Short Time Wrestling Podcast

Recent college graduate Derek St. John had a stellar career on the mats in Iowa City. First at West High in Iowa City then a few blocks down the street at the University of Iowa. St. John was introduced as the new assistant coach at North Dakota State University on July 7. St. John will join the a staff led by head coach Roger Kish and head assistant Manny Rivera -- both former Minnesota Golden Go...

Coming out of Kellam High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Eric Olanowski was set to head to wrestle for Delaware State. As the NHSCA Senior National Champion at 112 pounds, he wasn't getting too many Division I offers and then-coach Earl Walker was ready to give him a shot. Then Walker was unceremoniously ousted at Delaware State, the program was later dropped and Olanowski settled in East Lan...

June 23 marked the 42nd anniversary of Title IX, an anti-discrimination law that's not only opened doors for women, but worked to eliminate discrimination in federally funded institutions nationwide. When applied to college athletics, Title IX is almost a dirty word. With three ways to comply with Title IX, schools often focus on prong one, commonly known as proportionality. While the other two pr...

A native of Sparta, New Jersey, Ed Piccola didn't wonder about his passion for wrestling as he completed his high school wrestling career. When he got into coaching at the high school level, he donned his now trademark white hat and found a passion for teaching -- teaching kids top-level technique that works from the youth to the international level. On Episode 72 of the Short Time Wrestling Podca...

A pageant queen ... on Short Time? Yes, Arielle Rosmarino is our guest on Episode 71 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. Rosmarino was a recent contestant during the Miss USA Pageant held on Sunday, June 8 in Baton Rogue, Louisiana. For those watching, they might have been shocked at what sport Rosmarino chose to showcase that made her unique -- wrestling. So how does the Salem, Virginia native a...

A two-time high school state champion while growing up in Minnesota, Jordan Holm was an up-and-coming talent not just on the college mats, but in Greco-Roman. While he's put a lot of the past behind him to make two straight U.S. World Teams in Greco-Roman, Holm still has to answer questions about his past and the battles he's been enduring to try to clear his name from a 2003 conviction that put h...

Hunter Gandee is just days past completing the eighth grade. Already, the Temperanceville, Michigan resident is making headlines, but not about his wrestling ability, but about his recent 40-mile walk while carrying his seven-year-old brother Braden on his back. Gandee was making the walk to Ann Arbor's Bahna Wrestling Complex to raise awareness for his brother's condition, cerebral palsy. The "Ce...

On Episode 68 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we give you a quick rundown of the champions at the U.S. Greco-Roman World Team Trials, talk with Illinois Cadet Duals coach Kerry Boumans about the state's performance at the USA Wrestling Cadet Freestyle & Greco-Roman National Duals and we visit with the new head coach at NAIA Williams Baptist College in Arkansas. Greco-Trials Six members of the...

A three-time NCAA Division I All-American and two-time champion, Iowa alum Brent Metcalf was one of the most dominant forces in recent memory on the college mats. After winning the 2014 U.S. World Team Trials in Madison, Wisconsin at the beginning of June, he earned a spot on his third U.S. World Team. Metcalf defeated Jordan Oliver in two straight matches to earn the spot on the men's freestyle t...

As the co-host of one of the nation's most popular sports radio shows, Mike Golic can formulate an opinion on just about everything. The former NFL lineman has been working with Mike Greenberg on ESPN's Mike & Mike for almost 15 years. Golic wrestled and played football in college at Notre Dame. While centering on the main sports news of the day, Golic will find places to insert wrestling notes wh...

Tony Ramos is just months removed from winning an NCAA Division I championship at 133 pounds for the University of Iowa. The three-time All-American and two-time finalist wasn't even sure he was going to compete this season. But then while watching the U.S. Open in April, his fiancee talked him into competing. The end result was a spot on the 2014 U.S. Men's Freestyle World Team, which will compet...

I want to explain a little bit about what this show is, it’s format, the medium of podcasting and how you, the listener and wrestling fan, can fully grasp how much versatility there is in the platform. When I started Short Time in November of 2013, I got a lot of questions about “what is a podcast” and “I can’t listen because I don’t have an iPod.” I’ll dispel a few misconceptions and show you how...

