Short Time Wrestling Podcast

Some of the big topics of discussion at the NWCA Convention always happen around the Division I breakout sessions. On Episode 191 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, I'll talk with the Executive Director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association Mike Moyer on a number of topics that came out of the annual convention in Fort Lauderdale. Moyer broke down a few topics of importance, such as the...

Going bang-bang-bang with a series of episodes from the NWCA Convention and CEO Leadership Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Episode 190 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with two women's wrestlers, one looking to break into coaching at the college level and another who's been successful at the club and girls level. Both Caitlyn Chase and Julia Salata are three-time Junior women's frees...

Going bang-bang-bang with a series of episodes from the NWCA Convention and CEO Leadership Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Episode 189 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks new Lyon College head wrestling coach Tom Erikson, a former coach at Purdue and Darton State. Erikson also had an MMA career in Pride. Erikson talks about his role in coaching a new school with both men's and women's w...

Going bang-bang-bang with a series of episodes from the NWCA Convention and CEO Leadership Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Episode 188 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast talks with Michigan State professor Dr. Dan Gould. Dr. Gould has facilitated the NWCA CEO Leadership Academy the past several years and he talks about the concept behind educating coaches and the next generation of coaches....

Being the son of a fantastic wrestler lends itself to a little bit of pressure. When you're the son of six-time World and Olympic champion John Smith, that might put a capital P on the word pressure. On Episode 187 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, I'll talk with Joe Smith, the Outstanding Wrestler at the 2015 USA Wrestling Junior Freestyle National Championships held recently in Fargo, N.D. Jo...

Episode 186 features USA Wrestling's Richard Immel as he joins host Jason Bryant to talk about Fargo and his experience at USA Wrestling Cadet & Junior Nationals. This episode takes place at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Fargo, which sits right across the street from the FargoDome. We're joined by Izzy Martinez from Illinois, Grand View head coach Nick Mitchell and photographer John Sachs from Tech-Fa...

Episode 185 features USA Wrestling's Richard Immel as he joins host Jason Bryant to talk about Fargo and his experience at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. This episode takes place at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Fargo, which sits right across the street from the FargoDome. Funny stories about wings, bus rides in Canada and of course, reliving our experiences from Tashkent. Almanac Time! Get the Cadet &...

How does a tournament that attracts thousands of people from around the country impact an often overlooked part of the country? We'll find out on Episode 184 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast where we talk with Dr. Tim Mahoney, the mayor of Fargo. Mahoney grew up in North Dakota and headed to Notre Dame and got some serious degrees along the way. He went back to Fargo in 1980 and worked as a sur...

In September of 2014, Minnesota native Andy Bisek ended a Greco-Roman medal drought for the United States that went back to 2010. Dremiel Byers was the last American to win a medal at the World or Olympic Games until Bisek broke through in Taskhent. On Episode 183 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll visit with Bisek prior to his participation in the Pan American Games where he'll talk about...

Private training and clubs are nothing new to youth sports and its certainly nothing new in the sport of wrestling. For New Jersey native Mike Malinconico, creating the Rhino Wrestling Club was an accident. On Episode 182 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll talk with Malinconico about his philosophy on coaching, developing talent and dealing with people critical of a paid component in wrest...

Episode 181 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features Spenser Mango, the man who's owned Greco-Roman's lowest weight on the U.S. stage since 2008. The Missouri native and member of the Army's World Class Athlete Program made his eighth-straight U.S. World or Olympic team after topping Jesse Thielke in the Greco-Roman best-of-three finals split between Las Vegas and Ithaca, N.Y. Mango talks abou...

Episode 180 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast will talk to two former Knox College wrestling coaches in the hopes of finding out just where the issues arose after the school cut its Division III wrestling program last week. Joe Norton and Matt Lowers both ran the program for one year. Norton left prior to this past season to take the coaching post at his alma mater, Division III North Central Co...

Two-time World Champion and four-time World medalist Adeline Gray joins the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for Episode 179 as we start catching up with our 2015 U.S. representatives for the upcoming World Championships. Gray, a Denver native, doesn't want to be one of the guys. Well-spoken and an advocate for women's wrestling, she remembers a time when young women like her didn't have women's wrest...

