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USOEC Freestyle Rolls 21-5

Shannyn J. Gillespie 10.7.08

The U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle team, a USA Wrestling
resident athlete program, won a whopping 21 matches while losing only 5
matches versus Lindenwood College and OCU last weekend at the OCU Duals
held at the Freede Center on the campus of Oklahoma City University
Saturday October 4, 2008.

Three USOEC high school wrestlers had perfect records: Erin Golston 3-0
at 44kg, Veronica Carlson 2-0 at 63kg, and Adeline Gray 2-0 at 72kg.
Golston is 15 years old and also a 2008 Cadet Pan American Champion.
Carlson is a 2007 Jr. National Champion and this was her first
competition as a USOEC resident athlete. Gray, a 2008 Jr. World
Champion, defeated Stephanie Shaw who was a Sr. National champion in
2008.

The official scores will not include exhibition matches in the final
tally because the above athletes are still attending Marquette Senior
High School (MSHS) in Marquette, MI and are ineligible for team
classification points in Women's College Wrestling Association (WCWA)
official team scores.

Northern Michigan University first year students Emily Martin 55kg, Amy
Whitbeck 59kg, Melissa Apodaca 67kg and Erin Clodgo 82kg wrestled up 1
or 2 weight classes to get more quality matches against physically
stronger collegiate wrestlers. The risk paid off with these win/loss
records: Martin 0-2, Whitbeck 2-1, Apodaca 3-0, and Clodgo 2-0.

Two time Jr. World bronze medallist Alyssa Lampe 48kg and Schuyler
Brown 63kg were nearly perfect with their 5 wins. Lampe and Brown
surrendered only 1 point each while scoring 56 points combined in 5
wins and no losses.

Helen Maroulis 51kg, also a MSHS senior USOEC resident athlete, did not
compete this weekend because she won the 2008 Sr. World Team Trials and
will compete next week at the Sr. World Championships held in Tokyo,
Japan October 12-13, 2008.

U.S. Olympic Education Center. In February, 1989, the U.S. Olympic
Committee named Northern Michigan University (NMU) as the nation's only
United States Olympic Education Center (USOEC). The USOEC's main focus
is the resident athlete training program, where athletes actively train
for the Olympic Games while also continuing their education.

U.S. States Olympic Education Center head coach Shannyn J. Gillespie
will assist volunteer coach Trevor Keifer in guiding Team USA's most
talented university and college age women wrestlers at the World
Uinversity Championships.

Team USA will be lead by 2 athletes (sisters) from the New York
Athletic Club: 48 kg/105.5 lbs. - Sara Fulp-Allen of NYAC and 51
kg/112.25 lbs. - Katherine Fulp-Allen of NYAC.

The remainder of Team USA is represented by several clubs and colleges:
55 kg/121 lbs. - Chelynne Pringle of Minnesota Storm, 59 kg/130 lbs. -
Othella Lucas of Univ. of the Cumberlands, 67 kg/147.5 lbs. - Elena
Pirozhkov of Gator WC, and
72 kg/158.5 lbs. - Stephany Lee of Sunkist Kids

World University Championships, organized by FISU (the International
University Sports Federation) are held every 2 years (even years e.g.
2006, 2008, etc.) for college, university, and NMU USOEC freestyle
resident student athletes.

FISU has roots in the USA dating back to 1905 and according to the
offical website of the International University Sports Federation
"FISU, arose within university institutions to propagate sport values
and promote sports practice in perfect synergy and complementarity with
the university spirit."

The 8th World University Championships women's freestyle qualification,
repechage, and final rounds will be competed July 10-11, 2008.

USA World University Championships Freestyle Team

48 kg/105.5 lbs. - Sara Fulp-Allen of NYAC
51 kg/112.25 lbs. - Katherine Fulp-Allen of NYAC
55 kg/121 lbs. - Chelynne Pringle of Minnesota Storm
59 kg/130 lbs. - Othella Lucas of Univ. of the Cumberlands
63 kg/138.75 lbs. - Alaina Berube of NYAC
67 kg/147.5 lbs. - Elena Pirozhkov of Gator WC
72 kg/158.5 lbs. - Stephany Lee of Sunkist Kids

Coaches Shannyn J. Gillespie, Trevor Keifer
USOC, USA Wrestling and USA Judo to Host Teleconference to Preview 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials

The United States Olympic Committee, USA Wrestling and USA Judo will host a teleconference Tuesday, June 3 at 1:00 p.m. MDT (3 p.m. EDT) with USA wrestling athletes T.C. Dantzler (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Mo Lawal (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Marcie Van Dusen (Colorado Springs, Colo.) as well as U.S. judo athletes Ryan Reser (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Ronda Rousey (Wakefield, Mass.) as they prepare to participate in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling and Judo, June 13-15 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev.

In his third trip to the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Dantzler is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in the 74 kg weight division. Since placing third at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, he has become a five-time U.S. World Team member ('02, '03, '05, '06, '07), two-time National Champion ('06, '07) and took fifth at the 2006 World Championships. Most recently, Dantzler qualified the U.S. in the 74 kg weight division to compete in the Olympic Games. Dantzler is the founder, president and CEO of TC logiQ, a background screening company.

After four years as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a third-place finish at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Lawal has showed immense progress. In 2005, he took seventh in the World Championships, was crowned the U.S. National champion ('05, '06, '08) and took silver in the 2007 World Team Trials. The No. 2 ranked U.S. wrestler in the 96 kg weight division, Lawal is poised to make his bid for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team.

One of USA Wrestling's high profile female wrestlers, 26-year-old Van Dusen is the No. 1 ranked U.S. female wrestler at the 55 kg weight division and has come into her own since her fifth-place finish at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Before 2008, Van Dusen took gold in the World Team Trials ('05, '07) and the U.S. Nationals. In 2008, she has surged ahead, taking silver at the Pan American Championships for the second time. She also claimed a second U.S. National Championship and went 3-0 at the World Cup where she defeated Olympic and World Champion Saori Yoshida of Japan, who had previously gone undefeated in international matches since 1998.

The first woman to win a medal at the World Championships since 1995, 21-year-old Rousey won a silver medal in the 70kg division and was one of the youngest medalists at the 2007 Worlds - a feat she's become used to as one of the most promising young judo players in the world. At just 17, she qualified for her first Olympic Team, becoming the youngest judo player in the entire 2004 Olympic Games and she claimed a women's team high ninth place in the 63 kg division. After the Games, Rousey became only the second U.S. athlete ever to win a gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. In February 2007, she moved up to 70kg where she has won both the 2007 Pan Am Games and two World Cup titles. Rousey is now ranked as one of the top three players in the world and is one of the top medal prospects for the United States in Beijing.

Reser - a three-time Pan Am Champion - was introduced to judo at the age of 5 by parents who were looking to keep Reser and his siblings out of trouble. By age seven he was competing in national events and ultimately chose to narrow his sports away from other sports and toward judo with the goal of competing in the Olympic Games. In 2000 and 2004, Reser was named as an alternate to the U.S. Olympic Team. Since moving from Dallas, Texas to Colorado Springs to train at the Olympic Training Center in 1998, Reser has won four National titles and earned three World Cup medals in the 73kg division.

WHO: Wrestlers T.C. Dantzler, Mo Lawal and Marcie Van Dusen as well as Judo athletes Ronda Rousey and Ryan Reser

WHAT: USOC, USA Wrestling and USA Judo teleconference

WHEN: Tuesday, June 3 - 1:00 p.m. MDT (3:00 p.m. EDT/ 12:00 p.m. PDT)

DIAL-IN: 1-800-311-9410
Pass code: BEIJING08
USOEC Freestyle 3.27 GPA

U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle resident athletes attained a
3.27 grade point average at Northern Michigan University during the
2008 winter semester.

The USOEC freestyle team (9 athletes) took a total of 94.5 credit hours
which is equivalent to 10.5 credit hours per athlete.

Graduating NMU senior Amy Borgnini tops the list with a perfect grade
point average of 4.00. Borgnini passed all of her 8 credit hours on
her way to graduating with 'A's.

This is the second straight semester the freestyle team has had the
highest grade point average for USOEC teams.

In February, 1989, the U.S. Olympic Committee named Northern Michigan
University (NMU) as the nation's only United States Olympic Education
Center (USOEC). The USOEC's main focus is the resident athlete training
program, where athletes actively train for the Olympic Games while also
continuing their education.

Generally, athletes in this program must be nationally ranked and also
approved by their national governing body (NGB), the USOEC, and NMU.
The USOEC has resident athlete training programs in freestyle
wrestling, short track speedskating, Greco-Roman wrestling, and
weightlifting. For more info about the freestyle wrestling program,
please click here http://freestylefemales.com
Iokia Stuns Medalists at Sr. Nationals

U.S. Olympic Education center freestyle resident athlete Shyla Iokia
(55kg) qualified for the Olympic Trials in stunning fashion as she beat
2 time Sr. World Championships bronze medalist and second seeded
wrestler Sally Roberts of the U.S. Olympic Training Center (Colorado
Springs) at the USA Wrestling Sr. National Championships held at the
Las Vegas Convention Center Thursday April 24, 2008.

Unseeded Iokia's first match of the day at Sr. Nationals pitted her
against team mate and 2007 Jr. World Champion Whitney Conder who she
beat in 3 periods. Her second match of the day was against training
partner and USOEC resident athlete Amy Borgnini who she beat in 2
straight periods.

After ousting Roberts in the quarter finals, Iokia faced another Sr.
World Championships bronze medalist, Jenny Wong, who has trained at the
Colorado Springs training center for the last 4 years and recently
moved to South Carolina. Iokia's chance to make the gold medal round
was stopped in the semi finals when she lost a hard fought 1-0, 1-0
nail biter to 6 time national team member Wong. Iokia, who was injured
in this bout and defaulted to 6th place, has now qualified to compete
in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials June 13-15, 2008 at the Thomas and Mack
Center (Las Vegas, NV).

The USOEC freestyle resident athlete team has 3 members who have
qualified to make the Olympic team. Iokia will join Sadie Kaneda
(48kg) 6th place and Alyssa Lampe (48kg) 7th place at the U.S. Olympic
Team Trials. The top 7 place winners in the Olympic weight classes
(48kg, 55kg, 63kg, 72kg) and the top 4 place winners in the non
contested Olympic weight classes (51kg, 59kg, 67kg) at the USA
Wrestling Sr. National Championships qualified for the Olympic Trials.

The final chance for all wrestlers to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team
Trials is the Northern Plains Junior and Senior Regional Championships
in Waterloo, IA May 8-10, 2008.

The USOEC freestyle resident athlete team placed 7 wrestlers in the top
8 at the USA Wrestling Sr. National Championships.

USOEC Sr. Nationals results
48kg Sadie Kaneda 6th place
48kg Alyssa Lampe 7th place
55kg Shyla Iokia 6th place
55kg Amy Borgnini 8th Place
55kg Whitney Conder DNP
59kg Nikki Darrow 7th place
59kg Amber Miracle 8th place
59kg Dany Hedin DNP
72kg Ku'u Johnson 8th place
Lampe Qualifies for Olympic Trials

U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle resident athlete Alyssa Lampe
qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials by capturing the silver
medal at the Women's University Nationals held at the University of
Akron Sunday April 13, 2008.

Lampe was defeated by Sara-Fulp Allen 7-1, 6-0 in the gold medal final
as both qualified for the Olympic Trials by nature of making the final
round in the 48kg Olympic weight class; all finalists in Olympic weight
classes qualified for the Olympic Trials.

Just 2 weeks ago, USOEC team mate Sadie Kaneda qualified for the U.S.
Olympic Team Trials when Lampe decided to wrestle 51kg, up one weight
class, at the Women's College Wrestling Association Nationals minutes
before the weigh ins. Champions of the WCWA nationals received
automatic bids to the Olympic Trials and Kaneda won the 48kg weight
class while taking third at the Women's University Nationals.

