Short Time Wrestling Podcast

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a letter to the National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA) alleging discrimination. While the NCWA had 10 days to legally respond to the allegations, the ACLU went on a media assault, pushing out video content and share campaigns aimed at pushing the agenda to the masses. There's one (or more than one) problem, the NCWA is the only organization...

David Barker and Sara Koenig have been the brains behind the Super 32 Challenge for the last 18 years. In what started in a small high school gym in Eden, North Carolina, one of the nation's most respected and toughest wrestling tournaments has blossomed. Now hosted in Greensboro, David Barker rocks into Episode 360 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast with high hopes for the future and a fond look...

Episode 359 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with the new head wrestling coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Frank Beasley. An Illinois native, Beasley started his college wrestling career in junior college before heading to Bloomsburg. After an injury-shortened career at the Division I level, Beasley's coaching prowess started to develop and after a stint at his alma m...

Episode 358 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast centers in on the NAIA and University of Providence head wrestling coach Caleb Schaeffer. While there has been a lot of talk recently about the Blue Ribbon Task Force and its impact on Division I wrestling, Schaeffer and the rest of the NAIA have some qualification news to discuss. A graduate of Montana State-Northern where he was an NAIA national ch...

Episode 357 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast visits with Lehigh alum and wrestling media member Denny Diehl as he shares his memories and stories about the late John Harmon. John J. Harmon, the EIWA's Sports Information Director Emeritus, passed away Tuesday, September 26, 2017. A 1959 graduate of Lehigh University John earned a B.A. in mathematics, is survived by his wife Elaine Oberkotter Har...

Bass Master Elite Series Angler of the Year Brandon Palaniuk knew he wanted to be a professional fisherman when he was young. He discovered fishing right around the time he discovered wrestling. As a youth, a trip to a North Idaho College dual meet introduced him to the sport, while fishing with family and friends introduced him to his passion. On Episode 356 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, w...

Taking a walk around the Olympic Wrestling Center in Athens, Greece following the conclusion of the 2017 Cadet World Wrestling Championships, we run into some folks from Team USA. After a great summer that saw Junior and Senior freestyle teams win team titles, the Cadets gave chase, but fell just short of sweeping the age-group worlds. We talk with Troy Nickerson, Lee Pritts, Kevin Jackson, Sean B...

Emma Randall didn't really know what sport she wanted to play coming out of high school. From a small town in Ohio, Randall chose Lock Haven and also decided to wrestle for the fledgling women's club team at the small Pennsylvania school. Now Randall has found herself as part of the U.S. National coaching staff with coach Terry Steiner. Randall is the only woman in the country who holds a USA Wres...

Day 1 of Cadet Greco-Roman is off and running at the Olympic Arena in Athens, Greece. Episode 353 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with coaches Zac Dominguez, Justin "Harry" Lester and Matt Lindland about their roles and the development of Greco-Roman wrestling. The first day also saw the opening of a new two-day format that's more in line with how American wrestling fans are used to view...

It's a mini-update of sorts from Athens, Greece and the 2017 Cadet World Wrestling Championships. It's been a couple of weeks since the last Short Time Wrestling Podcast, so this one's just a quick update and a small story from the days where I talked about wrestling so much, it actually got me fired from an internship at a radio station. Updates from Cadets will be a tad more plentiful this week....

Join Richard Immel of USA Wrestling and Jason Bryant of Mat Talk Online for Episode 351 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for a preview of the 2017 United World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France. This episode focuses on men's freestyle, which will take place at the AccorHotels Arena on August 25-26. JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on t...

Join Richard Immel of USA Wrestling and Jason Bryant of Mat Talk Online for Episode 350 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for a preview of the 2017 United World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France. This episode focuses on women's freestyle, which will take place at the AccorHotels Arena on August 23-24. JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on...

Join Richard Immel of USA Wrestling and Jason Bryant of Mat Talk Online for Episode 349 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for a preview of the 2017 United World Wrestling Championships in Paris, France. This episode focuses on Greco-Roman, which will take place at the AccorHotels Arena on August 21-22. JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on the M...

