Short Time Wrestling Podcast

On Episode 262 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we talk with the new head wrestling coach at Newberry College, Cy Wainwright. As a stroke of pure luck, this episode releases on Cy's birthday. We don't talk about his birthday, but we talk about his beginnings in the sport, how he was initially cut from the wrestling team in middle school, made his way back to the sport in high school then opted...

Episode 261 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features Chad Tunink of the High Altitude Wrestling Club in Iowa. Tunink has been running the wrestling club in suburban Des Moines for the last 11 years and he's brought a number of great athletes into the club and its camp system for camps and clinics. We've discussed wrestling clubs and private training on previous episodes and we'll get the persp...

We're going Greco on Episode 260 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast with Timmy Hands, the founder of FivePointMove.com, a website devoted to the promotion of U.S. Greco-Roman wrestling. Hands talks about his foundations in wrestling, how he got interested in Greco-Roman wrestling, some stories from his stint as a senior-level athlete and how he would trek from New Jersey to the New York Athletic...

On Episode 259 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll visit with Xander Schultz, one of the co-founders of ZoeBands, a project aimed at raising funds and awareness for the refugee crisis in Greece coming from displaced Syrians. Schultz is the son of the late Dave Schultz. Xander will talk about the Zoe Bands project and how it came to fruition with his fiance Zoe Pappis. He'll also go into det...

Episode 258 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast visits with Harvard head wrestling coach Jay Weiss. Harvard recently topped the NWCA's All-Academic Top 30 team for the fourth time in the last six years and on this episode, we'll talk about the rigors of wrestling at a quality academic institution like Harvard and the processes that go with it. Weiss is the second-longest tenured coach at Harvard,...

On April 29, the Netflix original documentary Team Foxcatcherbecame available. On Episode 257 of the Short Time WrestlingPodcast, we'll visit with Nancy Schultz about the release of thefilm. NOTE: If you have not seen the documentary yet, this does containspoilers. You may want to watch first, then listen back to thisepisode after. Initially discussed in 2007, Schultz and director Jon Greenhalgh,h...

We're getting that Olympic fever! On Episode 256 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll visit with George Ivanov, a Bulgarian native who recently qualified his nation and himself for the Olympic Games in Rio in August. Ivanov came to the United States and settled in Iowa where he attended Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs. After wrestling one season of high school and finishing third...

On Episode 255 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we get an insight into the life of a wrestler from the perspective of their wife. In the case of Lauren Burroughs, wife of World and Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs, she's not the typical wrestling wife. Raised in a family of wrestlers, Burroughs explains the journey with Jordan and their son Beacon as her husband chases wrestling history. A fo...

On Episode 254 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll visit with 2015-16 National Wrestling Media Association Journalist of the Year Andy Hamilton of the Des Moines Register. Andy will break down his thoughts from the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, give a little insight into the Dan Dennis story and Tony Ramos' subsequent blow up as well as compare the rule sets used in 2012 to those in 2016 at the...

Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida became the first four-year school at the NAIA or NCAA level to field a wrestling program in decades when it launched this past season. On Episode 253 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we visit with Javier Maldonado, the head coach of the Fire. Maldonado was an NCAA qualifier for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga during his college years and...

Press conference for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials with World Champions Adeline Gray and Kyle Snyder, Iowa alum Tony Ramos and Greco-Roman World medalist Andy Bisek and Greco heavyweight Robby Smith. The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Share your attitude and #BEHEARD at Flipswrestling.com. SUBSCRIBE TO SHORT TIME [saf include="itunes,apple,android,sti...

With the U.S. Olympic Team Trials set to go from April 9-10, we talk with Iowa City/Coralville Area Conventions & Visitors Bureau President Josh Schamberger. What can fans expect to get in Iowa City? We'll find out with Josh. The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Share your attitude and #BEHEARD at Flipswrestling.com. SUBSCRIBE TO SHORT TIME [saf include="it...