Both Lampe and Kaneda own victories over the non-Olympic weight class
51kg 2008 Women's University Nationals finalists and opted to qualify
for the Olympic Trials while forgoing the opportunity to represent Team
USA at the 8th World University Championships. Champions or the next
available place winner at Women's University Nationals qualify to
wrestle at the 8th World University Championships to be held latter
this summer in Greece.

The final Olympic qualifier the USOEC freestyle residents will attend
is Senior Nationals in Las Vegas scheduled for Friday April 25, 2008.
The top 7 wrestlers per Olympic weight and top 4 per non-Olympic weight
classes at Sr. Nationals qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials June
13-15, 2008 also in Las Vegas.

The USOEC freestyle residents won 4 medals over all and placed 8
wrestlers in the top 6.

USOEC University Nationals results
48 kg 2nd Place - Alyssa Lampe
48 kg 3rd Place - Sadie Kaneda
55 kg 3rd Place - Amy Borgnini
55 kg 4th Place - Whitney Conder
55 kg DNP - Shyla Iokia
59 kg 3rd Place - Nicole Darrow
59 kg 5th Place - Amber Miracle
59 kg 6th Place - Dany Hedin
72 kg 4th Place - Ku`u Johnson
USA Wrestling Announces Grappling World Team Trials Qualifying Series

Beginning in May, USA Wrestling will begin to host a series of 12 qualifiers to determine the field for the 2008 USA Wrestling Grappling World Team Trials.

These USA Wrestling sanctioned qualifiers will identify the best Grapplers in the United States, and give them an opportunity to try out for the 2008 U.S. Grappling World Team, which will compete at the Grappling World Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland on December 20-21.

The USA Wrestling Grappling World Team Trials Qualifying Series will run from May through August, and will be placed in strategic locations around the country. The series has been designed to increase the participation level from last year, and encourage the nation's best athletes to try out for the U.S. Team.

USA Wrestling has yet to determine the site and date for the 2008 U.S. Grappling World Team Trials, but it is expected to be held in September 2008. Visit TheMat.com and read the next issue of USA Wrestler for the final details on the date and location for the U.S. Grappling World Team Trials.

"USA Wrestling is excited to bring this series of competitive World Team Trials Qualifying events to the Grappling community," said Jason Townsend, USA Wrestling's Manager of Developing Wrestling Styles. "We expect the nation's best Grappling athletes to attend these events, for a chance to make the U.S. World Team. Anybody who has competed in Grappling, wrestling, Jiu-jitsu or other martial arts should attend these outstanding events."

In order to qualify for the 2008 U.S. Grappling World Team Trials, which is for Senior-level athletes, men must place in the top four in their weight class and women must place in the top three of their weight class. Returning 2007 U.S. World Team Trials champions automatically qualify for the 2008 U.S. World Team Trials.

USA Wrestling started a Grappling program in 2007, after the international wrestling federation FILA recognized the sport as a form of wrestling. A series of qualifiers were held, and the U.S. Grappling World Team Trials were held alongside the wrestling trials events in Las Vegas, Nev.

The U.S. World Team, sponsored by No Limits MMA, traveled to Antalya, Turkey and has a historic performance, coming home with all nine gold medals from the 2007 FILA World Wrestling Games.

FILA has announced that the Grappling World Championships will be held separately from other styles of wrestling, in a historic event set for Dec. 20-21 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

"It is our intention for Grappling to have its own independent World Championships which will spotlight this new style," said Jean-Francois Court, Executive Director of the FILA World Grappling Committee. "Last year, we used the World Wrestling Games as our de facto World Championships because of the time constraints we faced in organizing the event. So, this will be our first World Championships where Grappling is on its own."

Several of the nation's top Grappling teams have already committed to taking part in the process of entering the Grappling World Team Trials Qualifying Series.

"I look forward to Cobra Kai Jiu-jitsu competing in these events," said Grappling legend Marc Laimon. "We expect to improve on last years' performance and really plan to step up our training to prepare specifically for these events. I want to dominate the World Team Trials and get my guys on the World Team and make the trip to Switzerland and come back with some gold medals."

Events will be held in California, Colorado, Maryland, Texas, New York, Virginia, Illinois, Florida, Nevada, Hawaii and Oregon. The first and the final qualifying events will be hosted at No Limits MMA, USA Wrestling's National Training Center for Grappling and Sombo.

All athletes must have a USA Wrestling membership and be U.S. citizens to be eligible to compete in the Grappling World Team Trials Qualifying Series as well as the U.S. Grappling World Team Trials. You can purchase a USA Wrestling membership on www.themat.com.

Athletes can pre-register and pay their $50 entry fee for these Qualifying events at www.TrackWrestling.com starting April 14th. On-site late registration will cost $75, so all are encouraged to pre-register.

For more information on the 2008 World Team Trials Qualifying Series contact Jason Townsend at (719) 598-8181 or jtownsend@usawrestling.org

USA Wrestling's Grappling World Team Trials Qualifying Series

Saturday, May 10

Southern California Regional Qualifier, No Limits MMA, Irvine, CA

Contact: Chris Carlino at (714) 334-9257

chriscarlino@mac.com

Saturday, May 17

Rocky Mountain Regional Qualifier, Massari Arena, Pueblo, CO

Contact: Troy Rutz at (303) 815-2306

E-mail: troy.rutz@dcsdk12.org

Sunday, May 18

Mason Dixon Regional Qualifier, Rising Sun High School, North East, MD

Contact: Will Townsend at (757)450-7469

E-mail: vausagrappling@yahoo.com

Saturday, May 31

Southern Plains Regional Qualifier, Dollamur Sport Surfaces, Fort Worth, TX

Contact: Scott Templeton at (888) 628-7655

E-mail: scott@dollamur.com

Saturday, May 31

Northeast Regional Qualifier, Phoenix High School, Phoenix, NY

Contact: Gene Mills at 315 652-7922

E-mail: pin2win@genemills.com

Saturday, June 7

Middle Atlantic Regional Qualifier, Phoebus High School, Hampton, VA

Contact: Will Townsend at (757) 450-7469

E-mail: vausagrappling@yahoo.com

Saturday, June 21

Midwest Regional Qualifier, Wright College, Chicago, IL

Contact: Joe Manzello at (630) 495-9717

E-mail: jmanzello@theolympiancentre.com

Saturday, June 28

Southeast Regional Qualifier, River Ridge Middle School, New Port Richey, FL

Contact: Russ Schenk at (727) 992-7229

E-mail: rschenk@pasco.k12.fl.us

Saturday, June 28

Southwest Regional Qualifier, Throwdown Training Facility, Las Vegas, NV

Contact: Scott Bieri at (702) 340-0484

E-mail: scott@ckjj.com

Sunday, July 13

Hawaiian Islands Regional Qualifier, Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, HI

Contact: Bryan Sanders at (808) 688-3962

E-mail: bdshawaii@hotmail.com

Saturday, July 19

Northwest Regional Qualifier, Parkrose High School, Portland, OR

Contact: Scott McKendry at (503) 661-4134

E-mail: scottm@tqmma.com

Saturday, August 23

Last Chance Qualifier, No Limits MMA, Irvine, CA

Contact: Chris Carlino at (714) 334-9257 chriscarlino@mac.com
Johnson, Brown National Champs

U.S. Olympic Education Center (USOEC) freestyle resident athletes Beth
Johnson and Schuyler Brown win 124 lbs. and 139 lbs. respectively at
the U.S. Girls Wrestling Association national tournament held in
Livonia, MI Sunday March 30, 2008.

Johnson pinned Alli Ragan (IL) in the second period to claim her second
USGWA national title. Johnson, who owns a victory this year over the
current or 2008 college national champion, participates in the USOEC
program as a high school senior attending Marquette Senior High School
located in Marquette, MI.

Brown also a high school senior at MSHS stopped Nikita Netjes (MI) in a
12-10 overtime barn burner to claim her first high school national
title. Brown also owns a victory over this year's 2008 college
national champion.

MSHS high senior and USOEC resident freestyle athlete Elizabeth
DeAngelo improved her finish from a year ago from 8th to 5th.

The USOEC had several signed recruits also participate in this national
tournament. National champion Amy Whitbeck (120 lbs.), who upset 3x
national champion Joey Miller, leads the USOEC recruits followed by
Emily Martin 3rd place (109 lbs.), and Erin Golston 5th place (98
lbs.).

In February, 1989, the U.S. Olympic Committee named Northern Michigan
University as the nation's only United States Olympic Education Center.
The USOEC's main focus is the resident athlete training program, where
athletes actively train for the Olympic Games while also continuing
their education.

USOEC results
98 lbs. Erin Golston 5th
109 lbs. Emily Martin 3rd
120 lbs. Amy Whitbeck National Champion
124 lbs. Beth Johnson National Champion
133 lbs. Elizabeth DeAngelo 5th
139 lbs. Schuyler Brown National Champion
Kaneda Crowned College Champion

Oklahoma City March 17, 2008-U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle
resident athlete, Sadie Kaneda, was crowned champion while four of her
team mates also made the gold medal round at the fifth annual Women's
College Wrestling Association Freestyle National Championships, held
at Abe Lemons Arena on the campus of Oklahoma City University on
Saturday.

Northern Michigan University junior Kaneda, for the second time this
year, stopped 2006 Jr. World Champion Nicole Woody of Oklahoma City
University, 1-0, 6-0.

Champions at the seven World Championship weight classes, (48 kg, 51
kg, 55 kg, 59 kg, 63 kg, 67 kg and 72 kg) qualified for the U.S.
Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling on June 13-15 at the Thomas and Mack
Center in Las Vegas so Kaneda has punched her ticket for the final
Olympic team qualifier.

In a battle of Jr. World Bronze medalists, NMU sophomore Alyssa Lampe,
a USOEC freestyle resident athlete, fell short in her bid for a first
WCWA title to Jessica Medina from the University of the Cumberlands
0-1, 7-2, 1-0.

Lampe decided minutes before the weigh to wrestle up one weight class
to allow her team mate, Kaneda, the opportunity to qualify for the U.S.
Olympic Team Trials.

Fourth seeded NMU freshman Linsdey Brooks, a USOEC freestyle resident
athlete, surpassed her seed and won a silver medal at her first WCWA
tournament. Brooks beat number 1 seed Lacey Novinska from Missouri
Valley College in the semi finals on her way to the gold medal finals.
Former USOEC freestyle resident athlete Melissa Simmons outlasted
Brooks in a 3 period thriller 1-1, 1-1, 1-0.

The U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle resident athlete on the
campus of Northern Michigan University pushed 5 of 6 athletes in to the
final round and placed 4th as a team to University of the Cumberlands,
Oklahoma City University, and Missouri Valley College who all brought
athletes in the non contested Olympic or world championship weights of
44kg, 80kg, and 95 kg.

USOEC silver medalists included NMU senior Amy Borgnini and NMU junior
Nikki Darrow.

At 59 kg Amber Miracle, an NMU freshman, also debuted in the WCWA and
looked impressive.

Marquette Senior High School USOEC freestyle resident athletes, who are
ineligible for the Women's College Wrestling Association Freestyle
National Championships, Schuyler Brown 63kg and Erin Clodgo 67kg own
victories over the reigning or current WCWA 2008 champions in their
respective weight classes.

The USOEC freestyle resident athlete program now will prepare for the
world championship qualifiers or the Jr. World Championships, the World
University Championships, and the Olympic Games to be held in April,
May, and June.

