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7/26/2003
Meredith Wilson/TheMat.com
95 – Ashley Smetana (PA)
101 – Kelli Rasmussen (MN) fall Rachel Holthaus (MN) at 3:56
First Period
At :38 Holthaus passive, Rasmussen 1pt leglace1-0
At 1:30 Holthaus takedown, 1-1
Second Period
At 3:52 Rasmussen inside trip to back, fall at 3:56
110 – Claire DuPont (CO) dec. Debbi Sakai (HI), 12-8
First Period
At :09 DuPont takedown, 1-0
At :38 Sakai 3pt throw, 1-3
At 1:08 DuPont takedown, 2+1 turn, 4-3
At 1:36 DuPont 1pt gut, 5-3
At 2:00 DuPont takedown to back, 2 pt turn, 8-3
At 2:30 Sakai 1pt and caution against DuPont for fleeing, 8-4
Second Period
At 3:17 Sakai 2pt turn, DuPont 1pt reversal, 9-6
At 4:02 Sakai takedown, 9-7
At 4:23 Sakai 1pt and caution against DuPont for fleeing, 9-8
At 5:28 DuPont 3pt throw, 12-8
119 – Deanna Rix (ME) tech fall Jessica Jauck (CA), 11-0 at 1:25
First Period
At :07 Rix 3pt throw, 3-0
At :23 Rix 2pt turn. 2pt turn, 7-0
At 1:08 Rix 2pt turn, 9-0
At 1:25 Rix 2pt turn. 11-0
128 – Jen Chu (PA) fall Monica Gochioco (CA) at 3:45
First Period
At :47 Gochioco takedown, 1-0
At 1:52 Chu takedown, 1-1
Second Period
At 3:19 Chu takedown, 1-2
At 3:42 Chu 2pt turn, fall at 3:45
138 – Brandy Rosenbrock (MI) fall Anna Jenkins (MI), 5:42
First Period
At :35 Jenkins takedown, 1-0
At 1:17 Rosenbrock takedown, 1-1
At 2:20 Jenkins passive, Rosenbrock 2pt turn, 1-3
Second Period
At 3:24 Rosenbrock takedown 2+1 firemans, 1-7
At 5:16 Rosenbrock 2+1 turn, fall at 5:42
150 – Ali Bernard (MN) dec. Shawn Swartzlender (OR), 3-0
FIrst Period
At :43 Bernard throwby takedown, 1-0
At 1:43 Bernard throwby takedown, 2-0
Second Period
At 4:00 Swartzlender passive, no scoring
At 5:32 Bernard takedown, 3-0
165 – Samantha Lang (OR) fall Juanita Russell (NY), 2:33
First Period
At :15 Lang takedown, 2pt turn, 3-0
At 1:10 Lang 2+1 tilt, 6-0
At 1:45 Lang takedown, 7-0
At 2:16 Russell 1pt takedown, 7-1
At 2:30 Lang hiptoss, fall at 2:33
175 – Lizz Sanders (IA) fall Misty Stalley (CA), 4:51
First Period
At :18 Sanders takedown, 1-0
At 1:33 Sanders 2pt exposure, 3-0
Second Period
At 3:25 1pt Stalley and caution for fleeing, 3-1
At 3:52 Stalley 2pt turn, 3-3
At 4:10 Sanders 3pt turn, 2+1 turn, fall 4:51
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Rosenbrock, Lang repeat as champions at ASICS/Vaughan Junior Girls Nationals; DuPont named Outstanding Wrestler
7/26/2003
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling
The action was impressive at the 2003 ASICS/Vaughan Girls Junior National Championships held in Fargo, N.D., July 25-26.
Claiming Junior National titles for the second straight year were Brandy Rosenbrock of Michigan at 138 pounds and Samanthan Lang of Oregon at 165 pounds.
Rosenbrock won an all-Michigan finals, pinning Anna Jenkins in 5:42. Jenkins scored the first takedown, then Rosenbrock opened up her off offense, scoring seven straight points before putting Jenkins on her back for the fall. Rosenbrock is a member of the 2003 FILA Junior World Team.
Lang jumped to an 11-1 lead before pinning Juanita Russell of New York in the finals in 2:33. Lang was second at both the Senior World Team Trials and Senior U.S. Nationals this year.
In a battle of Junior Nationals runner-ups from last year. Ali Bernard of Minnesota defeated Shawn Swarzlender of Oregon, 3-0. Bernard scored the third and deciding point on a takedown with 30 seconds to go. Swartzlender has grown since last season, when she competed in Fargo at 128 pounds. Bernard is a member of the 2003 FILA Junior World Team.
