Yakima Valley Women Earn National Wrestling Title
HAMPTON, Va. — Yakima Valley’s first-year women’s wrestling team has won a national championship. The Yaks, competing in the women’s division of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association championships that concluded Saturday at Hampton University. YVCC claimed top team honors with Simon Fraser University, Pacific University of Oregon, San Jose State and Mercer University of Georgia rounding out the top five Read More
Hoffman Wins, Boxers Third At NCWA Nationals
HAMPTON, Va. - Rebecca Hoffman (So., La Mirada, Calif.) earned her first national championship Saturday, winning the unlimited weight class and leading the Boxers to a third place finish at the National Collegiate Wrestling Association Women's Championships at the Convocation Center Arena Read More
2009 SWC Wrestler Spotlight Interview
As the conference tournaments near, let's take a minute and get to know one of the female wrestlers of the Southwest Conference. Jennifer Williams is a 2008 graduate from Caprock High School and is currently attending West Texas A & M University in Canyon, Texas. Fareed Hawwa: How many years have you been wrestling? Jennifer Williams: I started wrestling in Read More
Steenberg is Boxers' lone winner against Yakima Valley
YAKIMA, Wash. - Summer Steenberg (So., Sequim, Wash.) was the only winner in a very small Pacific lineup as the Boxers fell 36-6 to Yakima Valley CC in women's wrestling action at Sherar Gym. Steenberg was a winner in her first folkstyle competition of the season, scoring a pin over Ashlee Phy in the Read More
YVCC wrestling welcomes women to team
YAKIMA -- Just a week ago, Yakima Valley Community College administrators expressed concerns about expanding the wrestling program to include women. Since then, those questions were apparently answered to their satisfaction as the school announced Tuesday that it will indeed allow women wrestlers to compete, and announced that Rene Mortensen will coach the team. "Any number of questions needed to be answered to our satisfaction before we could move forward," Tomas Ybarra, the school's vice president for instruction and student services, said at a news conference at Sherar Gym. "We now Read More
Women win CIS Championship Clan women reclaim National title
Calgary, AB - The Simon Fraser University Clan wrestling program reaffirmed its status as one of the elite programs in Canada at the 2008 CIS National Championships in Calgary. The women’s side took top honours, while the Clan’s Miranda Dick (Kamloops, B.C.) was named the Outstanding Female Wrestler of the Year. The men brought home a silver medal, narrowly falling to the Brock Badgers, while SFU’s Dustyn Fisher was named CIS Outstanding Male Wrestler of the Year. The women’s side scored 57 points in the tournament to knock off Read More
