LIVERMORE ELITE WRESTLING CLUB COACH RICH BAILEY Livermore Elite Wrestling Club (LEWC) travelled to Myrtle Beach, SC for the Super 32 wrestling tournament. The “Super 32” is widely considered one of the toughest tournaments in the country, and attracts most of the top wrestlers every year. LEWC had two wrestlers...
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WEST COAST PREPS: Success? Just another day for the Livermore Elite Wrestling Club Recently, The Livermore Elite Wrestling Club (LEWC) entered six competitors into the 2020 Turf Wars Western States Championships hosted by The Legacy Center and USA Wrestling in Farmington, Utah. If Turf Wars was an appropriate title for the well-run, highly competitive USA...
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Preserve Stanford University Wrestling Program BRIEF: In July 2020, Stanford University announced its intention to eliminate 11 Varsity sports at the conclusion of the 2021 season, including wrestling, citing “finances and competitive excellence” as the primary drivers for this decision. This conclusion was reached in private, without consulting the student-athletes,...
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The storied Livermore Cowboys wrestling tradition is
also a family tradition, say brothers
Al and Arron
Fontes, owners of The C
alifornia Wrestler blog.
Al is a wrestling insider here at SportStars Magazine. He says, the following is a link to our new book (a yearbook actu
ally chronicling 1963 to current)...
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This past Saturday, legendary Humboldt State University Coach Frank Cheek passed away at the age of 82. His long career at Humboldt State included 22 years coaching wrestling and 25 years coaching softb
all. Most recently the C
alifornia Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) H
all of Fame inducted Cheek. Frank Cheek guided the...
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Fresno City’s Luis Saucedo Signs with Simpson University (NAIA) Luis Saucedo started wrestling at the age of 7 for the Ceres Hawks youth wrestling club. The Modesto-born wrestler and son to Jorge and Beatriz, Luis went on to a very successful wrestling tenure for Centr
al V
alley high school. Saucedo Signs...
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120 – Tristan Lujan (Selma, CS, 12) joins Nagao, and Haas in prestigious 2x C
alifornia State Wrestling Champions Club There have been precious few to reach such achievement in four quick years of high school sports. These three men among boys, Lujan, Nagao and Haas) have entered the within these...
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Wrestling USA Magazine Nation
al Award Recipients since 1980s (C
alifornia)
Al Fontes, Editor of The C
alifornia Wrestler (and HOF member) remembers the greats of the sport in this list of H
all of Famers covering the ’70s to the present. It is said, “”There are many past coaches, offici
als, athletes and supporters...
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CA Wrestlers Going D1- Poway’s Jason Miranda and Elk Grove’s Peter Ming Sign With Stanford University (Division I) Jason Miranda 133/141 Pound class is a 2X CA State Med
alist from Poway High Elk Grove’s Peter Ming is the 2019 CIF State Med
alist/2x USAW Folkstyle
All-American Gilroy’s Nick Villarre
al Signs with...
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Team USA-Wrestling – Pan American Champions Elias Navida from San Diego Wins U15 Pan American Championship (GR) Wrestling U15 PAN AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS At Panama City, Panama Greco Roman med
alists 38 kg Gold – Elias Navida (USA) Silver – Samir Marciaga (Panama) Bronze – Fabian Rios Bueno (Colombia) _______________________________ CONNECT WITH...
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Vanguard Matmen 2019-20 Wrestling Season Preview After a 39-year hiatus, the “Matmen” will once again return to The Pit behind Head Coach C
aleb Flores in 2019-20. The last time Vanguard had wrestlers compete was 1975 when the Lions had wrapped up their third NAIA District III Championship. With a perfect...
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A stellar team camp tryout earned San Francisco State’s Justin Pichedwatana a spot on the 2019 U23 Senior World Championships team. The Mayfair High grad, now wrestling for the Gators, won four tournaments during his last high school season. He placed third at the Southern Section Masters Meet. In his...
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