It was a year for many new Junior National champions, as a number of young women showed great progress in their wrestling abilities since last year.
One of these young talents to emerge was 110-pound champion Claire DuPont of Colorado, who was named Outstanding Wrestler. DuPont upset FILA Junior World Team member Debbi Sakai of Hawaii, 12-8. DuPont jumped to an 8-4 lead over. In the second period, Sakai closed the gap to 9-8, but DuPont took Sakai down to her back with a throw late in the period to ice the victory.
The new 101-pound champion was Ashley Smetana of Pennsylvania, who clinched her gold medal on Friday with two wins in her round-robin competition. Jessica Essad of Nevada captured the silver medal, losing only to Smetana.
Kelli Rasmussen of Minnesota upset returning Junior National champion Rachel Holthaus of Minnesota with a pin in 3:56 at 101 pounds. The match was tied at 1-1, and Rasmussen hit an inside trip to a throw, putting Holthaus on her back for the fall.
Claiming her first Junior National title was Deanna Rix of Maine, who scored an impressive 11-0 technical fall over Jessica Jauck of California. Rix opened with a throw, then turned Jauck a number of times on the mat for the quick finish. Rix has been successful in the age-group programs and is competing in Fargo for the first time.
Capturing the 128-pound title was Jen Chu of Pennsylvania, who pinned Monica Gochioco of Californina in 3:45. The first period ended with a 1-1 tie, then Chu took down Gochioco in the second period and turned her for the fall. Chu was seventh in last year’s Junior Nationals. Gochioco was one of the tournament’s surprises, winning a pool which included talented veterans Na’Tasha Umemoto of Oregon and Chelynne Pringle of Minnesota.
The final champion was Lizz Sanders of Iowa, who pinned Misty Stalley of California at 175 pounds in 4:51.
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Medal match pairings for ASICS/Vaughan Girls Junior National Championships
7/26/2003
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling
95 pounds
1st – Ashley Smetana (PA)
2nd - Jessica Essad (NV) vs. Brittany Kimball (TX)
4th - Hilary Frey (NY)
101 pounds
1st – Rachel Holthaus (MN) vs. Kelli Rasmussen (MN);
3rd – Melissa Girard (MI) vs. Aquille Hills (PA)
5th – Kathrine Fulp-Allen (CA) vs. Billie Jean Dill (NY)
7th – Elise Cretel (MO) vs. Hilary Helding (IL)
110 pounds
1st – Claire DuPont (CO) vs. Debbi Sakai (HI)
3rd – Madison Bangert (MI) vs. Nicole Darrow (NY)
5th – Christina Varland (WY) vs. Casey Strouse (MI),
7th – Susan Levitt (CT) vs. Amanda Breezley (OH)
119 pounds
1st – Jessica Jauck (CA) vs. Deanna Rix (ME)
3rd – Danyelle Hedin (HI) vs. Rachel Groft (PA)
5th – Sarah Peasley (MI) vs. Leah Wood (MI)
7th – Christy Watson (WA) vs. Shyla Iokia (HI)
128 pounds
1st – Jen Chu (PA) vs. Monica Gochioco (CA)
3rd – Suekoliya Shelly (TX) vs. Na’Tasha Umemoto (OR)
5th – Chelsea Roundtree (KY) vs. Chelynne Pringle (MN)
7th – Kelsey Campbell (OR) vs, Iris Mucha (AK)
138 pounds
1st – Anna Jenkins (MI) vs. Brandy Rosenbrock (MI)
3rd – Elana Pirozhkov (CT) vs. Stephanie Shaw (CT),
5th – Julie Duarte (CA) vs. Kuuini Johnson (HI)
7th – Amber Eberspeaker (MI) vs. Estella Pino (CA)
150 pounds
1st – Shawn Swartzlender (OR) vs. Ali Bernard (MN)
3rd – Melissa Simmons (WA) vs. Heather Martin (OH)
5th – Amy Havens (CA) vs. Courtney Bush (FL)
7th – Selina Perez (HI) vs. Amanada Chittenden (MI)
165 pounds
1st – Samantha Lang (OR) vs. Juanita Russell (NY)
3rd – Toni Copeland (NY) vs. Sherri Hilliard (ND)
5th – Ashley Benzio (PA) vs. Alecia McCoy (TX)
7th – Ashley Trucan (HI) vs. Melissa Buster (AK)
175 pounds
1st – Misty Stalley (CA) vs. Lizz Sanders (IA)
3rd – Katy Klammer (TX)
4th – Elizabeth Hernandez (FL)
5th – Jillian Pierce (NY)
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Biographies of Junior Girls National finalists
7/26/2003
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling
95 pounds
CHAMPION – Ashley Smetana, Valencia, Pa., age 18, Angry Fish WC
Graduated senior at Mars High School… Second in Pennsylvania state freestyle championships…
Match for runner-up
2nd - Jessica Essad (NV) vs. Brittany Kimball (TX)
101 pounds
RED – Rachel Holthaus, Little Falls, Minn., age 16, Minnesota Storm
Will be a junior at Royalton High School… Had an 18-3 record as a freshman on the boys team… 2002 Junior National champion… Third in 2003 Austria Grand Prix... Five-time Minnesota girls state champion…
BLUE - Kelli Rasmussen, Winnebego, Minn., age 16, Blue Irish WC
Will be a sophomore at Blue Earth Area High School… FILA Cadet National champion… FILA Junior National Champion… Fourth in Klippan Cup in Sweden… Third in Austria Grand Prix…
