Short Time Wrestling Podcast

We’re preparing for Final X on June 10 at the Prudential Center and USA Wrestling and Beat The Streets co-hosted a Zoom conference with World and Olympic champions Helen Maroulis and Jordan Burroughs on May 31. Maroulis, the first American woman to win an Olympic wrestling gold medal, discussed her performance at the Pan Ams, what she’s eager to see at another Final X, the documentary and her ment...

Beat The Streets New York’s Brendan Buckley was a Division I All-American and former Division I head wrestling coach. Wrestling’s been part of most of his life. The last several years, the Executive Director of BTSNY, has been working on developing programing and leading the charge of some of its major events, including the annual BTS Benefit, which some still call a gala, despite Buckley downplay...

The US Marine Corps Beach Wrestling National Championships are set for Carolina Beach, North Carolina on May 20. Event Director Ed Duncan is joined by master wrestling promoter Frank Lipoli of the Virginia Challenge to talk about the event, the fun in the sun and the opportunities beach wrestling brings to the sport and to the masses. For more information on the Beach Wrestling Tour of America and...

It’s been a long time since Short Time was up and running, but we’re back today and featuring Ryan Warner, one of the top wrestling podcasters in the game and he’s back featuring a new series, The Henry Cejudo Experiment. Warner, founder of Wrestling Changed My Life, chronicles Cejudo’s run to the 2008 Olympic gold in Beijing and what went behind his then-unlikely chance to become a guinea pig for...

Today, Short Time is a personal interview with someone you’ve never previously heard from, unless you happened to listen to a Hampton-based sports talk show called Contact Sports 20-something years ago. Few people had an impact on my life in sports more than Terry Daniels. Terry isn’t family, but he pretty much has been a part of it for the last 20 years. When I was in high school, Terry asked one...

Wrestling coach, professor and English teacher Keith Manos joins Short Time to talk about some of the things he’s learned about coaching over the years and how he crafted them into books to help teachers and coaches alike. A member of the Ohio Wrestling Hall of Fame, Manos’ Wrestling Coach’s Survival Guide has been around for almost 30 years and was even used by John Smith when teaching a course o...

The always entertaining Frank Lipoli of the Virginia Challenge joins the show to talk about the upcoming Virginia Challenge Holiday Duals at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Frank’s background in wrestling goes back over 60 years and he’s a 2001 inductee into the Virginia Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and a recent inductee into the Hampton Roads Sports...

Dylan Wanagiel of the Prudential Center is bringing the second iteration of the Garden State Grapple to Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center on Sunday, December 4. With four Big Ten teams taking on four EIWA teams, it'll be eight exciting duals. Wanagiel talks about the event's origins starting as the Grapple at the Garden in New York City and how it's hopefully going to set the stage for future...

Bout at the Ballpark presented by Kubota will return to Globe Life Field for the second straight year. The event will feature competition with NCAA ranked Oklahoma State (11) and Michigan (5) on Friday, February 3, 2023.   The event will feature a new format this year, with one wrestling mat placed on home plate. Floor seating will also be added for the event.   Oklahoma State returns to Bout at t...

Josh Schamberger is the President at the Iowa City/Coralville Area Conventions and Visitors Bureau. On December 10-11, Coralville’s Xtream Arena will host a wrestling first - the men’s and women’s freestyle World Cup - at the same time. Check out the GearUP campaign I’ve joined on with in conjunction with Beat The Streets National. Check out how you can help outfit kids by going to https://www.mat...

The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference held the second of two wrestling media days on October 25. Episode 722 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast joins media day! The second KCAC wrestling media day featured the nine women’s programs with the men’s media day already taking place on October 20 (Episode 720). Nate Naasz of the KWCA and NWCA moderated the online media day with each coach about the...

Joe Kania wrestled in New Jersey for powerhouse Bergen Catholic. He jumped into wrestling coverage with the newspapers in New Jersey. After a couple of stops in the NFL with social media marketing and a stint at FloSports, Kania launched FantasyFightLeague.com, which focused on fantasy sports games. Kania recently pivoted away from fantasy sports and jumped to another realm of games, video games,...