Episode 178 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features U.S. men's freestyle World Team member James Green. Before we get into our discussion with Green, we'll throw you a few reminders about some of the products and services being offered by the Mat Talk Podcast Network, including the Hall of Fame Legends crowdfunding campaign. You can help us produce digital content from our sports' greats by g...

Reece Humphrey kind of always knew he'd be an Ohio State Buckeye, so when the decision came to choose a college after graduating from Lawrence North High School in 2005, he headed east to Columbus. On Episode 177 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we'll jump forward 10 years and talk to Humphrey, who will represent the United States at the 2015 United World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas i...

Some news to report as USA Wrestling has announced Nick Marable, the U.S. Open champion at 70kg, will not be granted an injury extension following his failure to compete at the U.S. World Team Trials on June 13-14. Marable sustained a pre-tournament injury and requested an extension, but since that injury happened within the 18 hours prior to the event, he would have still needed to weigh in. That...

Episode 175 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features the second half of the U.S. World Team Trials champions with World Teamers Jordan Burroughs, Reece Humphrey, Brent Metcalf, Kyle Snyder, Alyssa Lampe, Leigh Jaynes-Provisor, Helen Maroulis and Elena Pirozhkova. The World Championships will take place in September in Las Vegas and on American soil for the first time since 2003. Shop, drop and...

Episode 174 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features the first half of the U.S. World Team Trials champions with World Teamers Whitney Conder, Alli Ragan, Adeline Gray, Erin Clodgo, Tony Ramos, Jake Herbert and Tervel Dlagnev. James Green won the World Team Trials at 70kg, but will potentially need to beat Nick Marable, the U.S. Open champion, who filed for an injury extension. That process be...

Episode 173 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast features all eight members of the 2015 Junior World Team. Here in Madison, Wisconsin, the United World Wrestling Junior World Team Trials came to a conclusion. Along with USA Wrestling's Craig Sesker and Flowrestling's Brock Hite, we talked with champions Spencer Lee, Stevan Micic, Brock Zacherl, Aaron Pico, Zahid Valencia, Anthony Cassar and Nathan...

Episode 172 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast goes down to Stillwater. The inductees into the 39th class of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame were honored in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Greg Johnson, Frank Bettucci, Joe Gonzales and Sammie Henson were inducted as Distinguished Members, while Mike Golic was honored as the Outstanding American, Mike Powell was given the Medal of Courage and Dave "Doc"...

Joe Burns has a penchant for art. The wrestling coach at Minneapolis' Southwest High School has been working in the industry for decades. But in the past several years, Burns has turned his attention from commercial art and design to oil painting. Burns recently was featured by the Associated Press for his artwork that will be on display in Willison, N.D. on June 2 and in the Twin Cities in early...

Coming out of high school, everyone about Israel "Izzy" Martinez. The Illinois native was all-world coming out of West Aurora and seemed to have the talent to be a can't-miss Division I All-American. Things didn't go as planned. After Martinez captured an NJCAA championship at North Idaho, he was set to wrestle for Iowa, but his career never panned out as off the mat issues shrouded his career. Fa...

Kyle Klingman is quietly one of the busiest men in wrestling. Lurking behind the scenes as much as he can, Klingman is the Director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Dan Gable Museum, which sits in Waterloo, Iowa. The Gable Museum has a big weekend coming up with the Glen Brand Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Dan Gable Celebrity Golf Tournament in Waverly the weekend of May 30. Klingman...

Episode 168 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast goes to the NAIA where Jimmy May is being called upon again to start a new program in the state of Kansas. May spent over 30 years as a high school coach in Nevada and then he retired. Then he called some friends who enticed him to apply for a new coaching position at Baker University. Well, May accepted and launched the new NAIA program. Then he ste...

Big time fun on Episode 167 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast with Georgia's own Cliff Fretwell. Before we talk with Fretwell, we throw some stats at you regarding the NCAA Division I All-Americans and how they did in Fargo. Our newest patron, Troy Heinritz, gets a shout out as well. You can find Troy's podcast, The Blacklist Exposed, at theblacklistexposed.com. Want to be a contributor to the p...