On Episode 348 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, host Jason Bryant returns to talk with Sally Roberts of Wrestle Like A Girl. On July 29, Wrestle Like A Girl held the Glitter into Gold Gala in Colorado Springs and a major news bombshell was dropped. During the presentation, Meg Stevens, the AD at Averett University in Danville, Virginia, was shown telling the crowd that Averett had signed on as...

Bonus Episode: How I construct the post-match voiceover at the Junior World Championships JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on the Mat Talk Podcast Network, become a TEAM MEMBER today. There are various levels of perks for the different levels of team membership. If you like wrestling content -- scratch that -- if you LOVE great wrestling content...

Episode 347 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast is a mashup of a few various shows on the Mat Talk Podcast Network as Andy Hamilton and Richard Immel join a roundtable discussion. The U.S. men's freestyle team won the Junior World championship for the first time since 1984. We go off the rails and talk a lot of things about sports, and there's a little bit about wrestling. JOIN THE TEAM And if you...

Ken Chertow is known for numerous aspects involving wrestling. He's been a successful athlete, coach, camp director and broadcaster. Now Chertow will get back into coaching as he takes the reigns of a start-up Division II wrestling program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina.. We'll talk with Chertow about his rise to prominence from West Virginia, his time at Penn State and why th...

Episode 345 is a solo show where I’m talking about some of the best memories, not all the best, but just some good and maybe some bad memories of my 19 years covering the Cadet & Junior Nationals. Below is the “show notes” which were basically the rough outline for the show Richard Immel and I were going to do from Fargo. Pardon the grammar and lack of actual respectable prose here, it was initial...

Jeff Ragan's found a new lease on life and in wrestling. On Episode 344 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll talk with Ragan who is coaching in Fargo with Team Georgia. During the high school season, he coaches at Woodward Academy in Georgia, one of the largest college prep schools in the nation, and according to Ragan, the largest in the Lower 48. Ragan, a longtime assistant at The Citadel...

After the first session of Day 2 at the Cadet & Junior Nationals in Fargo, North Dakota, we caught up with the Filipino Wrecking Machine, Mark Munoz. Munoz, a 2001 NCAA champion at Oklahoma State and recently retired UFC fighter, is here to give back to the sport after it taught him so much. Munoz also talks about the scope of the tournament, how Fresno State restarting its program impacts Califor...

The first day of Fargo kicks off with Cadet Freestyle and on Episode 342 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast will walk the floor to start the second session. We'll hear from the following people in some way, shape or form. - John Sachs from Tech-Fall.com - Richard Immel of USA Wrestling - Joe Galante, head wrestling coach at The College of New Jersey - Andrew Spey, Dan Lobdell (Wrestling Nomad), a...

Pete Isais has spent a lot of time in Fargo, North Dakota. On Episode 341 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll talk with Isais, the Events Director at USA Wrestling about the changes and evolution of one of the largest collections of wrestling talent in the world. Formerly an assistant wrestling coach at the tournament's host site, North Dakota State University, Isais explains how crucial th...

When the University of Oregon dropped wrestling in 2007, a lot of people were pointing the finger at Nike. The athletic giant grew out of the Eugene campus and with wrestling no longer sponsored at the school, many called for the company to get out of wrestling altogether. It nearly did. But now Athlete Performance Solutions has brought Nike Wrestling back into wrestling and the company is already...

What is this PROWL thing and who's behind it? Well, two names that might look familiar, Xander Schultz and Matt Novogratz, are involved. What can they tell us about it? Not much right now. Xander and Matt provide much of the content for the shortest episode of Short Time in years. Their message? Stay tuned! Yes, this might be the biggest tease of an episode ever. JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan...

On Episode 338 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we visit with Gabe Habash, author of the recently released novel Stephen Florida. The novel follows the main character, Stephen Florida, through his last year of college wrestling at a small college in North Dakota. We see who he is internally ad externally and what has made him who he is.  Habash's story is a solid read, but what is even more co...