The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference held the first of two wrestling media days on October 20. Episode 720 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast joins media day! The first KCAC wrestling media day featured the seven men’s programs with the women’s media day coming October 25. Nate Naasz of the KWCA and NWCA moderated the online media day with each coach about the season, which will build to a c...

Last year, Princeton set a school record with two wrestlers reaching the NCAA Division I finals. Both Pat Glory and Quincy Monday return to the lineup and that’s just a taste of what you’ll hear from the Tigers this season. On Wednesday October 19, Princeton held Wrestling Media Day where head coach Chris Ayres fielded questions from the media in-person and through Zoom along with Glory, Monday, M...

Rometo “Rummy” Macias wrestled at the University of Iowa in the 1940s. A two-time Big Ten champion, Macias finished second at the 1948 NCAA championships before starting the first wrestling team at what’s now known as Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota. The Minnesota State family celebrated Macias’ birthday on October 17 as the diminutive dynamo celebrated his 100th trip around the s...

the top high school folkstyle tournament in the country regardless of the time of year. We also wrap up the show talking about message boards and the pending death of the one on TheMat. Check out the GearUP campaign I’ve joined on with in conjunction with Beat The Streets National. Check out how you can help outfit kids by going to https://www.mattalkonline.com/gearup . Every $50 donated outfits a...

It’s wrestling media day for Appalachian State wrestling, so we jumped on in and ended up creating a full episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast for it. Outside of the Hand Raised blog’s Ted Carreras, it was pretty much just me, coach JohnMark Bentley and four App State wrestlers ready for another run at the season. Before we get to the show, I touched on the news that TheMat Forums would be...

Longtime Rider wrestling coach Gary Taylor passed away last month. After 39 years at the helm, he handed the keys to the Rider program to his longtime assistant coach John Hangey. On today’s episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, we’ll talk with John Hangey as he enters his sixth year as the head coach at Rider. He’ll touch on his career and how he ended up at Rider, how he came back to Ride...

The first Premier National League (PNL) wrestling event will take place on Saturday, September 24 in Aurora, Illinois. The PNL features eight of the nation's top wrestling clubs in tiered competition focused on development of the next level of college and international wrestlers. On this episode of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Jared Lawrence, the founder of Minnesota-based PINnacle Wrestling...

Rich Bender, the Executive Director of USA Wrestling, talks during the 2022 USA Wrestling Junior Women's Freestyle National Championships about the tremendous growth of women's wrestling and how this tournament has served as one of the catalysts. Bender talks about the decision to bring the first Junior Women's tournament to Fargo in 2002 and how it is nearly approaching 1,000 athletes after a rec...

For the last three years, Pat Forde has been a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. A native of Colorado Springs, Forde’s journalism career started upon his arrival at the University of Missouri. After nearly two decades at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, he’s spent the last decade writing college sports for Yahoo and then SI. Forde joins the Short Time Wrestling Podcast to give his u...

In 2002, USA Wrestling launched the first Junior Women’s Freestyle National Championships and the tournament joined the four men’s divisions in Fargo, North Dakota. The fifth tournament in Fargo would feature just over 100 young women. One of those first champions was Michigan’s Brandy Green, who then was known as Brandy Rosenbrock. Green was one of the first two women to ever win multiple titles...

In 2002, USA Wrestling launched the first Junior Women’s Freestyle National Championships and the tournament joined the four men’s divisions in Fargo, North Dakota. The fifth tournament in Fargo would feature just over 100 young women. One of those first champions was California’s Malinda Ripley. Twenty years later, you’ll still find Ripley on the floor in Fargo, coaching the women of Team Califor...

Noted college women's lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller is in Fargo watching her daughter Harlee competed at the 16U Women's Freestyle National Championships. A fan of combat sports and multiple sports for athletes, Amonte Hiller talks about her daughter's time in wrestling, what the crossover is for mindset training for lacrosse and wrestling and what benefits she's seen from wrestling for her d...

An All-American at Lock Haven during his college days, Shannyn Gillespie has been on the front lines of coaching women’s wrestling for nearly two decades. The Illinois native is currently the head wrestling coach at Lakeland University, a Division III school that offers both men’s and women’s wrestling. On Episode 708 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, Gillespie talks about his path from suburba...