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National Women’s Coaches release Spring/Summer schedule for women’s wrestling
Gary Abbott USA Wrestling
05/01/2006
USA Wrestling National Women’s coaching staff has released a schedule of events, training camps and other opportunities for women wrestlers of all ages to participate in during the spring and summer of 2006.
National Women’s Coach Terry Steiner and National Women’s Developmental and Resident Coach Vladislav “Coach Izzy” Izboinikov have put together a comprehensive schedule of activities for women wrestlers in the upcoming months.
The busy part of the schedule begins this week, with the third Olympic Developmental Camp, which is being held in Colorado Springs, Colo., April 30-May 4, featuring FILA Cadet and FILA Junior women wrestlers.
The Body Bar Women’s Nationals, featuring age-group national tournaments on the FILA Cadet, FILA Junior and University levels, is set for Colorado Springs, Colo., May 5-7. There is also a girls national freestyle tournament at this championship event.
The U.S. Senior World Team will be determined at the Women’s World Team Trials, set for the Colorado Springs Christian School in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 29-30.
The U.S. will compete in a number of major international events in the next few month. Included are the Women’s World Cup, the Pan American Championships, the University World Championships, the Canada Cup, the FILA Junior World Championships and the Senior World Championships. Information on these events can be received by contacting Coach Steiner.
There will be a University World Team Camp held at the USOEC program at the Univ. of Northern Michigan in Marquette, Mich., June 1-9. Contact Coach Shannyn Gillespie for details.
There will be four All-American Wrestling Camps for young women wrestlers held during the month of July. The camps will be located in Marshall, Mo., Marquette, Mich., St. George, Utah and Minneapolis, Minn. Contact the camp director at each site for more details on the price and schedule of these camps.
There will be two major national events for Junior women wrestlers, athletes in grades 9-12, in at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. this summer. The ASICS/Vaughan Junior Women’s National Championships will be held July 24-25, and the Women’s Junior National Duals will be held July 25-26. These are state-level teams, and high school wrestlers should contact their state association for information on qualifying for their Junior teams.
Other training opportunities could be added, so athletes, coaches and parents are encouraged to visit TheMat.com for more information.
“We have many opportunities in place for women wrestlers of all ages,” said National Women’s Coach Terry Steiner. “In the past, there was a need for more opportunities for women wrestlers to develop. We now have a series of events and activities for young athletes. The athletes must now take advantage of these opportunities, and state directors and coaches should direct young women to get involved.”
USA WRESTLING WOMEN'S PROGRAM
SPRING / SUMMER 2006 EVENT SCHEDULE
April 30 – May 4 - OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT CAMP #3 at Colorado Springs, Colo.; Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
May 5-7 - BODY BAR WOMEN’S NATIONALS at Colorado Springs, Colo.; Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
May 20 – 21 - WOMEN’S SENIOR WORLD CUP at Tokyo, Japan. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
May 31- June 4 - PAN-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS at Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
June 1-9 - UNIVERSITY WORLD TEAM CAMP at Marquette, Mich. Contact Shannyn Gillespie at 906-227-1285
June 12-18 - UNIVERSITY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, at Ulan Ude, Mongolia. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
June 29-30 - WOMEN’S WORLD TEAM TRIALS at Colorado Springs, Colo. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
July 6-16 - CANADA CUP COMPETITION & CAMP (Senior and age-group levels), at Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181.
July 9-13 - ALL – AMERICAN CAMP at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo. Contact Carl Murphree at 660-831-4090
July 15-21 - ALL – AMERICAN CAMP at Univ. of Northern Michigan in Marquette, Mich. Contact Tony DeAnda at 906-227-1285
July 15-20 - ALL – AMERICAN CAMP in St. George, Utah. Contact Steve Glassey at 866-854-2560
July 16-21 - ALL – AMERICAN CAMP at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn. Contact Larry Allen at 612-834-7325
July 24-25 – ASICS/VAUGHAN WOMEN’S JUNIOR NATIONALS at Fargo, N.D. Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
July 25-26 - WOMEN’S JUNIOR NATIONAL DUALS at Fargo, N.D. Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
August 3 –12 - FILA CADET / FILA JUNIOR TOUR to Germany and Austria. Contact Wade Genova at 719-265-6005
August 12-25 - FILA JUNIOR WORLD TEAM CAMP at site to be determined. Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
August 12-25 - SENIOR WORLD TEAM CAMP #1 at site to be determined. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
August 30 – Sept. 1 - FILA JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS at Guatemala City, Guatemala. Contact Coach Izzy at 719-598-8181
September 2-13 - SENIOR WORLD TEAM CAMP #2 at Colorado Springs, Colo. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
September 17-25 - SENIOR WORLD TEAM ACCLIMATION CAMP at site to be determined. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
September 28- October 1 - SENIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS at Guangzhou, China. Contact Terry Steiner at 719-598-8181
Other activities may be added.
Star-Telegram Girl's Wrestling Super Team 2005-06
Monday, April 17th Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Girl Wrestler of the Year
Tiffany Larriba, Carroll, Senior.
