2/24/2010 9:58:25 AM
My name is Ernest Ciaccio and I represent my fellow members of the Committee for the Preservation of California Collegiate Wrestling. I also know that I adequately express the feelings of hundreds of thousands of Californians who make up our current Wrestling community. These Californians are current and former coaches, competitors, and in many cases life long fans of Wrestling. I have spent the last nineteen years of my adult life amongst my wrestling brethren, and believe that they make up the greatest fraternal organization in the world. I have witnessed countless lives that have been changed as a direct result of Wrestling and the character traits that our sport helps to instill in its participants. While our sport has born Presidents, Politicians, Judges, Doctors, and many other successful members of society the opportunity to participate in Wrestling at the collegiate level has declined over the last forty years.
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Call to Action
2/16/2010 1:18:28 PM
Ongoing budget shortfalls continue to create severe financial difficulties for higher education in California. California State University, Bakersfield, is not immune to this reality. As part of campus–wide reductions to help deal with the on–going financial crisis, CSUB Athletics will be discontinuing men’s and women’s golf, tennis and wrestling as intercollegiate sports, effective with 2010–11 academic year.
2/11/2010 1:43:23 PM
West Valley College in Saratoga is about to drop wrestling which has been a part of the college since it opened in 1964. Jim Root has saved the program once, but now he will need even more help. Please read the attachments and follow up ASAP. We cannot afford to lose another wrestling program. The California Community Colleges are down to 21 programs. We are a struggling sport. I am not sure what the magic number is, but if we fall too far, they could conceivably drop the sport all together.
1/27/2010 2:03:45 PM
As many of you have probably already heard, the Duquesne University administration announced that it plans to discontinue Duquesne’s intercollegiate wrestling program immediately following the 2010 NCAA Championships. It is very important that the local, regional, and national wrestling community express support for wrestling to the Duquesne administration via emails, phone calls, or faxes. As important as it is to express support, we must be polite and respectful in any communications with Duquesne. Although this whole situation is unfair, our side will be penalized for unsportsmanlike behavior: we cannot afford to be rude or disrespectful.
4/28/2009 2:20:00 PM
The National Wrestling Coaches Association’s mission is to preserve, promote and protect college wrestling programs in all collegiate divisions. In recent months, there have been eight intercollegiate programs that have been discontinued after the 2008-09 season, thus eliminating opportunities for young men to participate at these institutions or even to finish their collegiate careers. Leaving a puzzle that needs to be solved, and asking the wrestling community what else can be done to save wrestling?
2/11/2009 2:22:00 PM
1/29/2009 2:20:00 PM
12/22/2008 2:19:00 PM
Norwich University has decided to eliminate their varsity wrestling program at the end of this year. This is the second dropped wrestling program in the past week (Lawrence University has also dropped…we are working on contacting their coach for more information). With the current state of the economy, we can be assured that more carnage is on its way for All Olympic sports if we don’t mount a very aggressive “public relations” campaign immediately.
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