dake, and many others. I am pretty darn sure of that!! Obviously NLWC train all year and get stipends. And prepare for international competitions. Taylor is aiming to get Olympic gold again and Dake has won every award except Olympic gold so he hopes to get it this summer in Parisl
Highest point total ever.
Largest margin of victory ever.
Largest margin of victory ever.
Well, it's a little complicated.
A long time ago, USA Wrestling kind of had no formal structure for their elite Olympic wrestling programs (freestyle and Greco-Roman). Then they tried to bring everyone to one location, but that didn't lend itself to other aspects of the wrestlers' lives. So they came up with the Regional Training Center (RTC) concept. It's proved to be very popular, in that most of the top wrestling programs also have RTCs, so they are located at different colleges, the wrestlers can take classes if they want, the coaches of college programs can also offer coaching to the RTC, etc.
The Nittany Lion Wrestling Club is the RTC at Penn State. They practice in the wrestling rooms at the Lorenzo Wrestling Complex, which is the building attached to Rec Hall where PSU wrestling is headquartered. They have a budget that is separate from PSU's budget. And there are staff members of the NLWC that are not on PSU wrestling's staff. So in a literal sense, the NLWC is not part of the university. However, it uses facilities at PSU, and most of its coaches are also PSU wrestling coaches.
I hope that helps.
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serious question is there still a wrestling training center at the DuPont estate? I think from the movie it was one of the best. TIA
It does. And, raises more questions, but I’ll say “thank you” and not hijack the thread.
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The Foxcatcher training center on the DuPont estate (Liseter Hall which John DuPont renamed Foxcatcher Farm after his mother died) has been broken up into a housing development and a new campus for Episcopal Academy.
A couple of interesting things about the estate:
- while everyone knows of DuPont, and John DuPont's father was a DuPont, the estate was a wedding gift from the bride's father. The mom, Jean Liseter Autin, was the daughter of the president of Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW). There were three main builders of all the steam engines used to pull trains during the steam-engine era, and BLW was one of them. As such, Ms. Autin was quite rich on her own right, but not at the level of her husband, William DuPont. John DuPont's parents divorced when he was a kid, and she kept the property, and it passed on to John.
- DuPont wrote a will either while accused or after he was convicted, that left his estate to Bulgarian wrestler Valentin Yordanov. He was an Olympic wrestler that had trained at Foxcatcher. After DuPont's death, a couple of his nieces and nephews filed suit claiming that DuPont was not of sound mind when he made the will, but that case was dismissed, so Yordanov ended up getting all of the estate.
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BTN was saying 13th this AM.
This is called "a prediction." LOL!!
OOOO, as a finance geek (okay, retired finance geek), that explanation generates a ton of questions.
1) Does NLWC pay rent to Penn State for facility use? (Could be a nominal amount.)
2) Does NLWC compensate Penn State coaches? (Again, could be a nominal amount.)
3) Etc., etc., etc.
Not asking you to answer, Tom. Just spitting out finance geek questions.