Short Time Wrestling Podcast

Clackamas Community College has won the last four NJCAA National Duals championships. One thing the Cougars haven't won in the last four years is an NJCAA National Championship. On Episode 312 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll visit again with head coach Josh Rhoden to talk about the school's first unbeaten wrestling season. Clackamas is one of a handful of schools in the Pacific Northwes...

Oklahoma State will host Penn State on February 19 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, at historic Gallagher-Iba Arena for the NWCA National Duals Series Championship. Note the terminology, this isn't the "NCAA Dual" championship and Penn State coach Cael Sanderson has a few opinions on the topic. With several coaches going on record about their displeasure around what happened to this year's format, and to...

Few rivalries can transcend every sport. Even as big as Michigan-Ohio State or Iowa-Iowa State or Texas-Oklahoma are, the one institutional rivalry that seems to trump everything, regardless of sport is Army-Navy. On February 19 at Christl Arena in West Point, N.Y., Army West Point will host Navy in the 61st meeting between the two schools on the wrestling mat. On Episode 310 of the Short Time Wre...

It's Women's Wrestling Week in the U.S. and what better way to celebrate that time than with one of the most amusing women's wrestlers on the planet, Julia Salata. A four-time WCWA All-American and two-time champion for King University, Salata is in her second year on Jason Moorman's coaching staff at the Bristol, Tennessee school. We'll talk with Salata about her experience in Rio as a training p...

The final half of the Rollie Peterkin interview includes the captivating and humorous stories from a life traveling the world. On Episode 308 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we've got Peterkin talking about hitchhiking, castles, the Blarney Stone, life at a boarding school, Jeff Buxton, Adam Frey, Jared Platt and orange Gatorade in a can. So sit back, relax and enjoy the chatter as this one-t...

What began as an interview request talking about a book morphed into a two-part series with former Penn wrestler Rollie Peterkin. A world traveler, Peterkin gave up his dream of working on Wall Street to turn to the world of Mixed Martial Arts. But Peterkin didn't just drop his suit and tie off at the cleaners and run down to the local boxing club. He packed up and moved South -- like South Americ...

Wrestling has been part of Sara Levin's life for over 25 years. The St. Louis native and Indiana graduate has worked in positions at USA Wrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, but now she's got a new calling. Levin has started wreSTL, a youth wrestling center in St. Louis to help expose the sport of wrestling to a new generation of people. With an emphasis on learning and personal grow...

The voice of the NCAA Division I Wrestling championships the last few years on ESPN was Adam Amin. While Amin won't be on the call this coming year in St. Louis, the Illinois native ended up being a smooth and steady call after breaking into the role five years ago. Amin's journey to sports broadcasting has been quick and quality. Amin can be found calling just about anything on ESPN. He's even jo...

Jim Harshaw has been around the sport in a number of positions. As an athlete, he was All-American at the University of Virginia. He's been an assistant coach at his alma mater, a Division I head wrestling coach at Slippery Rock and now he's working back at his alma mater in Athletics, primarily dealing in fundraising. Harshaw is also an entrepreneur, building several different businesses striving...

Andy Hamilton of Trackwrestling joins the Short Time Wrestling Podcast on Episode 303 to talk about the weekend that was in college wrestling, the growth of his company and its media offerings and Kyle Klingman's ability to ask random questions. Hamilton, an award-winning journalist both at the Iowa City Press-Citizen and the Des Moines Register, also chimes in on rankings at 133, the Iowa State s...

Getting back into the swing of things with the Short Time Wrestling Podcast and Episode 302. This episode, I'm going to look south to Iowa (that's how you know it's cold) and talk with Troy Banning, the Sports Editor at the Freeman Daily Journal in Webster City, Iowa and Tony Hager from IAwrestle.com and Takedown Wrestling Media. The topic of media access and credentialing has come up in Iowa rega...

Episode 301 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast captures some chatter from folks in and around the Hampton Coliseum as we remember some great stories from the history of the Virginia Duals. We'll talk with a pair of the tournament directors, Mike McCormick and Bill Grubbs and talk with high school coaches Matt Small of Great Bridge, John Tanaka of Powhatan and former Poquoson wrestler Jerrod Hurr,...