USOEC results
48 kg 1st - Sadie Kaneda
51 kg 2nd Place - Alyssa Lampe
55 kg 2nd Place - Amy Borgnini
59 kg 2nd Place - Nikki Darrow
59 kg DNP - Amber Miracle
72 kg 2nd Place - Lindsey Brooks
Maroulis Commits to USOEC Freestyle Resident Athlete Program

The U.S. Olympic Education Center (USOEC) has received a verbal
commitment from Helen Maroulis of Rockville, Maryland (Colonel Zadok
Magruder High School).

Maroulis, a member of the 2007 ASICS Girls High School All-American
Team, will enter the USOEC resident athlete program as a high school
senior and will attend Marquette Senior High School.

The USOEC has a star studded 2008-2009 recruiting class that includes
Amy Whitbeck, Adeline Gray, Emily Martin, Patricia Hill, Veronica
Carlson, Melissa Apodaca, Erin Golston, and Brenda Mendoza.

USOEC freestyle wrestler profile

Helen Maroulis, Rockville, MD, Colonel Zadok Magruder High School, Jr.
51kg
2007 ASICS Girls High School All-American Team
2007 USAW Junior National Champion
2007 FILA Cadet National Champion
2006 USGWA National Runner-up
CWU Training Camp Tour Journal Part 3

Shannyn J. Gillespie USOEC

Chukyo Women's University Nagoya, Japan March 2008-Part 3 of the Chukyo
Women's University Training Camp Tour covers the last three training
days for the U.S. Olympic Education Center freestyle resident athlete.

The last 3 training days at CWU encompassed 6 workouts composed of 3
cross training workouts and 3 wrestling mat workouts.

Pictures for the entire trip are forthcoming and will be available at
http://www.freestylefemales.com upon entry into Marquette, MI, USA.

Below is a day by day synopsis of things that happened in Nagoya, Japan
during the training camp at CWU.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 7
Friday March 7, 2008 began with games of floor hockey (the teams
actually met in the weight room first and Coach Sakae spoke, then…)
followed up by a 26 station circuit in the weight room directed by
Coach Sakae.

Due to the large size of the team(s), each circuit lasted for 10-12
stations then a rest period, then another circuit. This circuit was
completed 3 times. Coach Sakae directed the team(s) to work on
individual needs in the weight room at the conclusion of the last
circuit.

The second workout on Friday began with sprint line drills combined
with tumbling exercises that lasted for about 20 minutes then two
minute drilling with change of partners lasted for 3 partners or six
minutes total.

Speed drilling was next and included several varieties of speed drills
with 20 seconds on -- 5 seconds off. In the versions executed today,
one partner hits as many skills as possible in 20 seconds. Twenty
second speed drilling was followed by 15 second speed drills with the
same format. Both speeds drills were executed 4 times each partner.

Live wrestling was next and again wrestlers could get up to 4 matches
if they asked.

The conditioning lasted for 40 minutes on Friday and incorporated more
skills that I have seen but executed in a different way. An example is
team squats with everyone holding hands counting up to 11 then down
from 11 which equals close to132 squats.

This was another grueling day and Coach Sakae invited the USOEC team to
the spa again and the USOEC freestyle athletes were happy to treat
their muscles and minds to rest, recovery, and relaxation.

Interesting notes
Several times this week (3), Coach Sakae has taken the USOEC coaches to
breakfast and today, Olympic Champion Saori, Malika (15 years old &
second year athlete), and her Malika's mom joined us for coffee, eggs,
and bread at a restaurant named Komeda's.

The night before or day 6, the USOEC coaches were treated to sushi with
Coach Sakae, Saori, Rena (2 x World Silver medalist), and Yuri (World
Cup Champion and CWU graduate). Ayako also joined us that night and
interpreted back and forth with the Japanese and American speakers.

Coach Sakae explained Japan's women dominate wrestling due to Japan
planning for the first Olympics women wrestlers would participate in
over 20 years ago.

Saori explained she started wrestling at age 3 and she is 25 now. She
also joined CWU when she was 18 and was coached by her father till CWU.
Other great info from Saori: Olympic Champion Kaori Icho joined CWU at
15 and Saori and Kaori wrestled 3 times… Saori is 3-0 versus Kaori.

Saori explained Olympic Silver medalist Chiharu Icho (also a 3 x World
Champion & Kaori's elder sister) joined CWU at age 18. Chiharu is now
26 and Saori has not competed against her. Sisters Icho got involved
with wrestling through their brother.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 8
Saturday March 8, 2008 began with the first workout on the track and
ended with wrestlers trading clothes and other things.

The track workout started with groups of 3 people tossing a medicine
ball, running, and interweaving between each other as they traveled
around the oval 5 times. After that warm up, the wrestlers sprinted
laps with the same format running 1 lap under 65 seconds. If your
group time was over 65 seconds, your group ran again.

Ten minutes of working on individual muscles that need work concluded
the morning workout in the weight room.

Team USA or the USOEC freestyle resident athletes ran the last
wrestling practice and it seemed as if we were at home at Northern
Michigan University in the Superior Dome wrestling room.

Much of the format was a mixture of all the ideas that the USOEC
freestyle coaches and athletes employ daily in Marquette, MI, USA. For
these secrets, join our team! All jokes aside, you can check
http://www.freestylefemales.com for a recipe for what we do daily to
prepare for the Olympic Games.

Interesting notes
Coach Sakae travels to Tokyo for the second and third times during this
camp to have planning meetings and interviews. Coach Sakae was Japan's
first Olympic Coach for women at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and
will be the women's coach for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

On the last session of camp, singlets, shoes, shirts, bracelets, hair
things, and many other items were shared, traded, and gifted to each
other. Several team pictures were taken and there were a lot of smiles
going around as seemingly everyone wanted a photo with everyone who
trained at the second annual Chukyo Women's University Training Camp
Tour 2008 version.
Quotes from U.S. Olympic Education Center Freestyle Resident Athletes from the Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008

Tell me about your experience at CWU Training Camp Tour.

Amy Borgnini
"It's a great opportunity to train with the best in the world at your
weight class and this is my second year at the CWU Training Camp Tour."

Amber Miracle
"I learned a lot from especially about how to work hard and how hard
they (CWU team) work"

Schuyler Brown
"The first day was really really tiring…eventually I gained some
confidence and I gonna take a lot of confidence from this experience."

What did you learn at CWU Training Camp Tour?

Nikki Darrow
"We learned a lot about the different exercises the rest of the world
does for example they do a lot of jumps and plyos."

Katie Crouch
"I learned about different training techniques and specifically for my
body type."

Lindsey Brooks
"I learned that it takes a lot of work to be a champion. If you train
with champions, you'll most likely become one because you will most
likely emulate what they are doing.

"It was a good experience to train with 3 Olympic medalists."

What was your best experience at CWU Training Camp Tour?

Whitney Conder
"I'll probably would say my best experience was wrestling with the
Olympic Champions and learning what they do and how to become a
champion."

Sadie Kaneda
"My best experience at CWU training camp was wrestling people of
different caliber from high school to Olympians and they taught us."

Elizabeth DeAngelo
"My best experience was probably the first morning workout. I was
really nervous…I got through it and it gave me a lot of confidence for
the rest of the camp."

What was the most challenging thing you did at CWU Training Camp Tour?

Alyssa Lampe
"The push ups were pretty hard…the whole workout was much a lot more
intense than what we usually do…it was great being able to see how the
best in the world train."

Beth Johnson
"I would say sprinting the whole time because we are not use to
sprinting…maybe wrestling Yoshida because that was really exciting."
CWU Training Camp Tour Journal Part 2

Shannyn J. Gillespie USOEC

Chukyo Women's University Nagoya, Japan March 2008-The second part of
the camp at CWU in Japan was sandwiched by a 'holiday' as Coach Sakae
called it. This holiday was a rest and much needed recovery day for
the USOEC athletes to re-gain their mental strength, shop, and prepare
for the last part of the camp.

Below is a description of the goings on of the U.S. Olympic Education
Center freestyle resident athlete program during part 2 of the training
camp minus pictures.

Pictures will become available, via freestylefemales.com, upon return
to the USA. The magic of technology is in control of the uploading and
downloading of everything on computers at CWU and especially jpegs or
photos or images.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 4
Tuesday March 4, 2008 picked up where Monday left off.

The morning started with warm up laps around the track and the workout
lasted about 60 minutes from start to finish.

Five lap interval line sprint runs were used twice to begin the
practice. These sprint/runs were followed up by direction changing
sprints. These sprints pitted 4 athletes against each other till a
clap was heard (or words) from the leader of the drill...then the
sprint changed directions until another clap or voice…again a
clap/voice was heard and another direction change.

After the sprint work was done on the track, pull up circuits were used
to give the upper body something to brag about. These intense workouts
were done in 5 sets of 10 or 50 total repetitions. The pull up circuit
was finished with individual work on muscles or areas that need to be
strengthened.

The second practice consisted of 4-5 matches and started with the
typical stretch, gymnastics, body weight exercises, and drill scenario
lead by the team captain.

Coach Sakae traveled to Tokyo to give an interview today and the
instructions for practice were left earlier.

Interesting note
Each day the CWU wrestlers amaze me with several drills, skills,
exercises I have never seen before. Most of the ideas are logical and
derivatives of other types of movement patterns and the way they are
used is simple and amazing.

To be certain, most drills mimic the time of a period of wrestling or a
flurry of movements to execute a skill. Also, most movements entail
direction changes and explosive actions.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 5
Wednesday March 5, 2008 the USOEC team was granted a 'holiday' by Coach
Sakae.
This recovery day or regeneration day allowed a morning sleep in,
shopping in Nagoya, and eating at a sushi bar. We took several trains
to shop till we dropped and it reminded me of traveling in New York or
Chicago due to the subway and elevated trains.

Luckily, our tour guides CWU wrestling's finest and Mio were well
planned and happy to take us to what appeared to be an outdoor type of
market and then a 24 floor mall. Needless to say, the USOEC team got
what they needed and this recovery day took 8 hours from start till
finish.

The sushi bar had a conveyor belt of food traveling by seemingly every
second and the food was good. Green tea was served at our leisure and
a faucet or spigot filled with hot water was ready to serve whoever
wanted tea.

Interesting notes
Much like Beijing, China; Nagoya, Japan has hundreds and thousands of
people daily riding bikes or scooters to travel around. Our tour
guides swiftly got on their bikes and scooter as they traveled home
after shopping with us. The train station was filled with several
thousand bikes in a moped, scooter, and bike parking lot.

During the recovery/shopping day, I saw many high school students
shopping who were still wearing their uniforms and apparently most of
the high school students attend schools were a uniform is required.
All of the girls wore skirts with blouses and all the boys wore jackets
with oxfords and ties.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 6
Thursday March 6, 2008 started with Coach Sakae addressing the team in
the weight room followed by stretches then a track, cross training
workout.

The track work out was a relay with three teams racing around a 400
meter track twice per group of 3 or 4 with substitutes after every 2
laps.

Part of the cross training workout out consisted of a stair workout up
3 flights with partner assisted and directed exercises. The other part
of the cross training workout was a sit up circuit 3 times each per
partner followed up by individual and partner work on specific muscle
area needs.

The mat workouts consisted of a 30 minute warm up that included
tumbling, jogging, drilling and this lead into drill matches 2 minutes
long and eventually live wrestling.

Four or 3 matches were wrestled in the live portion preceded by group
par terre goes where 2 groups essentially wrestled back and forth via a
queen of the mat format. In other words, if no one can turn you, you
are the queen of the mat and continue till some one turns you or stay
there indefinitely.

Conditioning finished the practice with push up type exercises in sets
of 5 (repetitions of 10) followed by a game of soccer with 3 little
balls being kicked every which way.

Interesting notes
Coach Sakae says 2 words and the entire team falls in line at the
beginning and end of each practice. The captain of the team addresses
Coach Sakae during the start and finish of each practice and generally,
the captain speaks through Sensei Sakae.

