Micah Burak of Athletes in Action went 2-2 at the world team trails. Micah was one of the youngest competitors in the tournament. Congrats and great job!
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U.S. World Team Trials in Oklahoma City:
Friday’s first session: Ex-Hawkeye Mike Zadick’s bid for a fifth World Team Trials freestyle title came to an end in the challenge tournament 132-pound semifinals against Coleman Scott. The former national champion for Oklahoma State turned a low-level attack into a 3-point move in the third period to beat Zadick 2-0, 0-2, 3-0.
Zadick, a 2006 World silver medalist and 2008 Olympian, won trials titles four of the last five years at the weight class.
Scott beat former Cyclone Nick Fanthorpe in the quarterfinals. Zadick finished fourth.
At 163 pounds, Council Bluffs native and Iowa State 2007 NCAA champion Trent Paulson, a trials champion in 2009, fell to former Missouri all-American Nick Marable in the challenge tournament semifinals. Paulson came back to pin ex-Hawkeye Ryan Morningstar and beat veteran Kirk White for third.
After falling to 2011 NCAA runner-up Tyler Caldwell in the first round, Morningstar won three matches before running into Paulson.
Luke Lofthouse, who finished his Iowa career with an all-America season in 2011, came back to win three matches at 211 pounds after a first-round loss to Chad Hanke.
Saturday: The 2010 trials champion Brent Metcalf was set to compete Saturday. Metcalf, a two-time NCAA champion for the Hawkeyes, will participate in the challenge tournament at 1451/2 pounds. Metcalf lost to top-seeded Teyon Ware at the U.S. Open and finished third.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Catching up with Former Hawkeye Brooks Simpson
Brooks Simpson hears about his big moment in Iowa wrestling lore quite a bit. Take a recent Johnston County I-Club meeting, where the all-American-turned-preacher led a prayer.
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was there, too. “He turned and said, ‘I was at that wrestling match against Iowa State in 1988, and it was the single greatest sporting event I’ve seen in Iowa City,’” Simpson recalled.
In case you’re not familiar: Top-ranked Iowa State was visiting No. 4 Iowa on Jan. 16, 1988, and the Cyclones were threatening the Hawkeyes’ 43-match home winning streak. Iowa State had a big lead and defending NCAA champion Eric Voelker up against Simpson, a sophomore, at 190 pounds. Simpson fell behind 6-1 but pinned Voelker at 4:46 for a momentum-shifting win. Iowa took the match 22-15.
Simpson went on to win a Big Ten Conference title in 1990 and now is the preaching pastor at Grace Community Church in North Liberty, where he lives with his wife and two children.
How did you get into preaching?
I had never been to church in my life until my third year at Iowa. I started coming to church, the same one (three-time national champion Hawkeye wrestler) Barry Davis attended. I eventually became a Christian. Out of school, I was a teacher – taught science, chemistry and physics – and coach. ... I love to teach and coach, but the coaching I do now – I look at it this way: I teach people how to wrestle with real life issues.
Are you still involved with wrestling?
I still go to the meets when they’re in Iowa City. But this is a young man’s sport. I’d just end up getting hurt. My insurance doesn’t cover stupidity.
What do you think of current coach Tom Brands, who you went to school with?
I think Tom is doing a phenominal job. Tom has one speed, and it’s intense and it’s all the time. I’m proud of Tommy, I think he’s doing a great job. He’s a great ambassador for the sport
Do any of your parishioners remember or talk about your wrestling days?
I get that all the time. A lot of people that are my age or older, they remember back in the day. It’s a cult sport with a tight fanbase. The fans know the sport. We have wrestlers who attend the church, too. It’s a great wrestling town. They wrestle here, they stay here.
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz was there, too. “He turned and said, ‘I was at that wrestling match against Iowa State in 1988, and it was the single greatest sporting event I’ve seen in Iowa City,’” Simpson recalled.
In case you’re not familiar: Top-ranked Iowa State was visiting No. 4 Iowa on Jan. 16, 1988, and the Cyclones were threatening the Hawkeyes’ 43-match home winning streak. Iowa State had a big lead and defending NCAA champion Eric Voelker up against Simpson, a sophomore, at 190 pounds. Simpson fell behind 6-1 but pinned Voelker at 4:46 for a momentum-shifting win. Iowa took the match 22-15.
Simpson went on to win a Big Ten Conference title in 1990 and now is the preaching pastor at Grace Community Church in North Liberty, where he lives with his wife and two children.
How did you get into preaching?
I had never been to church in my life until my third year at Iowa. I started coming to church, the same one (three-time national champion Hawkeye wrestler) Barry Davis attended. I eventually became a Christian. Out of school, I was a teacher – taught science, chemistry and physics – and coach. ... I love to teach and coach, but the coaching I do now – I look at it this way: I teach people how to wrestle with real life issues.
Are you still involved with wrestling?
I still go to the meets when they’re in Iowa City. But this is a young man’s sport. I’d just end up getting hurt. My insurance doesn’t cover stupidity.
What do you think of current coach Tom Brands, who you went to school with?
I think Tom is doing a phenominal job. Tom has one speed, and it’s intense and it’s all the time. I’m proud of Tommy, I think he’s doing a great job. He’s a great ambassador for the sport
Do any of your parishioners remember or talk about your wrestling days?
I get that all the time. A lot of people that are my age or older, they remember back in the day. It’s a cult sport with a tight fanbase. The fans know the sport. We have wrestlers who attend the church, too. It’s a great wrestling town. They wrestle here, they stay here.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Wrestling and Iran
From themat.com
It might be an understament to label relations between the U.S. and Iran as "tense." But one place the relationship is strong is in the sport of wrestling.
More evidence of the ties between the U.S. and Iran's relationship in wrestling comes from the Olympic Training Center this week, where several Iranian coaches and wrestlers are training in Colorado Springs along side the resident athletes.
Led by head coach and four-time World Medalist Gholam Mohammadi, several Iranians are making their first trip to the U.S.
Mohammadi, with Mo Kaveh as an interpreter, talks about the training in Colorado Springs while Zeke Jones adds his own personal touch.
Watch the interview below.
An exciting opportunity wrestling has to reach the people of the world!
It might be an understament to label relations between the U.S. and Iran as "tense." But one place the relationship is strong is in the sport of wrestling.
More evidence of the ties between the U.S. and Iran's relationship in wrestling comes from the Olympic Training Center this week, where several Iranian coaches and wrestlers are training in Colorado Springs along side the resident athletes.
Led by head coach and four-time World Medalist Gholam Mohammadi, several Iranians are making their first trip to the U.S.
Mohammadi, with Mo Kaveh as an interpreter, talks about the training in Colorado Springs while Zeke Jones adds his own personal touch.
Watch the interview below.
An exciting opportunity wrestling has to reach the people of the world!
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