102 lb. State Finalist (2nd), record 32-3
First Team
95 Crystal Grajeda, Arlington, Junior.
102 Tiffany Larriba, Carroll, Senior.
110 Suzanne Baker, Lamar, Sophmore.
119 Emily Erwin, Bowie, Junior.
128 Melissa Glover, South Grand Prairie, Senior.
138 Ivonne Ramirez, Arlington Seguin, Junior.
148 Sasha McElroy, Arlington, Senior.
165 Erica McClendon, Arlington Seguin, Junior.
185 Kelsey Crane, Bowie, Junior.
215 Miko Galan, Arlington Seguin, Senior.
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19th ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP -
Almaty, Kazakhstan - 04-09 April 2006
48kg
1. Yuri Funatsu JPN
2. Wu Li-Chuan TPE
3. Li Xiaomei CHN
4. Hyung Joo Kim KOR
5. Kalandarova Viktoria KGZ
6. Dang Thi Van VIE
51kg
1. Wen Juling CHN
2. Yuri Kai JPN
3. Le Thi Trang VIE
4. Wang Ying-Chi TPE
5. Mirzaeva Dina UZB
6. Kim Chung Hui PRK
55kg
1. Chikako Matsukawa JPN
2. Liu Haixin CHN
3. Nghiem Thi Giang VIE
4. So Va Lee KOR
5. Shoilgohla Mavzad KGZ
6. Dynbayeva Meruert KAZ
59kg
1. Seiko Yamamoto JPN
2. Su Lihui CHN
3. Su Ying-Tzu TPE
4. Sang Eun Park KOR
5. Cherkashina Olga KAZ
6. Nguyen Thi Hai Yen VIE
63kg
1. Ayako Shoda JPN
2. Shalygina Elena KAZ
3. Jin Young Hang KOR
4. Gao Pei CHN
5. Kubatbek kyzy Gulina KGZ
6. Odonchimeg MGL
67kg
1. Su Huihua CHN
2. Mimi Sugawara JPN
3. Panova Jana KGZ
4. Kalinina Olga KAZ
5. Naranchimeg Gelegjamts MGL
72kg
1. Kyoko Hamaguchi JPN
2. Burmaa Ocnirbat MGL
3. Zhanibekova Olga KAZ
4. Qin Xiaoqing CHN
5. Orlova Maria UZB
6. Imanalieva Asel KGZ
Japan had 5 champions http://www.fila-wrestling.com/download/resultalmaty.pdf
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Henderson is Jackets' can-do star
By JOE KUSEK 4/26/06
Of The Gazette Staff
The word "can't" does not exist for Anna Henderson. Tell her she can't play baseball with the boys, and she dominates.
Tell her it's not possible to participate in four sports during a high school year, and she does. Not only does she compete in four, but earns all-state honors in two.
Tell Henderson she can't step in and immediately contribute on an ascending softball team set with its lineup, and all she does is start all 55 games.
Henderson, in just three seasons with the Montana State-Billings softball program, already ranks among the career top 10 for games played, games started, run scored, total hits, doubles and total bases. Bob Henderson, her father, learned that lesson early about his youngest daughter.
Anna Henderson was an impressionable second-grader, growing up in the Eureka High School gymnasium where her father taught and coached.
One day, during a family dinner, Anna asked her father, "Can girls wrestle?"
"No," came the quick and firm reply.
"I wouldn't hear of it," recalled Anna Henderson of her reaction, laughing as the memories came back.
"So I got about a half-dozen of my friends and we went out for wrestling."
Mother Julia was all for it. Dad was a bit more skeptical, but didn't turn away the determined contingent of pony-tailed wrestlers.
"I was horrible," Anna Henderson said. "I would just roll over. I think I won one match."
But she definitely she stood out from the crowd.
"I refused to wear the uniform," Henderson said. She opted for a pink leotard, more suited for ballet than throwing headlocks and takedowns.
"And she wore these Donald Duck shoes," remembered Bob Henderson, the old-school coach shaking his head slowly from side to side. Bob Henderson is a native son of Butte who wrestled for the legendary Jim Street more than a few years ago.
There were some benefits to the new additions. Some of the young girls were pretty good. One of Henderson's friends from the neighborhood, Bethany Paine, was actually one of the youth program's top wrestlers.
The group continued their wrestling careers in third grade.
About halfway through the season, trying to throw out a compliment, Bob Henderson mentioned that Anna and her young friends might help the team win a championship.
"Dad, can girls wrestle?" Anna Henderson asked again.
"Yes," was Bob Henderson's answer.
"Good, then I quit," said his daughter.
"I just had to prove girls could wrestle," Anna Henderson said more than a decade later.
Henderson will still occasionally drop a single-leg and turn a half-nelson on an unsuspecting MSU-B teammate and had no choice to throw a counter-move when younger brothers Bobby and Josh wanted to tangle.
"I was their practice dummy," said Henderson with another laugh. Bobby Henderson is a red-shirt with the Yellowjacket baseball team this spring, while Josh Henderson recently signed to wrestle at the University of Great Falls.
Anna Henderson lettered in four sports at Frenchtown High School -- volleyball, softball, basketball and cross country. She was a three-time all-state selection in softball, helping the Broncs win two state championships and was selected the to the Class B all-tournament team for volleyball as a setter.