Many of CWU wrestling team wears USA Wrestling gear to each practice.
The USOEC team and coaches traded or gifted much of the USAW gear being
worn daily at practices during the inaugural 2007 CWU/USOEC training
camp tour.

There are 7 high school wrestlers on the 2007-2008 CWU wrestling team.
CWU Training Camp Tour Journal and Pictures

Chukyo Women's University Nagoya, Japan March 2008-USA Wrestling's
womens' freestyle resident athlete program at the U.S. Olympic
Education on the campus of Northern Michigan University (NMU) traveled
to Japan during the NMU spring break to learn from the best women
wrestlers in the world at Chukyo Women's University (CWU) lead by
Sensei Sakae.

CWU is the training ground and home for Olympic Champions Saori Yoshida
and Kaori Icho and also Kaori's elder sister a reigning 3 x World
Champion and Olympic Silver medalist Chiharu Icho.

There are 20 other world championship titles to learn from at CWU and
below is a training journal and pictorial essay that discovers the
'secrets' to success.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 1
The USOEC contingent of eleven athletes and two coaches arrive at
Nagoya, Japan Airport and are greeted by Coach Sakae, Olympic Champion
Saori Yoshida, Rena (2 x World Silver medalist), World Cup Champion
Yuri, Mami (World University Silver medalist), his assistant coach, and
CWU athletes. This day or days was filled with flying, reading, and
taking pictures from Detroit, MI, USA to the final destination of Japan
or the "Team House" where our first meal was served.

Interesting notes
We actually left the States on 'leap day' Friday February 29, 2008 and
entered Japan Saturday March 1, 2008. Japan is 14 hours difference and
the flight took approximately 14 hours from Detroit, MI, USA to Tokyo,
Japan to Nagoya Japan. (We actually traveled via 4 airports starting
in Green Bay, WI.)

Chukyo Women's University wrestling team has 2 team houses. The team
house the USOEC team ate and eats at nightly is comprised of mainly
high school students and underclasswomen at CWU.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 2
Sunday March 2, 2008 is the first workout and this training session is
mainly gymnastics, body weight, and sport specific strength exercises
organized by the team captain. This practice takes about 1 hour or so.

The second practice is filled with a warm up of roughly 40 minutes or
so followed by 2-5 live matches depending on how many people each
wrestler asked.

Interesting notes
Each practice is started by Coach Sakae giving instructions or words
from his mind. CWU lines up by rank in order of age and grade in
school or college. The Olympians and World Champions form a separate
and distinct group on the side. The team then prays then claps 3 times
and begins to practice lead by the team captain.

Coach Sakae rarely speaks during practice except to correct mistakes
and generally the athletes organize and run the entire practice.

Athletes ages range from 13-26 and all athletes are competitive. Saori
Yoshida's dad coaches at CWU on the weekends and brings along several
younger athletes from his club including a very young boy who appeared
to be 12 or so.

Chukyo Women's University Training Camp Tour 2008 Day 3
Monday March 3, 2008 starts with Coach Sakae taking USOEC coaches to
the vending machine while the team captain warms the wrestlers on the
track.

This workout last about 2 hours and consists of short sprints up a
30-40 yard slope or paved road. After sprints, the athletes engage in
several different types of body lifts that include: piggy back carry,
double piggy back carry (2 people on your back), fireman's carry, wheel
barrel, double leg carry, and many other partner exercises that have no
name at this point.

Wrestling was the theme for the second workout and most grapplers
attained 4 matches. The warm up was halted as TV cameras were present
and Coach Sakae was dressed in a coat and tie. He briefly described
why the cameras and reporters were there and the practice started again.

After the matches concluded, the plate workouts started and more body
weight exercises were done. This workout took about 2.5 hours.

The Japanese spa was the place to be after practice and Coach Sakae via
an interpreter invited the USOEC team along with Mio, Lena, and Mida to
attend this hot springs, sauna, and cold plunge Japanese spa.

Interesting note
Wrestling practices last anywhere from 2-3 hours and a lot of
conditioning work is down with weights after most practices. (USOEC
athletes are on the mats twice per day, generally, for 1.5 hours each
back in Marquette, MI, USA.)

Younger athletes have no fear in this room and can score points too.
USOEC athletes are scoring points on Olympians and gaining confidence
each practice due to being able to complete each practice and the
ability to score points on the best in the world.

The spa trip also included a trip to the Japanese version of the dollar
store and the local super market. There were items that are sold in
the states like just about all candy bars, sport drinks, coffee sold in
the super market and similar items in the dollar store.

Pictorial journal pages 3-31 or below
Requests for actual picture to be sent should select page# and top or
bottom picture.

Author's note: Orignal paper was written in MS Word file and is not
actually attached due to technological wonders.
Whitbeck, Gray Commit to USOEC Women's Wrestling Program Shannyn Gillespie USOEC

The U.S. Olympic Education Center (USOEC) has received verbal commitments from Amy Whitbeck of Duanesburg, New York (Duanesburg High School) and Adeline Gray of Denver, Colorado (Bear Creek High School).

Whitbeck and Gray are members of the 2007 ASICS Girls High School All-American Team and Whitbeck, a graduating senior, will enter the USOEC resident athlete program as an incoming freshman at Northern Michigan University (NMU).

Gray will enter the USOEC as a high school senior and will attend Marquette Senior High School.

The USOEC has a star studded 2008-2009 recruiting class that includes Amy Whitbeck, Adeline Gray, Emily Martin, Patricia Hill, Veronica Carlson, Melissa Apodaca, and Erin Golston.

In February, 1989, the U.S. Olympic Committee named Northern Michigan University as the nation's only United States Olympic Education Center. The USOEC's main focus is the resident athlete training program, where athletes actively train for the Olympic Games while also continuing their education.

Generally, athletes in this program must be nationally ranked and also approved by their national governing body (NGB), the USOEC, and NMU. The USOEC has resident athlete training programs in freestyle wrestling, short track speedskating, Greco-Roman wrestling, and weightlifting.

USOEC freestyle wrestlers profile:

Amy Whitbeck, Duanesburg, New York, Duanesburg High School, Sr. 48kg
2007 ASICS Girls High School All-American Team
2007 USAW Junior Runner-up
2007 USGWA National Champion 2007 Jr. World Team (5^th)

Adeline Gray, Denver, Colorado, Bear Creek High School, Jr. 63kg
2007 ASICS Girls High School All-American Team
2007 USAW Junior National Champion
4 x USGWA National Champion

Conder Wins Again Shannyn J. Gillespie USOEC Freestyle

Calgary, Alberta, Canada Feb. 3, 2008 –– Whitney Conder 55kg wins her second title in as many days by capturing the Calgary Open championship, held in the Kinesiology Complex of the University of Calgary campus Sunday February 3, 2008. Two other U.S. Olympic Education Center (USOEC) resident athletes, Beth Johnson 55kg and Schuyler Brown 63kg, also won medals.

The finale at the fifty–five kilogram weight class was a rematch of the Nordhagen International Classic, held only a day earlier, with nearly the same result as Jr. World Champion (2007) Conder, a Northern Michigan University (NMU) freshman, held off team mate Johnson in a 3 period affair.

Brown bounced back after a disappointing semi–final loss and won her bronze medal by a pin.

USOEC freestyle wrestlers Amber Miracle 59kg, Elizabeth DeAngelo 59kg, and Katie Crouch 72kg placed fourth and sixth respectively.

Johnson, DeAngelo, Brown, and Crouch are all Marquette Senior High School seniors and participate in the USOEC program, as resident athletes, on the campus of NMU.

The USOEC freestyle resident athlete team, a USA Wrestling resident program, had more than 40 bouts over the weekend during the Nordhagen International Classic and the Calgary Open competitions gaining much needed experience heading into the upcoming Japan tour and the championship season.

USOEC Calgary Open Results

Lineups Announced for Team USA vs. Belarus Wrestling Showcase

Team USA will be led by national No. 1's Mike Zadick and Daniel Cormier

WASHINGTON - The lineups for the Team USA vs. Belarus freestyle wrestling showcase being held at American University's Bender Arena on Thursday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. have been finalized, AU Head Coach Mark Cody announced Friday. The U.S. lineup includes two wrestlers currently ranked No. 1 in the country and the Belarus lineup features two former Senior World Championships medal winners.

"Both teams are bringing in a great group of guys," Cody said. "I'm excited to see what will happen when we get this much talent on the mat. Any sports fan who enjoys seeing competition at its highest level will be lucky to see these two teams in action."

Team USA's lineup will include 55 kg Matt Azevedo, 60 kg Mike Zadick, 66 kg Jesse Jantzen, 74 kg <http://aueagles.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/abdurakhmanov_muzaffar00.html>Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov, 84 kg Chris Pendleton, 96 kg Daniel Cormier and 120 kg Tolly Thompson. Team USA will be coached by the current AU wrestling coaching staff.

Zadick and Cormier highlight the list of wrestlers on the U.S. side as the current No. 1's in their respective weight class. Zadick placed second at the 2007 Pan American Games and is a 2006 World silver medalist. Cormier was a bronze medalist at the 2007 World Championships and placed fourth in the 2004 Olympic Games.

The U.S. lineup also includes two national No. 2 wrestlers in Azevedo and Pendleton. Azevedo placed second at the 2007 U.S. World Team Trials and second at both the 2005 and 2006 Nationals. Pendleton finished 10th at the 2005 World University Games and won back-to-back NCAA Championships in 2004 and 2005.

Current AU assistant coach and former Eagle himself, Abdurakhmanov is no stranger to Bender Arena. Abdurakhmanov wrestled for two seasons at AU after winning two junior college national championships at Colby Community College. Abdurakhmanov became just the second grappler in program history to be crowned an All-American in 2006 and was also a two-time EIWA Champion for AU.

"It will be nice to wrestle in front of my home crowd again after competing in several international competitions recently," Abdurakhmanov said. "I am excited to have this opportunity and excited that the local wrestling community will get to see wrestling at its highest level."

Jantzen and Thompson round out Team USA's lineup for the showcase and each brings a full resume to the mat. Jantzen was a 2005 World University Games Champion and in 2004 won an NCAA Championship for Harvard. Thompson is a former pupil of Coach Cody and is a three-time U.S. Nationals Champion and two-time U.S. World Team Trials Champion.

Belarus is bringing a lineup to Washington, D.C., which includes 55 kg Rizvan Gadzhiev, 60 kg Mahamedkamil Mahamedau, 60 kg Aliaksandr Karnitski, 66 kg Albert Batyrov, 74 kg Aliaksandr Matyl, 84 kg Ivan Yankouski, 96 kg Ruslan Sheikhov and 120 kg Maksim Mikhalevich. Belarus will be coached by Valiantsin Murzinkou and Siarhei Huryeu.

Gadshiev and Sheikov are each Senior World Championships bronze medalists, having placed third in 2007 and 2006, respectively. Batyrov and Gaidarov each took fifth place at the 2006 Worlds. Mikhailevich, another prominent Belarusian wrestler, placed second at the 2006 World Military Games.

Tickets for the showcase are on sale now and available by calling 202-885-TIXX or by <http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?OrganizationNumber=967>clicking here. Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for seniors, kids 18 and under, groups of 20 or more or anyone with a valid AU ID. A pre-ordered ticket to the showcase will also get you into a one-hour wrestling clinic being taught by the U.S. Olympic Committee's 2007 Wrestling Male Athlete of the Year, <http://aueagles.cstv.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/vering_brad00.html>Brad Vering. The clinic will begin at 4 p.m. in the Marilyn Meltzer Wrestling Room. Space for the clinic is limited.
Western Ontario Open Results

USOEC VS Opponent

1st place
48kg: Sadie Kaneda Vs Pricilla Brownfield
(University of the Cumberlands) 6-0, 5-2
Vs Norine Cruz
(Missouri Valley) 6-0, 6-0
Vs Christy
McConnell (University of Regina) 6-1, 6-0

3rd place
67kg: Lindsey Brooks Vs Nikita Chicoine
(Concordia) 0-6, 0-6
Vs Dinna
Anyanwuh (Missouri Valley) 3-0, 6-0
Vs Ashley Reed
(Western Ontario University) 6-0, won by fall in 1:10
Vs Jessica
Fitzgerald (University of Toronto) 1-2, 0-4

3rd place
Ku'u Johnson Vs Terri Milkoff
(University of the Cumberlands) 0-2, 4-0, 2-2
Vs Alyssa James
(University of Toronto) 0-1, 0-1
Committed USOEC Freestyle Wrestlers

The U.S. Olympic Education Center has received verbal commitments from
5 outstanding high school wrestlers across the USA.

