California High School Wrestlers Named To The Open Mat National Rankings Following is a list of California wrestlers who were included in the Open Mat Individual Top 20 national high school rankings released on October 23. List is ordered by weight class. St. John Bosco, Selma high schools to top... Read more

Vanguard Matmen 2019-20 Wrestling Season Preview After a 39-year hiatus, the “Matmen” will once again return to The Pit behind Head Coach Caleb 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... Read more

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... Read more

Adidas National High School Wrestling Rankings from The Open Mat Following is a list of California wrestlers who were included in the Open Mat Individual Top 20 national high school rankings released on October 16. List is ordered by weight class: 113 – Richard Figueroa (Selma, CS, 11) 2x State... Read more

SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes provides a California Wrestling Roundup of regional wrestlers making their names known on the international stage. Intro by theopenmat.com We officially ring in the start of the 2019 high school season with perhaps the season’s biggest tournament. More than 1,000 high school wrestlers will head to... Read more

Founder Bill Grant Brings a “Who’s Who” of Wrestling every year to the Monterey Peninsula. At 41 Years, the 2019 edition is as star-studded as ever. SportStars INSIDER, Al Fontes (The California Wrestler Editor in Chief) wrote a historical perspective of the Monterey Clinic of Champions this past August, which... Read more

Sacramento City College Wrestling Sacramento City College Wrestling Coach Gales adds a 3-time World Champion and National Wrestling Hall of Famer Kemp to his staff. Coach Gales has announced that Lee Kemp has been hired to join his staff as an assistant wrestling coach. Kemp’s Gold Medals in Wrestling Coach... Read more

Winchester the Winner at Women’s World Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Gold – Jacarra Winchester (USA); Winchester dec. Irie, 5-3 Silver – Nanami Irie (Japan) Bronze – Olga Khoroshavtseva (Russia); Khoroshavtseva tech. fall Sedneva, 13-1 Bronze – Bolortuya Bat Ochir (Mongolia); Bat Ochir dec. Gun, 12-9 5th – Marina Sedniva (Kazakhstan)... Read more

Cal Poly Wrestling San Luis Obispo  Cal Poly head wrestling coach Jon Sioredas has added a top young talent to his staff.  Sean Fausz has joined the program as an assistant coach. Fausz is a third-place finisher at the 2019 Senior Freestyle World Team Trials. He will begin his coaching... Read more

Frank Jasper’s Vision Bridges Multiple Generations The character from the 1985 movie Vision Quest, that resonated with the audience for the last three and a half decades, planted a seed in Frank Jasper’s life that today has brought him full circle back to his character Brian Shute. While attending Eastern... Read more

Peyton Omania of Michigan State to take Olympic redshirt to pursue spot on U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman team Michigan State wrestling freshman Peyton Omania elected to take an Olympic redshirt for the 2019-20 season, MSU wrestling head coach Roger Chandler announced Wednesday. See SportStars story, Omania: CIF State Wrestling Championship Omania, from... Read more

Three CIF Wrestling State Champs- Figueroa, Santiago, and Vasquez will Represent California at FLO’s Who’s #1 Dual – OCT. 5th_______________________________ GET CONNECTED: Follow SportStars on Twitter & Instagram | Like us on Facebook | Subscribe! _______________________________ Complete WNO Card Announced 132: #1 Jesse Mendez, IN vs #4 Ryan Jack, CT 132: #2 Dom Serrano, CO vs #3 Shayne Van Ness,... Read more