Two individuals who have a vested interest in the growth of wrestling are Jeff Waters and Al Bevilacqua. Waters is the President of the Board for the United States Wrestling Foundation, a group aimed at generating funds to help grow wrestling at all levels. Waters talks about what the USWF was founded for, what organizations they work with and how they've helped start college wrestling programs at...

Sage Karam has two loves -- wrestling and racing. While his senior year on the mats at traditionally tough Nazareth Area (Pa.) High School didn't go as he wanted, Karam accomplished the first goal in his dream, racing at the Indianapolis 500. The 19-year-old didn't just race at the historic Brickyard, he finished ninth. Normally not happy with a ninth-place finish, Karam was satisfied because it w...

Kyle Klingman, the current Director of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum keeps his thumb on the pulse of wrestling. It's not just his job, but it's his passion. As subscribers to Short Time know, Kyle hosts "On The Mat" on 1650thefan.com in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls region of Iowa on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Central. Due to Chicago Cubs baseball, which is aired on the station, there...

Mike Novogratz, the Principal and Director of Fortress Investment Group has a lot of money. This guy's net worth is in the billions, that's with a b. But Novogratz has remained close to the sport he loves. As a state high school runner-up in Virginia, he went on to Princeton and eventually found his way into the starting lineup for the Tiger wrestling squad. But Novogratz would take his tenacity h...

After spending nearly 20 years as a Division I assistant and balancing a competitive career on top of it, Sammie Henson finally became a head wrestling coach. West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck named Henson the new head coach at West Virginia on May 19. Henson brings an impressive resume to Morgantown and as he says, the time was right. Henson talks about what he needs to work on with Wes...

One of the most colorful personalities in all of wrestling, 2009 World Silver medalist and 2012 U.S. Olympian Jake Herbert is our guest on Episode 59 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast. As talkative as Herbert is, there's no surprise we went nearly an hour with him, talking about a variety of topics including what the right age to start kids wrestling, how he benefitted from a community-oriented...

When Joey Butler was 10, he went to his father Joe after a wrestling tournament and asked why some kids were using the same pairs of wrestling shoes. The elder Butler explained to his son about how some kids weren't as fortunate with money to afford a pair of wrestling shoes to compete with. So Joey had an idea, donate his used wrestling shoes to kids who needed them. What started with just a few...

Heading into his light heavyweight tournament final in Bellator on May 17, Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal talks about how much he still enjoys wrestling. Originally from Plano, Texas, Lawal was a late bloomer in the sport, eventually becoming a three-time Division II All-American at Central Oklahoma under coach David James. Lawal used his last remaining year of eligibility in 2003 and finished third at...

Coming out of Lyndhurst, N.J., as a high school senior, Donny Pritzlaff didn't picture Rutgers as a place he'd wind up. After finishing his career as a two-time NCAA champion and four-time All-American at Wisconsin, Pritzlaff's slow road back to New Jersey was put into motion. Pritzlaff recently returned to the Garden State, hired as the Associate Head Coach at Rutgers after coaching stops at Hofs...

Coming out of Lyndhurst, N.J., as a high school senior, Donny Pritzlaff didn’t picture Rutgers as a place he’d wind up. After finishing his career as a two-time NCAA champion and four-time All-American at Wisconsin, Pritzlaff’s slow road back to New Jersey was put into motion. Pritzlaff recently returned to the Garden State, hired as the Associate Head Coach at Rutgers after coaching stops at Hofs...

After a storied wrestling career that saw him win two NCAA Division I Championships at Lock Haven, Cary Kolat went on to make a U.S. Olympic Team and win two World medals. For the last four years, Kolat was an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina and served as the Associate Head Coach the past two years. But when the Division I head coaching jobs started opening up, Kolat decided it...

For years, coaches Jim Jackson and Scot Davis were super competitive with one another. Davis, then coaching at Owatonna, and Jackson, at Apple Valley, led two of Minnesota's top high school wrestling programs. They went after each other with ferocity. Jackson stepped away from Apple Valley two years ago, while Davis left Minnesota for a year to coach in Kalispell, Mont. Davis returned and took the...

In this episode of Short Time ... ... we get an update on some of the coaching moves around the country as Campbell will soon announce 1997 World silver medalist Cary Kolat as the program's next head coach. LINK: Kolat expected to be announced as new Campbell head coach We also get an update from the recently completed Asian Senior Championships held in Astana, Kazakstan last week. There were stro...