The list of new USOEC freestyle wrestlers is headed by 2007 ASICS GIRLS
HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN WRESTLING TEAM members Emily Martin, Frisco,
TX., Centennial High School, Sr. and Veronica Carlson, Addison, Ill.,
Addison Trail High School, Jr.

Patricia Hill WI., Tomahawk High School, Sr.; Melissa Apodaca, Chugiak,
AL., Chugiak High School, Sr., and Erin Golston, Lake In The Hills,
Ill., Crystal Lake South HS, Fr. round out the first group of committed
USOEC freestyle wrestlers for the 2008-2009 season.

Carlson and Golston will enter the USOEC as high school students while
Martin, Hill, and Apodaca will be incoming freshman at Northern
Michigan University.

In February, 1989, the U.S. Olympic Committee named Northern Michigan
University (NMU) as the nation's only United States Olympic Education
Center. The USOEC's main focus is the resident athlete training
program, where athletes actively train for the Olympic Games while also
continuing their education.

Emily Martin, Frisco, TX., Centennial High School, Sr., 48kg
2007 ASICS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN WRESTLING TEAM
USAW Jr. National All American 2007
USGWA Jr. National All American 2007

Patricia Hill WI., Tomahawk High School, Sr., 48kg
USAW Jr. National All American 2007

Veronica Carlson, Addison, Ill., Addison Trail High School, Jr, 63kg
2007 ASICS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICAN WRESTLING TEAM
USAW Jr. National Champion 2007
USGWA National Champion 2007

Melissa Apodaca, Chugiak, AL., Chugiak High School, Sr., 63kg
USAW Jr. National All American 2007

Erin Golston, Lake In The Hills, Ill., Crystal Lake South HS, Fr. 48kg
Body Bar National Champion 2007

The USOEC Freestyle team will release another list of committed
recruits in one month.
USOEC Wins 2 Medals at Brock Open

St. Catharines, Ont., CA -- USOEC wrestler Beth Johnson 59kg and
Schuyler Brown 63kg win silver and bronze medals at the Brock
University Women's Wrestling Tournament held on Saturday January 12,
2008 at the Walker Center Complex in Ontario, Canada.

Johnson, a high school senior at Marquette Senior HS, made the
championship final and compiled a 3-1 record while earning here silver
medal.

Johnson seems to be more focused on mastering specific parts of her
wrestling and commented, "I worked on different set ups to my double
legs and single legs today...I was happy with my results".

Brown, also a high school senior at MSHS won her bronze medal by
tallying a record of 2-2 at the at Brock University Women's Wrestling
Tournament.

Brown, who lost 2 matches in the waning a seconds of periods explained,
"I am learning how to hold opponents off at the end of periods."

Both Johnson and Brown are freestyle resident athletes at the U.S.
Olympic Education Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University.

USOEC resident athletes and MSHS seniors Elizabeth DeAngelo 59kg and
Katie Crouch 72kg also competed in the competition. DeAngelo had a 1-2
record while Crouch amassed a 1-3 record.

USOEC Final Results
Beth Johnson Champion 59kg 2nd
Decisioned Kelly Mc Niven Brock University 6-0, 6-0, pin
Decisioned Caittyion Goodfellow Mc Mastery University 5-1, 4-3
Decisioned Katrina Huszarik Western University 6-0, 7-1
Lost to Michelle Fazzari Brock University 1-4, 1-6

Elizabeth DeAngelo 59kg
Lost to Michelle Fazzari Brock University 0-1, 0-6
Lost to Heather Wray Western University 0-3, 0-2
Decisioned Kelly Mc Niven Brock University 3-0, 2-0

Schuyler Brown Champion 63kg 3rd
Decisioned Celeste Rodrigues Brock University pin
Lost to Stefenie Shaw USA 3-3, 4-5
Lost to Katie Patroch Western University 1-3, 0-2
Decisioned Ashley Routliffe University of Guelph 1-3, 4-0, inj. def.

Katie Crouch 72kg
Lost to Debra Jehu Brock University pin
Lost to Jill Mc Callum Western University 1-4, 1-4
Decisioned Megghen Wilton University of Guelph pin
Lost to Sara Leo Brock University 0-6 0-2
Wrestling & Judo Olympic Trials Application

Media accreditation has begun for 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling and Judo

The media accreditation process has begun for journalists interested in covering the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling and Judo, which will be held at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 13-15, 2008.

A media accreditation form has been developed as a pdf file, which can be downloaded and sent to the event organizers for consideration via FAX or mail.

The event will feature contests in each of the 18 Olympic wrestling weight classes in the three Olympic styles (men's freestyle, men's Greco-Roman, women's freestyle) as well as the 14 Olympic judo weight divisions to be contested at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Each individual journalist who wishes to cover the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling and Judo will have to submit an accreditation form. A media outlet may send in all of their requests at once, but one form must be completed for each applicant.

Accreditation acceptance will be done on a "rolling basis," being handled shortly after each application is received. All media outlets are encouraged to send in their applications as soon as possible in order for the event organizers and the media outlets to make the appropriate plans.

The deadline for all media accreditation is June 1, 2008.

There will be over 300 athletes from all across the United States entered in this event, all who are pursuing their personal Olympic dreams.

The U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Wrestling and Judo will be a tremendous opportunity for media to cover the Olympic quest. For local media, there should be many athletes from numerous markets to cover. For national and international media, the competition will feature numerous Olympic medal hopefuls, as well as a large number of compelling personal stories.

For questions, contact Gary Abbott of USA Wrestling at 719-598-8181 or via e-mail at gabbott@usawrestling.org

Attached is the jpg file of the accreditation form.

You can also download the accreditation form at:
http://www.themat.com/forms/08OlympicTrialscredential.pdf

B2 Networks to Broadcast Pre-Olympic Women's Wrestling Meet
Meet Marks the Second Women's Wrestling Event Broadcast Live on B2
Networks

MARQUETTE, MI - B2 Networks announced today it will broadcast the
second women's wrestling event in the history of the company, a
pre-Olympic match featuring the United States Olympic Education Center
(USOEC) and Oklahoma City University.

The meet, will take place in the Vandament Arena on the campus Northern
Michigan University and can be seen live via the world's premier
broadband broadcaster on Friday, December 7 at 5:00 p.m. (EST).

"The USA Wrestling resident athlete program women's freestyle team at
the USOEC will compete in Canada the week prior and will conclude the
fall semester with the dual versus Oklahoma City University," stated
Shannyn J. Gillespie, USOEC Head Coach.

"This dual will serve as a final preparation contest for the
championship season which starts in January 2008 heading into the
Olympic Trials in mid-June 2008."

"We are looking forward for the opportunity to compete against the
Olympic Education Center," stated Archie Randall, Oklahoma City Head
Coach. "It gives us a measuring stick as to where our squad is at this
time of year, especially on our technique level."

The USOEC vs. Oklahoma City University dual will be available for
viewing by a worldwide audience. The live meet will be aired through
the USOEC's website http://webb.nmu.edu/SportsUSOEC/, Oklahoma City
University's website http://www.ocusports.com as well as
http://www.b2tv.com.

Fans wanting to watch women's wrestling via B2 Networks will need a
high-speed Internet connection and a current version of Microsoft
Windows Media Player. Access to all bouts of the dual meet will be made
available for $6 (US).

"It is always special when B2 Networks has the opportunity to broadcast
Olympic-style competition to the world," stated Richard Brosal, B2
Networks Executive Vice President for Business Operations and
Marketing.

"It is exciting to be able to increase exposure of this great sport by
providing live action of two outstanding women's wrestling teams to the
sport's many fans."

B2 Networks is a premier provider of reliable and secure international
television and pay-per-view broadcasting systems. Our worldwide network
of arenas, stadiums, local venues and data centers are currently in use
to distribute live sports and events to personal computers, television
screens, mobile devices and commercial venues around the world.

Working with organizations such as the AHL, ECHL, NLL, IHL, USHL, NAHL,
Arena Football Leagues, Fitness Universe and selected NCAA and NAIA
conferences and member institutions, B2 Networks has established itself
as a leader in innovative global direct to home, mobile and television
broadcasting.

For the B2 Networks' Programming Guide visit www.b2tv.com, or for
information about B2 Networks, visit www.b2now.com.

Bill Scherr Among Finalists for U.S. Olympic Team Women's Freestyle Coaching Position

EVANSTON, Ill.-- Former Northwestern volunteer assistant coach and current Wildcat Wrestling Club coach, Bill Scherr, has been selected as one of four finalists to receive a coaching position for the U.S. in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in women's freestyle wrestling.

Named as finalists for the volunteer women's coaching position for the U.S. team that will compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China, are: Scherr, Northwestern graduate Tadaaki Hatta of Elyria, Ohio, Troy Steiner of Corvallis, Ore., and Levi Weikel-Magden of Colorado Springs, Colo.

The four finalists were selected by USA Wrestling's Women's Coach Selection Committee.

One of these four volunteer coaches will be selected to serve on the coaching staff at the Beijing Games, along with USA Wrestling's National Women's Coach Terry Steiner.

Three of the finalists have served as official Women's World Team Coaches at recent World Championships: Hatta (1991), Scherr (2005, 2006) and Steiner (2007). Weikel-Magden has been on the coaching staff of a number of U.S. World Teams.

Scherr was a member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic freestyle team as an athlete, winning a bronze medal at 100 kg/220 lbs. He also won four World medals in his career, including a 1985 World gold medal.

USA Wrestling expects its Olympic Coach selection process to be completed by late-November.

Scherr served as a World Team coach of the 2006 U.S. Women's World Team, which competed in Guangzhou, China and placed seventh in the World Championships, led by two medalists

Scherr was a World Team coach of the 2005 U.S. Women's World Team, which competed in Budapest, Hungary, placed third in the team standings and featured four medalists, including World champion Iris Smith.

He is a coach for the women wrestlers with the Sunkist Kids, which won the 2007 U.S. Nationals team title and placed five athletes on the 2007 U.S. World Team.

Scherr was an assistant coach at Northwestern Univ. last year, which placed fourth at the NCAA Championships, its highest finish in school history. He currently coaches the Wildcat WC freestyle wrestlers and is a volunteer with Northwestern Univ. program.

He was an assistant coach at Indiana University for five years, from 1984-89, working with coach Jim Humphrey. The team was 2-17 the season before his arrival and had a 15-0 record his final year with the program. Scherr is also a widely respected clinician, working numerous camps and clinics around the nation.

Scherr was one of the greatest wrestlers in U.S. freestyle history. He was a 1985 World champion and a 1988 Olympic bronze medalist. He ran off an amazing five-year run of consecutive World-level medals for the United States from 1985-89. He was also a 1986 and 1989 World silver medalist and a 1987 World bronze medalist. His five consecutive World-level medals is one of U.S. wrestling's greatest feats.

Bill Scherr was a two-time World Cup champion, a Pan American Games champion, a World Grand Masters champion, a Goodwill Games champion and a four-time U.S. Nationals champion. In 1992, he made a late comeback to the sport, winning the U.S. Nationals title and making the finals of the Olympic Team Trials where he placed second. He is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Scherr was a 1984 NCAA champion at the Univ. of Nebraska, where he starred alongside his twin brother Jim. He was also a two-time high school state champion from Mobridge, S.D.