Henderson played one season at Yakima Valley Community College in Yakima, Wash., where she hit .364 and drove in 20 runs from her lead-off spot.
The versatile Henderson made the seamless transition to MSU-B as a sophomore and started all 55 games -- where she hit safely in 30 -- for the Yellowjackets. Last spring, Henderson started 31 of 40 games for an MSU-B team that went a school-record 36-14 and made its first appearance at the NCAA Division II West Regional.
"My job is to get up there and get on base," said Henderson of her at-bats.
This season, Henderson has started 34 of 39 games. She is fifth on the team for total hits and third for doubles. Two weekend's ago, Henderson ignited a Yellowjacket rally by dropping an RBI double into right field.
Henderson, who carries a 3.8 grade point average and fights fires during the summer, will complete her degree in math education this fall and finish her major in Spanish by spending her spring in Costa Rica.
"Then I hope somebody wants me," she said.
Not to worry. Schools always need a softball-slash-wrestling coach.
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4/13/06
North Big Horn USA team director Jody Lynne Bassett also reported this week that 8-year-old Masey Tippetts became the first female North Big Horn wrestler to win a medal in a tournament. Tippetts placed third in the 9-10-year-old, 65-pound division at an all-girl tournament in Douglas last Friday, April 7.
The daughter of Brook and Brandy Tippetts, Masey is a second-grader at Lovell Elementary School.
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Not Wrestling but worth reading
Tehran Goes Nuclear Over Women Attending Football
April 26, 2006
The Financial Times
Gareth Smyth in Tehran
Iran may be in a stand-off with the west over its nuclear ambitions but one of the biggest issues gripping Tehran is whether women should be allowed to attend football matches. Some of Iran’s most senior clerics issued rulings this week condemning a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad allowing women to sit in the stands at top matches.
A ban has been in place since the 1979 Islamic revolution but it has come under pressure as football fever has grown after Iran qualified for this summer’s World Cup in Germany. Women are also prevented from watching wrestling but have been allowed into basketball matches, which attract small crowds.
In the 1998 World Cup Iran beat the US, a feat that still inspires national pride. Mr Ahmadi-Nejad has trained with the national team and was an accomplished striker at school.
His populist move has confused both fundamentalists and reformists who had regarded him as socially conservative. He was elected last June on a promise to restore the values of the Islamic revolution and redistribute oil wealth.
On Monday the president told sporting authorities to build special areas in stadiums where women and families could sit safely. Some supporters of the decision said the presence of women at games could calm boisterous all-male crowds.
But the reform has met strong opposition from parts of the religious establishment. Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani ruled that it was forbidden for women to see “men’s bodies even if not to gain pleasure” and suggested separate stadiums for women to watch women’s football.
On Wednesday Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi told students in the holy city of Qom that he was awaiting a response after writing to the president expressing surprise at a decision taken without consulting the religious authorities.
“When everybody is at home and can comfortably watch games on television, why should it be necessary for women and families to be in the unsafe atmosphere of stadiums?” he was reported to have said by an official news agency. More than half of the parliament’s members were reported to be writing to the president to persuade him to change his mind.
Syasat-e Rooz, a newspaper close to Mr Ahmadi-Nejad, defended the relaxation of the ban, arguing that it “shows the president does not believe in restrictions but [rather] that the goal of government is to create safety”.
Iran’s reformists have long argued that the 1979 revolution sought to encourage women’s participation in public life.
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Healthy Eating, Youth Sports Linked
Nutrition and Eating Habits May Be Better in Young Athletes Than Idle Peers
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical News May 1, 2006 --
Adolescents involved in dance, cheerleading, yoga, and various sports may eat more healthfully than those who sit on the sidelines, new research shows.
But top-notch nutritionnutrition isn't always a slam dunk for young athletes, Jillian Croll, PhD, RD, and colleagues note in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Croll's team studied 4,746 middle school and high school students in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The students were about 15 years old, on average. They completed surveys about their eating habits and participation in various sports and physical activities.
The roster included baseball, basketball, cheerleading, dance, football, gymnastics, hockey, ice skating, volleyball, and yoga. All but 838 of the students reported involvement in at least one of those activities.
The young athletes had "better eating habits and nutrient intake" than their peers but still need "nutritional interventions, particularly around calcium intake," the researchers note.
Edging Ahead
Adolescent athletes were more likely to eat breakfast and consume more protein, calcium, iron, and zinc (on average) than their peers.
However, female student athletes still didn't get the recommended amount of calcium, and less than 30% of them met their recommended iron intake, the study shows.
Nutritional guidance could help bridge those shortfalls, the researchers note. They add that youths who want to become elite athletes may also benefit by learning more about nutrition.
Croll and colleagues took a close look at activities such as dance, cheerleading, ice skating, wrestling, and yoga. Those activities may focus on participants' weight, raising concerns about dieting and disordered eating, the researchers note.
However, the study shows few differences among adolescent athletes.
Since the study was only done in Minneapolis-St. Paul, the researchers don't know if the results apply to other groups.