110 pounds
RED – Claire DuPont, Leadville, Colo., age 17, Two Mile High WC
Will be a senior at Lake County High School.. Has wrestled three years on the boys varsity team… Fourth in 2002 Junior Nationals…
BLUE - Debbi Sakai, Mililani, Hawaii, age 17, Wahine WC
Graduated senior from Mililani High School… Third in 2003 Hawaii girls state championships at 114 pounds… 2002 Hawaii girls state champion… 2003 FILA Junior World Team member… Fifth in 2002 Junior Nationals… 2003 USGWA national champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team.. Will attend Missouri Valley College…
119 pounds
RED - Jessica Jauck, San Diego, Calif., age 16, San Diego Hot Beaches WC
Will be a junior at Ramona High School… Third in 2003 FILA Cadet National Championships… 2001 and 2002 California state girls champion…
BLUE - Deanna Rix, South Berwick, Maine, age 16, SMT club
Will be a sophomore at Marshwood High School… Placed fifth in the 2003 boys state championships at 119 pounds… Third in 2003 FILA Cadet World Team Trials… 2003 USA Wrestling folkstyle national champion… 2003 USGWA folkstyle national champion… Fourth at 2003 Austria Grand Prix… 2002 FILA Cadet National champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team…
128 pounds
RED - Jen Chu, Philadelphia, Pa., age 18, Renegades
Graduated senior from Germantown High School… Competing against girls, won the two state titles and had a 33-2 record… Third in 2003 FILA Junior Nationals… Seventh in 2002 Junior Nationals… 2003 Pennsylvania girls state champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team…
BLUE - Monica Gochioco, Rowland Heights, Calif., age 16, Pounders
Will be a senior at Bishop Amat High School… Second in 2003 California girls championships, and fifth in 2002… Eighth in 2003 USGWA folkstyle championships…
138 pounds
RED – Anna Jenkins, Lake Orion, Mich., age 16
Will be a junior at Lake Orion High School… Fifth at 2002 Junior Nationals… Two-time state girls champion…
BLUE - Brandy Rosenbrock, St. Claire Shores, Mich., age 18
Graduated senior from Montrose High School… Competed on her boys high school team. Had a 33-10 record this year and a 29-11 record as a junior… Fourth in 2003 Senior World Team Trials… Third in 2003 U.S. Nationals… Three-time FILA Junior Nationals champion… Two-time FILA Cadet Nationals champion… Four-time USGWA folkstyle national champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team for the third straight year… 2002 TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School Wrestler of the Year…
150 pounds
RED – Shawn Swartzlender, Burns, Ore., age 17, Cobra WC
Will be a senior at David Douglas High School… Second in 2002 Junior Nationals… 2003 USGWA folkstyle national champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team…
BLUE - Ali Bernard, New Ulm, Minn., age 17, New Ulm Rolling Thunder
Will be a senior at New Ulm High School… three-year member of boys varsity team… 2003 FILA Cadet National Champion… 2003 FILA Junior National Champion… Fourth at 2003 U.S. Nationals… Two—time USGWA folkstyle champion… Second in 2002 Junior Nationals… 2003 Klippan Cup champion in Sweden… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team…
165 pounds
RED – Samantha Lang, Tualatin, Ore., age 17, Sunkist Kids
Will be a senior at Tualatin High School… Second in 2003 World Team Trials… Second in 2003 U.S. Nationals… 2003 FILA Cadet Nationals champion… 2003 FILA Junior Nationals champion… 2003 USGWA folkstyle champion… 2002 Junior Nationals champion… Member of TheMat.com/ASICS First Team… 2003 TheMat.com/ASICS Girls High School Wrestler of the Year…
BLUE - Juanita Russell, Galway, N.Y., Age 16, TNT
Will be a junior at Galway High School… competes on the men’s varsity team… 2003 FILA Junior National champion… Third in 2003 USGWA Nationals… 2003 FILA Cadet Nationals champion… New York girls state national champion…
175 pounds
RED – Misty Stalley, San Mateo, Calif., age 18, Peninsula Grapplers
Graduated senior from Aragon High School… Second at 2002 Junior Nationals… 2002 California freestyle state champion… Second at 2003 USGWA folkstyle nationals…
BLUE - Lizz Sanders, Newton, Iowa, age 16, Newton WC
Will be a junior at Newton High School… competed on the boys varsity team this year… 2003 FILA Junior National champion… Iowa state freestyle champion…
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With great heartache I must report that the University of Minnesota-Morris has announced that it will be dropping its men’s and women’s wrestling program following the 2003-2004 season.