He is a leader in the effort to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago, serving as chairman of World Sport Chicago as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Chicago 2016 and heading up the efforts of the Wildcat Wrestling Club.

USOEC Wins 3 Gold, 1 Silver at McMaster Women's Invite

Shannyn J. Gillespie USOEC Wrestling

Marquette, Mich. -- USOEC wrestlers Beth Johnson 55kg, Shyla Iokia
59kg, and Schuyler Brown 63kg were all crowned champions while Katie
Crouch 72kg won a silver medal at the McMaster University (Canada)
Invitational Wrestling Tournament Women's Division held Sunday,
November 4, 2007.

Johnson, Brown, and Crouch are high school seniors who attend Marquette
Senior High School and train at the U.S. Olympic Education Center along
with Iokia who is a sophomore at Northern Michigan University.

The USOEC wrestlers, who all made the finals, compiled a 12-1 won/loss
record on their way to winning 3 gold and 1 silver medal.

USOEC Final Results 1st Pd. 2nd Pd. 3rd Pd.
Beth Johnson Champion 55kg
Decisioned Heather Thompson 6-0 9-4
of University of the Cumberlands
Decisioned Jessica Medina 7-0 2-2
of University of the Cumberlands
Decisioned Sandy Do 5-0 Fall :30
of University of the Cumberlands

Shyla Iokia Champion 59kg
Decisioned Erin Cocharen 5-0 6-0
of western Ontario university
Decisioned Breisja Gallo-Macera 3-2 3-0
of University of the Cumberlands
Decisioned Krystal Kiyuna Fall 1:38
of University of the Cumberlands
Decisioned Rachel Hubbard 0-1 3-0 2-0
of University of the Cumberlands

Schuyler Brown Champion 63kg
Decisioned Laurel Knowles 7-0 8-1
of Lakehead University
Decisioned Kristina Bishop 6-0 6-0
of University of the Cumberlands
Decisioned Liz Sera Fall :17

Katie Crouch 2nd 72kg
Decisioned University New Brunswick 1-0 1-0
Decisioned Brock University 3-2 1-1
Lost Lakehead University 0-6 0-2

Steiner is Finalist for Women Olympic Coach

Hatta, Scherr, Steiner, Weikel-Magden named finalists for U.S. Olympic Team Women's Freestyle Coach positions

USA Wrestling has chosen four finalist candidates to serve as coaches for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team in women's freestyle wrestling.

Named as finalists for the volunteer women's coaching position for the U.S. team that will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China are:

Tadaaki Hatta of Elyria, Ohio
Bill Scherr of Glenview, Ill.
Troy Steiner of Corvallis, Ore.
Levi Weikel-Magden of Colorado Springs, Colo.

The four finalists were selected by USA Wrestling's Women's Coach Selection Committee.

One of these four volunteer coaches will be selected to serve on the coaching staff at the Beijing Games, along with USA Wrestling's National Women's Coach Terry Steiner.

Three of the finalists have served as official Women's World Team Coaches at recent World Championships: Hatta (1991), Scherr (2005, 2006) and Steiner (2007). Weikel-Magden has been on the coaching staff of a number of U.S. World Teams.

Hatta was a coach for the 2007 Pan American Games team, as well as a number of U.S. age-group World Teams.

Scherr was a member of the 1988 U.S. Olympic freestyle team as an athlete, winning a bronze medal at 100 kg/220 lbs. He also won four World medals in his career, including a 1985 World gold medal.

Both Hatta and Steiner were finalists for the Olympic Coach positions for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team.

Complete biographies of each of the finalists are below.

All four finalists will be given a formal telephone interview with the Women's Coach Selection Committee. After the interview process, the Women's Coach Selection Committee will select the two coaches which the committee recommends for the Olympic coaching positions.

USA Wrestling's Executive Committee will then meet to approve the selections of the Women's Coach Selection Committee. The decision of the Executive Committee will be forwarded to the U.S. Olympic Committee for final approval as USA Wrestling's nominees for the Olympic Coach positions.

USA Wrestling expects its Olympic Coach selection process to be completed by late-November.

Tadaaki Hatta, Elyria, Ohio

Hatta served as Pan American Coach for the 2007 Pan American Games team, which competed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The U.S. won medals in all four weight classes, including individual champions Sara McMann and Kristie Marano.

He was the head coach of the 1991 U.S. Women's World Team that placed fifth in the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan and featured two medalists.

He was the coach of the 2006 World University Championships in Ulan Batar, Mongolia, where the United States placed fourth in the standings, with two medalists. Hatta was also the coach of the 2005 World University Games team in Izmir, Turkey, where the U.S. team placed fourth, led by four medalists.

He was on the coaching staff for the women's team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. He was a finalist for the Women's Freestyle coaching position for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team.

He served as the Assistant Coach of the 2003 U.S. Women's World Team that placed second at the World Championships in New York, N.Y., and featured seven individual medalists, including champion Kristie Marano.

Hatta was also a member of the 1988, 1992 and 1996 U.S. Olympic team coaching staff in men's freestyle wrestling. He was also a coach of the 1968 and 1984 Japanese Olympic team, as well as the 1972 Mexican Olympic team.

Hatta was also head coach of the Women's 1999 Cadet World Team, the 2001 and 2002 Women's Junior World Team and the 2002 Women's University World Team. He was also the boy's Cadet World Team coach in 1998. Hatta served on the coaching staff for numerous men's freestyle World Teams prior to concentrating on the women's program.

He is a USA Wrestling Gold Certified Coach. Hatta was a leader within USA Wrestling Ohio for many years, previously serving as Director of Wrestling Development and Coaches Education Director. Hatta is also an M-1 referee within USA Wrestling.

Hatta is a coach for women wrestlers with the New York AC. He also coaches with the All-American Wrestling Club, a youth club in LaGrange, Ohio. Hatta previously was a coach with the Dave Schultz WC and the Sunkist Kids.

Hatta was active as a coach on the high school levels in Ohio, serving 20 years (1978-98) in positions with Oberlin High School, Ravenna High School, St. Edward High School and Walsh Jesuit High School. He also served nine years as the rugby coach at St. Edward. Professionally, he works as an art teacher for Ravenna High School.

He competed for Oklahoma State Univ., where he was a 1965 NCAA champion and third in the 1966 NCAA Championships. Hatta also won two Big Eight titles for the Cowboys. He was a national runner-up in freestyle three times. Hatta has received a Master's degree from Northwestern Univ.

Bill Scherr, Glenview, Ill.

Scherr served as a World Team coach of the 2006 U.S. Women's World Team, which competed in Guangzhou, China and placed seventh in the World Championships, led by two medalists

Scherr was a World Team coach of the 2005 U.S. Women's World Team which competed in Budapest, Hungary, placed third in the team standings and featured four medalists, including World champion Iris Smith.

He is a coach for the women wrestlers with the Sunkist Kids, which won the 2007 U.S. Nationals team title and placed five athletes on the 2007 U.S. World Team.

Scherr was an assistant coach at Northwestern Univ. last year, which placed fourth at the NCAA Championships, its highest finish in school history. He currently coaches the Wildcat WC freestyle wrestlers and is a volunteer with Northwestern Univ. program.

He was an assistant coach at Indiana University for five years, from 1984-89, working with coach Jim Humphrey. The team was 2-17 the season before his arrival and had a 15-0 record his final year with the program. Scherr is also a widely respected clinician, working numerous camps and clinics around the nation.

Scherr was one of the greatest wrestlers in U.S. freestyle history. He was a 1985 World champion and a 1988 Olympic bronze medalist. He ran off an amazing five-year run of consecutive World-level medals for the United States from 1985-89. He was also a 1986 and 1989 World silver medalist and a 1987 World bronze medalist. His five consecutive World-level medals is one of U.S. wrestling's greatest feats.

Bill Scherr was a two-time World Cup champion, a Pan American Games champion, a World Grand Masters champion, a Goodwill Games champion and a four-time U.S. Nationals champion. In 1992, he made a late comeback to the sport, winning the U.S. Nationals title and making the finals of the Olympic Team Trials where he placed second. He is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Scherr was a 1984 NCAA champion at the Univ. of Nebraska, where he starred alongside his twin brother Jim. He was also a two-time high school state champion from Mobridge, S.D.

He is a leader in the effort to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago, serving as chairman of World Sport Chicago as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Chicago 2016.

Professionally, he is a Vice President with Goldman Sachs & Co.

Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.

Steiner served as World Team Coach for the 2007 U.S. Women's World Team, which placed fifth in the team standings and featured three individual medalists in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Steiner has coached a number of U.S. teams in international competition and has participated in Women's Team USA training camps. He was selected as a finalist for the U.S. Olympic Team women's wrestling coaching position in 2004. He is the twin brother of USA Wrestling National Women's Coach Terry Steiner.

Steiner enters his second season as an assistant wrestling coach at Oregon State Univ., where he helped head coach Jim Zalesky lead the Beavers to the Pac-10 title in their first year there. Steiner worked the two previous seasons as an assistant coach under Zalesky at the Univ. of Iowa.

He also served as an assistant coach at Wisconsin from 1997-2001 and Minnesota in 1996-97 and at Oregon State under Joe Wills for the 1995-96 season. Steiner also owned and operated the ADVANCE School of Wrestling in Madison, Wis., for four years.

Steiner was a four-time all-American at Iowa from 1990-93 and a NCAA champion in 1992. He won three Big Ten titles at Iowa, compiling a 148-13 career record at 134 and 142 pounds. He was part of three national and four Big Ten championship teams. Steiner shares Iowa's school record for best season winning percentage for the 42-0 record he compiled during his junior season.

He was a top freestyle wrestler, winning gold medals at the 1992 World Cup and the 1996 Pan American Championships. He was third in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, and fifth in the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

A native of Bismarck, N.D., Steiner was inducted into the North Dakota Hall of Fame in 1998.

Levi Weikel-Magden, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Weikel-Magden served as coach for the 2006 and 2007 U.S. Women's World Cup team. In 2006, the U.S. placed third in the tournament held in Nagoya, Japan, led by champion Sally Roberts. In 2007, the U.S. team placed fifth in the tournament, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, led by champions Sara McMann and Patricia Miranda.

He was on the coaching staff for the U.S. team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. He has served as a member of the U.S. World Team coaching staff many times, assisting the team at the 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007 World Championships

Weikel-Magden currently assists coaching the women freestyle wrestlers at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., working daily with the resident athletes there.

He is a club coach for the Sunkist Kids, and previously coached with the Dave Schultz WC and the Gator WC. The Sunkist Kids won the 2007 U.S. Nationals team title and placed five athletes on the 2007 U.S. World Team.

Weikel-Magden is the coach for 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Patricia Miranda, who has also won three World medals.

He has coached numerous U.S. women's teams on international tours during the last seven years.

Weiken-Magden served as a club coach and volunteer assistant coach for the Univ. of Virginia for three years.

He competed at Stanford Univ., where he was an NCAA Championships qualifier, two-time Pac-10 placewinner and four-year starter for the Cardinal team, serving as the team captain his senior year. Weikel-Magden was a three-time state placewinner for Riverside High School in Oregon. He competed nationally in freestyle for the Dave Schultz Wrestling Club. He is a graduate of the Univ. of Virginia Law School.

McCoy Olympic Coach Finalists

Bormet, Duroe, Kemp, McCoy and Rosselli named finalists for U.S. Olympic Team Freestyle Coach positions

USA Wrestling has chosen five finalist candidates to serve as coaches for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team in freestyle wrestling.