Episode 300 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast is a joint effort with Richard Immel and Bonus Points as we do the classic CROSSOVER EPISODE! Unlike when the Jetsons meet The Flintstones, this is something that's going to be reactive, retrospective and it might just actually talk wrestling. The long and short of it is simple, Richard and JB talks about literally three cool things this year. There'...

Heading into the 2016-17 season, Cornell's Gabe Dean had already established himself as one of the nation's most dominating wrestlers. With 60 percent of his career victories via bonus coming into this season, Dean set his sights on a third NCAA championship, not necessarily the Dan Hodge Trophy. On Episode 299 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Dean talks about why he's off to a punishing start...

When Fresno City College finished up the 2016 California Community College Championships this past weekend, they looked back and saw Cerritos College five points behind. Last month, Cerritos capped an unbeaten league season with a win over Fresno City for the state dual championship, but Fresno City and coach Paul Keysaw would ultimately prevail and win the school's 14th state title. On Episode 29...

On Episode 297 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Shane Sparks from the Big Ten Network and Trackwrestling comes on to talk about everything but wrestling. Seriously, there's about five minutes of actual wrestling talk here, but we do touch on the Olympics, baseball, Tom Brady and some smelly things. A great talker and advocate for wrestling, Sparky gets a little wound up when talking about Vin...

Chael Sonnen returns again to the Short Time Wrestling Podcast to give a mental mind meld of what he thinks is going to go down when Dan Henderson meets Jon Jones at Submission Underground 2 in Portland on December 11. Submission Underground, founded by Sonnen and streamed live on FloGrappling, is basically MMA without the striking. The whole point is to make your opponent submit. Sonnen, host of...

Short Time makes its first ever trip to Brookings, South Dakota as the No. 20 South Dakota State Jackrabbits hosted third-ranked Iowa at Frost Arena on Friday, December 2. For South Dakota State, it was a chance to set a new attendance record -- and boy did they ever. The South Dakota faithful put 4,087 into Frost Arena although their boys in blue fell to the Hawkeyes 29-8. The Iowa-South Dakota t...

Abdullah Abu-Mahfouz graduated from Central Dauphin East High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with some unfinished business. On Episode 294 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll talk with Abu-Mahfouz about how he's finishing that business with a wrestling documentary film called Stand Up. Abu-Mahfouz follows his alma mater as a handful of wrestlers look to try to qualify for the Pennsylvan...

It's about time to head back to the Big Apple as the fifth annual Grapple at the Garden presented by Bats-Toi. Our guest on Episode 293 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast is Dylan Wanagiel, the Director of Sports Events and the Executive Producer of the Grapple at the Garden. Wanagiel recaps the NCAA Championships that were held in Madison Square Garden back in March, the most recent "big deal" t...

My wife and two daughters came with me to Virginia and the Old Dominion-Missouri match on Sunday, November 13. For my wife Abby, it was the first time she had to haul both of our children around an arena while I worked. In this instance, I was announcing the alumni dual. We got home to Minnesota a day later and it was time. What time was it? It was time for my wife Abby to appear on the program as...

For the past 14 years, Frank Popolizio has rocked the early part of the wrestling season with the Northeast Duals. Now, Popolizio's going to change things up and he'll talk about it on Episode 291 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. Instead of duals, Popolizio is going to change things up and go with a modified mini-tournament and modified round-robin for some of the top college teams on November...

Chances are, when you read something historical about the sport of wrestling, Don Sayenga had a hand in it. On Episode 290 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we merely scratch the surface with one of the sport's finest historians. A longtime contributor to Amateur Wrestling News and part of a Lehigh Valley cadre of wrestling mavens, Sayenga took his discovery and love for wrestling to a level fe...

Sally Roberts has been there, done that. On Episode 289 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Roberts, a two-time World bronze medalist, talks about her new non-profit organization, Wrestle Like A Girl, a group focused on growing females in sport and life. A native of Washington, Roberts found wrestling as a way to keep herself out of trouble -- like real trouble. Wrestling prior to the world of Ca...

Kerry Regner's been doing things a little differently in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. The head wrestling coach at Williams Baptist College didn't wrestle folkstyle in college, rather he went to Northern Michigan and worked in Greco-Roman. On Thursday, October 20, Regner pushed his Greco roots a little deeper into the ground at NAIA Williams Baptist College as the school announced it was starting a Grec...