Due to recent state reductions in operating budgets, a cut of $1.5 million is necessary from a base budget of $26 million from the Morris campus. The university would save a total of $64,000 by discontinuing the wrestling program. In addition, the university announced that in the 2004-2005 school year women’s swimming would be added to the athletic program, which would produce a net savings of $38,000.
Wrestling has a strong tradition here, in 42 years UMM produced a total of 153 All-Americans, such as Olympians Dennis and Duane Koslowski, and World Cup champion Katie Downing, now representing the U.S. in the 2003 World Championships. In fact since 1996, UM-Morris has produced 28 Academic All-Americans at the NCAA II level.
Although UM-Morris is moving into a new athletic conference at the NCAA III level, this new conference does not offer wrestling. UM-Morris has been offered the opportunity to join the MIAC and join Augsburg, St. Olaf, Concordia-Moorhead, and St. John’s as a wrestling only member. The women’s program has been offered to join the CIF in Canada, and recently at the U.S. National Championships in Las Vegas, USA Wrestling held a meeting with all the women’s collegiate coaches to form a new league for women with a dual tournament, and an individual tournament championship format. The league format begins this season.
The university determined that men’s and women’s wrestling “are no longer viable sports for UMM.”
I have always been a champion of developing wrestling opportunities. I started women’s collegiate wrestling in 1994 for two reasons: 1) to save men’s programs, and 2) to give women the opportunity to compete, with the hope that it would have a positive affect on our U.S. National Team – which it has!
Now in a heartbeat, the university that gave women the first opportunity to wrestle, is now denying that opportunity in favor of women’s swimming which is not a conference sport, which would have to compete independently. In fact our pool is just 25 yards long, not 25 meters as needed for official qualifying times.
I am saddened and outraged. I hurt for the alumni and the current wrestlers. I hurt for all wrestlers who have lost their programs in the past. It is not fair, nor just.
I appeal to the wrestling community to join in this battle to save TWO collegiate wrestling programs. We need your support today! Call, write, fax, or e-mail. Your assistance is needed. Today we need to fight tooth and nail for our sport. We can not afford to lose one more program, especially in the upper mid-west where it could cause a snowball affect with other collegiate programs.
Please contact:
Sam Schumann, Chancellor
309 Behmler Hall
University of Minnesota-Morris
Morris, MN 56267
schumans@mrs.umn.edu
Office 320-589-6020
Fax 320-589-6399
Home 320-589-9034
Sandy Olson-Loy, Vice Chancellor Athletics
309 Behmler Hall
University of Minnesota-Morris
Morris, MN 56267
olsonloy@mrs.umn.edu
Office 320-589-6013
Fax 320-589-6399
Home 320-239-4782
Mark Fohl, Athletic Director
P.E. Center
East Second Street
University of Minnesota-Morris
Morris, MN 56267
folhmv@mrs.umn.edu
Office 320-589-6421
Fax 320-589-6428
Home 320-589-3748
Any way you can help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and God bless.
Doug Reese
Head Wrestling Coach
University of Minnesota-Morris
reesedc@mrs.umn.edu
320-589-6437
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7/23/2003
Gary Abbott/USA Wrestling
The two girls entered in the Cadet National Freestyle Championships were eliminated after two rounds, Nicole Woody of Maryland at 84 pounds and Joey Miller of Oklahoma at 91 pounds. Both are talented age-group female wrestlers who qualified for their state Cadet National team competing against boys. Miller’s entire day of competition was filmed by Inside Edition, with a feature expected sometime in September.