Named as finalists for the volunteer freestyle coaching positions for the U.S. team that will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China are:

Sean Bormet of Naperville, Ill.
Mike Duroe of Iowa City, Iowa
Lee Kemp of Alpharetta, Ga.
Kerry McCoy of Stanford, Calif.
Lou Rosselli of Columbus, Ohio

The five finalists were selected by USA Wrestling's Freestyle Coach Selection Committee.

Two of these five volunteer coaches will be selected to serve on the coaching staff at the Beijing Games, along with USA Wrestling's National Freestyle Coach Kevin Jackson.

Three of the finalists have served as official Freestyle World Team Coaches at recent World Championships: Duroe (2005, 2006), McCoy (2007) and Rosselli (2006, 2007). The other two coaches, Bormet and Kemp, have been on recent U.S. World Team coaching staffs.

Two of the coaches have served as official Junior World Team Coaches in recent years: Rosselli (2005) and Kemp (2007). Both McCoy and Duroe were coaches with the 2007 Pan American Games team.

Three of the coach finalists were members of past U.S. Olympic teams as athletes: Kemp (1980), McCoy (2000, 2004) and Rosselli (1996). Kemp was a three-time World champion in freestyle wrestling (1978, 1979, 1982).

McCoy is the head wrestling coach at Stanford Univ., and Duroe is head wrestling coach at Cornell College in Iowa. Rosselli is the assistant coach at The Ohio State Univ. Bormet is founder and coach of the Overtime School of Wrestling in Illinois. Kemp coaches the Lee Kemp Cooler Wrestling Club in Georgia.

Complete biographies of each of the finalists are below.

All five finalists will be given a formal telephone interview with the Freestyle Coach Selection Committee. After the interview process, the Freestyle Coach Selection Committee will select the two coaches which the committee recommends for the Olympic coaching positions.

USA Wrestling's Executive Committee will then meet to approve the selections of the Freestyle Coach Selection Committee. The decision of the Executive Committee will be forwarded to the U.S. Olympic Committee for final approval as USA Wrestling's nominees for the Olympic Coach positions.

USA Wrestling expects its Olympic Coach selection process to be completed by mid-November.

Sean Bormet, Naperville, Ill.

Bormet was a member of the coaching staff for the 2006 U.S. World Team, which placed third in the team standings and featured four individual medalists.

He is a club coach with the New York Athletic Club, and has worked directly with a number of the athletes on recent U.S. World Teams. Donny Pritzlaff (163 lbs.) and Andy Hrovat (185 lbs.), both members of the New York AC, made the 2006 U.S. World Team. Pritzlaff went on to win a bronze medal at the World Championships.

The New York Athletic Club placed second in Div. II at the U.S. National Championships the last two seasons. Six members of the New York AC freestyle team qualified for Freestyle Team USA, the U.S. national team during the last two seasons.

Bormet was named winner of the Terry McCann Award winner as the 2006 Freestyle Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling.

Bormet owns and operates the Overtime School of Wrestling, a top training facility and wrestling club in Illinois. Since opening this program, Bormet has produced numerous champions and All-American on all of USA Wrestling's age levels. Also coaching with Overtime is Kerry Bowmans, a 2000 Olympic Trials runner-up in freestyle wrestling.

Bormet was named 2004 USA Wrestling Developmental Coach of the Year for his coaching achievements working with age-group wrestlers and programs. He has coached numerous age-group national champions and All-Americans as a coach for the Illinois Junior and Cadet freestyle national teams. He has also coached the Illinois Junior Duals freestyle team.

Prior to founding the Overtime School of Wrestling, Bormet served as an assistant coach at the Univ. of Wisconsin (1994-99) and the Univ. of Michigan (1999-2000).

Bormet placed second at the 1999 U.S. National Championships and third in 1999 as a Senior-level freestyle wrestler. He was third at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Bormet earned NCAA All-American status twice while competing for the Univ. of Michigan. In 1993, he placed third at the NCAA Tournament and in 1992, he placed second. He was a 1991 Espoir National champion in freestyle and competed in the 1991 Espoir World Championships. Bormet was also a three-time Junior freestyle All-American. He was an Illinois state champion for Providence High School in New Lenox, Ill.

Mike Duroe, Iowa City, Iowa

Duroe served as a World Team Coach for the 2006 U.S. Freestyle World Team, which placed third as a team at the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou, China. The team featured four individual medalists, including World champion Bill Zadick.

Duroe was also a World Team coach for the 2005 U.S. Freestyle World Team, which placed eighth in the standings and featured two medalists, competing in Budapest, Hungary.

He was also a coach with the 2007 Pan American Games team, which won seven medals, led by champion Henry Cejudo.

Duroe has coached numerous U.S. World-level teams, both in men's freestyle and women's freestyle, as a volunteer coach and also as a staff member for USA Wrestling. He was on the staff of the last three U.S. Olympic men's freestyle coaching teams. Duroe was named 2005 Freestyle Coach of the Year by USA Wrestling.

He serves in his third season as the head wrestling coach at Cornell College, a Div. III school in Iowa. The program has shown substantial improvement during his tenure. His teams own the top two dual winning totals in school history (15-9-1 in 2005-06 and 14-8 in 2006-07).

He was previously the coach of the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and the administrative assistant for the Univ. of Iowa wrestling program. He has extensive coaching experience on the high school, college and international levels.

Duroe served in two professional coaching positions for USA Wrestling, the national governing body. From 1998-2000, he was USA Wrestling's Freestyle Developmental Coach. In 2001, Duroe served as USA Wrestling's Freestyle Resident Coach, working with the elite men's freestyle wrestlers at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. He also managed USA Wrestling's women's wrestling programs, including serving as the Head Women's National Coach.

Under Duroe's leadership, the United States was successful in age-group World Championships in freestyle wrestling. The highlight of his efforts with the women's program came in 1999, when the United States won the World Team Title in women's wrestling.

Prior to joining USA Wrestling's national staff, he coached U.S. teams on the national and international level in men's and women's wrestling. He served as the head coach of three U.S. Women's World Teams (1995-97). Duroe served as head coach of the women's team at the 1997 Pan American Championships. He also was an assistant coach for the 1996 Pan American Championships men's team. Duroe was also the head coach of the 1995 Cadet World Team. He also served as a coach at four U.S. Olympic Festivals (1989-90, 1993-94).

Duroe served as head coach at Northern Michigan Univ. from 1980-85, and assistant coach from 1978-80. During his tenure at Northern Michigan, he tutored 27 All-Americans and three national champions. Duroe was also the coach for the Wildcat Wrestling Club at Northwestern Univ. from 1985-86 and an assistant wrestling coach for the Univ. of Pennsylvania from 2001-2003.

Duroe served as the head coach at New Trier High School in Illinois from 1986-98, where he led his team to four conference and five regional team titles.

As an athlete, Duroe was a two-time regional champion for Drake Univ. He served as captain of Drake's team for three years and has been inducted into the Drake University Wrestling Hall of Fame. Duroe competed on the national level in freestyle in the early 1980s. He was a three-time national freestyle placewinner, and was the 1983 AAU National champion.

Lee Kemp of Alpharetta, Ga.

Kemp served as coach of the 2007 Junior World freestyle team, which placed 11th in the standings and featured Junior World Champion Bubba Jenkins.

In 2006, Kemp served as a member of the U.S. Freestyle World Team coaching staff, assisting with the team which won four individual World medals and placed third in the World Championships in Guangzhou, China.

Kemp is a Distinguished Member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame after one of the most successful competitive careers in history.

Kemp won three World gold medals in freestyle wrestling (1978, 1979, 1982) and was a 1981 World bronze medalist. He was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team which did not attend the Moscow Olympic Games due to the U.S. government boycott. He also won four World Cup titles, and placed second at the 1984 Olympic Trials to Dave Schultz, who went on to win the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Kemp also had one of the greatest college careers, winning three NCAA Div. I titles and placing second as a freshman for the Univ. of Wisconsin. He was a Junior National Champion as a prep wrestling star from Chadron, Ohio.

Kemp served as a graduate assistant wrestling coach at the Univ. of Wisconsin. He also coached with high school and college teams in the cities where he held professional positions. While in the New York area, he assisted with the wrestling teams at Montclair State Univ. and Rutgers Univ., as well as at Montclair High School. When living in the Minneapolis area, he assisted with the Univ. of Minnesota and with Forest Lake High School. Kemp was a volunteer coach when Forest Lake High School won the Minnesota state team title, and helped develop state champion wrestlers with the program.

He currently coaches the Lee Kemp Cooler Wrestling Club in Georgia.

Kemp has had a successful career in business. He received his master's degree in marketing from the Univ. of Wisconsin in 1983. He worked in the advertising field with Burrell Communications in Chicago, then was in marketing with Clairol in New York City. In 1991, he became the ownership of a car dealership, Forest Lake Ford in Minnesota, where he held expand the business serving this suburban city. Kemp has also launched his own internet company, Hire the Winners, LLC, which provides an online assessment tool for sales personnel in the auto industry.

Kerry McCoy, Stanford, Calif.

McCoy served as a 2007 U.S. World Team Coach, helping lead the United States to a fourth place finish, led by World bronze medalist Daniel Cormier. McCoy was also a coach with the 2007 Pan American Games team, which won seven medals, led by champion Henry Cejudo.

McCoy was a member of the coaching staff for the 2006 U.S. Freestyle World Team, which placed third in the World Championships in Guangzhou, China. He has coached numerous nationally-ranked men's freestyle wrestlers in recent years.

He is currently the head wrestling coach at Stanford Univ., where he is serving in his third season. Previously, McCoy spent five years as assistant coach at Lehigh Univ. and three years as an assistant at Penn State Univ. He was also the Director of Wrestling for the Lehigh Valley Athletic Club.

McCoy was a member of the 2000 and 2004 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling teams, placing fifth at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia and seventh at the 2004 Games in Athens, Greece, competing at super heavyweight. He was a 2003 World silver medalist, and placed fourth at the 1998 and 2001 World meets. McCoy won gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games and won the World Cup four times (1999-2002). He was second at the 1998 Goodwill Games, and won the Pan American Championships twice.

He won the U.S. National championships five straight years (2000-2004), and placed second on two occasions (1996, 1997). McCoy was also a 1992 Junior World champion, and placed seventh in the 1993 Espoir World Championships. He competed for the New York AC.

McCoy won two NCAA titles for Penn State Univ. (1994, 1997) and placed third in the 1995 NCAA Championships. He received the Hodge Award in 1997 as the college wrestler of the year. McCoy won 131 of his last 132 matches in college, including an 88-match win streak.

He served as Chairperson of the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and was also the President of Penn State's Student-Athlete Advisory Board. McCoy has also served on Athlete Advisory Committees for the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Wrestling.

A native of Middle Island, N.Y., McCoy was a New York state champion for Longwood High School in 1992 and was a state runner-up in 1991.

Lou Rosselli, Columbus, Ohio

Rosselli served as a 2007 U.S. World Team Coach, helping lead the United States to a fourth place finish, led by World bronze medalist Daniel Cormier. Two athletes who Rosselli served as club coach for Joe Heskett and Tommy Rowlands, both who competed on the 2007 U.S. World Team.

Rosselli served as a World Team Coach for the 2006 U.S. Freestyle World Team, which placed third as a team at the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou, China. The team featured four individual medalists, including World champion Bill Zadick.

He was the assistant coach of the 2005 U.S. World University Games Team, which placed third in the team standings with three individual gold medalists in Izmir, Turkey. He serves as a club coach with the New York Athletic Club, one of the world's most successful wrestling clubs. Rosselli has also coached a number of U.S. teams on international tours.

Rosselli is in his second season as the assistant wrestling coach at The Ohio State University, joining the staff of new head coach Tom Ryan. Previously, he served 11 seasons as an assistant coach at Edinboro Univ., eight years as a full-time assistant and three years as a volunteer assistant. Rosselli has helped build the Scotsmen into a nationally competitive program on the Div. I level. He is considered one of the nation's most talented assistant wrestling coaches.