Episode 251 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with the recently-hired head coach at Cal Poly Jon Sioredas. An All-American at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Sioredas broke into coaching at Old Dominion under his old high school coach Steve Martin. After six years in Norfolk, Sioredas moved on to his alma mater to serve as an assistant for Heath Eslinger in Chattanooga. In 2014...

Episode 250 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with four-time All-American and 2016 NCAA Division I Champion Nico Megaludis of Penn State. Megaludis capped his career with his first NCAA championship after finishing second, second and third in three previous appearances. Megaludis talks about his work-ethic, drive and focus heading into this season after redshirting last year. Megaludis als...

Episode 249 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast visits with the 2016 Dan Hodge Trophy Winner, Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State. Presented annually by WIN Magazine, the Hodge Trophy recognizes the top collegiate wrestler through a variety of criteria and also includes votes from media, past winners and a fan component. Dieringer became just the second Oklahoma State wrestler to win the award, joini...

NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship Student-Athlete Press Conference with Nick Gwiazdowski of N.C. State, Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State, Zain Retherford of Penn State, Nahshon Garrett of Cornell and Kyle Snyder of Ohio State. The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Share your attitude and #BEHEARD at Flipswrestling.com. THE BIGGEST, BADDEST PREVIEW GUIDE...

NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship Coaches Press Conference with Cael Sanderson of Penn State, Pat Popolizio of N.C. State, John Smith of Oklahoma State, Tom Ryan of Ohio State and Tom Brands of Iowa. The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Share your attitude and #BEHEARD at Flipswrestling.com. THE BIGGEST, BADDEST PREVIEW GUIDE EVER, PRE-ORDER NOW! The M...

Episode 248 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features USA Wrestling's Richard Immel as we go weight-by-weight and preview the upcoming NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City. We'll call our upsets, place our top eight and break down the bloodround, too. The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Share your attitude an...

We've all had injuries that kept us from wrestling at one time or another. For Upper Iowa freshman Maleek Williams, he had a little bit more keeping him away from the mats this season. On Episode 247 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll talk with the Super Region 3 runner-up about it. Ok, it's simple. Williams had a stroke and open-heart surgery -- IN NOVEMBER. The afflictions kept him out o...

Episode 246 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast visits with Penn State head wrestling coach Cael Sanderson. With Penn State heading into this weekend's Big Ten Championships in Iowa City, the focus is on getting the work done at Carver-Hawkeye, but Sanderson also spends time revisiting his take on duals versus tournaments and his take on this year's National Duals format. Along with assistant coac...

Episode 245 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast visits with N.C. State head coach Pat Popolizio. The Wolfpack just finished up the regular season with a school-record 23-1 mark in dual meet competition and a No. 2 rank in the NWCA Division I Coaches Poll. An athlete at Oklahoma State, Popolizio was never an All-American and followed his wrestling passion to coaching positions at American and Bingh...

With King University winning its third straight WCWA national championship, the time again comes for Julia Salata to talk women's wrestling on Episode 244 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. Salata, a two-time WCWA champion while she was at King, chimes in with her take on the National Duals scenario and gives some insight on the rapidly-improving state of women's college wrestling and where she'...

Chris Bono is in his fourth year as the head coach at South Dakota State. On Episode 243, Bono talks about the culture change that's enabled him to take the Jackrabbits from the bottom half of the old Western Wrestling Conference to the Division I Top 25 for the first time in school history. The Florida native discusses how much he enjoyed competing and how much he's enjoyed building a true follow...

Everything you wanted to know about Gardner-Webb wrestling but were afraid to ask. Episode 242 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with G-W head wrestling coach Daniel Elliott. Why are we talking about Gardner-Webb? Well the Runnin' Bulldogs are 5-1 in the Southern Conference and are one conference win away from clinching a share of the program's first SoCon title. With recent wins over Duke...

This is a repost of the February 4 episode of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast which is part of the Mat Talk Podcast Network. On Episode 24 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, we'll take the world of coaching and parenting to the next level. Joining WWR staffer Dennis Hall will be Ohio State head wrestling coach Tom Ryan and Graham High School (Ohio) head coach Jeff Jordan. Hall has three...