Rosselli competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., at 114.5 pounds. His quest for an Olympic medal was cut short when he broke his arm during a victory and had to withdraw from competition. Rosselli made the team with a stunning victory at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

Rosselli was a 1997 World Cup champion, and won a silver medal at the 1998 Pan American Championships. He won U.S. National freestyle titles three times (1995, 1996, 1999) and was second in the 1998 U.S. Nationals. Rosselli was also a University Nationals freestyle champion in 1994. He competed for the New York AC.

Rosselli placed third at the 1993 NCAA Championships and was fourth in the 1991 NCAA Championships for Edinboro Univ. Rosselli was selected the Outstanding Wrestler at both the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Tournament and the Eastern Wrestling League Championships in 1993. His 136 career victories still ranks third on Edinboro's all-time wins list.

In 2004, Rosselli was inducted into the Edinboro University Athletic Hall of Fame. He was recognized as the 1993 Sox Harrison Award winner, presented to the top senior male athlete at Edinboro.

A native of Middleport, N.Y., Rosselli was a two-time New York state champion at Royalton-Hartland High School, in addition to finishing second once and third once.

The United States claimed seven medals to earn its first ever team World Championship this past week at the Senior World Championships of Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling in Baku, Azerbaijan . The USA Greco Roman wrestlers capped a dramatic team performance by defeating the Russians 31 to 30 for the title. Overall, the U.S. teams finished among the top five in each style, claiming seven medals (five bronze, and two silvers) out of the 21 entries in Greco-Roman, and Men's and Women's Freestyle competition. Following is a composite list of how each U.S. team and individual did at the championships:
Top 5 Team Scores (Greco-Roman)
1)       USA 31 pts.
2)       Russia 30 pts.
3)       Georgia 28 pts
4)       Iran 26 pts.
5)       S. Korea 24 pts.
United States Entry:
55 kg. Durlacher, Lindsey (5th place)
60 kg. Betterman, Joe (DNP-Did Not Place among the top 6 in a weight class)
66 kg. Lester, Harry (3rd place)
74 kg. Danzler, TC (DNP)
84 kg. Vering, Brad (2nd place)
96 kg. Ruiz, Justin (DNP)
120 kg. Byers, Dremiel (3rd place)
Top 5 Team Scores (Men's Freestyle)
1)       Russia 68 pts.
2)       Turkey 40 pts.
3)       Cuba 34 pts.
4)       USA 32 pts.
5)       Uzbekistan 31 pts.
United States Entry:
55 kg. Cejudo, Henry (DNP)
60 kg. Zadick, Mike (DNP)
66 kg. Schwab, Doug (5th place)
74 kg. Heskett, Joe (5th place)
84 kg. Williams, Joe (5th place)
96 kg. Cormier, Daniel (3rd place)
120 kg Rowlands, Tommy (5th place)
Top 5 Team Scores (Women's Freestyle)
1)       Japan 52 pts.
2)       Kazakhstan 39 pts.
3)       Ukraine 39 pts.
4)       China 36 pts.
5)       USA 32 pts.
United States Entry:
48 kg. Murata, Stephanie (5th place)
51 kg. Wong, Jenny (DNP)
55 kg. VanDusen, Marcie (DNP)
59 kg. Jaynes, Leigh (DNP)
63 kg. McMann, Sara (3rd place)
67 kg. Downing, Katie (3rd place)
72 kg. Marano, Kristie (2nd place)

USOC and USA Wrestling to Host Media Teleconference Previewing the 2007 World Wrestling Championships

The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Wrestling will host a media teleconference with 2004 Olympian Daniel Cormier, past World University Games champion Marcie Van Dusen, and 2006 World Championships bronze medalist Lindsey Durlacher on Wednesday, August 29 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. Mountain Time).

WHAT: USOC/USA Wrestling teleconference previewing the 2007 World Championships

WHO: 2007 U.S. World Team members Daniel Cormier, Marcie Van Dusen and Lindsey Durlacher

WHEN: Wednesday, August 29 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. Mountain)

DIAL-IN: 1-800-311-9410 (International Toll Free - 334-323-7224)
Pass Code: WRESTLE

Cormier, Van Dusen and Durlacher will compete in next month's FILA World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 17-23. The three wrestlers qualified for the championships after finishing first in their weight classes at the U.S. World Team Trials in June.

Cormier has been competing in the 211.5 lb. weight class and most recently won a bronze medal at the Pan American Games. He was champion at the Tourcoing Golden Grand Prix, Dave Schultz Memorial International, and the U.S. Nationals this year.

After just missing out on a medal at the 2004 Olympic Games with a fourth place finish, it has not been easy for Cormier at the last two World Championships. He failed to place at both tournaments in 2005 and 2006. Cormier's road to this year's World Championships has not easy as he was forced to beat past World Team member Mo Lawal twice in the freestyle finals at the U.S. Team Trials in order to advance to Baku.

Van Dusen is fresh off a second-place finish in freestyle at the 2007 Pan American Games. She is competing on the U.S. World Team for the first time in her career and has been wrestling at the 121-pound division. First-place finishes at the Tourcoing Golden Grand Prix and the Dave Schultz Memorial International have been highlights of her past year along with a title at the U.S. Nationals.

Durlacher will be part of the Greco-Roman team and will be wrestling in the 121-pound weight class. This will be Durlacher's third consecutive world team that he has competed on. He won this year's Dave Schultz Memorial and also won a silver medal at the Pan American Games. His Dave Schultz Memorial International title was the third of his career. Durlacher also finished second at the U.S. nationals and fifth in the World Cup.
Black, Steiner Named by USA Wrestling to Coach 2007 U.S. Women's World Team

USA Wrestling has made its choice for a World Team Coach in women's freestyle wrestling who will participate in the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 17-23

Selected to join USA Wrestling National Women's Coach Terry Steiner of Colorado Springs, Colo. as World Team Coaches in women's freestyle wrestling are Kevin Black of River Falls, Wis. and Troy Steiner of Corvallis, Ore.

The World Team Coaches were chosen by the Women's Coach Selection Committee and approved by USA Wrestling's Executive Committee.

Black has coached a number of USA Wrestling age-group women's teams overseas, and has been active as a coach and leader with women's wrestling programs in Wisconsin. He has coached on the college and high school levels, and currently operates the Victory School of Wrestling. He was a NCAA Div. I All-American at the Univ. of Wisconsin, and competed in international freestyle wrestling for a number of years.

Steiner is the head assistant coach at Oregon State Univ., and has had assistant coaching positions at the Univ. of Iowa, the Univ. of Wisconsin and Oregon State. He has coached a number of U.S. women's teams overseas and was a finalist for the U.S. Olympic Team women's coaching position in 2004. Steiner was a 1992 World Cup champion in freestyle wrestling and won the 1996 Pan American Championships. He was a NCAA Div. I champion at the Univ. of Iowa, and a four-time All-American.

Complete biographies of the U.S. World Team Coaches follow, as well as quotes from each of the coaches.

Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis.

Black has coached USA Wrestling age-group women's teams for the last two years, taking the U.S. University women's team to compete in El Salvador in 2007 and the U.S. Cadet women's team to China in 2006. He has participated as a coach in a number of Women's Team USA training camps in recent seasons.

Black serves as the Women's Director for the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation. He has coached the Wisconsin Junior Nationals Women's team since 200e and has coached Wisconsin athletes at the USGWA Nationals for the last two years. Black has started a new women's wrestling club program at the Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Black has coached and operated the Victory School of Wrestling in River Falls, Wis. He served as an assistant coach for the Univ. of Wisconsin from 2003-05, working with the Div. I program there. He was a wrestling coach at Lodi High School from 2005-06.

He has been the Wisconsin Wrestling Federation State Coach from 2004-06, and coached the state's Cadet Freestyle National Team from 2002-06. He conducted the Black Brothers Wrestling Camps from 2000-06.

Black was a NCAA Div. I All-American for the Univ. of Wisconsin, where he was a NCAA qualifier three times and served as the team captain three times. Black won four Wisconsin state titles for River Falls High School, with a 160-0 career record. He competed on the Senior level in freestyle, competing in a number of major international tournaments.

Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.

Steiner enters his second season as an assistant wrestling coach at Oregon State Univ., where he helped head coach Jim Zalesky lead the Beavers to the Pac-10 title in their first year there. Steiner worked the two previous seasons as an assistant coach under Zalesky at the Univ. of Iowa.

He also served as an assistant coach at Wisconsin from 1997-2001 and Minnesota in 1996-97 and at Oregon State under Joe Wills for the 1995-96 season. Steiner also owned and operated the ADVANCE School of Wrestling in Madison, Wis., for four years.

Steiner has coached a number of U.S. teams in international competition and has participated in Women's Team USA training camps. He was selected as a finalist for the U.S. Olympic Team women's wrestling coaching position in 2004. He is the twin brother of USA Wrestling National Women's Coach Terry Steiner.

Steiner was a four-time all-American at Iowa from 1990-93 and a NCAA champion in 1992. He won three Big Ten titles at Iowa, compiling a 148-13 career record at 134 and 142 pounds. He was part of three national and four Big Ten championship teams. Steiner shares Iowa's school record for best season winning percentage for the 42-0 record he compiled during his junior season.

He was a top freestyle wrestler, winning gold medals at the 1992 World Cup and the 1996 Pan American Championships. He was third in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, and fifth in the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.

A native of Bismarck, N.D., Steiner was inducted into the North Dakota Hall of Fame in 1998.

QUOTES FROM THE WOMEN'S WORLD TEAM COACHES

Kevin Black, River Falls, Wis.
"I think this is a great opportunity. Since I have been involved in women's wrestling, I have found that I enjoy coaching women very much. Their personalities, the way women communicate, I really enjoy that side of coaching. This is the highest assignment I can have as a coach. We need people who have been around wrestling at all levels to step up for the women's program. Having coaches who stay involved and stay consistent is important to the program. We need more good wrestling people to be involved with women's wrestling. Overall, our entire team, all seven athletes, will be very competitive. The goal is to win the overall World team title in all three styles, and winning is our goal for the women's team."

Troy Steiner, Corvallis, Ore.
"Right now, we are looking at Japan, China and Russia as some of the teams we have to beat. There may be some things we have to change as a team. I hope to add to what Terry is doing, and help the women in any way they need. I hope to bring a different perspective to help them reach their goals. We have a good core group of athletes. They have the ability to be near the top of the world again."

National Women's Coach Terry Steiner of Colorado Springs, Colo.
(about Kevin Black)

"Kevin brings some new energy to the team and to the program. He is very excited. Kevin is a wrestling junkie. He grew up with wrestling and loves wrestling people. He has been involved as an athlete, a coach and an administrator. He truly knows USA Wrestling, which is good for the organization. He has the right personality to coach our women. They can trust him immediately. The most important thing about Kevin as an athlete is he can find the good in every situation. He finds a way to learn from every experience and walk away with a smile. That attitude is contagious, and I think he will bring that to our program."

(about Troy Steiner)
"We have talked about having more team unity in the program. The comfort for me with having Troy in this position is that we will be on the same page. Having the same message and philosophy is important. Troy has a good rapport with the women. They believe in him and trust him. We need to get back on track as a team where we are respected in the world as a power. We have the same people from when we were second in the world and won the World Cup. I expect to be back to that, where we are in position to win the team title and individual titles."

Anderson, Townsend Named Coaches for Historic First U.S. Grappling World Team

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. - USA Wrestling, the national governing body for amateur wrestling, has named Bob Anderson of Redondo Beach, Calif. and Jason Townsend of Las Vegas, Nev. as coaches for the U.S. Grappling World Team, which will compete in Antalya, Turkey on Sept. 9.